海鮮豆腐煲

I insist that the main issues here are the lighting, texture work and posing of Link's model, not the art style. Although the shift away from cel shading is jarring, too.

Maybe the trailer was just thrown together quickly due to recent leaks, but did they really expect people wouldn't complain about this? Link is unnaturally lit compared to his surroundings. His model is hovering over the bed and posed with rigid limbs to prevent clipping. His hair looks stringy, the fabrics look stiff, and the natural materials (the leaves and straw) look low detail. It's just not a visual that holds up to intense scrutiny via social media.

Funnily enough, Link's home in the original was also poorly realized, but at least it was 1998. You could get away with things like fixed camera angles and shark.jpg back then.

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

This is a form of backdoor bigotry from both normative facts (there are more straight than gay relationships) and well represented bigoted beliefs (men are superior to women).

BUG_FILMS (Tongari animation studio)