[ SECRET POST #2563 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2563 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[ao no exorcist]


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03.
[Leverage]


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04.
[Doctor Who, Sherlock]

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05.
[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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06.
[Frozen]


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07. http://i.imgur.com/NKDHxDP.png?1?4348
[Big Bang Theory; warning for suicide/depression]


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08.
[Amy Poehler]


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09.
[Deep Space Nine/Babylon 5]















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 035 secrets from Secret Submission Post #366.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The same thing applies to generic Japanese dudes in Japanese media, generic Turkish dudes in Turkish media, or generic Korean dudes in Korean media.

[(Anonymous)]

NO ONLY WHITE PEOPLE CAN BE GENERIC, POC ARE ALL SPESHUUUUL

[(Anonymous)]

lol

[(Anonymous)]

When a majority of your characters overall are white in accordance to a white culture's expectations of a "default" cast, then yeah, only white people can be generic.

[(Anonymous)]

Totally accurate. As an anime fan, almost all anime protags are boring and bland as hell.

[(Anonymous)]

And there's a tumblr post going around where someone unironically called Shinji Ikari a "white male protag."

Given, the circulation at this point is mostly baffled amusement at the OP who said that.

[(Anonymous)]

Please tell me you got a link. I've got to see this.

I think this might be it

[(Anonymous)]

http://thisisprivilegeblogprivilege.tumblr.com/post/72613419140/henriaromatisse-ah-yes-shinji-one-of-the

[(Anonymous)]

I think you'd have to be deliberately obtuse to bring up this argument. Obviously, when it comes to foreign media, we have to view the representation through their cultural lens. So yes, their majority-demographic characters will have the same issues as our majority-demographic characters. Yes, they could use more developed female characters as well. And if the country in question has any minority populations, we should examine their representation too.

For example, would any of you Japanophiles please direct me to a piece of semi-known media portraying some fully-realized characters of buraku descent?

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for this. I was going to try to reply with something similair but my wording was terrible. That and they're purposely being obtuse so I stopped.

[(Anonymous)]

>our

Nice assuming there. Americans and Canadians are not the only ones on this site.

[(Anonymous)]

Are you the anon who brought up the foreign media argument? Because the implicit context of that conversation is quite clearly "Other Countries vs. America". Otherwise why even bring it up?

In an interesting twist, I am actually as far from American or even western as you can get. I've lived here long enough to be able to speak of American media with familiarity, yet am also well-acquainted with the foreign perspective -- and let's not get even more deliberately obtuse in your attempt to deflect: the online discourse almost always assumes Western = Default.

[(Anonymous)]

Kabuki. The main character is both female and the daughter of a Japanese man and a Buraku woman.

[(Anonymous)]

Is that the comic? Seems to be from what I can tell. Wiki says that protagonist's mother was an Ainu comfort woman, so that's really interesting but a totally different situation from what I was initially asking for. Still, sounds very cool.

It is, however, written by an American, so not exactly an example of pure Japanese media.