Quote Originally Posted by Rulakir View Post
As far as being in the minority, in the west that's certainly true. It's the reason why I think that there must be more debate happening in Japan for Yoshi-P to feel the need to communicate she's "not a bad guy" because at the time of that LL all the western fan sites were still gushing over her and any criticisms were being downvoted/dogpiled into oblivion. Criticisms in the west have since grown substantially regardless of if they're still a minority.
Nah, Venat is still a very, very popular character in Japan, too. Again, there were two 2ch-based polls of "favorite Endwalker NPC" that were commonly cited before Famitsu's own poll--and Venat scored #3, and then #2, below Emet. Even in Famitsu, Endwalker was voted in as "favorite expansion." There are people who have criticisms and feel very strongly about them, same as here, of course. But it's probably best to not fall into the trap of "I bet those other people whose feedback I don't have direct access to hate it, though." Not that I don't understand, and not that Yoshi's attitude in the Q&A regarding her wasn't pretty curious.