"Staff Receiving Death Threats"; Is This Even True?

icarusivys said:


You are right, but at this point, no place is civil enough to discuss such elements without a hater jumping in out of nowhere.

If no studio picked on AoT, it would have stayed with WIT (who are currently working on an anime original with the ReZero author). MAPPA wanted to delay AoT but the Production Committee denied the request (as WIT would be able to work on it next year), but hey, both parties need the cash right? They stuck on to it, I personally think they could have assigned more people from their staff to AoT but maybe they had certain conditions specified, who knows (like an NDA stating budget, etc.)? Would be a different case if the animation studio was from the Production Committee itself.

Both Tetsurō Araki and Arifumi Imai refused to work on AoT S4 alongside MAPPA, who played a major role in AoT's top tier fight animations, basically carried it, especially Imai.
Being left with a tight schedule, MAPPA did well. I applaud the staff for providing us what we have now, they deserve it. If anything, people should be mad at the Production Committee and not MAPPA. Well it was MAPPA's responsibility too, for picking on such a massive project but w/e.

Even while not nitpicking, some frames just look jarring sometimes, not that I mind it but its AoT we are talking about. Some things did disappoint me which were not that tough to achieve tbh, but they are not important anymore because what's done is done. Not everything can go the way I want them to, so the best one can do is lower their expectations.

icarusivys said:


Yes, but that's a whole different case. These "death threats" were mostly from troll accounts, but yeah disregarding them is not the right thing to do.

I just don't like how it gets titled "AoT Fans send death threats to MAPPA staff." when in reality no actual sane "fan" would drop that low. I think of them as psychopathic haters.

Harsha1314 said:
yes they are, but, just like any other fandom, its always associated with the fandom, no matter what kind of asshole does it. you get it.

icarusivys said:


You are right, but at this point, no place is civil enough to discuss such elements without a hater jumping in out of nowhere.

If no studio picked on AoT, it would have stayed with WIT (who are currently working on an anime original with the ReZero author). MAPPA wanted to delay AoT but the Production Committee denied the request (as WIT would be able to work on it next year), but hey, both parties need the cash right? They stuck on to it, I personally think they could have assigned more people from their staff to AoT but maybe they had certain conditions specified, who knows (like an NDA stating budget, etc.)? Would be a different case if the animation studio was from the Production Committee itself.

Both Tetsurō Araki and Arifumi Imai refused to work on AoT S4 alongside MAPPA, who played a major role in AoT's top tier fight animations, basically carried it, especially Imai.
Being left with a tight schedule, MAPPA did well. I applaud the staff for providing us what we have now, they deserve it. If anything, people should be mad at the Production Committee and not MAPPA. Well it was MAPPA's responsibility too, for picking on such a massive project but w/e.

Even while not nitpicking, some frames just look jarring sometimes, not that I mind it but its AoT we are talking about. Some things did disappoint me which were not that tough to achieve tbh, but they are not important anymore because what's done is done. Not everything can go the way I want them to, so the best one can do is lower their expectations.

dompsterfire said:
Yeah they did get death threats but most of those accounts got reported and got locked too.

You're right about criticizing and how people should be allowed to criticize art given that they do not attack the person making the art. A lot of people also hide baseless hate as criticism but there are also people who just sucks mappa's dick.

As people like deg said, praise the staff and not the company.

It may not compare as "top-tier" but there are also many factors that people tend to miss out on. The tight schedule that they are given (which could be due to the fact that they made 9 animes last year and yes it's mappa's fault but not the staff), the harder character designs, covid (it's not an excuse but it's another factor you have to take into account).

What's the point in nitpicking every single scene and over-analyzing everything just to point out some minor mistakes. imo just enjoy the damn thing lol. It is the final season afterall.

Its not like MAL is the best place to talk civil sooo....

rabialq said:
if you praise someone’s hard work it’s still better than makin fun of him and his work, like this isnt even a question your comparison is flawed at this point, but I agree with everything else.

dompsterfire said:
there's a fine line between making fun of and criticizing. Sometimes you have to crticize in order to improve. Of course praising is still better but you also have to point out their mistakes so that they can gain experience and learn from that.

I'm not only talking about s4 but art in general.

I hope this does not make me look like a hater lol. I love the adaptation of s4. They absolutely deserve the praise that they receive.