The wildest thing about Ben 10 is that it took until 2005 for someone to have the idea "what if a kid could turn into a bunch of aliens" like this isn't obviously the coolest and most marketable premise for anything ever. Each design is a new toy. A new powerset. Come on.

the amazing digital circus is a show about empathy and what it does to you if you go too long without a support system so the show starts with sympathizing with Pomni (the most empathetic person, easy), ep2 is empathizing with an NPC in a game (no flaws), ep3 is empathizing with a man who has dementia, ep4 is empathizing with someone who annoys you when they're unmasking, ep5 is asking you to empathize with a rich white woman and so on....

I think the real problem in the magical girl fandom, specifically the shoujo end, is that people refuse to put their money where their mouths are. If you're upset that the '10s grimdark shows and the fanservice seinen are the bulk of what gets picked up, and you're upset that those shows sell better, then support the shoujo you claim to support. Otherwise we can't rely on you, and you'll be looking like surprised Pikachu when you don't get the big names you want. I'm talking the people who dismiss the Precure franchise as some self-important upstart that needs to die already so they can get back to the shows from the 00s (never mind that Precure also came out in the 00s, just for assorted reasons EN anime circles ignored it at the time in favour of TMM and MMPPP). I'm talking the people who complain on Discotek streams when they license another Nanoha or Symphogear because the fanservice seinen sells, scream "Ojamajo Doremi" in the chat, but refused to buy Saint Tail because they were holding out for things they'd heard of. Upset that AiPri didn't get licensed? Well, did you buy PriMagi? Upset that Heartcatch Precure isn't up on streaming? Well, did you watch the legal releases of the other seasons that are? Angry that Gushing Over Magical Girls got so big but the shoujo you love didn't? Maybe you shouldn't have dismissed Acro Trip as a sanitized version of GOMG and skipped it. (For the record, Acro Trip's manga came first. GOMG is the horny version of it.) Did you skip Tokyo Mew Mew New and brag around that you were holding out for a dub or for a licence rescue of the original series? You know, Sentai was considering both of those things. Know why they didn't do them? Because the streaming numbers and Blu-ray sales for subbed Tokyo Mew Mew New weren't high enough. Did you even know Full Moon got a Blu-ray? The second half just came out. Go buy them. And for the love of Blue, don't go all "well does that really count as magical girl?" Learn about the various subtypes of magical girl. There's not just warrior type, and idol type is very important historically and still exists today. Think there's nothing new coming out in manga? Stellar Witch LIP☆S might be right up your alley. Or Creamy Mami and the Spoiled Princess. Or Idol Dreams. Never heard of 'em? Go look them up. Did you know Creamy Mami, Pastel Yumi, and Magical Emi are on RetroCrush? Oh, you don't want to shell out for another streaming service, understandable. Then go watch Minky Momo on Crunchyroll. Yeah, it's there. Both seasons. What, you didn't know there was a sequel in the '90s starring Momo's identical second cousin? You thought the series ended with the truck? Maybe learn more about classic magical girls from sources other than memes. Those articles from Leaked Experience were right on the money. A lot of people claim to be "magical girl fans" when they mean "people with vague nostalgia for Sailor Moon, Cardcaptor Sakura, and Tokyo Mew Mew, and maybe Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch, but they'll barely even touch the sequels and spinoffs of those series, much less anything original coming out now." And as much as it pains me, we can't rely on those people to support the series that companies are taking risks on right now, and if that doesn't change, then nobody will take that step to bring us the bigger names.

Just saw this and it proves my point.

It's so awesome cool and progressive that the second result of looking up a trans woman on this site is a dedicated hate blog that specifically states "DNI if you defend this trans woman"

I would appreciate it if people reblogged this version that specifically calls out that none of the cis men in the same industry are held to the same standard even when they've done worse, continue to do worse and have not shown any sign of changing or regretting their past actions besides "I stopped saying the n word because people would get mad at me" and not because it's racist.