Other people have pointed out that despite the approach Madoka takes, a lot of these guys won't have a problem with fetishizing the content in the show anyway. Which is not necessarily the show's fault, but if your intended audience is too thick to get the point, then what does that even say?
This doesn't really bug me that much since Eva's message backfired on it in the exact same way. XD; Ayanami has probably prompted more otaku to build shrines in their basements than any other character ever. I don't think that means Eva's message is any less clear or it was unsuccessful. If you do an otaku commentary show that uses the elements that obsess fans in the first place in order to draw the audience in, I think that outcome is really inevitable.
I see how Madoka's methods of bait-and-switch themselves could be just another kink to some guys and that is a problem, but on the other hand I also think they seemed to make a really calculated effort to make everything about how the girls looked and sounded (i.e. casting seiyuu from moe shows for maximum crossover appeal, Sayaka's seiyuu being from Precure) pull in a certain kind of male viewer at the outset. Now, once the word got out about how this was actually a show that killed off little girls in violent ways, you're gonna reel in a whoooole different audience with different kinks, but with marketing it as a "normal moe show with 'pure' mahoujo" and waiting until episode 3 to drop the anvil on the creepers who were tuning in to see a very specific type of moe that was being marketed to them, I think the show played its cards well.
On that note, I admit to being disturbed when I found out that the periphery fandom for CCS in Japan years back kickstarted modern moe/lolicon trends.
Yeah, I definitely feel like Sakura was patient zero in a sense, but then Chobits was like, "UGH CLAMP STOP ENCOURAGING THEM." T_T
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Date: 2011-05-24 02:02 pm (UTC)This doesn't really bug me that much since Eva's message backfired on it in the exact same way. XD; Ayanami has probably prompted more otaku to build shrines in their basements than any other character ever. I don't think that means Eva's message is any less clear or it was unsuccessful. If you do an otaku commentary show that uses the elements that obsess fans in the first place in order to draw the audience in, I think that outcome is really inevitable.
I see how Madoka's methods of bait-and-switch themselves could be just another kink to some guys and that is a problem, but on the other hand I also think they seemed to make a really calculated effort to make everything about how the girls looked and sounded (i.e. casting seiyuu from moe shows for maximum crossover appeal, Sayaka's seiyuu being from Precure) pull in a certain kind of male viewer at the outset. Now, once the word got out about how this was actually a show that killed off little girls in violent ways, you're gonna reel in a whoooole different audience with different kinks, but with marketing it as a "normal moe show with 'pure' mahoujo" and waiting until episode 3 to drop the anvil on the creepers who were tuning in to see a very specific type of moe that was being marketed to them, I think the show played its cards well.
On that note, I admit to being disturbed when I found out that the periphery fandom for CCS in Japan years back kickstarted modern moe/lolicon trends.
Yeah, I definitely feel like Sakura was patient zero in a sense, but then Chobits was like, "UGH CLAMP STOP ENCOURAGING THEM." T_T