Forum - View topicINTEREST: Video on Black Representation in Anime Posted By Guardian Newspaper
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ErikaD.D
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I'm sure I'm not the only one know's that Superalloy Darkshine is actually spoiler[not black.] His spoiler[skin is tanned,] and hespoiler[sprayed too much tan in his skin.]
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andyos
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This gets brought up in the comments under the video on YouTube. A feed tagged "The Guardian" - I'm guessing it's by the producer of the video - comments, "I think that regardless of whether he is supposed to be black or not, the way he is portrayed still has unmistakable elements of anti-black tropes. Using these 'minstrel-esque' tropes was a stylistic choice, which for me is offensive... I even liked the personality of the character .... but I can't get along with the way they have drawn him." |
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Kadmos1
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A problem is that there are people out there who might automatically assume that a dark/tanned character in anime is supposed to be Black. Uh, no! There is ganguro and similar at times.
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IceLeaf
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Oh, yay, more calls for cultural appropriation by Americans.
Anime isn't American and isn't made for you. Stop trying to force your own issues on it and trying to suit it to your standards of what is politically correct. Don't like it, don't watch it. Also how many people watch anime to determine how they think about people in real life. None, apart from the crazies on Twitter who keep trying to push fiction = reality and that fictional characters should be given human rights while degrading and threatening violence against anyone who dares step a toe out of line from their ideas of what is correct. Still waiting to be isekai'd away, somehow randomly end up in an ideal group, gain supernatural powers or be murder by a cult in a small remote village Also it isn't as if American programs also use cultural stereotypes... Oh wait they do, but since lot of the time they aren't against black people (especially by the popular standards of only African American are black enough to count) I guess they don't matter ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ |
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musouka
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I'm sure the people that live in the UK will be thrilled to know they've been officially annexed. |
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Fred Lougee
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The Guardian neatly ignores that anime and manga are full of "racist" tropes and portrayals. All "Europeans" are blond and blue-eyed, English are refined and cultured. But then The Guardian is great for neatly ignoring such trivialities.
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Fred Lougee
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Make them fight a revolution to get away from us for once. It'll be refreshing. |
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Thaumana
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One thing what always fascinated me about the 2000s anime that there was always at least one minor character within a wide-range multicultural cast who was black and I never interpreted their role in a negative way, even if they were depicted as enemies or just comic reliefs. The cast of Cowboy Bebop had quite a lot and it fit into the overall concept associated with or inspired by different music styles and cultural origins. I consider it rather cool that many series covered those kind of people (there are quite a lot of trans people who came into my mind too) and they didn't just die off like it often struck me when I saw US movies or series back then.
I can't imagine that most anime fans who belong to one of those respective ethnicities really felt that way when they saw those mentioned characters. At least it is not how I would think when there was a scene or an episode with a character who represented my culture or country as long as their depiction was not too dull. As far as I learned from my japanology seminars the black community living in Japan had quite a big impact on the music and pop culture in general too so it felt kinda natural to me that those stereotypes existed and played a more or less important role within a bigger cast. Sorry for my bad English. I'm bad in putting things into the right words.Just felt like this video is more about nitpicking about the negative aspects or examples and some of them are rather a subjective matter, but who am I to have the right to judge. |
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Replica_Rabbit
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What!? They like Anime, they are just criticize something they don't like about it and give reasons why it the way it is. Why these topic always goto the absolute? |
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Takkun4343
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This article lost me the moment they called Simon from Durarara!! offensive. Bugger off, he's awesome.
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MarshalBanana
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Abraham Omosun
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Is there a reason why the guy from Durarara and the woman from Cowboy Bebop are considering offensive? I can understand the others with the exaggerated features but I'm not really seeing anything wrong with the 2 of them.
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tygerchickchibi
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Well, this thread went exactly as I thought it would. (u_u)
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Tempest
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Beatdigga
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No mention of Cannon Busters should be complete without noting how its creator left his Kickstarter backers high and dry when they wanted their rewards. No wonder his show was a one and done. Besides that it was unoriginal crap.
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