When's the next great shounen coming? Or great anything? It all seems so mediocre to me. And I don't like how feminized it's become
Shounen has lost of of its appeal-to-boys-only style (allegedly because it is profitable) in contrast to shoujo. I guess that mirrors changes in western media. I don't know how up-to-date you might be but some recent ones I have watched are Fire Force (fighting fire with fire), early parts of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (punching vampires with the power of sunlight), Food Wars (extreme cooking), and Demon Slayer (slice demons with a katana). I avoid some of them because the fanbases are annoying like Jujutsu Kaisen. Some I just have not seen yet like Baki.
I don't think we are going to have any more shows that run weekly for years like One Piece, Dragon Ball, or Naruto.
The EU only likes voting when you vote the right way and if you don't you will keep voting until the right outcome or they will just ignore you and proceed. Just see the European Constitution. A couple of countries rightly rejected so they renamed it, split it, and amended existing treaties in order to implement every policy and item without needing the public's consent.
the remakes of Verhoeven's classics have failed
Indeed. PG13 Robocop and Total Recall. The latter might have got away with it if it had a good story and was well made but the former is about a robotic or cygborg cop blowing away criminals. You can give it a deeper message if you like but on the surface that is what it needs to be.
The Starship Troopers remake/redo will absolutely fail. It will be full of memberberries. It will be quippy like every character is Tony Stark. It will be a thinly veiled reference to Trump. I seriously hope it stays as a rumor and never makes it into production. [EDIT] This is a good post on what to do/not do and how they will screw it up. https://xcancel.com/TheManlet_King/status/1895857870702362987
It is tempting to blame diversity which can be part of it but I'm going to blame a cabal of like-minded people who decide who writes for the big two. That highlights another problem. The west, or rather America, is just the same few characters written over and over again telling the same stories again. Capeshit as someone already said. Japan manages to have anthology magazines in which chapters of various stories are published together. France manages to have range of stories in their Bandes Dessinee besides some regulars like Asterix.
That was the worst thing about Avatar 2, even worse than the titular character. The 1910-1920 New York City setting was incredibly off-putting. No attempt at making it fit the previous world or try to be a progression of it, it was just The Big Apple with magic powers. More zeppelins though which was nice. I gave up after a few episodes so maybe it makes sense later.
Didn't the tanks and that one big drill of the Fire Nation require constant use of bending for power? The industrial revolution was about finding harnessing energy to remove the need for labor. How that works in a world with dudes blasting fire I have no idea. I probably shouldn't think hard about it.
The typical tranny infiltration method. Reminds me of the fat blue whale (tranny unknown) who claimed to be a freebsd developer but had only patched some docs IIRC or the actual tranny responsible for the Contibutors' Covenant and its adoption as many Code of Conduct
If you wish to "boycott" anything over anything then that is your prerogative and you shouldn't let people talk you out of, or into to it. Read their reasoning, try to find the truth, make a decision.
For my part the gay stuff is off-putting but not enough to not buy because allegedly it's an option you'd have to pursue in-game to actually encounter. If they had some gay developers saying "look at this gay stuff" would make it worse, I mean more than they are already.
I'm not buying because while KCD was a fantastic technical achievement I sucked way too much at the combat and am not keen for more. I had to cheese my way though the early story mission where you rescue the guy you can now turn into your best bottom buddy. Eventually I got bored after losing to bandits in the wild and thought that was enough.
[EDIT] Two final points. I have enough games to be playing I don't really need to buy more. I don't really think the default inaction of not-buying counts as a boycott.
Money and middlemen telling them that is what the west wants.