(CR) High Guardian Spice

[Stark700]

Ellation, the transformative media company home to industry-leading brands Crunchyroll and VRV, announced today the launch of Ellation Studios and the first Crunchyroll Originals series High Guardian Spice. Ellation’s original content efforts will include production facilities in Burbank and Tokyo devoted to creating and developing new original shows for the Crunchyroll and VRV communities. Margaret Dean, former GM of Stoopid Buddy Stoodios and current president of Women in Animation, has been named head of studio for the new division.

As head of studio, Dean is charged with developing originals for both brands, including overseeing production for High Guardian Spice, the first-ever Crunchyroll Original Series, slated to premiere in 2019. Raye Rodriguez, a lifelong anime fan, is the creator of High Guardian Spice and his production team features an all-female writing room, along with a diverse and passionate group of artists and creatives. Audu Paden, director of the Animaniacs and other beloved animated series, joins Rodriguez as mentor.

Teaser

Plot/Premise
In High Guardian Spice, the lives of four fierce girls, Rosemary, Sage, Thyme and Parsley, converge at High Guardian Academy, the one place where they can stumble towards adulthood while becoming the heroes they've always admired. As they master the ways of battle and sorcery, our foursome form allegiances and comical kinships, uncover legacies and betrayals, and discover their true identities while preparing to protect the world from an ominous unknown threat.

Source (Crunchyroll)
http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-new...iginal-content

[moodie]

And ppl wonder why i support netflix anime...this looks like fan made trash

[Liddo-kun]

If I was 10 years old, I might have watched this. But now... would have to just pass. Maybe take a look at the first episode to satisfy curiosity.

[mangamuscle]

I hope this is another fad at crunchyroll, just like they did some chinese cartoons that nobody watched they are now going to pour money into it, I hope this time around they will snap out of it faster.

I do understand why they are doing this and this makes me hate it even more. Back when cartoon network made the original Teen Titans cartoon they cancelled the series to make Ben 10 because that series would be "original content" and they would reap more profit since they own the Ben 10 intellectual property rights (and Teen Titans belongs to DC, which is part of the warner conglomerate, but they still have to pay for the rights).

As I said at the crunchyroll website, I would have loved for them to get the rights to animate Empowered by Adam Warren, which is truly anime-like comic made in the USA, but that idea goes against the whole "crunchyroll owned content" idea.

[erneiz_hyde]

How are they naming these characters and failed to mention anything about Scarborough??

[ramlaen]

Does this really belong in upcoming anime series?

[bastek66]

This isn't anime. I hope it crashes down completely.

[Nachtwandler]

It is made by a bunch of hardcore female feminist scriptwriters.

I have nothing over feminists or female writers in general, but the ones working on it are really of the worst sort of both judging by the announcment interview.

[Chichiryuushintei]

My only problem with this is that they are selling this show based on the gender of the staff, and not in their merits/resume/curriculum/whateverthewordisfuckme. Mostly because they don't seem to have any.

Like, I really like Steven Universe, which is Tumblr-core as fuck, so I'm not going to completely dismiss this, but I'm definitely not hopeful.

[Wandering Soul]

The fact that they advertised this based on how diverse the staff and not on much else leaves me very wary of this. It honestly looks like some Saturday morning cartoon that may have a low budget.

[BWTraveller]

Originally Posted by Wandering Soul

The fact that they advertised this based on how diverse the staff and not on much else leaves me very wary of this. It honestly looks like some Saturday morning cartoon that may have a low budget.

Let's just hope that they keep most of their agenda to the staff selection, though I really doubt it since the characters seriously look like they were aiming less to create interesting characters and more to create characters that cover all the oppression bases. It doesn't matter whether it's religious or political, if you're there to preach your agenda first then it'll be very difficult to produce anything but top-grade crap. Heck, even a huge portion of us Christians won't touch most Christian films like that.

And if anyone wants to pull that card no, this has nothing to do with the creators being women. Only a fool who knows nothing about literature and the history of fiction would think that women are in any way lacking as creators. But it it's filled with women who think it's somehow important or some kind of achievement that the writing staff be all-female, we're probably going to have some big problems.

[Marcus H.]

Spare anime the politics bullshit, Crunchyroll. It's unnecessary.

[Sheba]

This is what happens when you let tumblrinas make cartoons. They seems to think that there is an evil ancient conspiracy led by "The Evil White Hetero Men" bent on preventing the little girls from getting role models. Deliberately ignoring the fact that the Japanese industry have had authors like Rumiko Takahashi, Riyoko Ikeda or Naoko Takeuchi, or a All-Female team like Clamp who were influencial on Japanese popular culture, or that western entertainment have had extraordinary female characters like Sarah Conor or Ellen Ripley.

Gotta push that victim narrative, and make their team look like a historical accomplishment.

As if Clamp never existed lol.

[blakstealth]

Not a fan of that Cal Arts style anymore. I wish they went with something else.

[Guido]

TBH, I knew zero or nothing about this show until the BlackCriticGuy reviewed the trailer, and, then, I checked it out by myself.

Honestly, that's NOT the way to advertise and sell a product to a target audience, since like everyone else previously posted it felt like a making of about the staff selling how "diverse" they were for this show.

Those people clearly showed their intentions at attempting to shove their agenda into the audience's throats, caring less to none about actually concocting a story to sell it to the audience.

Either they do not care about what they're doing or have no trust in the slightest about the story they're concocting; in summary, they do not show a teaser of the finished product to speak for itself upon the audience in order to test whether the show has or not merit.

[mangamuscle]

... this piece of **** debuted on crunchyroll on October 2021.