Another things to speak off.

Good morning. It's now at 10:12 am on Saturday, April 22th currently as I'm working on this. Just finished Hinako Note 3rd episode not a while ago and it is as heartwarming and moe as always. It was however honestly annoying for me to see how Nakajima Yuu kept acting toward the titular character, though luckily, she didn't continued with the overall negative attitude and Hinako displayed her affection to the new cast member. Guess it should had been expected for the route to go down that way because people wouldn't normally wanted to watch someone that kept being bossy and antagonistic in a slice of life shows, at least for me anyway. My sister also forced me to have a look at Re;Creators yesterday and oh boy, how glad I am that she make me did so. It was a brilliantly done show so far with interesting theme, characters and perhaps, a glaringly pathetic looking spectacle boy as the so called narrator but, at least he's pretty okay so far so I'm fine with that. Secretly however, I'm hoping that the show wouldn't be a harem, which might not seems to be possible due to the introduction of another "creator", plus the anime is very gender balanced. I'm guessing that the "creators" are meant to looked like actual normal humans for the sake of being realistic and following the theme that the show is carrying, Onward to another topic..

Putting up with a junction between paragraph here and there to make things readable, I was meaning to jump toward making a discussion about this 2 months old topic down here. I didn't realized of it until yesterday, when someone sent a link at Discord stating that GSC, a major film distributor around here had decided not to release Koe no Katachi (A Silent Voice) on their cinema. I'm guessing that I had been slow in noticing about these things because I haven't bother to surf the internet more often for information.  

http://goboiano.com/malaysia-and-singapore-could-get-blacklisted-from-future-anime-movie-releases/

It concerned of the fact that back when Sword Art Online Ordinal Scale was airing on the local cinema here at Malaysia, someone/numbers of people deliberately was able to recorded at least 8 to 10 minutes worth of contents of the aforementioned movies using whatever sort of methods and subsequently uploaded the material online, which had also become the reason why GSC wouldn't want to play Koe no Katachi (A Silent Voice). This had as well resulted in the companies that's responsible for distributing the movie here to become outraged and had threatened to blacklisted Malaysia and Singapore from their next area of distribution. Disregarding the notion that I have no idea why Singapore is being considered as a participate in the crime which I believed to be held responsible by the idiots around this very country, some fans of course, aren't satisfied with the decision from Japan and had some backlash of their own.

https://www.reddit.com/r/malaysia/comments/5w8jhs/malaysia_and_singapore_could_get_blacklisted_from/

Most people were infuriated and reprimand severely of the consideration for the blacklist, with some claiming that it is stupid to reduce the amounts of potential customers and they've (Japanese anime executives that's involved) also should had more of a backbone. Of course, as usual as it is with many Reddit threads out there, comments that spoke of the honest, brutal truth were down voted and ignored, whilst the speakers that shared the same, common thought with the other packs are carried onward on board a mat made out of gold silk. As anyone could see, I am not in agreement with most of the people there, and if I were to be blunt, they've just didn't realize of the bigger pictures.

Anime, as most knowledgeable fans would knew, are a niche entertainment, even in its home country. Most anime series that's aimed for teenage and adults only aired very late at night at Japan, and many considered anime otaku to be creepy, perverted, basement dwelling person that failed in life and communication. These stereotypes had been enforced since back then and remained until today, caused mainly by a person called Tsutomu Miyazaki that had killed kids during the 1990s, and also an alleged anime and horror fans as well. His crimes had stirred a national outrage, and affected others as well that had the same interest as him. Fortunately enough , now in the modern age, anime fans aren't looked down as being the devil incarnate as before, and perhaps that's why I thought that Akihabara, anime maid cafe, and other things in relevance could existed. Just last year, an anime movie had managed to become a worldwide known phenomenon, called Kimi no na wa or widely known as "Your Name", in English. Its dominance is perplexing and magnificent, garnered numerous awards and amazing achievements as well, being able to be the first anime movie to beat most Ghibli films in term of profits and were very close toward taking down Spirited Away in being the most highest grossing animation movies of all time in Japan. In accordance to the ranking, Titanic and Frozen were almost taken out as well. Meanwhile, "Your Name" had turned out to be the most profitable anime movies of all time upon counting its overall box office performance throughout the world, and that had to count for a truly legendary feat. Also, the success of the movie could count for a positive outlook for anime fans altogether as well, as not all things related to anime are child porn and disgusting, nasty drawing. Upon accessing my own personal view, I believe that anime fans nowadays, especially at Japan aren't being showered by much of the older assumptions anymore, which is good to hear for some relief or two. People still comes in droves to every Comiket and anime festivals, a truly good sign. If I was wrong about my outlook however due to insufficient investigations, I don't really care either way because staying negative isn't good.

Going back to the reddit comments, I was aghast (not really) seeing there's a lot of assumptions and unaware beings at play. Like I had said before, anime is a niche medium, and its movies doesn't exactly capable of earning much profits unlike, let's say, most real life drama that received movie adaptation, and heck, even a random new property could beat most earning that usually had been collected by anime movies thus far, like Get Out for example, a new horror entry that focused on racism. It's a far cry to make a profit comparison against the likes of major Hollywood franchises and Disney's creation, highlighting just how much of a bad stroke it would get if something like Ordinal Scale were to happened to any within its categories. It is not about wanting to reduce the scope of available and willing viewers and being judgemental, its more leaning to recouping the cost for the production of an anime movie that they, the creators sincerely deserved in trying to make back if its good and satisfying. There's nobody in this world that would be happy in knowing that they couldn't make their investment back, and its hypocritical to stand there speaking for yourself without taking in light of the opinions of those that's directly involved in a certain project. If you were to be put into the shoes of a person that's suffering from the failure or the leaking of your own hard work, then I imagine everyone would act just like those so called goddamn, ignorant, stupid Japanese executives. I think that the action done by the uploader of things concerned in this very post are very dumb, selfish and they should've think before they acted. It's good that those guys are supporting the things they've loved and all but don't ruin it for others as well if you are looking to make an earning/name for yourself by being the person responsible in the production of an illegal clip. I wouldn't say I'm gonna be sad though if this action continues and Malaysia were to be put into a blacklist, because we're totally deserved it for all the countless bootlegged anime that's still being on sale everywhere around this country.