RulesofNature

Hopes isn't really lighter and softer. The director said that they didn't want to invalidate the stories of Houses, so the three routes in Hopes aren't exactly the best case scenarios. Dimitri's mental stability doesn't shatter, sure, but that was a major part of his growth. In his route in Hopes, he becomes a warrior king rather than being given the title of savior king by the masses. Claude's route is the antithesis of how he grew in Verdant Wind and while Edelgard might seem nicer in this game, changes made to the scenario undermine the idea that she's after anything but conquest and her army is incredibly brutal as they kill everyone who doesn't bend the knee to her. Rhea is supposedly more supported in Japan than Edelgard, but two out of the three routes end with Rhea being dead. Byleth is also popular, but they got sidelined for the new MC and didn't get any sort of arc (unless the player isn't able to recruit them, then they become an antagonist who kills an ally). And all of these routes effectively end on cliff-hangers, never coming to a real conclusion.

In Japan, Claude's fans are pissed they gave him a villain route and turned him into Edelgard. Dimitri is the most popular lord because of his character arc, and him not losing allies but at the same time never becoming as good as he could have been is seen as an insult. They're upset how the game tries to shill Edelgard even more by making her softer, while Rhea got completely screwed over. They're angry because unlike most musou games, these routes are being treated as just as canonical. They're upset because Edelgard and Claude's imperialism isn't presented as bad, Chinese fans even saying someone on the writing team must be a sympathizer of the Japanese far-right. They're also calling out releasing this in light of the situation in Ukraine, especially since the same studio put the Advance Wars rerelease on indefinite hiatus because of it.

As for the liberties? The English version of Houses made Claude more jokey. In Japan, Rhea emotes and it's heartbreaking in Crimson Flower while in English, her VA was directed to always sound like she's just barely holding back snapping. Edelgard's voice sounds cuter in Japan, because her being the red emperor is supposed to be a huge shock. In English, Edelgard sounds a lot more matter of fact, with her cutesy moments feeling like the shock (or in essence, they reversed her gap moe). There were lines that were removed like Edelgard using an information campaign to control her people, or altered.

Since I think some of y'all will find this interesting, I'm going to bring it up.

Fire Emblem Three Houses discourse has fired up once again in the wake of Fire Emblem Warriors Three Hopes being released. It's a spin-off game that branches out into a set of alternate timelines where Byleth doesn't become a teacher due to the arrival of a new MC. It...has been controversial to say the lease because of these alternate routes and the stories they tell.

In Japan, the game has a huge discount on Amazon Japan despite only coming out two months ago. Some Japanese fans, ones who knew about the liberties taken with the English script, are accusing the creators of pandering to the West, who going by social media took away quite a different understanding of the story than those in Japan (and some other countries as well, like South Korea). Houses's made up a lot of it's sales in America for the record.

Honestly makes me more curious than ever if the Western fans are blamed over there for what happened to Naruto.

And this is why Ive grown to love Tolkiens works even more as the man put his whole life into making a whole history of Arda.

This even goes with the tale of Beren and Lúthien which is a very sweet but also very sad. I wont go into but this shows how better Tolkien is at doing romance.

The sad fact is Kishi unlike Tolkien who told the Natizs to kitten off in his own way look it up on YouTube it is funny had more balls than Kishi ever will.

Even though I can not get through anything by Tolkien I do respect his work for these kinds of reasons. You can tell the care he put into his craft which, honestly, sometimes I wish Moorcock put that same level into his works at times.

And as for the VAs, once again it's always going to be a matter of professionalism. Unless there's a lot of backlash to the ending, like Gundam SEED Destiny (with Shinn's VA) or Gundam IBO (McGillis) levels, it's frowned upon in the industry to talk smack about the production as it will be seen as disrespectful to everyone else who worked on it. Until the franchise is dead and buried, best we can hope for is off-the-cuff comments.

Honestly, YTV had Dragonball the first arc of Dragonball on when I was a kid and I loved that show. When I first learned about Z through Fox Kids airing the Saiyan arc, I didn't know who any of the other characters from Dragonball were, and the fact it killed off characters made me think worse of it. As a child, I thought it was edgelord stuff, even before I had ever heard that term. Then I started developing the same criticisms of the series a lot of people have years later when the Namek/Cell arcs finally came over.

I like Dragonball, I don't like Z anywhere near as much (but love TFS's version).

I hear that, Rules. And even some anime with filler that were popular still could be able to add some neat stuff to make it work. A good example is Inuyasha, even if some of it was odd for sure, but at the same time, there was some great stuff to do as well, as well as characters like Ayame and the Panther Tribe.

Hell, I watched the first season of Legend of the Galactic Heroes. The original, not the new series, and I only dropped it. It had a lot of episodes that fleshed out stuff only mentioned briefly in the books (which I've read the entire series). That over-a-hundred-episodes OVA is a shining example filler doesn't have to be a bad word (I never finished it because 1) my laptop died, 2) Kissanime was performing worse and worse).