[ SECRET POST #3382 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3382 ⌋

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Comments

Re: "Mentally whitewashing" anime?

[(Anonymous)]

No, but I'm not a Westerner or white, so that's definitely a factor.

I guess I was always aware anime was from Japan, and the designs are representational anyway. And for the more realistic styles, it's easier to infer what ethnicity they're intended to be.

But for a more interesting case: the Ace Attorney games. I only played the English (American) localised versions, which gave characters Western names to preserve the name puns (a good move imo cause I really love puns).

But because there are still a lot of crucial elements in the plot that are culturally/stylistically Japanese, the "California" setting ended up more "Japanifornia". The head localiser's headcanon for this is about different immigration laws in early the 20th century, and I'm actually completely fine with that because the AA universe is already so AU in the first place. Not just in terms of spirit channelling and flashy lawyers, but also geographically. There are countries called Borginia, the Republic of Zheng Fa, and the Kingdom of Kurain which aren't direct expies of particular RL countries. So while I think of Naruhodo Ryuichi as Japanese, I don't put Phoenix Wright into any RL racial category. I only care that he looks in fanart similar to how he does in canon, that's it. But even if he doesn't, it's not my fanart, is it?