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To play devil's advocate, it could turn out that only 1 person needed to be persuaded by the art, some investor that ends up leading their next round, who happe

To play devil's advocate, it could turn out that only 1 person needed to be persuaded by the art, some investor that ends up leading their next round, who happens to be an anime fan and now it was the right choice. > rather than as a language of communication carefully selected to give viewers the right impression of the company You could argue it gives the impression that the culture of the company is primarily technical, given that the technical and anime communities have a huge overlap.

BarryMilo 3y ago
At what level of ridiculousness do you stop debating? It could turn out that they were blackmailed into making that choice, or maybe it was the best-looking color palette on their old Nokia. At some point you have to be able to recognize that the emperor has no clothes, no matter what extenuating circumstances may have arised.
- user3939382 3y ago
  Art is famous, or infamous, depending on your perspective, for not having a level where you stop debating it.
  - __loam 3y ago
    It seems kind of pointless to debate it in this context with someone who is giving their professional opinion.
    - user3939382 3y ago
      I’d say art is the one field where professional opinions are not the end of the discussion.
noduerme 3y ago
Your first hypothesis is completely valid, and it occurred to me that this decision could have come from the top - but it's also a red flag for me when one or two individuals in a client's upper management or worse, investors, inject themselves into art decisions by overriding choices presented to them by trained and experienced professionals they've presumably hired to that end. Those companies tend to also override other suggestions presented by employees or contractors in other areas. Which implies a management style that isn't utilizing its hired talent to full effect. As far as appealing to technical people who overlap with enjoying Anime, that would be a very specific decision that might be appropriate for a video game company or something, but even then it would have to be justified by having some actual connection to Anime culture. Otherwise it's sort of just appropriating a style... in the hope that some percentage of crossover exists between users, investors, and this subculture being heavily referenced. My theory is that no study was done on whether or to what extent that crossover existed here before choosing it as a theme, but if I'm wrong I'll eat my critique!

BarryMilo 3y ago

At what level of ridiculousness do you stop debating? It could turn out that they were blackmailed into making that choice, or maybe it was the best-looking color palette on their old Nokia. At some point you have to be able to recognize that the emperor has no clothes, no matter what extenuating circumstances may have arised.

user3939382 3y ago
Art is famous, or infamous, depending on your perspective, for not having a level where you stop debating it.
- __loam 3y ago
  It seems kind of pointless to debate it in this context with someone who is giving their professional opinion.
  - user3939382 3y ago
    I’d say art is the one field where professional opinions are not the end of the discussion.

noduerme 3y ago

Your first hypothesis is completely valid, and it occurred to me that this decision could have come from the top - but it's also a red flag for me when one or two individuals in a client's upper management or worse, investors, inject themselves into art decisions by overriding choices presented to them by trained and experienced professionals they've presumably hired to that end. Those companies tend to also override other suggestions presented by employees or contractors in other areas. Which implies a management style that isn't utilizing its hired talent to full effect. As far as appealing to technical people who overlap with enjoying Anime, that would be a very specific decision that might be appropriate for a video game company or something, but even then it would have to be justified by having some actual connection to Anime culture. Otherwise it's sort of just appropriating a style... in the hope that some percentage of crossover exists between users, investors, and this subculture being heavily referenced. My theory is that no study was done on whether or to what extent that crossover existed here before choosing it as a theme, but if I'm wrong I'll eat my critique!