Vic Mignogna Fired

[Papasmurf]

https://comicbook.com/anime/2019/02/11/vic-mignogna-funimation-fired-anime-recast/



No more Eduwardo Erurikku or from this man.

 

[Pocket-Gog~]

Accusations of sexual assault, and twitter hell bent against you can do that.

 

[Let's Go Fearless!]

Bulma's VA joined as well? If the allegations are true then good for them but I think it's shitty for them to voiced their accusation during this time when the movie is on the buzz. Why not report him while he wasn't on the media?

 

[Pocket-Gog~]

Bulma's VA joined as well? If the allegations are true then good for them but I think it's shitty for them to voiced their accusation during this time when the movie is on the buzz. Why not report him while he wasn't on the media?

There's no evidence for it beyond accusations. And if it is true then it doesn't paint a good picture of the other VA's as they have claimed to know that Vic has been doing this for a long time.

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Yeah, the accusations are extremely skewered ones. What "evidence" is used are footage that's heavily edited to fit the narrative of those making the accusations. For example, the girl who claimed Vic touched her and was creepy forgot to mention Vic was also just as physically friendly to the man she was with, not to mention it being at a time he'd spent 5 hours signing autographs. Most of the people accusing him of touching them also don't take into account the cultural difference of how Italians, especially of Vic's generation, are generally more touchy and emotive when it comes to socialising with people.

Also, even assuming some of the allegations are true, it's not as if sexual harassment is a rarity at events where cosplayers often show off a ridiculous amount of skin and the image the NPC media are portraying of Vic is nowhere near the worst case scenario for these kind of events. It's also pretty telling that the assumed "victims" never bothered to go to the police when it happened, when they may have had enough evidence to convict him. Also, got to love that double standard of how Monica Rial and Jamie Marchi talk about respect and being civil, yet go completely totalitarian when it comes to the topic of Vic and anyone defending him.

Real reason for him being thrown under the bus probably has more to do with his religious beliefs and disdain for homosexuality not aligning with Funimation's heavily liberal leanings. In other words, he's been sent to Room 101 for wrong think.

 

[Papasmurf]

Yeah, he was reportedly under fire for "homophobia" as well. Which is... weird, since he's actually gone on record defending homosexual kids from protesters and telling them off. Regardless, whether he has negative views of homosexuality in any form should be irrelevant if he doesn't ostracize gays.

I really don't understand why liberals can't leave dissenting ppl, particularly religious ppl be. If you're not exercising your authority to ostracize homosexuals it's your business at the end of the day.

Also, Funimation is without a doubt left leaning. A scene in Dragon Maid was rewritten in the dub to insert feminist propaganda (taking a stab at the patriarchy) simply because it was a scene feminists would find uncomfortable (originally a line about a girl being looked at for her figure), and Funimation approved of all of it.

It really is sad that probably the most prolific anime dubbing company in the entire industry isn't safe from liberal bias.

 

[Let's Go Fearless!]

Bulma's VA joined as well? If the allegations are true then good for them but I think it's shitty for them to voiced their accusation during this time when the movie is on the buzz. Why not report him while he wasn't on the media?

There's no evidence for it beyond accusations. And if it is true then it doesn't paint a good picture of the other VA's as they have claimed to know that Vic has been doing this for a long time.

So when did these sexual harrassment happened? Because if it's a long time ago and they just brought it up during the movie release then that's a shitty thing to do just to take advantage of the series buzz at the moment. If it's just recently during the movie releases then I don't know what to say since I have a limited knowledge about this situation.

 

[Papasmurf]

There've been "accusations" about him for a decade, Funimation was mostly silent about it because there hadn't been a breach of etiquette from Mr. Mignogna until recently when he came under fire for whatever reason, which honestly seems political considering Funi's overtly liberal leaning of allowing VAs to insert feminist agendas into dub lines, as well as taking issue with his religious leanings and remotely derogatory behavior toward homos.

 

[Let's Go Fearless!]

So it happened years ago then? Why not report him when the scene happened instead of just now? Seems to me that they're just trying to make a headline since the VA is currently in the media for the movie's buzz.

 

[sei'taer]

This dude has had a dark cloud of abuse and misconduct allegation following him for decades. they just weren't public until now. My local convention banned him back in 07.

Like the dude is a shitlord and an investigation was done, evidence was found and he was fired. Don't defend the fucking dickbag.

This is like the fucking Cosby case. When there's so much smoke you can't see or breathe because of it stop denying there's fire.

 

[Papasmurf]

Theres still no solid evidence against the man and he's started pushing back to get his career back, it seems.

 

[Pocket-Gog~]

Yeah. Vic's taking legal action now.