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It finally clicked for me. Hollywood gets ahold of a popular franchise like The Witcher and seemingly uses it as a medium to educate rather than entertain. They try to flip the script and push a message, often straying far from the source material.

Anime, on the other hand, usually has the manga releasing weekly or monthly. The fanbase is essentially "voting with their wallet" on which series they want to see adapted. When a studio picks it up, they just adapt it pretty faithfully. You get exactly what you paid for—the story you already love, just animated. It’s refreshing to watch a medium where the priority is giving the people what they actually want.

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[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

What did the witcher tv series try to educate us about? havent seen it.

[-] vonbaronhans@midwest.social 7 points 5 days ago

I dunno. I watched the Witcher season one adaptation and thought it was pretty good. I don't remember any "education" or overt political messaging.

Seems like bog standard conservative chud hot take to me. But I could be wrong.

[-] shani66@ani.social 2 points 4 days ago

I'm trying to be nice about it since this isn't a political community and i don't want to cause problems with the mods here, but yes you are correct. This stems entirely from media illiteracy.

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