| Is the color/ethnicity important to the story? Like the darker tone of the Ishvarians in FMA or for the latin coded people in Megalobox Nomad. Or was the character written in a way that the color is part of his build or aesthetic like the Geralt you mentioned? But for your average shonen character it wouldn't make any difference besides looking different than the original, which is something i couldn't care less. |
| manga readers are mad when the anime skips a random line and you ask about skin color. I don't know cause I don't have an example in my mind when an anime adaptation did that and I don't really care about western movies |
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| People would definitely be mad, I mean they were mad when the anime of Harem in the Labyrinth made the main girl more "chubby" then she was in the original. |
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| Yes because it's cringe and it doesn't matter from which color it gets changed to which other color. |
| Yes i care. All characters already looking fine in original, no need to fix something that's not broken. |
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Catalano said: I don't know cause I don't have an example in my mind when an anime adaptation did that Great Mazinger did it. Jun is half white in the manga, but half black in the anime. I think the episode dealing with her skin color is among the better episodes. |
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| Most of the anime is about Japanese, so I don't understand what you are talking about. If Midoriya or Touko turn black, it will be very strange. |
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| i wouldnt care, they are monochrome in manga anyways KasutoroSama said: Dawizz said: Excuse me op, but it isn't only "conservatives" who are mad at what disney did to the little mermaid. This bisexual man is also mad af. Thats a White European folk tale, hence White characters. Fair is fair, I demand that the next black Panther actor to be a White dude, or how about a movie set in Japan using Japanese mythos but every actor is White, imagine how "brave" "ground breaking" it would be to portrait Amateratsu has a Blonde, Blue eyes woma Or better yet, how about take any African folk tale and give it a "new normal" "make over" by including Whites and Asians in the lead positions, stunning and brave! See how long it would last before or cities would be on fire, and the looting and murders walking on the streets doing "mostly peaceful protests" White stories/folk tales, White ppl/actors only, black tales, black ppl/actors and so on. Easy and simple. It's not rocket science. I never said it was only conservatives I said I saw videos by conservatives 😂 its definitelly mostly conservatives who care about the skin of a fictional character who appeared on an old movie that wasnt even faithful to the original story me? i dont care that egiptians from the Bible are usually portrayed by white people or even the Jisus himself, like who cares? its fantasy |
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KasutoroSama said: RobertBobert said: Most of the anime is about Japanese, so I don't understand what you are talking about. If Midoriya or Touko turn black, it will be very strange. There's plenty of dark skin people in a lot of Japanese anime that take place in Japan. nagatoro from don't toy with me miss nagatoro killer bee from Naruto the whole cloud village Mugen from samurai champloo etc. Nagatoro is kogal, she got fake tan to look stylish. The same goes for Killer Be, whose phenotype parodies Japanese urban culture. Mugen is also tan rather than black to look like a lowlife, which is typical of Japanese culture where white skin is a symbol of high birth. With the same logic, you can ask me what will happen if the characters in Bollywood films suddenly become white blondes. It just doesn't make sense. |
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KasutoroSama said: RobertBobert said: Most of the anime is about Japanese, so I don't understand what you are talking about. If Midoriya or Touko turn black, it will be very strange. There's plenty of dark skin people in a lot of Japanese anime that take place in Japan. nagatoro from don't toy with me miss nagatoro killer bee from Naruto the whole cloud village Mugen from samurai champloo etc. Nagatoro isn't dark-skinned, she's tan from being on the swim team |
| if it adds to the character, sure go for it. if it doesn't do anything... it's fine, pointless at best, as long it's an adaptation and not a sequel/prequel. because if it is it would create inconsistency. but if takes away something from the character, it's the worst possible insult you can through at the author of the source material |
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| I mean manga readers have gotten angrier at far less so yes I'm sure they would be angry. I mean I remember when people being mad about Marin having a spray tan on for a cosplay (one of the funniest reasons to be mad). People will get mad over every little thing. |
| Well if the author has described the character being a certain way, and then someone changes that to fit their own narrative it's a huge problem |
KasutoroSama said: RobertBobert said: Nagatoro is kogal, she got fake tan to look stylish. The same goes for Killer Be, whose phenotype parodies Japanese urban culture. Mugen is also tan rather than black to look like a lowlife, which is typical of Japanese culture where white skin is a symbol of high birth. With the same logic, you can ask me what will happen if the characters in Bollywood films suddenly become white blondes. It just doesn't make sense. you're missing the point robertbobert I simply asked how will someone feel if a character from an original source material race was changed. Fringilla in the live action Witcher was made black even though the show is entirely suppose to be polish. Just because they're from a certain region or country doesn't mean it can't happen when it happens all the time in Hollywood. I'm simply asking how would you feel IF it were to happen. I have already told you several times that I would find this weird, because even though the Japanese are Asian, their skin is obviously white. |
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| https://youtu.be/MVsecRSMFgQ?t=281 that's all that has to be said. |
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| When will the libs learn? If a fictional character from a fictional species from an 1837 fairy tale has white skin, then only people with white skin are allowed to play said character for all eternity! |
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KasutoroSama said: I mean make up or spray tan doesn't matter. People got mad at this change in her skin toned because it was insensitive towards darker skinned people because "they can't take off their skin color". It was just an example of a skin change that was canon and people still got mad. So yeah manga readers would be mad.CyborgSaber said: I mean manga readers have gotten angrier at far less so yes I'm sure they would be angry. I mean I remember when people being mad about Marin having a spray tan on for a cosplay (one of the funniest reasons to be mad). People will get mad over every little thing. I think that was make up tho right? like didn't she take some kinda make up and used it all over her body. |
| I don't think I want to see Chisa with black skin. So yes, I will care. |
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| They do it all the time in live adaptations, especially those made in the US. Like L from Death note was acted by a black man and Light by a white man. Then a lot of the US adaptations have white actors like ghost in the shell. These all had controversies too. Ideally it'd be nice to keep them the same but these days it's either done to stir up controversy or they just pick who they can/best actors for the job without worrying about such things. |
| yes people are mad when stuff is changed from source material, however I do not personally know of an example where a character changes race in the realm of manga/anime |
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| An adaptation should try to be as faithful to the original as possible I would much rather watch a show where the entire cast is originally [insert whatever skin color you like] rather then one that gets changed just for the sake of changing it |
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