So apparently Kadokawa was lying all along regarding the 3d studio Yaoyorozu and Kemono Friends. Both Japan Racing Association and Nissin have claimed they had permission for the collaborations all along, as opposed of Kadokawa's statement.
Just how hard can Kadokawa ruin something to the point of having the partnerships at the verge of breaking? Didn't they learned after the whole Kancolle problem?
Never. They are going to cancel the whole thing before it even happens, didn't they also delayed the new phone game? Also this whole thing appared on TV too. They fucked up big time youtube.com/watch?v=Rcu2Sg5DT8Y
Jeremiah Morgan
Remember when people laughed at Kyoani for starting to distance themselves from Kadokawa? Kyoani is always one step ahead
Benjamin Hill
Fuck off.
Brayden Lee
>Kancolle problem I request a quick rundown.
Carter Evans
Have we started the fire?
Caleb Moore
Kyoani is always right, but people not always believe in them.
It sucks for kemonofags, it's hilarious and sad how such a series went from huge hit to blunder of the century in just 1 day. As expected of kadokawa's ineptitude
>Didn't they learned after the whole Kancolle problem?
Of course not.
Cameron Campbell
Don't remember the details, but kadokawa handled Kancolle poorly. The anime was a complete disaster, they didn't do a single thing with the game for a long time too (they just announced an HTML5 version this year).
They even had to apologize publicly because of how bad everything was being handled (although it was most likely to just please shareholders)
Lincoln Sullivan
Do Kadokawa own the game or something? Isn't there an offline handheld console version?
I just remember the anime being super fucking shit and all the different manga adaptations are totally independent spinoffs. The media side of Kancolle is fucked.
Sebastian Scott
t. Shueisha shill
Carter Jenkins
I hope their income drops like crazy so that they can fuck off already. Now they are making seiyuus apologize for their shit.
Landon Collins
Yaoyorozu's site isn't down, you just can't access it from non-Japanese IPs.
Dominic Thomas
H A R A K I R I A R A K I R I
Brody Garcia
No idea about the browser game, but that trashy PS Vita game was developed and published by them
Nolan Jenkins
Stuff promised day one still isn't in game. They are afraid of angering anyone so no major changes to the game for years only new ships. Idiotic marriage system to pander to lonely autists. Boring shitty events that are the same shit over and over again. All official manga are crap. Anime was crap. Vita game was crap.
It was a franchise loved by everyone and they turned it into a soulless corporate piece of crap.
Angel Wright
Used multiple japanese IPs, got this. It has been like this ever since the announcement
Brandon Walker
From 2013-2015, they churned out both low budget anime, dead on arrival vita game and forgettable manga that lasted 1 or 2vols.
It wasn't until recently that they decided to push for phase2 in the original game, android port and building real life zuiun model.
Camden Long
>Stuff promised day one still isn't in game. What sort of stuff?
I like the idea of the marriage system, but the girls need more personality and story arcs.
Jayden Carter
Do we even know what "pahse2" is supposed to do?
Logan Cooper
>Kadokawa has discontinued both physical and digital sales of KanColle Kai as of the end of January 2017.
Wow, was the Vita game that bad?
Lincoln Scott
>I like the idea of the marriage system
Then you are a haremfag or an idiot.
Ian Watson
It was a buggy piece of shit that was being sold in stores for like 600 yen 1 week after its release. Nobody liked it, nobody defended it
Asher Davis
...
Alexander Allen
>friends function >trasnferring current data to HTML5
Elijah Rivera
Oh weird. Maybe it's going down from time to time and I just got unlucky
Benjamin Morgan
This is some next level of brainwashed drone.
Gavin Thompson
Kadokawa is a good example of what happens when you let a single corporation have a monopoly over an entire industry! Kadokawa's anti-trust practices have to stop! They are evil!
Samuel Hughes
kashikoi all along
Colton Green
They own everything Kancolle, and changed character designers near the start of the anime. DMM, the service the game runs off of, is Kadokawa's property.
Landon Kelly
>Shipgirls >REEEE I WANT MUH WW2 NAVAL SIM
Jose Carter
>they just announced an HTML5 version this year That's actually really nice
Jace Davis
So it's nothing.
Cameron Sanders
Capitalism ho!
Julian Phillips
Nobody wants waifu franchises with self insert shit. There is a reason why GuP or LL are such a hit. Or Kemono Friends for the matter.
Bentley Martin
>GuP I find amusing that is still around
Isaac Allen
>self insert shit >GuP Okay bud, the only self insert shit in GuP is driving tanks and fucking shit up.
Carter Rivera
GuP is at their finale stage.
Robert Campbell
Haha, time for small-time Yakuza groups to scramble for Kadokawa's former holdings. Might be fun.
Carson Reed
It still has a strong following in Japan
Cameron Stewart
>Nobody wants waifu franchises with self insert shit.
hes saying there is no self insert shit in GuP, thats why its popular
Luke Davis
>reading comprehension
Luis Cruz
>what is im@s
Ian Peterson
>reading comprehension
Adam Ortiz
When will people take it out on the street?
Aaron Richardson
>such a hit I read such shit, my bad.
Benjamin Gutierrez
Eventually Japan doesn't forgive or forget like we do.
David Sullivan
>this shitstorm just keeps on going Fucking hilarious.
It's getting bigger They didn't talk about the issue during the radio event and made the VAs say sorry for all the fuss The japs are livid and have been calling out VA Shield(声優盾) because of it.
Luke Adams
I knew this would get even bigger, strap in faggots. we're in one hell of a ride and it's not stopping anytime soon
Luke Brown
I'll be praying for Tatsuki and everyone at Yaoyorozu tonight.
Daniel Clark
Silly Kadokawa. If sorry was enough we wouldn't have seppuku.
So the tl;dr is: >director for crazy popular and high-selling show is fired because Kadokawa doesn't want it to sell >the seiyuu are publicly apologizing for Kadokawa Do I have that right?
Chase Torres
Fire only grows
Kadokawa is now caught paying off twitter to bury any hash tags that make them look bad, and having the VA's apologize for them, as though they're the ones that fucked up.
Gavin Moore
>ip was pretty much dead before the director managed to breath some life back to it >better fire him in a way that is 100% sure to piss off the fanbase >what could possibly go wrong?
There is shooting yourself in the foot and then there is blowing the whole limb off just because you got bored.
Carson Young
>Kadokawa doesn't want it to sell More like they are fucking retards.
Andrew Bell
This is more like Kadokawa's divine punishment. Someone said that if Kadokawa were to fall then things will get worse for the anime and vidya industry. In short, Kadokawa is a necessary evil. But human morality and calculations are totally irrelevant to divine judgement. I hope I'm mistaken and things will get better from now on.
Gavin Green
You forgot the part where Kadokawa tried to make the director look like the bad guy for doing things without content, and then shortly after everyone he made collabs with made official statements that they did indeed have Kadokawa's consent for them
Luis Howard
>VA Shield This reminds me Tales of Zestiria trainwreck
Leo Campbell
More like they fired him because they didn't like where he was taking the series They didn't give a shit before because it looked like a dead ip, but now that it's successful they suddenly give a shit
Isaiah Edwards
I unironically think that this is the reboot we needed
Hunter Diaz
>director fired >all staff fired >VA's forced to apologize >caught lying several times now >put out really scummy statement about why they did it, doubling down >manipulating twitter hashtags
This is a story of a company making a selfish bad call, and endlessly doubling down and lying and out it to spin it, Instead of fixing it
KemoFure VAs apologizing for all the controversy and sucking Kadokawa cock. This hurts to watch.
Justin Mitchell
This is the only good thing that came out from the age of social media. Kadokawa would have gotten away with it 20years ago.
Jordan Barnes
Don't even remind me
Jonathan Cruz
This happens so often with companies and public figures, isn't it the job of a PR team specifically to prevent stuff like this? I have to wonder if this actually results in less damage to the company in the long run
Levi Wright
Reminds me of the Tales of Zestiria situation where the producer, Baba, pretty much forced one of the VAs to apologize at a fan event while he was nowhere to be found. Typical cowardly jap executives.
Parker Butler
oh wow, they did Tesagure? I loved that show
Thomas Hall
>Tales of Zestiria trainwreck
can you give me a quick gestalt?
Caleb Myers
>fuck up >manage to turn something that could had been a manageable fuck up into a catastrophe because of your obsession to keep your face
There is nothing like seeing Japanese corporate autism in action IRL.
Kayden Roberts
They shot themselves in the foot, arm, and dick.
William Jackson
Can I get a quick rundown on what happened?
Austin Wilson
see
Mason Wilson
Kadokawa just went full Konami.
Alexander Bailey
More and more being revealed about how badly kadokawa fucked up, basically
Anthony Powell
Reminder that former head of the company Haruki Kadokawa was imprisoned for smuggling cocaine. >In 1993, Kadokawa was accused of instructing photographer Takeshi Ikeda, a close aide, to smuggle cocaine from the United States on several occasions.[4] He was charged with smuggling and embezzling money from his company in order to fund the drug purchases.[8] While Kadokawa continued to argue his innocence throughout the ordeal, in September 1994 he was convicted and handed a four-year prison sentence,[5] of which he ended up serving two and a half years.[1] >Due to the "moral embarrassment" regarding the incident the film Rex: A Dinosaur's Story, a 1994 summer blockbuster directed by Kadokawa, was pulled from theaters by Kadokawa's production company and its distribution partner, Shochiku Company.[9] Kadokawa himself was forced to resign from Kadokawa Shoten.[5] The new president was Haruki's younger brother Tsuguhiko,[5] who had previously been forced out of the company in favor of Haruki's son Taro.[10]
Oliver Sullivan
This is the best shitstorm of official propotions since Kumamiko's last episode
Hunter Baker
>tfw this could end up with kadokawa president bows his head down publicly CAN'T WAIT.
Mason Parker
The worst part is that she was his waifu, the reason Zestiria was ruined was because of what was basically a weird ass courtship ritual to her, in having her voice a character with many similar characteristics who everyone adores
Brandon Gonzalez
Blood for the friends god
Austin White
Kumamiko had a good finale. People who aren't bully fags need to either harden up or fuck off. It was clearly a show about bullying.
Andrew Fisher
We've been going a while without something fucking insane happening in the industry like the seiyuu bullying incident.
Ian Bailey
One would think that the main goal of an evil corporation would be making more money, then why they are acting like total retards and risking all that money?
Evan Bell
BURN TAKESHOBO TO THE GROUND
Alexander James
It's not about money, it's about power. Kadokawa felt threatened by Tatsuaki having too much control over a profitable franchise that they thought would be a complete failure so they fired him.
Chase Rivera
Because they are total retards who think that the most important thing about a work of fiction is how tightly they control it, not how creatively it is made.
Anthony Barnes
Add to the list >remove tatsuki name from products
Jace Stewart
>modern web design in Japanese websites It looks really empty, don't get me wrong - but it's pleasurable to look at.
Matthew Hughes
Are the Kadokawa higher ups well protected? How much would it take for a crazy eleven cosplaying as Serval to stab one of them?
Dominic Flores
Found the yuri-fag.
Wyatt Long
Oh man I didn't know they did Tesagure, I loved it. I didn't watch KF but I guess I will now.
Oliver Phillips
>seiyuu bullying incident That was just fucking awful
Lincoln Morris
face is more important than money. remember, yaoyorozu are fucking literal who, they never expected them to resist.
Blake Perry
>game is half way in development >trailer already shown >everyone expects two certain characters to be MCs >director has a seiyufu >sudden decisions to make it a game a dedicated to her >female protagonist replaced by a character voiced by his seiyufu in a rush to the point they didn't replace items in a shop for original female protagonist >her character is a badly written Mary Sue and every other character exists to point out how smart and great she is >actually all the voices were recorded a year before decision >game's released, everyone mad >Japs even make a dedicated wikia to tell how Zestiria is a bad game >Bamco damage controls that the original trailer didn't show MCs, but characters is order as they appear in the game >mobile spin off calls the former MC girl a MC of Zesitira, even though she's not anymore >Tales of Festival, Tales of event in Japan >director didn't even appear >he made his seiyufu go on all fours and apologize for him in front of audience >currently he makes mobile phone video game for Square Enix
