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Old 2012-04-17, 15:04   Link #3125
Kaioshin Sama
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This one. It came out about 3 days ahead of the official announcement if I recall and over a weekend giving people plenty of time to pass judgment on the show before any context about it was established. Many people clearly made up their minds about Gundam Age not with the first several episodes, but with this picture. Perhaps never before has a single picture done so much damage to peoples impression of a show...possible exception being that incredibly misquoted and taken out of context interview with Goro Taniguchi where he explained about how the time slot change led him to make a couple of changes as to how Code Geass R2 started off which thousands of angry fanboys decided meant that they had somehow been given a fake version of the show.

If there's one thing that Sunrise and Bandai need to learn and learn fast (and I think they are finally starting to get it albeit a lot later than some other production companies) its that fanboys in this internet age(especially ones of their shows it seems) are incredibly angry, stubborn and often just flat out stupid people that will jump to incredible lengths and conclusions based on the flimsiest of evidence and reasoning, and thus they need to be incredibly INCREDIBLY careful with how they go about doing promotional phases, interviews and explaining information about shows productions to people. No more saying or releasing anything that can possibly be taken out of context and maybe find a way to not have Newtype articles or any information for that matter leaked ahead of them getting to have first say in announcing a product so that people get the right information when they need to get it.
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