So, today I was just was roaming around on the internet as usual, while at the same time working on my webcomic (which hopefully the 1st chapter will be upload on here soon..) While working on my webcomic I was thinking about other webcomic had read recently and one that came to mind that I haven't checked up on recently..

 called Rock and Riot 

Rock and Riot is a webcomic by New Zealander animator/webcomic artist Chelsey Furedi . The comic's set in the 50's and is about  a girl rebel group being rivals with a boy rebel group in high school with LGBTQAI+ themes. The comic has a home at Tapas and Tumblr (duh). Just based on this small synopsis the comic sounds pretty interesting, this comic could be taking a look at what it could be like to be LGBTQAI+ in the 50's in the US. If only it was really like that (sigh).  I feel like this comic had so much potential to be interesting but  it didn't really live up to it, and also it didn't really explain somethings that made some  parts really confusing.  I would like to go through the comic and share some of my thoughts and feelings, and at the end I'll give my own thoughts on how it could have been better. (NOTE: I'm not bashing the artist/author of the story , this is her first comic, so it's no surprise it's a little rocky. I have hope that Chelsey can and will do better in the future with her next story!)

(and also I'll be linking to the important pages I'm referring to I won't  be actually putting them here because unlike last time where you couldn't find the web comics as easily without using the way-back machine, this time the comic's still up. )

Okay, Here we go

The comic opens with a shot of a old style 50's car riding up to a school, and here is where we get the first look at part of the cast

and you can see that they're pretty popluar among their fellow students. The main character has her sights set on a pretty girl and tries to get her attention, but does it pretty weird at least in my opinion. She tries to show off her muscles during class, look cool when smoking in the restroom, and almost blew her crush over with her car.  I'm guessing the main character, Connie is just used to people being so impressed by anything she does. Connie finally gets herself together and talks to her like a normal  human being.

The next part shows the male rival group and the leader Frankie, getting into a fight with Connie saying that the girls where on their turf. He was also upset with Connie for taking  one of  their members, Rolly  under her wing. Rolly says that "she" doesn't miss being in the boy group and likes the girls just  fine. Frankie and Connie get into a tussle and their hair gets messed up in the process.

Later Connie and her girlfriend Carla are on a secret drive in movie date at the same time Clyde and Gene (who are a part of the guy group) are also on  a secret date.    Their date gets interrupted by Frankie and the other guys.

In the next chapter, a new kid, Ace  shows up at school and both the gangs want them to be apart of their group.  Both groups try to persuade the new kid into their groups, but they deny both of them. Later Rolly gets to talk to Ace to see what's up. Ace says that  both groups are probably nice, but they don't feel like they'll fit in since they don't identify as a boy or a girl. Rolly says that she used to be a part of the boys group, but then went to the girls and now she feels happier, Ace says that's good for her. Rolly tells Ace that both groups will respect their wish.  It turns out  Ace has their own group and feels comfortable with them.

The next chapter, The girls sense that Connie is in love with someone,   her friends suspect it's a guy she's in love despite the fact she always said that she doesn't need no man. Later, Clyde visits Gene at his house and catches Gene right in the middle of doing his homework, even though the boys don't do homework. Clyde says that Gene shouldn't hide his true-self from them, and if Frankie has a problem with that, he'll have to go through him. Gene finds comfort in this, but then tries to ask Clyde something but he dips before Gene can finish his question.

In the next chapter, Carla spends her break time with Connie since Carla's break is so short and she's always so busy, Connie feels like she can't spend time with her.  Carla suggest that maybe they can go to this club she knows around town later that night.  Connie's excited for her date night with Carla that she's already counting down the moments! Later that night, Connie and Carla are walking to the place when they are stopped because of Connie's skin color. Carla doesn't stand for this and threatens the door guy with telling his wife about the affair he's having with the librarian.  Carla and Connie decide just to chill at the beach.  Carla tells Connie that she wants to go to prom with her, but Connie feels like she  won't be accepted, Carla then says that if they are accepted she owes her a dance. Connie accepts!

The next chapter, starts with Rolly getting ready to go to the movies with the other girls. This then  flashbacks to the first time at a sleepover Rolly wore a dress . Rolly remembers the memory fondly and goes off to the movies with the others.

The next chapter, Clyde and Gene continued where  they left off at the movie date after class . Just as things were getting heated, Connie goes back into the class room to get her jacket, and sees Clyde and Gene together. Even though they try to cover it up as a push up thing

In the next chapter, Clyde, Gene, Carla, and Connie meet up at Suzy's Diner. They are all surprised with their relationships and orientations .  Connie says that she'll stick to women, Carla said she likes anybody despite gender, and Gene says that he has always had a thing for Clyde, Clyde feels bad that he didn't know about Gene's feelings. Gene says it's okay because Clyde couldn't  have known before anyways. The girl gang and boy gang come  in and they think Connie is dating Clyde and Gene and Carla are dating,This tears the both groups apart. 

The next chapter, Ace's group is handing out cheats on test and homework help, but the most recent batches of cheats made everyone fail. Ace's group is stumped for ideas for how to solve this problem  until  Ace has a brilliant idea to make their own final exam, so there'll be no way they could get the wrong answers.  Later that night, they sneak into the school and change the old test with their new ones. They also added a new gender option to the test as well.

The next chapter, Connie sneaks into Carla's house while her Dad's taking a nap. Carla tells Connie it's probably best if they just confess about their relationship, Connie says that she doesn't want her friends to see her as weird, but Carla says that she'll always be there for her. Connie then ask Carla when will they have sex, and Carla says she wants to wait 'til marriage, but Connie says the likelihood of 2 women getting married is as about as likely as a black president (*cough*). Carla says that she'll know when she's good and ready, and Connie says she'll wait.  Carla's dad is just about to come in the room and Connie dives out the window. Clyde and Gene have the same type of convo,  but Clyde seemed a little to hype to get down. Clyde and Gene brush away the awkward moment and just cuddle in bed.

The next chapter, is basically about how the  two groups got to be rivals, which is just them fighting over another turf and having a race to settle the score. the race ends in a tie and Connie can't stand this, and states she'll never stop fighting to prove girls can be just as good as boys.

The next chapter, The girl and boy gang continue to fight until they ALL end up in detention. Connie finally confesses that she's not dating Clyde, but dating Carla. Clyde also confesses that he's dating Gene, Connie's best friends also confess their love for one another, and Frankie confesses that he has feelings for the Jock,Sasha. It seems like everyone's coming out of the closet and the one guy in the back confesses that he's asexual.

The next chapter, Ace has a hard  time telling Rolly that they want to go to the prom with her, but with help from their group, the bandits they sing a love song for Rolly and she accepts.  In the next chapter, Carla askes Connie to the dance , then Clyde asks Gene. Everything seems fine and dandy until the principle announces that there will be no inappropriate partnership allowed at the dance.   Both groups are devastated by this news and won't stand for it. So, they decide to put aside their differences and come together to make up a plan.  Frankie also apologizes for not accepting Rolly for the person she was all along, She accepts his apology and shares a group hug with everyone but Frankie. 

In the next chapter, Ace tells the team that there is faculty inside the building, Ace then sees a sad couple and states this is probably not going to be easy.  Connie gets everyone together and says they can no longer take the easy way out, they'll have to take the big plan be. This is their night, and they'll rock and riot to get what they want! They use the car to crash into prom, and then speed through prom. Taking pictures and some cookies and then they dip. People seemed confused at first, but then everyone celebrates and dances with the partner of their choice.  They all wander into the forest and lay down on the grass and take it all in.  Carla reminds Connie about their bet earlier, and Connie says they weren't accepted, but Carla tells her to look around.   Everyone dances and they all share kisses with their lovers, and then they all hop in a car and go home.

So that's the comic mostly in summary....        

    Here's where I'm going to give my opinion, One of the first things that's really hard to ignore, and that is the fact that this is so historically inaccurate. Now, I'm all for one taking artistic changes, and making their own little world, but anyone who grew up in the US or when to school in the US knows that  america was a heavily racially segregated country at the time. According, to my own mother who grew up in the 50's, she didn't go to a mixed school until middle school and that was around '62 .  So, everyone being okay with African Americans along with other races and white  people being in the same group of friends, let alone the same school is hard to believe. I mean it is touched upon once, but a few pages later you see a interracial couple chillin' and being happy together (It's hard to believe it's just that ONE place in the 50's that's racist against Poc). Not even when the characters were little were they separated by race. I guess since this story's about LGBTAI+ themes and not racial themes.Also the girl group being loved by everyone at school, while everyone knows women weren't treated too well in the 50's, and no one  really took women that seriously back then. Again, only one character is shown to be sexist and he turns out to be gay at the end anyways, and he doesn't get a hug when he puts his sexism aside and accepts one of his friends being trans.  The author did say people shouldn't complain about the time period and just enjoy the story. I think she just picked the 50's because of the clothes and aesthetics. She could have just made a alternative world where it was the 50's but Poc and LGBTQIA+ people were accepted, but there wouldn't be any conflict would there, well about this comic and conflict. 

    Another problem I have with the comic is that the issues are easily solved as soon as they're brought up, and there no real consequences for the character's actions (expect for getting in detention,but that actually helped the groups understand each other more)  . I guess the whole Rolly not being accepted by Frankie issue is a thing, but is only talked about at the start, but is shove to the back until the end. I thought when Connie pretended Clyde and her were dating, Carla would be upset that she didn't tell the truth right there and then, and they would go through  like a small break until Connie owned up to their relationship, but no that didn't happen. In the next few pages, everybody comes out of the closet,  and everyone's accepted. Also, I thought it was weird that Connie thought her friends would disown her for being queer, when they were pretty much okay with letting a transgirl into their group, who was once apart of the rival group. Not to mention, she stated before to her friends that she don't need no man.

   I mean it's no surprise, she would date a girl. I could even see Connie being worry that her friends won't accept Carla because she was a bit too  soft or nice, but no they welcome her with open arms. There was also a guest comic that showed Connie's friends being A-okay being with Carla.  So, it's obviously not hard for anyone to believe. Once Ace says that they don't identify as a boy or girl both groups just give up on them pretty easily. I kind of get why Clyde and Gene were scared to  come out because they're boys in a tough boy group, but even then Clyde said he would fight for Gene against Frankie. Frankie never said anything bad about LGBTQ+ people, I feel like he said more bad things about girls (which is understandable why Rolly would feel weird around him). Also, Frankie coming out as gay along with Connie's friends seemed to come out of nowhere it was never hinted at ever, unless I missed it. The comic seemed to focus more on Connie and Carla's relationship, then mostly focus on Clyde's and Gene's, there were no hints in between. 

There were also points in the  comic where the couples (mainly Connie and Carla) got a little too mushy. I know it's meant to be cute, but after like one time it gets a little old and annoying. I mean you can convey that two people are really into each other without making them kiss every time or say overly lovey dovey stuff.  Admittedly, I did enjoy Clyde and Gene's interactions, but they didn't get that mushy. 

Other than the main characters being in a  relationship, and except for maybe Frankie. Everyone seems pretty static in terms of character development.  I can't really describe the characters in more than one word, and Connie doesn't really seem like a tough girl until she's around the rival gang.  Her two friend seem interchangeable, the only difference between them is that one's just chiller than the other. None of the characters have moments (except for the bandits, the main couples) where they shine individually, like we don't really get to know more about anyone besides the main couples.  I mean even the author has a hard time describing the other characters with actual adjectives.  One character didn't even show up until the end, before that he was just a background character.

    Even the major conflict at the end is handled  kind of poorly. The whole comic was kind of leading up to the prom, which again  didn't really feel like it until the end. Everyone's end goal was to dance with the person they liked at prom, going against what the school said was inappropriate, but it was all anticlimactic. First, the whole prom thing came out of nowhere, you think a school that allowed Poc students,  where the most popular girls are mixed race, have different body types, and are treated like anyone else and aren't objectified at all by their male students, wouldn't allow LGBTQ+ couples at prom?! I also don't know what lead  up to the principal making this choice, I mean the gangs only got in trouble once and that's it, and the characters worry about this just now, and not before prom.  The character's big plan B was really kind of lame, I mean it was cool how they literally crashed prom, but all they did was photobomb and take some cookies and bounce. They hyped it up as something big,like this was going to be a hard task.  There was only one adult at the prom anyways, which another thing that's hard to believe because anyone who has at least seen any  prom scene from movies or TV know that their are a bunch of adults around making sure everyone's following the rules.  Once the teens got in they would have grabbed them or blocked the exit.

Here's what I would have done to fix somethings, I would have the story still set in the 50's but the actual 50's like maybe there is  one school they just started non-segregation, and all these students are coming together. Trying to get used to the change, There are a hand-full of characters who are LGBT and are trying to love despite being from different backgrounds.  Maybe some  of them meet as kids, but couldn't really talk until now.Despite the fact that everyone doesn't find this normal, and maybe that will inspire other kids to explore their relationship options. At least with  the whole prom issue, instead of  them going and crashing prom, they would have made their own prom and spread the word. I mean looking at the ending it seemed like the school had alot of LGBTQAI+ students enough at least to have a sizable party. It would have been at last minute, but that would add more drama to the story. They could have set up a outdoor party in the forest and make it all pretty and have everybody welcome. Since, anybody's welcome basically  no one would go to the school prom, and it really be sticking it to the man! but that's just my humble opinion.

  Overall, I think Rock and Riot is a pretty cute comic for being someone's first comic.There some parts I really liked like Ace not wanting to be apart of  either group because they don't identify as boy or girl,the push up scene was cute, and also the part where Clyde was so ready to get it on with Gene . While it's not that realistic and doesn't really take advantage of it's time period to tell a great story. It's an easy read, and if you're ever like bored and want to look at cute pictures of couples then this comic's for you. I can't wait to see what else Chelsey does in the future.

Recently I've been working on animation short "Net buddy" which is about a girl playing around with a character who lives inside a PC game, and my work in progress (hopefully to be finished one day) comic, Cupcakes and Clubs, about a girl going to a high school where club activity is highly enthused and recommended,where the leader of the oh-so popular cupcake club is seeking to make the main character's school life miserable (and also stealing her crush while she's at it). Even though, I've only been working  on "Cupcakes and Clubs" for  only about 4 years now. It wasn't always the way it is now, Cupcakes and Clubs actually started out as a thing called "Just Friends". That was back in my younger Disney Create days, that site was the first place I uploaded some of my earliest drawings. I had known about Deviantart before (which I stumbled on upon when I innocently wanted to know what sonic's hands looked like, and let's just say that was a start of a journey into learning about different types of fetishes....ugh..) 

While trying to climb out of the odd rabbit hole I had gotten myself into, I stumbled upon a comic that was normal (thank god) with a very unique style at the time, One which I never seen before. It looked like Neopets, but these characters had human features, the style was also bright and colorful. The comic looked so inviting I wanted to look more into it. Luckily, at the time there was a group for the characters and they had their own little world.

Miles and Poppy were pretty big at the time around when I found them, I think the fandom was at it's highest of popularity, at the time the makers even had their own website souly devoted  to MaP. The Creators would frequently role play Miles and Poppy on the site and in the DA group. 

The two main characters were called Miles and Poppy (sometimes referred to as MaP for short). Miles was a nerdy, bookworm, sweet boy. The type to be found reading under a tree, while the other kids socialized, he was also seen as the smartest kid at school, and he came from a rich family. He also had a heart condition where it made things like sports and gym class not to favorable for him. Then there was Poppy she's almost the complete opposite from Miles. She's more outgoing, she's fun-loving, excitable, but she's really very caring. She likes making friends and talking to people, and she can draw really well for her age. Miles and Poppy were both in high school but Miles was older by a year.

Miles and Poppy were best friend since they were little, they even slept together in the same bed, and took baths together.  

There were more comics where Miles and Poppy would go on adventures together. I remember one of them I read alot was called Concert Close Call, where Poppy got her and Miles tickets to see their fave band LAWL live, the tickets came last minute so they had to rush to get there. When they got there they enjoyed the concert as usual, then Poppy went to  take a bathroom break. On her way back some creep tried to come on to her, noticing Poppy was gone Miles went to check on her. He saw what was going on, and stepped in (I don't really remember what happened) I remembered at the end Miles ended up with a black eye and the creep was caught, and the band gave poppy and miles free stuff. There were other misc. comics that flashed back to when Miles and Poppy were younger. Even though the comics didn't seem like it they all lead up to a big finale. 

Even though, the list said to read A Ruse For Rocket, in where Poppy finds out her little bro, Rocket is involved with drugs and uses a unique way to get him out of it. That one was never finished along with Poppy's surprise, where Poppy tries to find a gift for Miles (which I think looking at the description that one sounds a little like Gift Of The Magi) and Drama at the Dance  ( originally known as Discomfort on the Dance Floor at least I think) and Flourishing Friendship, I'll get to those in a minute.

Since Miles and Poppy were friends for so long, People started to ask the question if they had feelings for each other. This would always be hinted at every now and again, through fan art and ask blogs, artwork made by the Creators themselves,  and there was even a song some one wrote called Yellow World. They started to play with the idea of Poppy and Miles being together. I think with the comics Drama At The Dance, and Flourishing Friendship they were really thinking about exploring this some more.

Yellow World

From the looks of the MaP blog on the site, the two creators seemed equally excited about Drama At The Dance around this time, also this was where the updates started to slow down a little bit. Even though they weren't sure when they could update. This comic was also just going to be in black and white to save time, so they could  update more often. They published the first page in February of 2010, but went on a hiatus until  April that same year. Where seven pages were released at once to make up for the down time and also the website was going to be taken over by someone else, but the Creators still promised they were still working on the comics. The next month, with no new pages released from the creator, The last update was again apologizing for the lack of updates and such, and the struggle balancing work with hobbies, the site was suppose to be getting an overhaul and if anyone wanted more info and updates they should go to the MaP Twitter.

Drama At The Dance was going to be about Poppy being excited for the upcoming school dance, but Miles wasn't really interested until another childhood friend, Aron convinces him to go and ask Poppy, but just as Miles is going to ask, the new foreign exchange student asks Poppy instead and that's where it ends.The comic ends on a cliffhanger. After this point the Creators stopped all together. There was no more Poppy and Miles after this, I think around 2010 anyways was where the fanbase was slowing down which makes sense since the Creators weren't even putting out any art or sketches or role plays of the characters, there was nothing for the fans to go off of.

Flourishing Friendship was suppose to be the big finale to the series (I think). In that comic Miles and Poppy were suppose to go to the forest looking for a special  type of mushroom that glows in the dark, by this point in the series Miles starts to feel feelings towards Poppy that he never really felt before. Poppy also notices the weird way he was acting and it was teased if they were going to get together.(but now the world may never know)

I find this really sad because one, I like said I came at the height of the fandom, and I fell in love with the characters and their world. I liked how real the characters felt and how the Creators would show MaP at toddler, child, and their current teenage age. I couldn't wait to see how their love would grow and who would confess first, it was like a soap opera for me in a  way. I even downloaded one of the wallpapers for my PC, I took a break from MaP because I felt like I was becoming a little to obsessed with it, and I also wanted to take part of the fandom but I was only 9 at the time, and DA was for 13 and up (even though most kids wouldn't have followed that rule, but I did for some reason, and also my art skills weren't that good, so I stayed on Disney Create)

When I came back a few years later, the website was still up and I found the new Drama comic, and loved it and I wanted more. So, I waited patiently waited for more content that never came, soon the group was dead and it disappeared and then the website disappeared along with it.By the time I was old enough to go on DA officially, the Creators moved on and deleted most of the content related to MaP. It was like a part of my childhood was gone...

The second (and the saddest thing) was that The Creators (Nestly and Centchi') made MaP as a representation of their real-life friendship(one of them owns Miles and the other one owns Poppy), a friendship that they thought was so great that they wanted to share and show others. I read Nestly's old journals on DA, they were talking about how much fun they had at Centchi's  house and how welcomed she felt there. From what it seems like they had fun together working and collaborating on the comic and MaP in general (at least at the start), but somewhere down the line their friendship started slowly fading, and maybe the stress of working on the comic and keeping up with all the characters and stuff was too much. This all lead up to something big happening, according to the tweet on the official twitter the event was very dramatic for the owner of Poppy in July 2011. It must have been  huge fallout because in April of the next year there was another tweet saying the website was closing, no more faint reminders. So, since The Creators of MaP weren't friends any more. Poppy and Miles weren't friends anymore......

(Also the penultimate tweet was a start of a rant but the rest of the rant was lost because the older TweetDeck is no longer accessible) 

Like I said earlier, by the time I was old enough to be on DA both Creators moved on, Nestly moved on to make new characters and a new comic about cute animals and Centchi went on to be in the MLP fandom, but I didn't want to let MaP go, I liked it so much, I didn't want the characters to "die" like this...

While on my break from MaP before the big shutdown, I started my own comic inspired by MaP called "Just Friends" about two middle schoolers named Theo and Rose. Granted and admittedly Theo and Rose were a rip of Miles and Poppy, but unlike Miles Theo's hobby was making inventions, but Rose was exactly like Poppy. They had friends, but their friends were a mix OCs and straight up brand name characters like Polly Pocket (I mean I was only 12 at the time so..) and the friends would try to get Theo and Rose together. Once, I found out Miles and Poppy were "cancelled", this inspired me to make Just Friends more, but something about Just Friends didn't seem right.

 Like I was trying to be too much like MaP, and I wasn't adding anything of myself in there. Eventually, I stopped working on "Just Friends", and decided I should move on from MaP, it was fun while it lasted and I should just move on with my life. Later in my freshman year of high school, I wanted to join clubs, but every club I tried to join was boring or not that welcoming. I was frustrated and fed up looking for a new club, so I started thinking about wouldn't it be cool if there was a club that helped other clubs  with their issues and struggles. Like for one week that club would take part in the club they were helping out with, like they were special members for one day.  I started thinking more and more about the concept and before I knew it, I was already drawing the characters. Admiring the way the Creators of MaP put so much time into their characters, I decide to take time with them and think through about their personalities and interests. Soon enough, I had a whole cast of characters (and it's still growing), and the more I wrote about these characters the more, I started caring about them myself.

I did take some inspiration from MaP, but it was only a tiny bit this time, and I pushed the whole romance thing aside and made it more like a subplot more than anything. There were characters that have  a similar relationship to Miles and Poppy, but they probably won't be getting together anytime soon, I liked them to stay as just friends.

Soon, I went back to Nestly's page, and I had saw she had put up a new page of her all her older characters (including Miles), she gave Miles his own page.I was happy to see her acknowledge him after so long, but I was a little sad reading his new profile.

 It was kind of sad to see Miles like this,  it was as if this Miles was from a timeline were Poppy didn't exist and the only friend he had was Aron (which isn't bad I guess). It's just he looked so much happier with Poppy around, and I feel like if the comics went on to their college years I think Miles and Poppy would at least been a thing by then. It just seems like this Miles is missing a certain joy in his life that he used to have, like he lose his innocent and sweetness he used to have, and even the newer design is a stark contrast to the softer younger design of old. Maybe that's just an age thing though...

But maybe drawing Miles like this helps Nestly cope with the feeling of losing something as wonderful as a friendship, if this is her way of dealing with it, then I can't really get up set at her for it. Centchi very rarely acknowledges Poppy, she still has some old art of MaP, but most of it is just of Poppy, since the character was her's to start with (and also Poppy's friends and family). She seemed like she was going to do something with LAWL, the band that was in that one comic, but nothing came from it besides a few pieces of art work. I like how Nestly at least apologies for getting people involved with MaP then halting the project. 

Honestly, I'm not really mad at either of Nestly or Centchi to be honest. At first, I was super upset because of how fascinated I was with the comic, I gotta say that the both of them can make some really great art and can tell a pretty compelling story, and they both have a knack for making realistic characters. I wouldn't be surprise if one of them ends up having their own show or their own big fan base again. Looking back at it, if MaP where to continue even today, I probably wouldn't have made "Cupcakes and Clubs", I wouldn't never known I could make my own characters just as great as theirs. I probably would be too afraid to even tried to make a comic because I probably would have thought it couldn't be as great as MaP, or maybe some rabid fan would have said I was ripping off MaP. I actually should be thanking them, it's because of them I have these wonderful characters, and who knows the stories I could tell with these characters . To quote Dr.Seuss "Don't Cry Because  It's Over, Smile Because It Happened!"

Ending, Finales, Big Finishes, Conclusions,whatever you call it an ending is an ending. It's the most important part of the story, an ending is suppose to tie up all the lose ends, leaving the viewer satisfied. Well.. at least that's what they're suppose to do anyways..

In my absence I've been playing two games with very controversial and  recent (at least at the time I'm typing this). DanganronpaV3 and Mario Odyssey both great games (in my humble opinion). DangaronpaV3 is the third installment in the visual novel series about teenagers participating in a school killing game, while Mario Odyssey is the most recent installment in the Mario franchise. On the surface, these games don't have much in common beside both coming from Japan and both being highly praised (mostly). The one thing they do share is a ending that people either like or hate depending on who you're talking to.  Let's start off with the most controversial one of the two Dangaronpa.

Like I said before Danganronpa V3 is visual novel game about highschool students participating in a school killing game. The  first two games have a certain pattern like certain characters dying in certain chapters, and certain amount of characters die in certain chapters, and they both had a overall of theme hope and despair, and also they always ends with a epic battle between hope and despair. By the end of the second game fans started to get in the rhythm of things. The first game ended with the characters finding out that the world has fell into chaos while they were being trapped in the school. In the next game, with a new cast they learn that the whole game was actually a simulation the whole time. with endings like these there was pretty big hype train going around for the next game. When some promo art dropped for V3  people started speculating about stuff, making character analysis, figure out how was going to death and how and when and how the mastermind was they was leading the killing game this time.

 For the past two games the mastermind was the same girl both times and some fans were getting very annoyed with his trope. There was another rumor going around that this game was going to be a re-boot instead of  a squeal. which help assure the fact that, the mastermind would  be totally different this time. As more and more info about the game came out the more people were excited. The game came to Japan first, and some people just watch other play an unofficial let's play of the game. Most including myself even though some people (kind of ) already knew the ending of the game (mostly they knew about the death scenes) the hype was still strong. Finally, on Spet 27 the game came out to North America, I'm not going to go through the game in full detail, just the ending. 

The characters slows find out about the previous killing games and started to catch on to what's going on. The big plot twist was that one of the characters who's know for cosplays and can't cosplay real people without getting a rash, turned out to be the mastermind. she then turn into the previous mastermind. She also revealed that the whole game even the last two were all fictions and all the characters we're fictional characters on a reality tv show  and the whole outside was actually super peaceful. The viewers watching the show (and playing the game) were the mastermind because they're the ones who can't wait for the next installment and the ones who get over obsessed with this fiction. The mastermind also points out that the characters all tired out to be in the game show (that has been going on for 53 seasons) and all the character were just boring average everyday people before they got brainwashed and had false memories  implanted into them. All the characters when to the final trial expect to beat it with hope, but the mastermind if that happens the killing game will start again because that's what the people want. The characters decide that they won't side with hope or despair, they just want to end the killing game. So, they refuse to take part in the trail and even refuse to vote for the mastermind. The audience so realize that making people kill each other is wrong especially for entertainment and leave.  One of the characters whose a robot and was being a surgote for the audience is finally free to do what he wanted in first place and proceeds to destroy the school along with the mastermind, himself and the 3 survivors in it.

The epilogue shows that the 3 survivors made it out alive. They see a huge light before them where the school once stood, and they decide to go through it to see what the outside world has for them, even though  the mastermind said they had no hope left and no family outside or friends left to meet them. The ending is left opened, the player doesn't get to see what on the other side of the huge light, it all left up to interpretation.

A lot fans got mad at the ending, saying the game was insulting it's fanbase by calling them shallow, heartless, and uncaring people. How this ending made the whole series pointless, and they regret every getting this involved with the series. Some even claim IF another game comes out they aren't going to even pick it up.

But I don't think the ending was making  for fun of the fanbase as a whole, it was more making fun of the people who take too seriously. There are certain type of fans in every fanbase (who are usually young) that love their medium a little to much, they love it so much it becomes like a drug to them. Every time they see their fave character they get a mini high for it, they want everyone to know how great this character and the whole fandom and series is. They tell everyone they met about the series in hopes that they become a (rabid) fan as well. Some of the them even ship the characters together and make fanfiction of their dates and romantic adventures, and if anyone dare to say that they're ship is overrated or non-canon or so-so ship is way better than yours. The so-called "hater" will be harassed and berated.                                                                                          The rabid fan will also claim that the character is theirs and theirs alone by calling them my baby or my child (as if they had a role in the character's making). Sometimes the passion for the character will be so strong that they even fall in love with the character and don't want anyone else to have them.  These type of fans also feel like the original creator actually owns them, if everything doesn't go their way, the fan will get upset and rant about how disappointing and bad  the series is. The long time rabid fans will even feel like they have seniority over the newecomers and will make fun of them if they haven't be expose to all the series has to offer. The ending was trying to remind this over-obsessed fans that this is all fictional and this is just game, and they should take it so seriously.

I also think that the ending doesn't make the whole game series pointless. Like what someone sad the Danganronpa reddit, the game wasn't pointless because it made people feel something. The characters keep fighting even after they knew the game was fiction because the killing game and deaths all meant something. The reason why there are 53 in game seasons and 4 games in the series is because that the characters meant something to people. If it didn't then the game series would haven't gotten this big cult following. 

I have my own theory about the ending that sorta kind of contradicts the true ending, but here goes....I like to think after the survivors go through the light, they are greet by all their friends how they thought passed away, but they'er completely fine and they have the same personalities as they did in the killing game as they remembered them, along with all their family and friends in a peaceful world. It's cheesy I know, but this game's theme is truth and lies the mastermind could have been lying about the whole no hope thing, and there's nothing left for them outside thing. Well, that's all for Danganronpa now on to Mario Odyssey 

Mario Odyssey is the latest in the Mario series, it about Mario going around different kingdoms to collect moons to power his ship so he can save princess peach from getting married to Bowser. The play-style is like Sunshine and Mario 64, the game is fun, bright and has bunch of colorful characters.  You wouldn't think a game like this would have a controversial ending but it does. At the end of the game after you collect almost all the moon, Mario has to go to the moon where Bowser plans to marry Peach. Once Mario defends Bowser and Peach is safe, Mario offers Peach a pretty white flower for her hand in marriage, but Bowser shoves Mario aside and offers a bouquet of piranha plant. They both fight for Peach's love, and Peach huffs and walks away and rejects them both. She then takes Mario's ship back home to the castle and offers Mario a ride along, Mario happily accepts and the story ends.

Most people (at least I like to think) found this ending cute, and where happy for Peach finally standing up for herself, but some people felt jibbed. After all that screaming and yelling for  Mario's help and after all the stuff Mario went through to get to Peach, just to end up being rejected by her. These same people think that his makes Peach a hoe, b#@# and that she isn't loyal. There's even an article that claims this ending made one feminist become a Male right activist. I guess just like the Danagaronpa ending people were expecting Peach and Mario to get married. I think the out rage for this ending is ridiculous because after you beat the story mode, it's shown that Peach left the castle to go on her own adventure. Peach says herself that she  liked all the places she went with Bowsers, but now wants to explore them on her own with Cappy's sister by her side. Similar to Mario's adventure.  

Me personality I like this ending. I've always liked princess Peach since I was little and I always appericate when she stands up for herself, fights along side Mario, and takes action. (like in the paper mario games). I think in this game Peach is similar to her Paper Mario counterpart. 

People also argue and complain why peach doesn't fight Bowser off. Even though Peach is way smaller than Bowser, and even though someone can say "Mario's even smaller!" but Mario's stronger than Peach.  I also have my own thing where with each Mario game it's a different Peach.

Well, as you can see ending are very important people it can change how people feel about a series as whole, and make some stuff feel more important than others. But the most important thing to remember at the end of the day is that ending are just endings. This stories are fiction, it's okay to enjoy them to a certain point, but just don't get to wrapped up into them.