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Encore22
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I don't really see how Eyeshield is racist, there is even an entire character arc about a character realizing that his racism is wrong and stems from faulty generalizations, and this ends up saving the game for his team. In my opinion, it is not racist at all to claim that black people generally has superior genes concerning speed compared to Japanese people, it is just fact. |
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Chrysostomus
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redranger
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I always thought the rating had to do with that one character who basically attempted to rape Mamori. They even showed him waking up after a night of sex. I forget his name. The one with the dreadlocks and glasses who had a twin.
But guns make more sense. |
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FLCLGainax
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Maybe in the early '90s, but that may have changed when a specific episode of Gargoyles aired. To the contrary, Saban edited gunplay out of a Samurai Pizza Cats episode back in 1991 ("Mission in Manhattan"). spoiler[One of the pizzacat's NY dopplegangers branishes a pistol, but scenes of him firing it were taken out of the English version. Ironically, even with edits the episode was still pulled from the US broadcast in 1996 over content.] |
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Emperor Fred
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Actually, having watched that episode recently (both versions), there actually was a fair amount of gunplay left in the English version, and anything that was edited (or looked like it was) was due to animation errors in that episode. Just for the record though, most American cartoons that aired in local syndication (Disney Afternoon included) were subject to much less strict standards than anything that aired on a national broadcast network (Batman on Fox/WB being the exception). |
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FireballDragon
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Agon Kongo. His twin's name is Unsui. |
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Yuza
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There are plenty of athletes in real life who have unique advantages due to their genetic heritage but he could have focused on literally any other part of his backstory - like his training on the rooftops, living rough, dedicating himself to practice, etc. that could have been compelling too, but instead he chose to focus on the "natural talent vs hard work" angle because he decided that was the most important part. I'm not a scientist or athlete I think focusing on this one possible genetic advantage really oversimplifies what athletes really are. And the only two black characters (aside from Panther's grandma) in the story both have this trait - it's always an extreme. The entire arc is a very oversimplified version of racism. I think it has good intentions but it's really patronizing. The coach was cartoonishly racist strawman, and it's ridiculous to think that in the 2000s no one in the NFL would have fired him. The portrayal of Americans in general is pretty stereotypical too, and even white Americans have an advantage over the Japanese because of their bodies but doesn't talk about how their culture is what really makes them strong - it's played in basically every high school, of course they're going to be the best. Inagaki's characters aren't supposed to be taken that serious anyway but the way he plays up some of these racial stereotypes can be uncomfortable, especially when it's presented to a young audience that have probably never met foreigners before. |
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Banken
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Japanese people by and large are pretty casually racist, although not usually in a hateful way.
But you have to be pretty dumb to think that Japanese high school football players have a snowball's chance in hell at competing against national-level Texans, which are disproportionately black. |
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