He thinks that by staying true to the roots of the original anime is a political statement, but doesn’t think specifically gender-swapping a character isn’t a political statement? This reads like he’s afraid of people, most likely in the media or possibly executives at Netflix, whining that they actually stayed true to the original anime and honored their fans. Right or wrong, the audience could interpret an all-male team as us trying to make a STATEMENT about something. Guys and girls working side-by-side is the default.
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Now the series has always had fantastic strong dynamic female characters, and it reflects in the tremendous number of women who are passionate about the Seiya manga and anime-īut thirty years ago, a group of guys battling to save the world with no girls around was no big deal.
The only thing that concerned me: the Bronze Knights with Pegasus Seiya are all dudes. Most of it holds up well even thirty years later.
The core concepts of Saint Seiya that make it beloved are so strong. When we started developing this new updated series, we wanted to change very little. The big question: “Why change Andromeda?” Son admits he was the driving force behind gender-swapping Andromeda.
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So between Toei and Kurumada, they chose to update a few of the character names. There was some question why characters from China, Europe, South America all have Japanese names. “Why are some of the character names changed?”
He also noted that a number of the characters also had their names changed.
But the gender-swapping isn’t the only thing Son admitted to. The trailer which showcases the gender-swapped character has been roundly downvoted on YouTube with 8.1k people giving it a thumbs down compared to 5.3k giving it a thumbs up.Įugene Son took to Twitter to defend his decision to gender-swap Andromeda explaining that there were already too many male characters in the Bronze Knights.
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