"I've never attributed Mr Popo to looking like a racist caricature"

[EndDomination]

"To some, Mr. Popo is claimed to be a variant of "darkie iconography," a racist style of caricature.[5] On May 4, 2000, an article written by children's book author Carole Boston Weatherford claimed that Mr. Popo, along with Pokémon #124, Jynx, were derogatory stereotypes because of their black skin, big lips, and for Mr. Popo, lack of teeth.[6] In 2004, Viz Media began to downsize Mr. Popo's lips digitally in the American release of the Dragon Ball manga. As the Pokémon franchise gained international fame, the Pokémon Company also began recoloring Jynx's face and hands to appear purple and not black.[7]

• In the 4Kids version of Dragon Ball Z Kai, Mr. Popo was recolored royal blue because his original appearance was deemed to bear similarities to blackface, a controversial form of makeup historically associated with stage and film caricatures of African Americans."

 

[LoStranger]

I'm sorry, No amount of story telling, folklore, and symbolism will hide the fact that Mr Pop looks like some 1920s blackface racist caricature.

I love how anime fans, especially black anime fans love to play these games and mental gymnastics to defend shyt like this.

And I love anime nikka, I';m goddamn Capcom video game character for christs sake.

Nikka nerds are like that fam that's why I don't feel sorry for em when people like people like Professor Black Truth or Jason Black goes in on them. They selfishly will defend their medium or interest of choice with the up most vehemence while blatantly most seem to ignore racial issues all together. I remember that racist shyt Capcom pulled with Resident Evil 5 and who were the first people defending it and telling black people to shut up? Yup you got it NIKKA NERDS

 

[The_Truth]

Looks like Lexington Steele.

 

[Rhyme n Tekniq]

i felt the same way. watching inuyasha and gundam seed on friday nights i thought that shyt would never get old.

sad part is anime might be dead in a few years. i read some interview with some head anime director. he talked about how the industry isnt taking anymore risks, over charging people for products and paying their employees shyt pay for long strenuous hours. the only way they make money now is catering to those fetish freaks cause theyre the only ones who'll pay ridiculous amounts for merchandise.

its their own fault though. i wanted to buy my little bro a naruto dvd back in the day, and they were charging $40 for 3 episodes

i can get a whole season of game of thrones for the same price. nobody wants to pay for that overpriced shyt

yeah that shyt was od expensive back in the late 90's, I remember trying to buy all the Fist of the North Star and DBZ figures back then out of the catalogue section of EGM Magazine back in the day. fukk that shyt then and fukk it now.

 

[Ill-Mind]

Mr. Popo is clearly based off of blackface from minstrel shows and the moors

He's easily the most racist character design in all anime IMO

Toriyama basically took images like this and twisted it to fit his fukked up views of blacks

If you can't see the racist correlation between photos like this and Mr. Popo, I'm gonna have to advise you to get that c00n up outta ya system

 

[GPBear]

No, fukk that.

Because it wasn't just Mr. Popo.
The only other time I can distinctly remember an african-american appearing in dragon ball, was in an early episode where young goku is fighting in a tournament, oh look at the depiction of black people in the audience...



Cartoonishly large red lips, exactly like that of racist "sambo" caricatures of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

get fukked @The_Computer

 

[Crayola Coyote]

"Bu-but that's just a dark skin European"

 

[delta]

Looks like Lexington Steele.

 

[Killigraphy]

Mr. Popo is clearly based off of blackface from minstrel shows and the moors

He's easily the most racist character design in all anime IMO

Toriyama basically took images like this and twisted it to fit his fukked up views of blacks

If you can't see the racist correlation between photos like this and Mr. Popo, I'm gonna have to advise you to get that c00n up outta ya system

To be fair, that photo looks like an actual AA, as opposed to a Sambo peeling bananas and fully pierced wearing a tunic.

 

[Killigraphy]

Black Excellence -

No one is touching Kambei.


Well. Aokiji, but that's it.

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

Jynx and Mr Popo

Both Jynx and Popo are takes on the Golliwog character.

Golliwog - Wikipedia

its depiction of black people has been accused of being racist,[1] along with pickaninnies, minstrels, mammy figures, and other caricatures. The golliwog has been described as "the least known of the major anti-Black caricatures in the United States".[2] In recent years, changing political attitudes with regard to race have reduced the popularity and sales of golliwogs as toys. Manufacturers who have used golliwogs as a motif have either withdrawn them as an icon, or changed the name. In particular, the association of the golliwog with the pejorative term "wog" has resulted in use of alternative names such as "golly" and "golly doll".