{"id":8569,"date":"2018-12-28T19:54:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T00:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=8569"},"modified":"2018-12-28T19:57:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T00:57:53","slug":"the-dumbest-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2018\/12\/28\/the-dumbest-take\/","title":{"rendered":"The dumbest take"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nThis is silly:\n<\/p>\n

\"complaining<\/p>\n

\nMy 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.)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nFirst, as the Pedantic Romantic points out<\/a>, she isn’t a “normal person” in her original comic either and the picture used to illustrate this tweet is actually … an Evangelion<\/cite> 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<\/cite> 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.\n<\/p>\n

\"Peni<\/p>\n

\nSome 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","category-comix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8572,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8569\/revisions\/8572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}