However, he gender-swapped Andromeda into a girl for the sake of adding a girl. Even more interesting is the fact that he thinks adding a girl for the sake of being a girl would make her be a token. But it seems that fear kept Eugene Son from making a new character. Depending on the story arc it might not be the easiest thing on the planet, but if you use it as a tool to push a story forward a new character won’t look like a prop. Writing a new character isn’t something new in anime or manga for that matter. The more we developed it, the more we saw the potential. So what if the original was “Andromeda Shun” and our interpretation was “Andromeda Shaun”? Or do we create a new female character and have her join the team?īut I didn’t want to create a new female character that would stick out and be obvious – especially if she was not created naturally and has no character/personality except “to be the girl.” But they’re both powerful already – no one wants to see them turned into Bronze Knights-ĭo we take an existing character like Sienna (formerly named Saori) or Shunrei or Miho, give them powers, and turn them into our April O’Neil? There are plenty of female characters in the anime and manga. Somehow they were concerned about the character feeling unnatural, which is rich considering one would have thought a gender-swap would have been worse. Instead of working on a new character, Son and Netflix found it easier to gender-swap a pre-existing one.
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But in a shocking admission, he seems to point to either his own incompetence or at least the complete incompetence of the writing staff at Netflix when he explains they thought about creating a new character with a unique story, but just didn’t really know how to do it. Son would continue his defense of of the decision by pointing out the strong female characters already present in the anime. Okay, so what to do? We gave it a lot of thought. It never ends well.Īnd maybe 30 years ago seeing women punching and kicking each other wasn’t a thing. It’s a tired argument that executives and producers make when they have a bunch of failed ideas, but a popular IP and a hungry fanbase, and they try and combine the two. Son continued to explain his politically motivated decision to gender-swap Andromeda by arguing he was just keeping up with the times. Instead, of honoring fans, what Son has done is slapped them in the face with a gender-swapped character that one can only assume is part of a much larger social justice agenda that seems to be leaking across much of Netflix’s original content and came to the forefront in She-Ra Princesses of Power. 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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