Kemono Friends' popularity was nothing more than a giant meme, right?
Kemono Friends' popularity was nothing more than a giant meme, right?
Adam Lee
Luke Brooks
You're not using the word meme correctly, so no.
Adam Lewis
This was a show that had nothing going for it and gave the community everything it had. Literally 10 guys, 500 hours, a canceled game, and almost no budget compared to titles out at the time made this show.
But yet it after initial impressions, it thrived. I think the story behind the show's creation, and the good marketing (even if Grape-Kun was unintentional) led to this show's massive success.
It started as "meme" and ended as an experience. Then it got slaughtered by Kadokawa. It will be missed.
Benjamin Carter
It was just really fun and cute, why is this so hard to get?
Jacob Williams
Yeah, all those Japanese people definitely only liked it ironically.
Wyatt King
Well half of the meme was Tatsukis cult of personality.
Kadokawa slaughtered the fanbases feelings by firing him.
Wyatt Gomez
Memes don't earn awards
Can't wait for Keimurikusa anime+game and the Keifuku full anime
Make Kadokawa watch all the money they just missed
Martyr end always fan the flames
Joshua Collins
Where the heck is the 2nd season? Why did they miss out on such a big opportunity to make more money? It should have been on like it's 4th season by now.
Ayden Flores
Yeah. They upheld their pride than apologizing. Now they can't touch the cash cow because no studio is brave enough
Lucas Wright
no user, it was a product of love, unlike you, you unwanted dirty bastard
Jaxson Cruz
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Sebastian Miller
Is this the thread made by the /vg/ user who said he is going to make a KF thread in aniversary of ep 12/
Connor Moore
It sad that a show that was so sincere and happy had to go out like this. I feel nothing but disappointment.
Aaron Wright
No, I genuinely loved it.
Isaiah Price
No, it is actually a good anime also the ending is great!
Nathan Flores
Otter-chan still arouses me, so that's good.
Grayson Sanders
Robert Clark
Lincoln Gutierrez
It was an okay show, definitively one of those "content made up for the bad visuals" shows and a good reminder that there can be good shows, like Houseki no Kuni.
But Kadokawa just started being Kadokawa and fucked up everything, so the whole franchise is finally dead.
Brandon Adams
Moose should be the only futa one of all Japari park
Samuel Flores
Brody Stewart
post it pls.
Eli Fisher
When is season 2?
Carter Miller
Because it was average, but when it was airing, jesus christ
Evan Ross
Even remembering this show existed just makes me depressed.
Jayden Lee
>+10mil views
Damn
Noah Murphy
A good children's show can become a meme pretty easily.
But it takes a great children's show to introduce kids to the concept of death in a way that doesn't make them break down into an existential crisis.
This show accomplished that.
Thomas Peterson
>children’s show
at 1am?
Wyatt Clark
But Kemono Friends earned several awards, user.
Joseph Bennett
>I didn't like it so no one else can
Evan Watson
I am literally going to marry Kaban.
Tyler Kelly
>youtube.com
Who could have predicted the massive success this would achieve...
Such a shame that we're literally in the worst timeline where there's no chance of it ever coming back.
Hunter James
The real meme is the idea that it's popularity was due to anything other than that it was a good show.
Andrew Smith
>Then it got slaughtered
and nothing of value was lost
Carson Price
What I didn't like about KF when it aired was that everyone was calling each other out all the time
>You might be enjoying the show but I bet you're not TRULY enjoying it like I am! Why, you only like it because it's popular! I am the only one who is enjoying Kemono Friends for real because I appreciate its content blah blah blah
Asher Myers
Aniki died too... This is truly the worst timeline indeed. Why do we all have to be such a bunch of idiots? Can't there be one genius in here to crack this time traveling thing?
Nicholas Reed
All the people smart enough to crack time travel are regularly being recruited by the big corporations that are slowly taking over the world. You will be able to go back and experience alternate timelines better than your own, but it'll involve a lot of ads and share buttons and an extra fee for every death you want to prevent.
Camden Russell
This is disgustingly ugly. I'm glad it's dead. This trash should be murdered instantly on sight.
Matthew Brown
Man I haven't lurked one of these threads since the Kadokawa incident and it really pains me to see how these threads and the fanbase declined. It's all about the mobile game, people posting about futa and gay shit, some others just asking questions because they haven't watched the show or missed all the threads while airing and never tried to search the archive or lurk a little.
This is just a husk of what KF used to be, such a shame specially when I had to watch it grow and then decline since the first thread
Aiden Campbell
Josiah Davis
why do people tolerate the garbage animation?
its fucking painful to watch
Parker Gutierrez
Meme is not a word used to replace any other word
Isaac Howard
But it was the best meme
Jeremiah Gutierrez
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Christian Adams
Why it can't be both? I'd say it's a genuinely good show that is also a giant meme.
Noah Murphy
how can liking something be a meme? what the fuck is it with calling everything under the sun, these days, a meme? Sup Forums's lexicon of overused words needs to turn over. you can't go three posts without someone talking about memes, chads, or cucks.
hey, you know what is a meme? the word "meme"
Adam Bailey
New KF Tobu Zoo event soon
Gavin Watson
It started as a meme, lived as a meme, and died like a meme. This "experience" is built on your connections to the fandom, which is a living breathing meme. Sugoi, right?
Ayden Cox
It was popular for real, but Kadokawa killed any chances of it taking off. Now you see why ZUN didn't want anything to do with those corporate greedy fucks when they wanted to get their hands on Touhou.
William Hernandez
Meme isn't just images with funny text on them you know, kemono friends spread around and became popular through pure memetics.
Noah Long
I hate chads tho
Leo Mitchell
>you can't go three posts without someone talking about memes, chads, or cucks.
Stop hanging out in Dragon Ball threads and/or Sup Forums
Dylan Evans
I presume OP's thought process is something along the lines of:
>I don't like anime
>no one really likes anime
>pretending to like anime is a joke
>internet jokes are called memes
Alexander Edwards
Welcome to the current internet in general. One day those people will grow up.
Elijah Young
Nice meme.
Hunter Wilson
Was actually a half decent show and actually better than 90% of what aired on that season
Watched through it a couple of times and after the first 3 episodes it just pulls you in
Elijah White
can someone elaborate on what happened exactly?
Kayden Rivera
>kemono thread
>no shoebill
faggots
Elijah Brooks
Kadokawa declined to re-hire the studio (in particular the director) that made the first season a success. They gave vague bullshit reasons and had the seiyuu apologise at an event, despite it being nothing to do with them.
It is presumed they wanted creative control and didn't want him taking the sort of risks that made it a huge success in the first place.
Jordan Bell
>Kadokawa declined to re-hire the studio
twitter.com
No they didn't.
Jacob Wilson
yikes, that's a real shame
Adrian Myers
Kemono Friends was a completely dead franchise owned by Kadokawa that featured a dead game and an irrelevant manga.
When the anime was made, it was made in the cheapest way possible complete with badly animated 3D graphics and a studio consisting of just 10 people. There was really nothing on it but to serve as a way to fill in schedule
But Japs loved the hell out of it. Supplies were sold out everywhere, bds, merch, seiyu stuff, etc. It was a franchise that was growing at biblical proportion to the point that it was given the honor to make a commercial for Nissin, JRA, and Anisama.
However, Sep25, the director announced on twitter that he received a message from Kadokawa saying that he was fired from S2.
It got into #1 twitter trending at once.
A massive shitstorm occured that was even hotter than their own election. Artists, reporters, VAs, businessmen, even S.Koreans were raging at Kadokawa
Kadokawa tried to downplay the situation by saying that Tatsuki as fired because he leaked out copyright materials. This fueled the situation even worse as Nissin and JRA said that it was false.
Then Kadokawa made the VAs of the show apologize for everything that happened, further increased the fire and launching twitter tag #Seiyushield
The CEO was forced to get involved then and launched a negotiation that lasted for 3 months. All the while, the show and director was earning awards after awards for how great KF was.
It ended in a failure wherein Kadokawa still keep themselves prideful and refuses to admit they fucked up.
Today, the negative PR on Kadokawa was so great that Nico users are now migrating to YouTube, no studio wanted to get involved with them, and they are hated by everyone in Japan.
The director however is still alive and is now seen as the crucified messiah of anime. His cult following was so devoted, his 5 min short got #1 rank in Amazon.
Kadokawa pretty much lost more money than they could gain. Which is everything they do not want to happen
Christopher Long
Oh, and rival publishers are literally racing to get a hold of investing on the Golden Goose that Kadokawa foolishly let loose. Competition was so much that Tatsuki's 5 minute short was given a slot on national TV.
Whatever he produces is guaranteed a best seller now.
Austin Kelly
Kemono in general should be more popular than it is.
Alexander Russell
The animation was fine
The actual dialogue and character interaction was so bland and boring though. The world building wasn't sufficient to compensate me for sitting through Dora the explorer-tier dialogue
Jeremiah Jones
Maybe my limited Japanese and Google translate are failing me, but that doesn't seem to contradict what I said. Kadokawa told them in March they would be working on a second season, but when it came to actually signing a contract in August they failed to reach an agreement despite Yaoyorozu wanting to do it.
Blake Howard
what's Sup Forums think about the kemono friends festival
kemono-friends-festival.goodroid.co.jp
Brandon Stewart
What are we going to think when they won't even post a screencap of the game?
That's a red flag among gamers that the game is going to be bad.
Ethan Hall
Well this will come in handy in the future when I'll be too lazy to type out arguments. Saved.
Mason Torres
Leo Collins
On the VA part, don't forget that Arai's VA was on the verge of crying the whole time.
Jaxon Watson
>cheapest way possible
average budget
>nothing on it but to serve as a way to fill in schedule
2 years in the making
>that he received a message from Kadokawa
mistranslation
>because he leaked out copyright materials
???
>no studio wanted to get involved with them
debunked clickbait article
>they are hated by everyone in Japan
By half the remaining kf fans + people who already hated them. A good part of the niconico backlash came from multiple disastrous press releases around the same time & the Dwango CEO being straight up retarded.
>national TV
literally named Tokyo Metropolitan Television
Brody Walker
Like it or not Kemono Friends has left a long lasting influence in the anime industry that will be felt for years if not decades. What happened this season with Yuru Camp/Sora Yori/Pop Team Epic completely overshadowing Violet Everflop and Darling in the FlopXX is the direct result of Kemono Friends changing the industry. Now all animes have to become memes or they will be failures.
Easton Reed
You rarely see a popular franchise being driven into the ground as hard and quickly as KF.
Cooper Hall
Samuel Gray
Bruh, VEG and Darling flopped simply because they suck
Logan Young
But isn't Franxx the biggest meme show this season?
meme =/= good
James Powell
sales != good
Michael Baker
How can so many people be so jealous of a show's success?
Dominic Brooks
I mean, sales does not represent quality but bad sales does represent lack of it.
Isaiah Price
Not at all. Nips ignore plenty of great shows.
Nicholas Martin
Let me guess: You think Shinsekai Yori, Flip Flappers and Texhnolyze are all bad and worse than Kemono meme.
Easton Lewis
>but bad sales does represent lack of it.
May I direct you to the story of another one of Kadokawa's greatest hits.
Jayden Ross
FlipFlappers really was bad, however.
Or at least it became irredeemable. It's honestly quite sad whenever I think about it.
Hunter Miller
Mason Hill
We'll just have agree to disagree, Mr. meme poster.
Lincoln Sanchez
Certainly not all but it works as a thumb rule. 95% of flops are justified
Brayden Hughes
And those are almost never the big shows that people target with lolnosales shitposting that are usually making a good amount of money anyway. Do you know how much crap airs every season?
Charles Parker
And hopefully from that logic it's clear (and perhaps you were also implying) that some financial successes are justified as well.
It's just a little short of impossible to determine when which is the case, thus landing us in this predicament.
Jayden Collins
>the big shows that people target with lolnosales shitposting
Who's bringing this up?
Ian Roberts
They are so bad that people won't even shitpost about it. That's just my point honestly
Yeah, Sturgeon's law say so.
Adrian Long
The post that started this discussion,
>hurr durr VEG and Franx are flops lmao
Jose Young
They'll still be shit whether they flopped or not.
Christopher Kelly
What makes you say that?
Grayson Peterson
I miss hearing Serval’s voice and not feeling depressed for several hours after.
Jack Martinez
this is the legend
groly of Kemono Friends will never disappear if anything happened
Isaiah Ross
Justin Gonzalez
Kevin Bell
nice meme my friend
Bentley Wilson
>tfw remember watching the first episode with Sup Forums when it aired and everyone thought it was a yakuza money laundering scheme
i want to go back