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⌈ Secret Post #2678 ⌋

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Writer complains about the erasure of POCs in Attack on Titan

[(Anonymous)]

http://writingfail.tumblr.com/post/63477198892/attack-on-titan-and-race

Never change tumblr, you're incredible in your need to find things to be offended about.

Re: Writer complains about the erasure of POCs in Attack on Titan

[(Anonymous)]

lol Westeners trying to force Western beliefs on other cultures. The irony here is off the charts.

Re: Writer complains about the erasure of POCs in Attack on Titan

[comradesmiler]

oh it's Writingfail, the person who won't watch anything with white main characters in, but will spend all her time complaining about LOK.
How is she?

Re: Writer complains about the erasure of POCs in Attack on Titan

[scrubber]

Why are people so eager to assume AoT takes place on planet Earth. Like why. What does that do for you.

Why is it "Earth until proven otherwise" not "nebulous Euro-fantasy world a la [shitton of manga/anime] until proven otherwise"????

Re: Writer complains about the erasure of POCs in Attack on Titan

[ill_omened]

Because the twist is going to be that it's earth.

Come on, the first chapter is literally titled "To you in two thousand years".

It's us, we're the titans.

Re: Writer complains about the erasure of POCs in Attack on Titan

[scrubber]

How is it a twist, everyone already thinks that.

The first chapter is like 30% mindfuck, the "to you" could have been wistful or ironic. Also the semblances of many current European nations were around two thousand years ago, why mention nothing by name? Why is everything so ambiguous? Could it be Isayama is... fucking around? He's never done that before.

What the fuck does that even mean. We've gone back in time to be titans? That could be cool, but that could also be fucking stupid.

Re: Writer complains about the erasure of POCs in Attack on Titan

[(Anonymous)]

Don't the kidnappers in Mikasa's flashback refer to her and her mother as the last surviving Asians/Japanese, though?

Re: Writer complains about the erasure of POCs in Attack on Titan

[(Anonymous)]

...and having checked that episode again, the subtitles just say 'Asian'. So that doesn't totally rule out Isayama screwing around.

Re: Writer complains about the erasure of POCs in Attack on Titan

[scrubber]

The one I saw said "oriental" I think. Which is even vaguer.

It's trying to communicate that Mikasa has - what WE know to be - Asian features and that the people around her do not. This is sort of a hard thing to do using only fantasy terminology. So even if it breaks immersion what else is he supposed to say to communicate this fact? The only other term I can think of is "mongoloid" and I don't know if that's even understandable (or uh, acceptable) to people.

Re: Writer complains about the erasure of POCs in Attack on Titan

[blunderbuss]

UUUGGGGHHH I AM SO SICK OF THIS.

AOT is one of the few fantasy worlds where having an all-white cast makes PERFECT WORLD-BUILDING SENSE. What's left of humanity has been sealed off from the world for 100+ years and no one can enter or leave. Gee; y'think that MAYBE that would cause a community to be very homogeneous? No way! It's like their genetics are passed through generations or something!

Not to mention how sad it is that fandom clings to any character with even the SLIGHTEST darker skin and dub them 'POC'. Isn't that like calling a light-skinned black person white because their skin is too white to be a POC?