Media Research Failure/Anime and Manga: Difference between revisions

* An [http://www.dailyemerald.com/media/storage/paper859/news/2007/10/15/Opinion/Japanese.Anime.Destroying.American.Society-3032463.shtml?reffeature=recentlycommentedstoriestab article] on the Oregon Daily Emerald criticizing anime for destroying American society says that ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'', ''[[Digimon]]'', and ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' (which at first is spelled "Yugio", but after that, "sorry, Yu-Gi-Oh!") all began life as trading card games. In reality, while they all have had card games, none of them started out as that. ''Pokémon'' began life as a pair of Game Boy games created by Game Freak (and the card game came to the U.S. just a few months ''after'' the video game was released there), ''Digimon'' was originally a virtual pet (hence "Digimon", or Digital Monsters), and ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' started out as a manga written by Kazuki Takahashi.

** And funnily enough, ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' wasn't actually about a card game - it was about gaming in general.

{{quote|"[Ranma] fell into a well where a [[Action Girl|great female warrior]] had drowned. Now, [[Just Add Water|when he gets wet, he gets wild]]! Bad guys learn not to spit when Ranma's around."}}

** An issue of ''[[Game Players Magazine]]'' did something similar when previewing the Ranma SNES game. They said the series was about "a family of fighters where the kids are trained by their parents. The kids become masters and beat up would-be bullies."

* Back in 2005, a mother looked through a volume of the ''[[Peach Girl]]'' manga, which happened to have a date rape scene. Cue an [http://www.clickorlando.com/money/5497816/detail.html article] claiming that ''Peach Girl'' is about girls being drugged and gang-raped and that Tokyopop only publishes porn comics marketed toward children.

** And the other Tokyopop series about "swingers" referenced in that article is obviously ''[[Marmalade Boy]].''

** There are character figurines from shows like ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'', and ''[[Ojamajo Doremi]]'' being sold as "Pink one, Blue one, Yellow one, Green one, Orange one, Purple one, etc." with "one" sometimes replaced by "character" , "girl" , etc. ''VERY'' rarely they may say "Sailor", "Mew Mew" or "Ojamajo," but one wonders why, if they knew that much, why they wouldn't just use the character's names.

* When ''[[Sonic X]]'' premiered on CITV in the UK, the presenters repeatedly referred to the main character as, you guessed it, "Sonic X". This was carried on by Fox Kids/Jetix, who also referred to the bad guy as "Dr. Egg" in one promo.

** And then there was the [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/14/fashion/14COMICON.html?_r=1&scp=4&sq=lolita&st=cse The New York Times]' coverage of Comic-Con, where an England cosplayer was referred to as "the character Hetalia in 'Axis Powers,' a popular video game."

*** The article now features a correction, getting most of its facts right but saying that Hetalia is not a character. Whoops.

* According to the Verizon television listings, one of the shows on the current [[FUNimation]] Channel lineup is "[[D.Gray-man|Dr. Gray Man]]."

* An in-media example for ''[[Gundam Sousei]]'': a newspaper announcing the release of the Gundam movie features a picture of [[Action Girl|Sayla]], while captioning it as "the hero, Amuron".