BurningSpirit said: I couldn't give less of a damn. The constant self-obsession of having to be "represented" somehow is stupid, unless it actually involves me. Name dropping my country or having a character from my country/ethnicity/whatever identity doesn't make me inherently happy or sad. PREACH i swear at this point in time, people are just looking or a reason to be offended BurningSpirit said: People who pay too much attention to the group they identify with. Basically people with no sense of individuality. yea seriously.. i don't go looking for black characters in anime... theyre anime characters as far as im concerned this PC bullshit better completely stay the fuck out of japan, unless ofc theres an author that actually wants to try this stuff |
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| Most of the times the countries that have been shone in anime are Japan (obviously),U.S , Russia and Europe ,so yeah basically most of the countries have not been depicted in anime and I'm one of those fellow so can't answer |
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Swagernator said: haha I've never heard of a place named throne of heroes , couldn't find it on google mapsWell, i never seen my country in anime. |
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MOB_ABOMINATOR said: haha I've never heard of a place named throne of heroes , couldn't find it on google maps It's a place outside of time and space, of course you can't find it. |
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Lalakoboldslayer said: The few brazilian characters I remember being in animes are heavily stereotyped. They are black and play capoeira. Not all brazilians are black, and to be honest, most of the people here are not black and don't even know what capoeira is. And me ? I'm whiter than most europeans. I didn't find your last comment, but here is the data No total, 91.051.646 habitantes se declararam brancos no Censo, enquanto outros 99.697.545 disseram ser pretos, pardos, amarelos ou indígenas. Os brancos ainda são a maioria (47,33%) da população, mas a quantidade de pessoas qu... - Veja mais em https://noticias.uol.com.br/cotidiano/ultimas-noticias/2011/04/29/brancos-sao-menos-da-metade-da-populacao-pela-primeira-vez-no-brasil.htm?cmpid=copiaecola The same data also states that all the states of the South Region have over 70-90% of white population, São Paulo has 60-70%; all the other states, 50-60% or below. Pardo is already Black. It's ridiculous. To be considered black in Brazil, in this research, you need to be like Mr.Popo's level. |
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swordmasterman said: Lalakoboldslayer said: The few brazilian characters I remember being in animes are heavily stereotyped. They are black and play capoeira. Not all brazilians are black, and to be honest, most of the people here are not black and don't even know what capoeira is. And me ? I'm whiter than most europeans. I didn't find your last comment, but here is the data No total, 91.051.646 habitantes se declararam brancos no Censo, enquanto outros 99.697.545 disseram ser pretos, pardos, amarelos ou indígenas. Os brancos ainda são a maioria (47,33%) da população, mas a quantidade de pessoas qu... - Veja mais em https://noticias.uol.com.br/cotidiano/ultimas-noticias/2011/04/29/brancos-sao-menos-da-metade-da-populacao-pela-primeira-vez-no-brasil.htm?cmpid=copiaecola The same data also states that all the states of the South Region have over 70-90% of white population, São Paulo has 60-70%; all the other states, 50-60% or below. Pardo is already Black. It's ridiculous. To be considered black in Brazil, in this research, you need to be like Mr.Popo's level. Quando você disse "...mais da metade se declararam ser pretos, pardos, indígenas ou amarelos." Quer dizer que não são todos os 99.697.545 pretos. Se fosse dar o resultado correto mesmo, menos da metade seria preto. Sorry guys for not talking in english, but my english is not that good. |
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| Can't remember seeing any references to my country. My neighbouring country of Finland has representation with one of my favorurite characters though. |
| LOL, I guess they are all stereotyped, even japanese ppl are stereotyped in a lot of animes that I know. About my country: Most of the animes I have watched shows that we all like soccer and wearing bikinis all the time, and everyone is sexy all the time (Brazil). |
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| I do not think my country's been conceptualized in any anime other than Hetalia and I haven't gotten around to that yet, so no, can't say I'm really happy, but not surprised either :P Would be cool to see more stuff involving the Baltic states. |
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| Has anyone ever seen something about Croatia in anime? I've only seen communism, but that's history, when Croatia was still a part of old Yugoslavia. EDIT: I remembered, ties are originally a Croatian product, so every tie ever is 'Croatian' :D |
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Rayzer said: @isekai Have you watch any anime that refer or showed our country? Euphoria said: Have you watched or read Black Lagoon? PH was been there on it's first episode and (manga) chapter.I'm satisfied and amazed that Philippines has Charlotte but that's about it. There was a Phillipino girl in Kamisama no Memochou I believe. shalalablup said: Would be cool to see more stuff involving the Baltic states. I am pretty sure I saw Estonia's flag in a sports event during an anime once if that helps xD _Goldee_ said: Has anyone ever seen something about Croatia in anime? Not explicitly mentioned, but I think the terrorist training camp Yuuji and Marin were in Grisaia no Meikyuu was supposed to be in the Balkans somewhere, but probably not Croatia since it was in the mountains. |
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Red_Tuesday said: I am pretty sure I saw Estonia's flag in a sports event during an anime once if that helps xD Which anime, do you remember by chance?! |
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shalalablup said: Red_Tuesday said: I am pretty sure I saw Estonia's flag in a sports event during an anime once if that helps xD Which anime, do you remember by chance?! No I can't remember, it could have been pretty much any school setting that had a sports festival episode :( |
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| I'm Romanian so it's either vampires or killers. I'm OK with that. |
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| Not exactly 'portrayed' or 'represented' but the Mink tribe house architecture in One Piece is faithfully based on the architecture of traditional house of indigenous tribe here where I am residing. Whether it has been confirmed by Oda himself or not in SBS, I am not really sure. But I am absolutely certain about this and it is just a matter of time before he confirmed it. So there is that. And I think the fact that Oda even made a deep research about this place in the middle of nowhere and made a reference of it is pretty cool. |
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TheHopefulOtaku said: America needs much better representation. Why do all anime characters from America have blonde hair and blue eyes and are Caucasian? It's not always like that, just usually when black americans show up in anime their portrayal is even more racist so just being associated with blondes doesn't seem that bad for america :>. But there's still other examples, for example in Gundam Build Fighters which I'm watching right now the american representative at the world cup thingy is a black kid with dreadlocks who's also a scientist and a Ninja/Samurai (don't ask). But you will probably have to look at more recent anime (previous 15 years or so) to find more normal representations of non-whites in general and non-white americans in particular. So it pisses me off how the entire main cast of Blood Blockade Battlefront are Caucasian, even though they live in New York, one of, if not the, most racially diverse place in America. Isn't Zapp pretty dark-skinned? He is definitely not caucasian. A good chunk of the main cast also specifically went to Hellsalem's lot once it appeared so they aren't native New Yorkers and referring to the original population of New York is barely a relevant argument. And in general the realistic, original part of the setting is barely even relevant in the show so I wouldn't expect it to care about realistically depicting New York. The anime is about Hellsalem's Lot and the diversity is more about different kind of lifeforms and species rather than just race and skincolor. Unlike Baccano, where the setting and the fact that it is set in our world are emphasized frequently and play a central role, Kekkai Sensen is not set in New York but in some weird, fictional, crazy fantasy city called Hellsalem's Lot. I'd never blame the show for simply using the name NY to base their fictional setting on. It never pretended to try and depict actual New York with anything resembling realism. |
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ChocoLateToParty said: [img]https://i.imgur.com/a3hdHKZ.jpg[img] I want to see these two to fight. America would win though.  Ftfy this is the true american gundam |
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Tonysol67 said: ChocoLateToParty said: [img]https://i.imgur.com/a3hdHKZ.jpg[img] I want to see these two to fight. America would win though. Ftfy this is the true american gundam Thanks. _ /(| ( : __\ \ _____ (____) `| (____)| | (____).__| (___)__.|_____ |
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Niello said: UpperCat said: Not exactly 'portrayed' or 'represented' but the Mink tribe house architecture in One Piece is faithfully based on the architecture of traditional house of indigenous tribe here where I am residing. Whether it has been confirmed by Oda himself or not in SBS, I am not really sure. But I am absolutely certain about this and it is just a matter of time before he confirmed it. So there is that. And I think the fact that Oda even made a deep research about this place in the middle of nowhere and made a reference of it is pretty cool. That sounds very interesting, can you tell me where this is? It is the tribe/ethnic group that is originated in West Sumatra, Indonesia. You can see the architecture comparison here: Pay attention to the buildings in the background of the main panel in the manga and you will see the semblance. p.s: sorry for the late reply, I didn't see the notification. |
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| There is many minor reference, something like food in Shougeki No Soma, boxer in Hajimete No Ippo, etc. They correctly stereotyped us as Multicultural diverse country. I think many Japanese TV show stereotyped us As a Kind, Polite, and very Traditional people. But it's completely wrong. We are more modern than they think also we harsh to foreigner especially to Japanese cause they invade use. Also cause my fellow indonesian is usually easily provoked |
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UpperCat said: It is the tribe/ethnic group that is originated in West Sumatra, Indonesia. You can see the architecture comparison here: Pay attention to the buildings in the background of the main panel in the manga and you will see the semblance. p.s: sorry for the late reply, I didn't see the notification. Ah, you're right. I though it might just be South East Asian temples in general, but that pic does have the most resemblance, especially the curvature of the roof. |
| Only ever thing I noticed from Hungary is a flag in the background of Orange's class (Orange anime / Orange: Mirai film). I don't really think it is ment to be that, but I accept it as our flag. (red-white-green horizontal strips) Tho' I know about Hetalia, but that isn't the same. I think we are underrepresentated a lot, but I know that not a huge amount a ppl knows about the country anyways. Some SoL show upcoming for a future season, please do a hungarian transfer student. (And never mention anything aobut him, except that he is from Europe) |
| The only times I've seen Bulgaria represented in anime was in a short filler arc of D.Gray-man and the only proper thing they got about us is that our country has beautiful roses, and the other time I saw Bulgaria represented in anime was in Ladies VS Butlers, where one of the main heroines ordered a ''Bulgarian marmalade'' of all things. We do not fame ourselves with marmalade so it's possible the author just picked up Bulgaria randomly when looking up country names, just so the character can sound more sophisticated. We do fame ourselves with our milk, yogurt, etc. though. Japan's currently trying to replicate our dairies, cause we have a certain bacteria we use for that stuff, it's only in Bulgaria and it's called Bacillus Bulgaricus. |
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| I'm Murican, just like many here. I usually get a good kick of the kooky stereotypes. Even when we're portrayed as villains I usually can't complain. |
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| I don't think my country ever been or will be represented but I saw my country flag have been represented many times in background whenever there is a school festival event or a summit of some sorts in anime. |
| my country is not really represented in anime. And to be honest i don´t really mind it ether. |
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| England was represented pretty nicely in Black Butler, so I suppose I'm pretty satisfied, especially when they give England a badass character like Sebastian. |
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| Well TBH beside Imperial age England and Japanese culture, most other country culture have mostly been based on stereotypes in anime. As for going by my country Pakistan, I have seen 2 anime. Yugo the negotiator was well quite acceptable inspite being flawed in numerous ways and giving Arabic touch (the country is South Asian). JoJo part 3 did represented some traditions right (haggling was epic) but completely messed up most of it making a country an Arabic country. |
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| My country is almost never portrayed in anime (well as far as I can tell), so I can't really comment on this. |
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| I thought Hetalia's depiction of my country (America) was pretty funny. |
| Haha wo tazunete sanzenri is a very old anime, from 1976 (https://myanimelist.net/anime/1663/Haha_wo_Tazunete_Sanzenri) in which an Italian boy comes to Argentina in order to look for her mother, who has emigrated because she was looking for a job. The other Argentina reference I can think of is in Orange, when one of the characters (I think Suwa) decides to put a Messi's photo on their future box. If I'm not wrong, Argentina's football is also mentioned in Captain Tsubasa. Am I satisfied? Well, at least we have been named! |
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| I mean I don't care. Mostly it's just a funny stereotypical redneck and actually makes me laugh a little bit. |
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| No idea because I've never seen an anime that had references to Australia. Would be cool to find one though. |
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