Quote:That runs into a other subcategory... Writers who have a 'political' agenda for writing about X series and X charicter.
How about rampant sodomization of an anime's timeline and character's personalities, for no good reason?
I don't mean like Onstead with his apparently deleted rant about the American school system. I mean like Onstead and his Anti-christ, irredemable in any timeline verse of Akane.
People who write fanfiction specifically to write against one or two charicters. Fics that are great except that one near unrecognizable charicter that the writer insists is the canon accurate charicter it bears the name of.
For example I started reading fanfiction back in 1997-8, so it was at the tail end of the fiance wars that spawned from Ranma 1/2. I liked a lot of what I read... but noticed that I was getting wildly different discriptions of the charicters.
So I bought the first 2 seasons... and was confused by how exactly the non-Akane Tendo sisters were described. So after a few months I came up with this:
People read the manga and it was good. So they made and anime that amplified the bad points of charicters, and made them charicterures of the manga. That and learned that and the Kuno family ninja is actually a charicter lifted (with permission) from Japanese fanfiction of the manga.
Once in America (in fansubs and untranslated manga) the fanfiction community desided they liked Ranma, but the females competing for him broke people into violently disparate groups (I mean flame wars and hacking each other websights to destroy them). For me the exact details are lost to time, but the results were clearly notiable in the fanfiction after that.
The same thing happens in lesser scale to this day... but more important to this discusion is that it resulted in hundreds of writers that wrote Ranma fanfiction without any direct exposure to the cannon or none outside the first season.
They tended to break off into groups that were based on whoever they read first shaped their opinions of the charicter warped. Much charicter bashing badness was born.
So two groups of badness:
1) Agenda writers.
2) 'I never seen the series, but after reading so-and-so's work I've decided to join his band wagon and write about the series anyway' writers. These have a tendancy to mentally declare the first guys writing based on baseline cannon and writer then makes an even worse charicture.