Thing is, I could actually see that backstory and conversation happening more with Yammy and Ulqi than I could with Abridged!Nappa and Vegeta.
The sad, REAL American dichotomyI really liked how Mark understood Orihime, and the fact that she's his second favorite character behind Grimmjow is pretty neat.
Watch SymphogearBecause most people are gonna watch the Anime first. So that's where their impressions came from. Including me.
I did notice that Orihime has a very different vibe to her in the Manga compared to the Anime. They straight up altered and removed scenes with her from Manga to Anime.
A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.This is a pretty good twitter thread summarizing the differences between the manga and the anime in terms of Orihime: https://twitter.com/SunHime_/status/1346563110799368193
Well, I don't think it was ever a secret the anime was pro Ichi Rukia. Didn't know it apparently started that early though.
It's not even just any one streamer. It seems like it's just the case that a lot of the Sonic "fanbase" is uniformly toxic to the console games for about 10 years, then suddenly realize "it wasn't that bad". The vocal fanbase just spent like 15 years of excessive toxicity that it's only starting to emerge from.
...I can't wait for the day when people admit Forces' worst flaw was really just "the levels are too short."
As an Orihime and Hinata fan, I guess now with Orihime I know what it's like when the animation team doesn't favor your Stephanie Sheh-voiced love interest.
The sad, REAL American dichotomySonic Heroes is ok...
But yea, that was probably one of the contributing factors as why Orihime was so hated...because the Anime literally gutted all of the depth out of the character. So her sudden shift to the spotlight feels abrupt and redundant given how the story had just finished a Rescue Arc with Rukia.
Pierrot literally set her up to fail, that's fucked up. Just goes to show how no matter how prettier an Anime is, it's still merely an adaptation of someone else's work and its very easy to misinterpret someone else's work when adapting it to another medium.
I kind of get Mark's insistence on reading manga over watching Anime.
Edited by BlackYakuzu94 on Oct 2nd 2022 at 3:27:41 PM
A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.Well fucking shit, that's not just a poor adaptation, that's borderline assassinating her character.
Now imagine how it must've been for an Orihime fan in the mid 2000's when the Anime was the main way people engaged with Bleach.
Hilariously, Sakura Matou (A character somewhat similar to hime) got a similarly bad rep for poorly adapted material back then too.
A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.I never found that there was any drop in quality between the first half of the Arrancar Saga and Soul Society. So it was very vindicating to see Mark share that sentiment.
And holy shit, just the utter disrespect the anime seemed to have for Orihime. Like they where determened to make her the most generic girl character imaginable.
Edited by uncertanSearcher on Oct 2nd 2022 at 9:39:08 PM
I'll admit that, in my readthrough, the arc so far doesn't feel *as* great as Soul Society, but it's not a huge drop in quality like what I had been told. It's still pretty darn good.

Yami and Ulquiorra being compared to Nappa and Vegeta is...kinda fitting, actually.
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