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Old 2015-03-09, 16:24   Link #44
tigerdave
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Originally Posted by amtro View Post
He is right, mahouka has a lot more detractors than it has fans in the west. It is wildly popular in Japan and the SAO crowd were very quick to jump on it here when the anime started, but most of them hated it and left. The first volume's themes ran in stark contrast to their own liberal ideologies, in particular the thing about preference of magic-centered clubs not being discrimination, but rather just correct allocation of resources in a meritocracy. Utilitarianism is tantamount to satanism to these people.
Where are you getting this info about the series being hated from? And why did you attribute it to a conflict in ideology?
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