[ SECRET POST #3381 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3381 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

.............Does nonny have to break out the fact that 90% of anime characters tend to get whitewashed to hell and back? You've never been privy to the "why are anime characters so white looking?" conversation? If you don't think a large portion of yaoi fandom isn't whitewashing ginger haired Hinata, brunette/dirtyblonde/whatever-the-hell (he's cute but I've never been able to figure out his hair colour) Makoto, and the blue haired Kuroko, you're being naive. Why do you think so much Western shit permeates fanfiction about Asian characters? It's because people often default them to 'white', and 'Western', unless they specifically make an effort not to.

[(Anonymous)]

You can point out the actual racism in fandom or you can jump through hoops to make even the non-racist ships read like racism. Yay!

[(Anonymous)]

"Hinata"
"Makoto"
"Kuroko"

yes, because those are totally white, western names.

[(Anonymous)]

If you think the Japanese see their anime characters as white-looking, then you're wrong.

[(Anonymous)]

Because when the Haikyuu fandom got the full video of the live action stage play literally less than a month ago, they all ignored it because the actors were Japanese. They did not spam the entire thing in gif form everywhere on Tumblr and gush over how much it catered to their OTPs and fangirl the actors and how perfectly they portrayed the characters.

Wait, yes, they did do all that.

But-but-but wait let me guess, they were just overcompensating to show that they aren't whitewashers, right?

[diet_poison]

Whitewashed is probably not the right word. But Japan has its own set of race problems. There are very few non-Japanese characters in Japanese drawn/animated media and let's be real, almost none with dark skin.

[(Anonymous)]

That's because Japanese media, for lack of a better term, "Japanese-washes" its non-Japanese characters. Even when a cartoon takes place in America or England or total fantasy land or whatever, the characters are written and drawn the same way a Japanese character would be. It's evident in the writing in particular, when you see them doing things like eating with chopsticks and bowing to each other.

[diet_poison]

Lol, that's pretty bad. But hardly surprising. Japan is pretty ethnocentric, I think, a lot like the US is.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, although Japan at least has the "excuse" that they basically looked themselves away until the middle of the 19th century until the Americans came and forced them to open their borders up again. America has been a "melting pot" for a long long time.

[(Anonymous)]

That's because, even with tourism, Japan is still extremely ethnically homogenous. My family hosted Japanese exchange students when I was in high school and most of them had never actually seen a real black person (that wasn't on TV or in a movie) before they came to the US.

[(Anonymous)]

I was wondering how long it'd take for 'the only POC who count are black people' to pop up.

[diet_poison]

How on Earth do you get that from my comment??