/jp/ - Otaku Culture

So, my original plan following up on >>21102343 was to gather up all the Nicovideo videos made about Kemono Friends 2 with 500+ mylist and create a brief summary for each one, which if you haven't heard by now was an absolute bomb and managed to create the most hated anime episode in Nicovideo history. The anime itself isn't on-topic for /jp/ but starting somewhere from around episode 5 ratings absolutely tanked and it eventually spawned an Nicovideo entire cottage industry of videos doing their level best to tear the show limb from limb, ranging from Hitler rants to extended takedowns to videos of people blowing up the production studio with cruise missiles, which became such a phenomenon in and of itself that I thought people might be interested in it. (I never did watch the damn thing myself.)

However as I compiled the list there were almost a hundred of these and I realized that I could hardly do them all in one go even if I just did one sentence for this one so for as long as this thread sticks around I'll just drop some summaries in the thread as I go along. The super tl;dr about the whole situation is:

January-March 2018: Kemono Friends comes out and is a big hit.
September 2018: Director is fired over something. Cue shock and anger from fans.
January 2019: Kemono Friends 2 comes out. Doesn't look so good. Fans react with caution.
March 2019: Everything just goes to absolute shit, inspiring an avalanche of... interestingly directed creativity among fans.

That's probably the bare minimum you need to know of how it's going to play out. I'll try to drop the first batch of summaries tomorrow.