Clicked on the death note casting thread and seeing all the anger about whitewashing all though L is now black we'll still call it white washing because they're not casting Asian or Asian American actors. For once I agree. I mean how could you possibly not see that this guy who grew up in a british orphanage
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Could be imagined to be anything other than Japanese?
If you're going to counter it, counter it with practicality, because Japanese characters looking 'white' isn't a great argument.
http://www.en.matt-thorn.com/single-post/2016/04/16/Do-Manga-Characters-Look-White
Idk about you, but aside from a few authors, the characters of manga are essentially non-asian. Hair color, eye color, skull shape, everything. Authors where you can believe they're mostly japanese? Well, Takehiko Inoue.
They're not anything. They're cartoons. Your average moe blob is no more caucasian than they are asian. They look human enough for us to accept them as human. However, in Japan, the natural assumption - 'matching' traits or not - is that they're Japanese, unless otherwise made obvious. Conversely in the west, the basic assumption for cartoons is that they're caucasian, even when they look like the Simpsons.
Are they styles that are more realistic? Of course there are. That's not the point.
Right, and that's why cartoons can be anything. Movies will have to count with real life counterparts, and if the features really don't go along with them, specially when it's catered towards a target western audience, they're really not liable for it. I didn't argue that they were western, I said they had features that ressembled western anatomy. Ghost in the shell for example.
Btw I just thought GAF was complaining about getting a white guy and not a japanese guy, and I just realized L is portrayed by a black actor. So I simply entered this discussion with a prejudice about GAF. Yeah, a prejudice about GAF, shit.
Who would've thought this old picture would become reality
