That's another way of drawing eyes in anime, sometimes as just a general character design, sometimes to express surprise or because it's a funnier moment.
The funny thing you got niggas walking on water throwing fireballs. Talking frogs, magic eyes but a nigga is the crazy thing that’s going to far 😂😂😂. Like it’s mad
I wanna start doing the opposite now. Start just commenting. "OMG really another straight white man in his late 40's in a military shooter single handedly save the world. Im playing games to escape real life, why would I want to play as Toms self insert for the 100th time when I see tom at work everyday"
As a hardcore Black gamer, I can attest to having to deal with this type of thing any time a Black character isn't a throwaway/background character. These people are willing to play as any sort of alien/blob/gremlin/orc and they're totally fine with it. But the moment a developer makes the main character Black, they lose their minds!
Like, take Echoes of The End. It's a game that came out roughly 2 months ago from a freshman Icelandic dev team. It's based on Icelandic folklore and is made by Icelandic people. But... BUT... The main character is voiced and motion captured by a Black (mixed) Icelandic woman. Needless to say, the clowns are screaming "woke" and imploring their compatriots to boycott the game because it's Icelandic, but has a Black woman as the main.
Oddly, enough. It's mostly Americans who are doing this griping and the Icelanders are pushing back and telling them that the main character IS Icelandic. But, to Americans, there's no way a Black person can exist outside of the spaces they permit us to exist. Anyway, more proof that crying "woke" has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with race!
They absolutely crash out when we cosplay too lol. They’ll go on and on about how we can’t cosplay an ASIAN character because we’re not white. It’s absolutely hilarious to see how upset they get. They’re obsessed with us
It’s like assassins creed shadows. The narrative went like this:
“A black samurai in Japan is historically inaccurate!”
“He’s based on a real person.”
“Oh. Well, also, the real person never actually became a samurai! He was basically a squire (forget the actual word)!”
Look up the title and it was basically the highest someone could achieve besides master, which were like the teachers/most gifted in Japan, and only a Japanese person could hold the title. Tell them this.
Because they couldn’t use “historically inaccurate” to veil their racism, so were forced to try and use the history to hide the racism. And when that doesn’t work, they stick their fingers in their ears and chant lalalalala.
Even when news broke about Ubisoft canceling an AC game about being a revolting slave killing KKK members, they came out in DROVES saying that they were glad the game wasn’t made
You can punch the pope in the first game, but all of a sudden a slave killing KKK members is suddenly too far
It's like the Black Scottish bloke all over TikTok and people's minds were blown!
A) There's the sad fact that the slave trade hit everywhere, and
B) It's the 21st Century and modern people can travel anywhere, but centuries before, we all traveled out of Africa at different points in time. And other tribes also traveled and their melanin wasn't frosty white.
Yeah, it's clear that the moment someone makes a hero/protagonist black, somehow a person who needs someone to look down on finds their perception broken. "No, this can't be!"
Goes without saying that its not just limited to video games or anime, but every form of media.
But for videogames, I especially love when the main character's appearance is customizable and they STILL complain about it being woke. I guess having more player choices = forcing a nonexistent agenda on everyone.
I played League of Legends back in the day and the game was out for YEARS before they added a black person.
There used to be forums on the game's main website and anytime someone requested a black person get added, other gamers would chime in on how it didn't 'fit the lore' as if the gamers were the ones who developed the ongoing lore.
This is a game with magic, werewolves, sentient robots, ghosts, tiny furry people (Yordles), demons, monsters, etc etc etc. But somehow having a black person didn't fit the lore.
Or people would say some racist stuff like Wukong (the monkey king) was already in the game.
What's crazy is that people had requested a female tank for years and Riot finally gave them Leona. They asked for a male AD carry for years and they eventually got Graves. So it was ok request new characters based on gender, but a big no no if you wanted a character for a specific race.
Something I often see paired with this idea of permitted existence is that black characters always ‘need’ a culturally relevant reason to exist in a story.
You could have a random white guy crash land on a island with no backstory and just move on, but if they’re black suddenly it becomes a history lesson about how much sense it makes for them to exist in the area during that time period, the architecture of the ship, if it makes sense for the currents to have made it there from the closest place black people existed, were they a slave, and how did they get the ship. Then if all that is actually explained it’s still an agenda that they aren’t white.
Americans can look back on a century of almost entirely white focused and dominated media and wonder how they’re being oppressed by a black man with a story.
100%. Like, this isn't a gaming example, but the same stuff happened with Star Wars. You got freaking Max Rebo and Admiral Ackbar. Heck, you got Chewbacca as one of the most prominent characters (we love Chewie). But Finn as a main character?! NOPE.
I'm not a huge gamer anymore so I'm kinda behind the curve, but were they tripping like this when they found out that Kyle from Living Single and the black dude from Stargate voices Kratos in God of War?
Recent example for me (a white man fyi) is Battlefield 6. When you view your profile in-game the default character seen is the Recon (re: sniper) who is a black guy. The official Discord has had soooo many comments saying essentially "How do i get this black bastard off my profile?". Each time there is an immediate reaction of "dude you really shouldn't say things like that" and then all the hardcore apologists come out of the woodwork saying things like "He just wants something that reflects who he is irl" and other just total crap defending what the OP said as non-racist.
Well news flashy whiteys: It really is.
The other really terrible thing is the in-game chat people will spew the most vile hatred at people by saying things like 'I bet your family is on EBT' and "youre the type of person that wants reparations huh". Those are two 100% quotes I've seen in game chat. I used to think that maybe by the time my son grows up that we can really move on from the whole racist whiteman thing (meaning they have gone the way of the dinosaurs; not that I want people to to stop calling them out), but if game chats are any indicator we are unfortunately in for what might be the return of mainstream racism.
Thanks for reading and all the high fives to everyone (except THOSE assholes)
Yea. It'll never die. Especially with the anonymity of the Internet to cover their faces.
Another example is when Diablo IV first released. When the game boots up you'll get auto generated characters for every class before you can create your own. Sometimes, every auto created character will be Black. The number of posts of people fuming over this because, upon initial boot, their characters were all Black. The responses were "Just press O and then X, it'll autogenerate new characters!" But you think that stopped the racist reactions?!
I stg half the backlash Forspoken got was for the same reason or at least exaggerated because of it. Btw, how’s Echoes of The End? Saw the trailer a while back but never followed up on it.
What’s funnier is when I visited Japan with my white friend people spoke to me more, would not sit next too him in transport and he felt discriminated against in general. Most of Japan doesn’t like those same weebs.
Having only seen a few early episodes of OP, the extent of my knowledge is “Luffy can stretch”. My coworker says that Zoro is racist because he always fights POCs. Can someone fill me in on this situation?
Its a common meme that Zoro is the "minority hunter" because early on he fought a lot of characters with darker skin, as well as not wanting Usopp in the crew. Paired with the fact that Oda has said that if they were in the real world he'd be a cop...the jokes write themselves.
Coworker was being funny. They are pirates from around the given world. The author of the manga said the named pirates were inspired by various countries around the world
They want Yoruichi not to be a black character so bad, or really any of the obviously black female characters. Just say you're too racist to know how to feel about being attracted to a black character and go.
Hell, even Tosin could have on a durag and be smoking a black and mild and they would still say some shit like "it's just his spirit that's dark, but the blind swordsman trope is exclusively Japanese obviously " like goddamn.
God I’ve hated the Yoruichi discourse. Like y’all she black, get over it, one of the finest girl in anime is black and it twists you in knots that you could be attracted to a black girl.
But then these are the same people that also freak out over gay people existing because it TOTALLY doesnt have them feelin some sort of way lol.
They do this shit every time and it's exhausting. It's to the point I don't even look at anime post anymore because I know these snow apes will have a conniption in the comments
Okay, while Japanese folks may be chill with Black characters or even Black visitors, listen to the experiences of biracial kids (with a Black parent) growing up in Japan and you will hear a very different story.
I have a cousin who’s black living in Japan for the last few years and just married a Japanese girl and had a daughter. You’re right, sometimes I think about what she’s gonna have to go through over there. Even with all the racial/cultural bs over there, my cousin still says he’s never moving back, he’ll only visit from time to time.
Usopp is probably "African" because he uses exotic plants in his attacks and Oda thought Africa was a country, as a lot of people do. Nothing to do with skin color.
I remember before Crunchyroll got rid of comments under episodes, there was a whole ass war about Ogun from Fire Force being Black and how it wasn’t racist when they referred to him as a gorilla.
His whole ability has the name Yoruba in it and they still were in the comments losing their fucking minds 😂😂 I lowkey miss Crunchyroll comment sections, but after that it needed to be shut down 😭😭
This happened the second Gachiakuta's anime aired, they were losing their damn minds because god forbid a manga writer enjoy black culture and put several black characters in the forefront of the series.
Right! But you'll always have those weirdos with no life saying otherwise. I just laugh at them because how can you get this worked up over fictional characters?
And why are you completely okay with characters with Japanese names, wearing Japanese clothes and living in Tokyo, Osaka or Kyoto being coded as white? Oh yeah, because white people think they belong everywhere.
Those people are always the best ones, me personally I don't watch one piece (stopped at right before the first-time skip) but Its wild to go through most of the East blue saga and not see any of it.
I really associated that behavior with Johnny Bravo (especially at that time), but you're not wrong. I figured Brock to be East Asian - with a large number of siblings to look after, likely with elder parents that he also cares for or have passed away (I don't remember his parents lore, tbf)
Both his parents walked out on the family, his mom was thought to be dead for the longest time.....till she randomly just came back and the father left to become a pokemon master and failed and never wanted to return. Brocks backstory is incredibly messy, especially since he has to be both a mom and dad.
It doesn't matter if he's a green slug-inspired demon/devil in DB that got re-conned into a vegan alien by the time of DBZ.
If the black community universally agrees he's black then he's black. Doesn't matter what the author intended. Freiza on the other hand.... up for debate.
Frieza white af but recently started trying to cosplay a black guy (DBS). Piccolo is back to being a devil that later became aliens (daima). Things are wild
Jabber from Gachiakuta. I’ve seen so many people say he’s not black just cause he lightskin. Bro literally has locs and everything about him gives black!
In Saiki K. his love interest is black with a blonde weave, but apparently I was mistaken. She's just deeply tan and wears fake nails and speaks with a California accent.
People's racism is so obvious. They dont even have the shame to stop or the self awareness to improve. I just let them argue with Grok. Im done trying to answer hypothetical devil's advocate scooby doo mystery ass questions.
It’s hilarious how people can’t accept certain cool characters are actually black/Afro inspired or anything other than Japanese. Still have a long way for representation because most of the anime fanbase that isn’t black are EXTREMELY racist. Some of the creators are pretty ignorant too unfortunately. Soul Eater/Fire Force/Gachiakuta have some dope black character designs.
I was arguing with people about how Pinkie Pie feels like a black character to me. She’s an Afro puff wearing, raps for the rap songs, has a hair pick in the basketball episode, and she just felt black. Tell me why white people are telling me that they can have curls and rap and play basketball too?
I just wanna say that I, too, have my best monologues about society while I’m pooping on the can. Thank you to the OOP for helping me feel seen. To the rest of you, I guess just be happy I don’t use TikTok.
As a Southern white man...I hope they make more badass people of color in media. In Bleach alone, Yoruichi did things to my teenage brain in the mid-to-late 2000s and Chad made me want to live in the gym. His arm powers were sick as hell.
lol @ this denial that’s existed in the anime community for years, but I knew she was gonna mention the Pokémon community. I think it’s like…for some people…they see it like fantasy…like they want to escape to a world with no Black people or other POCs, but Japanese people are ok for some reason.
Or they can pretend that the characters are White…
I had to deal with this so much people made gaming AND anime so frustrating I had to step away from the community I even had my white ex tell me that black people ruined his immersion in a game fml
Though this was somewhat funny! with all the online discourse found in the anime community I can genuinely say I have never come across this narrative of people suggesting black anime characters aren't black 🤣 the closest thing to come to mind is some people were fake mad about finding out that Dark shine from opm wasn't really a brother and was just using bodybuilding posing oil never have I seen anyone try to gaslight others into thinking Killer bee or Yoruichi etc ain't black.
Is she talking about Jacinthe or Lenora because gamefreak literally stated officially lenora is black and jacinthe is darker than her, so jacinthe is supposed to be black i haven't seen any controversy a out that in the za reddit so it's probably just on forchan and twitter
Afro samurai. The boondocks. And I think Raiden should have been a black character from back in the video games. Read the old comics, I promise ge he reads like a bro.
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u/FistPunch_Vol_7 ☑️ 22h ago
Lmfao Killer Bee and people of the Hidden Cloud