I’m throwing in my two cents over the Uzaki-Chan non-troversy.
I really thought long and hard over whether I was gonna say something or not but after seeing so many violent threats over one anime character, I’m gonna say it.
First, I personally don’t care about Uzaki-Chan, so before anyone thinks I’m in the position of a fan defending her, I’m not. She looks like the standard low-budget anime character to me so I really have no feelings for the character.
Now that being said, I’ve been seeing a LOT of posts about her. A lot of negative posts. And what I’ve realized is that people REALLY haven’t learned their lesson when it comes to “If you don’t like it, don’t waste energy on it; ignore it and move on.” Because instead of some of you saying, “Uzaki-Chan anime? Hard pass”, some of you are using way too much effort and energy just to say “I don’t like this character”. And now it’s starting to backfire on you guys because you’ve made a problem where none existed.
1. “SHE’S A LITERAL CHILD WITH BOOBS SLAPPED ON!”
No, she is 19 years old, eventually even 20 as the episodes are progressing. A fictional character WHO IS AN ADULT with big boobs isn’t hurting anyone, but your infantilization of traits you perceive to be for children only, is. I don’t give a shit if the character has big eyes, or a short body, or a high pitched voice: If the canon of the show/game/movie/WHATEVER establishes the character as an adult, THEY’RE AN ADULT. Remember Baby Doll from Batman: TAS?
She’s a 30 year old woman who, at a later part of the show, possibly had romantic feelings for Killer Croc. But by your guys’ standards she’d be a 5 or 6 year old little girl, even though that flies in the face of her whole character.
2. “I DON’T LIKE THE SHOW OR THE CHARACTER!”
AND THAT’S OKAY. YOU DON’T HAVE TO. I DON’T LIKE THE CHARACTER OR THE SHOW EITHER, SO WE’RE ON THE SAME LEVEL HERE. But when you start screaming death threats at everyone because you don’t like her or the show, do you know what you’re doing? Free advertisement. Your aggressive response isn’t gonna cow around or shame anyone who was going to watch the show, you’re just gonna get, “Fuck you, I’m gonna watch it now and draw the character more.” This same exact shit happened with Nessa from Pokemon where people started a controversy WHERE THERE WAS NONE. That’s how you guys got white Nessa, because it was your own fault. Uzaki-Chan probably would have faded into a niche obscurity if you guys hadn’t thrown a temper tantrum, and now you have to deal with it. And so help me, you guys are the exact same reason why I’m forced to keep seeing recommended videos by professional non-troversy reporter Hero Hei in my feed all the damn time.
3. “I’m gonna draw her BETTER.”
Okay no. Major red flag right there for me. You wanna redraw the character? That’s totally fine. You wanna redraw her because she’ll be, in your own words, “better”? I don’t like the implications of that. “She’ll be more adult-like when she’s not 4′11 with tiddies like that″. “She’ll be more acceptable as an adult if her tiddies weren’t that big.”
You all know Dolly Parton, right?
She’s 5′00. Literally an INCH OFF from Uzaki-Chan’s height, and has the exact same bust. And she’s only known for that because she’s famous, because I guarantee that there’s other women out here who are short with a big chest, and you deeming those features as a child isn’t helping.
TL;DR: Uzaki-Chan’s not a child, she would have just faded into obscurity if you guys just ignored her, and it’s your own fault for the character exploding in popularity the way she did.
#Either I’m going to be blasted to oblivion for this#Or some people are going to settle down and realize that devoting this much energy into arguing about a fictional character is pointless#Like yes I get you don’t like the character#You don’t have to like the character#You can hate the character! That’s fine I really don’t give a shit!#But you need to maybe let things play out on their own because otherwise you’re contributing to their popularity!#Like effin’ heck; I wouldn’t have even KNOWN what Rising of the Shield Hero was#But I did because of the controversy and I ended up watching it because ‘Fuck you’ was my mindset#And I loved it!#And it exploded in popularity!
Honestly? All this “controversy” of her character IS the reason why I’m interested in this thing. Because she’s exactly like me (except for the fact that thank God my boobs are big but not yet that big) and because people kept complaining about this for so long that now I want to know what the story is about.
I kind of didn’t realize my post blew up, holy crap.
But yeah, the controversy didn’t steer people away from watching the show, it actually drew people in. Heck, I decided to check out the first episode (Probably not gonna pick it back up because they had a really awkward joke where she sits in a vibrating chair and just starts making weird noises), and the whole premise is that she was actually a quiet, kind of shy woman who noticed the guy she went to school with as a kid just spent all of his time being anti-social, so she completely changes her personality to give him company.
If people could just calm down and stop making up false reasons for why they think the show is bad, then we wouldn’t even be in this mess. All the Twitter drama is actually making us look bad to a lot of Japanese users (Just like the Nessa controversy did).
Whenever someone bitches about fictional characters, I already know they’re not worth my time lmao
