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mfw

What did they do to AraYoru? ;~; It's my favorite movie (it's even on my profile, that's how favorite it is), and now it's a CG anime where Mei is a girl and Gabu is a cartoon version of Red XIII?

Did I mention that MEI IS A GIRL.

The whole homoerotic subtext of the original movie wasn't, surprisingly, the only reason why I liked it, and now that aspect is to be replaced with a far less plausible "friendship only" deal between a heterosexual couple? (the show's freaking subtitle is Himitsu no Tomodachi - Secret Friends!!!)
Not likely!
If kids are watching a movie with talking animals and a base message that couldn't be any more obvious (FRENZ R IMPURTENT NO MATR WHO U R), they're going to see them as friends, and it's not really going to matter the gender.

I could go on about how much they messed this up (it looks like it was made for the PS2, the fact that Japan is using 3D CG in the first place, and the recycling of the score from the original film, among other things that I'm sure are missing beyond a glance over the first episode), and I probably won't even watch it (though i will feel bad for the kids that do), but more than half of you probably don't know what I'm talking about in the first place, which classifies this post as a Grade-A nerdrage.

I'm such a dork.