People will read this and swear to you Tangle and Whisper are a good ship.
Please free them, let them have stories with literally anybody else
I beg you
Unfortunately the issues with Amy's characterisation goes to the top. We know this because Head of Sega Brands Ivo Gerscovich said as much on his Reddit AMA that he was pushing for this modern direction for Amy.
I do not believe EVERY western writer wants this lobotAmy, and public-facing lore team members dont want responsibility or heat for it either, which is understandable. They don't want to piss off their bosses either.
That said, there are likely bad actors from within who are complacent or encouraging the character shift, but thats a lesser issue:
Someone (or someones) with enough power at SoA, enough to influence the JP side, is pushing for a more "socially conscious" image despite the fan backlash.
Why? ESG investment money? Personal misguided feminist ethical reasons to present Amy as a primary character without the baggage of her old "side character anime tropes"?
It's very telling that both left, right, western, and eastern fans are rejecting this and yet Sega persists. Makes the situation feel hopeless, and yet they cant stop fans preferring the older Amy, nor speaking their opinions.
It's also hard to feel sympathy for Chris though when it does seem like he blatantly lied about Amy while having either no intent or power to stop this character assasination.
Remember when I shared images of chatlogs where a hired translator admitted SoA was making changes to Channel bios, especially Amy, and half of Sonictwt accused ME of faking it all? 🤪
Then Chris on the lore team claimed it was just a small mistake and Amy's bio would be corrected?
And that just... never happened. They've instead altered the JP bio.
What the FUCK lol, I wonder how sonictwt will spin this