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Animechic420
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Michiko sure behaves like she's black. 
Probably the closest thing to a black chick as a MC, huh??? |
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GVman
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Me and the Devil Blues just had a new volume published this year, too. I thought it had ended for good. |
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GhostStalkerSA
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Half-Puerto Rican, half-Japanese, and half-demon as well. Can't forget about that last part. But yeah, Japan isn't really gonna include more diversity in their anime and manga for the sake of some American ideal of diversity. They are pretty much a homogeneous population over there, much the same way as other East Asian cultures. They don't interact much with people of other cultures, especially blacks or hispanics, even now, and the best you'll probably get is a non-offensive stereotype. Hell, even some American ideal of diversity isn't playing well with the big movie studios as they chase foreign box office profits. The Sony email leaks earlier this year said as much when a couple of emails back and forth from Sony movie execs blamed a certain action movie (I'm drawing a blank on the name right now)'s anemic performance overseas (as well as a reduced domestic box office) on the decision to cast Denzel Washington as the lead role, which turned away certain foreign audiences (read: China, the biggest foreign movie territory that the big studios are going after at the moment) just because he was black and in the lead role. So yeah, we still have a long way to go with acceptance of foreign cultures all over the place. Last edited by GhostStalkerSA on Mon Aug 17, 2015 2:22 pm; edited 5 times in total |
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Eigengrau
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Let us not forget about Nadia from "Secret of Blue Water", who was even more African looking in the early designs and was the most popular female anime character of the early 90s.
Well, I'm the whitest European I can think of at this moment and I want to see more ethnically diverse characters in anime and manga too. And I don't care if the push for it is American, Moldavian or Luxembourgish, because it's still a bloody good idea regardless. |
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MarshalBanana
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Oh please take your political correct BS elsewhere, many people get by without having to relate ethnically to the characters. |
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Animechic420
Posts: 1731 Location: A Cave Filled With Riches |
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1. Um....I'm just stating a wish that may or may not be fulfilled. Chillax. 2. Um....I am black and from what I've seen in Afro Samurai and Cowboy Bebop(Mushroom Samba), I wouldn't care. |
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KutovoiAnton
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Em... Did people forgot about Berserk's Casca?
There's also this season's Gangsta, which have dark-skinned Alex Benedetto. As for the guys, there's Mohammed Avdol from JoJo. I think Prince of Tennis had a black guy in the cast. Legend of the Galactic Heroes had more or less major black guy. Some of the series about Oda Nobunaga have Yasuke, his bodyguard from Africa. Arslan Senki have a middle-eastern setting, so there's all types of character. If I'll try, I'll remember much more. Last edited by KutovoiAnton on Mon Aug 17, 2015 1:17 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Souther
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Heard the author was starting it up again, but I had no idea about the new volume. 
(Can't believe I forgot about Nadia lol.) |
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EricJ2
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Yes, the Japanese have a fascination with strange other people and countries, they just don't actually want to go there and meet them. Hence, they don't know very much about people of other countries (except England where they all have blonde hair and blue eyes, and America where everyone's last name starts with "Mc--"), and the key neato factor of a sci-fi premise about an "international" team will have the amazement factor of international stereotypes. Again, like Macross, where you knew it was a worldwide effort because Claudia was WESTERN! And BLACK! 
Sort of like everyone on the 60's Star Trek was supposed to be from a different country, and we got Sulu, Chekov, and Uhura. |
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Lemonchest
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Terra Formars was pretty...diverse.
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GWOtaku
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Some of us would call it simple imagination. Or is it cultural imperialism every time a Japanese work is created that depicts non-Japanese people and societies? Last edited by GWOtaku on Mon Aug 17, 2015 1:27 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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LilyChan
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i mean, i suggested it cause i thought it'd be something you'll be interested in. you don't have to watch it if you don't want to. 
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Wrial Huden
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Like the Americans portrayed in Marmalade Boy. Michael, in particular. Not only is he annoying, he brags that his fluency in Japanese is a result of watching old samurai movies  I suppose it's cheaper than Rosetta Stone. BTW, I wonder how Yuu's classmates at St. Andrews are so fluent in Japanese
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doubleO7
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Gangsta is a good, recent example, but it goes far beyond just Alex. It's not set in Japan, but seems to be some European country. The ONLY Asian characters in the series (at least up to the point the anime is at) are Nicolas and Yang, one of Monroe's subordinates. I suppose Alex is still the token dark-skinned character though. |
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Animechic420
Posts: 1731 Location: A Cave Filled With Riches |
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No, no, I am watching Michiko and Hatchin. They is some badass girls and it's one kickass anime! 
Last edited by Animechic420 on Mon Aug 17, 2015 1:35 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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