This is silly:
My only Spider Verse regret was watching the woman of color Spider (Peni Parker) become an “anime amiright?!” gag instead of a… normal person like in her comic? (Sorry y’all, I worship Spider Verse, but nothing’s perfect out here.)
First, as the Pedantic Romantic points out, she isn’t a “normal person” in her original comic either and the picture used to illustrate this tweet is actually … an Evangelion reference. Second, the idea that a character based in an anime/manga rather than a comics background is immediately a gag character. Third, the idea that the more grim and gritty image is better than the more cutesy re-imagining as shown in the movie. It’s not far removed from the similar complaints about the SJWs ruining She-Ra with its new art style. Mainly this seems a well intentioned but misguided criticism, rooted perhaps in a slight disdain for modern anime: too cutesy, too moe, too feminine perhaps.
Some people also criticised having the movie Peni Parker’s first dialogue being in Japanese, but a) she is Japanese-american, b) it’s a decent enough meta joke since everybody in anime always speaks Japanese the same way everybody in comics speaks English and c) Peni Parker being a massive weeb fits in thematically very well with Peter Parker having always been a massive nerd.
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