High Guardian Spice

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Vara Dark @Vara_Dark High Guardian Spice received almost 100 5 star reviews over the past 2 or so days. All the 5 stars I see are people just going "It's super diverse! People who call it woke are dumb!" Lol Ratings ut of 12 people found this review helpful: *** i don't get the hate ragret on Nov 6, 2021 - See all reviews by ragret just a fun show man, doesn't matter if it's on an "anime" pbsite. let them branch out if they wanna. like tell me you're whiny a------ that hates stuff for no reason without telling you're a whiny a------ that hates stuff for no reason. get er yourself. "it's an anime website!" yea so go watch one the animes then. not like they're replacing all the animes th this show lol age Rating : *★★☆ (135) (15) (7) (16) (308) out of 17 people found this review helpful: **** Adorale and So Much Funt ysmiletime108 on Nov 5, 2021 - See all reviews by smiletime108 you're like me and you hate people who gatekeep genres, ogwhistle things that are too "woke" for them, and just enerally pedal gross hateful rhetoric, you may also have just ughed reading all those 1-star reviews like I did. his show was an absolute delight from start to finish, and it as tons of queer representation, which is both fun and warding. It feels like a kid's show, and is . Reviews ead more 2:43 PM · Nov 8, 2021 · Twitter for iPhone

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About

High Guardian Spice is an animated series created by Raye Rodriguez and is co-produced by Ellation Studios & Crunchyroll.

History

On August 22nd, 2018, Crunchyroll tweeted about their plans to release an original anime-inspired series on their streaming platform, highlighting High Guardian Spice as the first to be released in 2019. The tweet included a short promotional video for the series, which included interviews with the show's creative team. Within 24 hours, the tweet received upwards of 1,900 retweets and 7,700 likes.^[1] Meanwhile, a YouTube^[5] upload of the promotional videos received more than 37,600 views in the same time period.

ANNOUNCING: CRUNCHYROLL ORIGINALS 🎉We’re proud to announce High Guardian Spice, the first series from Ellation Studios, coming in 2019!! pic.twitter.com/bJHr1lBWzI
— Crunchyroll @ Crunchyroll Expo 2018 🎉 (@Crunchyroll) August 22, 2018

Online Presence

On August 21st, both official pages for Twitter^[6] & Facebook^[4] page was launched. The following day, the /r/HighGuardianSpice^[3] subreddit was launched for discussions about the then-upcoming series.

Reception

The day of the announcement, YouTuber Digibro posted a video titled "Dear Crunchyroll: Stop," which criticized the promotional video and Crunchyroll's use of Flash on the site (shown below). Within 24 hours, the video gathered upwards of 133,000 views and 2,800 comments.

The same day, Crunchyroll manager Miles Thomas posted a tweet that the response to High Guardian Spice was "mostly positive," with the exception of angry "hand-wringers" (shown below, left). Meanwhile, YouTuber Geoff Thew, known for his anime-focused YouTube channel "Mother's Basement", referred to critics as "the most fragile of snowflakes" for "getting mad at animated shows that don't exist yet" (right).

miles crunchy expo @MilesExpress999 20h remember last year when Crunchyroll announced an original animation project with women in almost all key positions and there was zero hand-wringing about it 941 tl 16 161 Mike Toole so sN Crunchyroll Expo!@MichaelToole 20h I've seen nothing but positivity about High Guardian Spice on my TL, but then again I_do make an effort to keep weird assholes outta this space miles crunchy expo @MilesExpress999 20h the response is mostly positive, but boy are the hand-wringers mad

Geoff @Crunchy Expo @GOffThew Just got my daily reminder that the dudes who get mad at animated shows that don't exist yet are the most fragile of snowflakes.

Release

On October 26th, 2021, the series was finally released three years after it's initial announcement. The plot of the anime was revealed to be a typical slice-of-life style show, where there isn't a supernatural threat or otherwise deadly high stakes, and instead focuses on school life at High Guardian Academy, which the main characters attend. Among the many things picked apart by viewers online, the most common negative sentiment comes in the form of pointing out how background elements do not visibly match with the characters, making it look very discombobulated and patchworked together by separate teams. This is noted in a Tweet^[7] by @momiji_doa on October 30th, who earned 550 likes for showing two pictures with pngs of assets thrown in and not at all matching the style (shown below)