The faster you learn that it has nothing to do with the way that characters look, and everything to do with corrupt practices, the easier things will be for you to understand. It doesn't matter what the characters look like. It didn't matter in that Egypt movie. It didn't matter in that exodus movie. It didn't TLA, and it won't matter in GITS.
Like I just said nimrod. This doesn't just happen to Japanese movies. Hollywood has taken characters of color and made them white long before there was an argument set that said "well these characters are drawn white, therefore how can you be mad?" This has been happening for decades. How can they be equally complicit in an epidemic that has been raging long before it hit them directly?
I didn't read none of the comments but I see a bit of a double standard when it comes to Japanese anime and a hypocrisy by Marvel fanboys who ain't saying shyt about the more BLATANT white washing in DOC STRANGE with The Ancient One. Meranwhile, ScarJo actually LOOKS like that of the anime.... if you want come be outrage of whitewashing anime characters as well as in manga, put that blame at the self-hating Japanese animators and artists that love to have all of their HEROIC characters be WHITE PEOPLE.... Motoko Kusanagi is drawn and look like a WHITE WOMAN with purple hair.
As a matter of fact.... why IS there an outrage when the animators have this?
Major is not white. She's simply not. and there's an argument to be made that she doesn't even look white. GITS separates it's Asian characters from its white characters.
Also, stop pretending that Hollywood needs a reason to white wash characters.
I guess this happened because they were drawn "like white people" too huh?
Point A is they DONT!
You keep saying that WS is global as if your saying something profound or groundbreaking. We know WS is global.
i hear you my only point is that the people who did the casting dropped the ball. It seems like this is based of confusion of the character and they jumped they gun on the ScarJO idea in light of the marve movies on some "oh scarjo does martial arts in these movies and has sex appeal, lets just hire her and call it a day". It was the easiest decision at the time without doing ground work on the character, the culture of japan surrounding this anime and felt that scarjo would recieve north american appeal from audiences where as a lesser known, but talented, asain actress wouldnt
nikkas still gotta be held accountable for whitewashing tho best believe
ScarJo looks just like the Major? In what wayThe self-hating white-worshiping Japanese can't even accurately represent themselves in the media that they themselves control, so why would Hollywood suddenly do it properly for them?
They're probably thrilled that Scarlett Johannson is playing the character as she looks just like the character
