Are fans of Yuuno Gasai in Mirai Nikki actually Misaimed? Not are they right or wrong but are they missing the author's point? Because her getting her guy in the end seems to indicate the writer doesn't mind that much either.
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Could be chocked up to a Broken Aesop, or the fact that Yuki himself kind of loses his sanity too, but in a way it can still count. For instance, there are plenty of commenters on YouTube who seemed more turned on than creeped out by Yuno tying Yuki to a chair and keeping him hostage for a week. Considering even Yukiteru slaps her across the face, shoots her a Death Glare while telling her to go to hell, and it's the only time we see Yuki not getting flustered at Yuno being in nothing but her bra and undies, there may be some credence to it as a valid example.
The Evangelion thing is just silly. The "Rei was not meant to be sexualized" thing comes from an interview with Anno where he says all kinds of strange things and seems to go against what he does when in the presence of his peers, or other anime fans, and I'm not even sure if he really meant to say that (he may have been referring to people SPECIFICALLY obsessing over and fetishizing this one character above all the others, not 'Rei was not meant to be viewed that way').
http://www.evaotaku.com/html/rcb-tsurumaki.html
Shinji is not meant to be completely sympathetic. The otaku viewer is meant to relate to him, but not in a "this guy is completely justified in acting this way" sort of manner - socially stunted nerds are meant to see their flaws in him.
Don't take a creator's statement and say that it's not what the creator really meant; that way lies madness. Whether or not Hideaki Anno is consistent in his statements is outside the scope of this wiki.
The thing with Evangelion is that it's generally a rather nasty bash against otaku in general. So yes, Rei was supposed to hit the Uncanny Valley and generally deconstruct the otaku fetish for obedient pet women.
I despise hypocrisy, unless of course it is my own.
Completely did revision on this one:
- Code Geass:
- In a similar vein to Zeon (and the various factions of other Gundam series in general - it is a Sunrise series), Britannia is often gets portrayed as significantly less evil in the fandom than in the series. Even the series humanizes The Empire to a degree in R2, seeming to forget that they're, you know, evil aggressors. Much like Zeon, the soldiers themselves are often pretty decent (albeit with a number of racists), and even the leaders (Princes and Princesses) are often shown to genuinely love and care for one another - to an extent.
- Lelouch is a prime example of Misaimed Fandom. Lelouch is a pragmatist who keeps his head and makes the best use of any situation, even if it involves killing bystanders/foolish allies or disgracing those that he loves, but he's obviously not happy when his subordinates or friends die, and his end goal is to replace the current system with one that's kinder and not as exclusive. The whole "Lelouch is evil" party is pretty dumb, even more so if they still sit in that camp after the final story arc.
- ... So is the "Lelouch is good" party, which completely denies that the poor Lelouch-baby they they have in their minds is ever fully responsible for all the stuff he and others go through. Lelouch Lamperouge the character is actually a Byronic Hero who brings a good part of his own misfortunes on himself due to his actions, which often involve kicking and shooting puppies if it serves to his goals, sometimes to the extreme of not being much better than his father The Emperor. (And he comes to realize it too, to the point that the aforementioned final story arc ends with his Thanatos Gambit.) His moral ambiguity is one of the biggest reasons why he's such an appealing protagonist to start with; if you heard some of his most rabid fans, however, you'd swear that Lelouch is a super angelic Purity Stu, instead of the Magnificent Bastard he's shown as in canon.
From the Pokémon section
In a cross-media example, there's the Ash vs. Red debate. Yes, the side for Red brings up some good points... But they completely ignore Ash's accomplishments and qualities while playing up Red's. It sort of makes Red's fans look like a bunch of hypocrites, honestly.
This feels really out of place - Red and Ash are both protagonists, of different works. This paragraph is complaining about people liking Red more than Ash. How is that Misaimed Fandom?