Young Black Jack Episode 7 Discussion

Tokoya said:

Either way I'm looking forward to finding out what is wrong with Johnny as well as who is this guy that is with Yabu (Hopefully he'll as the dude in the Vietnam arc)

straggy said:
Apparently this show ran out of original plots and just decided to have Black Jack jetting all over the world and sticking his nose into the biggest world events of the 60s even though he's a medical student in debt. Smells like bullshit to me but whatever.

Also, was that blonde girl supposed to be black? :/ Cause if she was then it looks like it's time for good ol' Japanese colourism.

straggy said:
Apparently this show ran out of original plots and just decided to have Black Jack jetting all over the world and sticking his nose into the biggest world events of the 60s even though he's a medical student in debt. Smells like bullshit to me but whatever.

straggy said:
Also, was that blonde girl supposed to be black? :/ Cause if she was then it looks like it's time for good ol' Japanese colourism.

straggy said:
This show has also gotten SO PREDICTABLE. Every plot point can be seen a mile away. Steve getting blown up by a mine last episode, this guy not being able to feel pain this one... It really removes all of the drama when you know exactly what's gonna happen in the first 30 seconds of seeing a character. This show is also so terrible at choosing who to make the villains of its episodes. People against the Vietnamese war, Vietnamese people, black people... There's also the fact that Americans are usually the heroes even though they're usually the ones causing most of the issues in the 60s, like... ok.

Avenger-senpai said:

Pretty obvious you just hate the show and are trying to just nitpick every little thing now.

So they're sending our MC to places where major events happened during the 60s are taking place, and? Right off the start you see students protesting the war in the first episode and in the third episode he ends up operating on a "deserter" who's being aided by anti-war activists. It's not like they've randomly started focusing on things that were happening during that time period, every single episode has had something to do with it.

As for how he's getting around even though he's in debt, it's pretty obvious if you've been paying attention. He was able to go to Vietnam with the help of the Cult from episode 2 since the leader is actually one of the "donors" who had his face changed to look like him. In this episode he was able to go to America because Maiko invited him to come along. She's probably there because of her internship and was able to invite someone to come with her.


More nitpicking in a show that has people with abnormally large noses.


So did you figure out Steve was gonna die by stepping on a mine the moment his life was saved or when he was deliriously running through thick brush then making his way back to Bob while crying, thinking about eating food from back home and having sad music play during that one minute before he died? Also, obviously didn't focus on Johnny's injury and his late reaction to pain so that the audience knew something was wrong with him. Clearly not the case.

You know what would've been predictable? Had they just chosen to victimize every anti-war protester and black people while villianizing all the white people. This show does a really good job at having a neutral standpoint in these situations imo.

- We had the regular anti-war protesters.
- That one group of anti-war activists who were blinded by their ideals and used them to force Hazama into operating on the deserter.
- Bob the American soldier who was a respectable fellow until he was driving mad by the death of his last squadmate.
- The soldiers of the Vietcong who killed innocents and tortured Hazama & co.
- That one Vietcong soldier who risked his life by helping them escape.
- The Vietnamese villagers who allowed them to operate on Steve in their village only to have it bombed by Americans.
- The racist white people giving Johnny dirty looks but at the same time there were white people who didn't have any issues with him.
- The passive black protesters like Johnny and the other group of black people who resorted to violence.

Dam that turned out to be a longer response than I expected...

Avenger-senpai said:

Pretty obvious you just hate the show and are trying to just nitpick every little thing now.

More nitpicking in a show that has people with abnormally large noses.

straggy said:

Most of your response was honestly unnecessary and I don't care but lmao...

straggy said:
Calling this nitpicking, holy shit... Colourism is a really big issue all over the world but especially in anime. Think of all the animes there are where characters should be brown/black and they're not. Magi, Arslan... big major animes constantly whitewash characters. I mean it's whatever in a fantasy anime, you can just let it pass and breath out like "this isn't necessarily the middle east, I GUESS", but this episode is set in America in the 60s AND IS SPECIFICALLY ABOUT ANTI-BLACK RACISM. Making the one black woman in your entire episode noticeably paler than every black man is so shitty. There's also the fact they drew the black men with black features but the black woman is just a copy/paste of the other female faces we've seen in the show and then they coloured her skin slightly darker. This ain't got SHIT to do with the damn artstyle, my god, please actually think before you speak, especially when you gonna just brush racism aside with this strawman "people have big noses in this show" bullshit.

And before anyone comes in here like "it's Japan, it doesn't matter!", BLACK PEOPLE EXIST IN JAPAN. THERE ARE BLACK JAPANESE PEOPLE. Just look at Miss Japan 2015, better yet research her story and read about her growing up half-black in Japan.

Avenger-senpai said:

Glad you noticed how silly your complaints were.

I love how you somehow can't find a way to back up the meat of your complaints but when it comes to this one post, watch out, because shit gets real. What a joke lol.

Yes, it is nitpicking. You know why? Because people don't go into a freaking anime and pull out the colorism card just because of one female character, who's presumed to be black, is a lighter shade than the black men so far after 1 episode of the arc. For all we know she may be of mixed race. As for her features, did you want them to give her an afro or something? That's basically the defining feature of all the black males in this show other than their skin tone.

straggy said:


LMAO. Nah, mate. I just can't be bothered with someone that likes to excuse colourism and that shouts NITPICKING!! NITPICKING!!!!! like a child whenever someone doesn't like a genuinely bad show.



This sorta shit is the excuse people always pull outta their ass for female characters always being younger, paler and having the same features as each other... When it happens in almost every anime, it's not nitpicking. This happens ALL THE DAMN TIME. But the fact that this show is actually trying to be realistic and about civil rights? Yeah, that makes it way worse.

Avenger-senpai said:

Nah, you're just someone who bitches about a show you don't like then complains about getting called out rather than backing up their opinion. What a waste of time.

straggy said:


LMAO. Nah, mate. I just can't be bothered with someone that likes to excuse colourism and that shouts NITPICKING!! NITPICKING!!!!! like a child whenever someone doesn't like a genuinely bad show.



This sorta shit is the excuse people always pull outta their ass for female characters always being younger, paler and having the same features as each other... When it happens in almost every anime, it's not nitpicking. This happens ALL THE DAMN TIME. But the fact that this show is actually trying to be realistic and about civil rights? Yeah, that makes it way worse.