okay but jess was honestly the most realistic and normal teenage relationship rory had. dean was bordering on abusive and their relationship was too serious for their age. logan’s entire existence is just unrealistic if we’re being real (and this is coming from a lower middle class kid going to a rich people college). jess had major issues (adhd, avpd, and ptsd are just some of the possibilities) but when he was actually with rory he was just your average kinda nerdy 17 year old with a crush and to expect “reliability” from him is insane. I think my generation has been jaded to a point of no return because the idea that jess is anything but a kid who needs help is insane. he is not an adult who’s supposed to make it on his own in the world. he’s school should have supported him more and they should have called luke the second he got to 10 absences.
I also hear a lot of people call dean clingy and needy so I need to clarify that dean is neither of those things, he is obsessive. they way jess becomes attached to and partially dependent on rory might be clingy and needy but dean is NOT. he is far worse.
also can we talk about how sad it is that rory was probably the first person to make jess feel safe enough to just be a kid and not an adult
back to my point about school I saw someone say he would have been better off at a school like Chilton and honestly yeah. the work load would have kept him more engaged and private schools are notorious for actually caring about their students which you see clearly with Chilton. they would have called Luke after the first unexcused absence.
also he’s issues don’t excuse what happened at the party. obviously he had no intention on SAing her that’s clear from how slow he is to approach kissing her so she has time so say no because his verbal communication sucks so much just asking makes him anxious. and on top of that he said she did nothing wrong and went after her to apologize once it clicked what was probably going through her head. but with that said he was a little pushing about it when she pushed him away but even he said he didn’t even know what to think anymore (about anything going on with himself really). he raised his voice and snapped at her because he was frustrated with himself and that fact that she was pushing him to talk about what was going on when he didn’t want to. does this give him the right to raise his voice at her? absolutely not but he was going to apologize so I assume he knew what he did wrong
anyway that scene is not as bad as it’s made out to be and honestly it’s one of those scenes that you need to look at with a early 2000s lense because it would have probably been interpreted completely different back then
also why didn’t she want to bring him to her prom? like she brought dean to a dance a her school why not jess? he was less whiny about wearing a suit too so I can see him having more fun than dean and not getting in a fight with one of her classmates. also what tf was that “because I’ll kill you” bs with Tristan like babe your 16 calm down cool it with the fake tough guy shit
Or I guess you could say “Broccoli and Information” but using UtaPri is easier I think…
HERE’S THE POINT!
I fully understand that UtaPri is a franchise based out of Japan and they typically want to stay there (in a way) because that is where a good # of fans live…no issue there.
Here’s the problem: The fandom is also WELL OUTSIDE OF THERE TOO!
UtaPri’s reach is well past Japan at this point and they (the twitter handlers) need to figure out a way to convey information BETTER to those fans overseas (in my opinion).
What caused this thought process? Let’s talk
First and foremost let me state again that I am fully aware its bigger base is in Japan…got that and I’m good with that so no issues. The problem comes that ,when there is information to be shared (officially and not through leaks), we run into this issue of we need a twitter to translate information from the twitter or we need someone to fansub the stages. THIS ,in my opinion, is a big problem and has been since at least 7th Anniversary (you’ll see why I picked that one in a second)
The main twitter I think everyone and their brother follows in this fandom for information is the official UtaPri twitter which is where we get a lot of our news. The problem is that there are now 2 major twitters (that one and the HEAVENS twitter) that you have to follow because you see all the “Shining Agency” information is on the UtaPri twitter and the HEAVENS info is on the other one…rest assured the UtaPri one gets updated more but I’m sure if you headcanon a reason as to why it could make sense.
Now I would have no issue with this…IF you didn’t have to follow a THIRD account to read the translations of the news (if you didn’t read the machine translations from Google). Its almost like Broccoli doesn’t know how to convey the information proper to International fans so they literally rely on translators in the West to do it.
And that’s to say nothing about the Stages!
Stages and Anniversaries are usually where we get the most amount of news from. The problem is we have to wait usually an obscene amount of time to get the news because ,no joke, if no one does the report on here (and someone used to I think) then you have to wait for the DVD/BDs to come out (because Broccoli doesn’t know how to stream these things for fans outside of Japan still) and God help us with the fact that the DVDs are bloody expensive!
Now you might be saying to yourself
“Bro its not that deep”
Alright…then tell me why ever since 5th Anniversary (Minimum) they tweet in English for western fans if they didn’t want to include us…seems counterproductive don’t it?
UtaPri has a history of going “Dark” a lot and usually when they do you feel like they are setting up for something BIG and usually when they do drop the info we all get hyped to hell about it because we kind of know WHAT it is and we can sort of piece together how its going to go. I haven’t started losing my mind about this upcoming project because ,despite the report from Anime News Network about it…I still don’t understand WHAT is going to be done so I can’t get “hype” for it until somehow I get better information which hopefully will be at either this Anniversary or 7th Stage
Now let me back up to 7th Anniversary…why did I pick that?
I picked that because ,before the platform change, the last bit of intel we got about the game “Dolce Vita” was HEAVENS was gonna be in it and I told you how I felt the reaction was on here about that and it wasn’t “great” (or at least to me). Since the Platform change over from VITA to Switch we haven’t heard much about it. Hell we finished the Debut port and I expected them to announce either All-Star or Dolce Vita was next but they didn’t and that baffled me. Like I genuinely am concerned about that game project now since we hadn’t heard anything about it!
This past April Fools was interesting because of the fact that Broccoli went the route of doing a “Game” based on HEAVENS (and it was MESSED UP MAN) but I hope I am not reading too much into it that they are going to work on a Visual Novel game for them or ,at the very least, make a new Music series of games based off of HEAVENS Music because remember that in Music 3 we got the Mini game that was from an April Fools prank!
Again though this is where they (Broccoli) don’t communicate what is next for either side and rather go
“If you know…then you know”
And its like
“No…no I really don’t because I am waiting for you to spell it out!”
Like at the very least HEAVENS needs the following
Their own VN games Their own Music games Their own Anime Series
Or their own stage
Any of
these would be fine for them so we know where HEAVENS actually is in the pecking order of Broccoli’s vision for UtaPri. I generally see Agematsu tweet about QN/STARISH but rarely see a tweet from Elements Garden in support of HEAVENS. I’ve no joke seen ONE in the past few years but that was just recently
Again though this goes back to the whole “Information” flow that International fans don’t get
Either someone needs to set up a dedicated account that literally translates all the tweets from the UtaPri/HEAVENS twitters or Broccoli needs to hire someone to freaking translate the tweets for us so we can understand the next step without relying on translators and reports. That “flow” doesn’t work because all it tends to do is create anxiety for the International base and its a problem but I don’t know how to fixit
*Cough*Streamthestagesoverseas*cough*
Okay but for real I know that that can be a bit of a financial issue and the margin might not work considering there are those in the International fandom that run adblockers so I get that…I think though that there has to be a way by now for the fandom to get the show and enjoy it. A viewing scheduled to go off when everyone is awake would be nice instead of like 6 AM and then you take it down for reasons…shit GENESIS and Mamo kept shows up longer than that for God Sakes! Mamo showed Loving which was like a concert (at the time) that was only like 3 years old! Hell the first concert are out of print so there HAS to be a way to show those to Overseas fans now right?!
Alright Alright I’ll get off that but my point stands for Heaven sakes!
UtaPri ,Broccoli ,King and whoever else involved in the running of the series needs to find a way to communicate with the International fans better. Hell KLab HAD the Game Station show but they axed that temporarily (and I couldn’t understand Alex for the life of me to understand why…she needs to learn to speak up or get a mike on her or something) so we don’t have any proper communication with KLab anymore which is weird and its just a problem.
Maybe I’m the only one though. What do you all think? Does the twitters for UtaPri need to find ways to communicate with International fans better or are you okay with the flow of information we get now? Let me know what you think and I shall talk to you later
