Talib Kweli on White Supremacists Fetishizing Asian Women and Anime
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Knicksman20
Superstar
Forgot to add this one & its recent from One Punch Man
Phoenix Rising
Pro
Yep.
Anime caters toward their market which is white men. That's why all the heroes are white and the characters have vaguely white features.
But honestly it's kiddie porn and I was shocked to learn that when I was in Japan.
There's a reason only awkward weirdos are really into it. You might want to question why you trying to affiliate with a reject crowd in the U.S. and also in Japan.
There is a lot of animated porn that's not kiddie stuff, most of the Japanese are into that, but it's a lot like how you can get Playboy and shyt at the Quiktrip in the U.S., really no big deal.
Another thing I learned when I was there that Karaoke bars are strip clubs lol
LV Koopa
Jester from Hell
This has been debated 1000 times and if you did basic research some of the dumb shyt in here wouldnt be posted.
We as Westerners think Asians are drawing white people. In their eyes those characters are Asian. You think "blond hair" = white, when to them its just a Japanese person with died hair.
We as Westerners think Asians are drawing white people. In their eyes those characters are Asian. You think "blond hair" = white, when to them its just a Japanese person with died hair.
Post World War II manga was influenced by the U.S. occupation of Japan and Japan's exposure to the American Betty Boop cartoons. That is the reason why the large eyes and head shape became such a prevalent part of the art style. Manga and anime were both originally Black and White mediums, and characters of the same age often had identical faces. Thus different hairstyles were used to make them distinctive. When anime became colored, red, yellow, blue, green, pink, hair colors were furthered used as an easy way to make distinctions between characters.
However, beginning in the 1950s manga characters started to look European. Japanese characters were depicted on covers with Brown and Blonde hair. This trend has continued in modern manga and anime with many characters being European, not only by virtue of Blonde hair and Blue eyes, but in terms of build. Japanese have a tendency to be stocky with wide hips, compared to Europeans who are taller with longer legs and smaller heads. Japanese women are often drawn with pink nipples in manga/anime when Japanese women have brown nipples. Fashion magazines tend to lean towards more European looking models, despite the fact that most Japanese are not built like that. Akira Toriyama faced heavy criticism for making Goku turned into a green-eyed blonde in his Super Saiyan form, the subtle message being that in order to be more powerful, the Japanese man must become like a White man. Toriyama insists he made the hair a clear color, to make a simple visual distinction in a Black and White manga. He is likely being honest, but the fact that he and his team chose to make Goku's hair blonde is a point worth scrutinizing.
Japanese looking characters are present in manga, but the overwhelming number of full blood Japanese characters drawn to look like Europeans can't be denied. There is definitely deference to Eurocentric beauty at play. Quite naturally this appeals immensely to a Eurocentric audience. The author of Naruto attributes blonde hair to one of the reasons why Naruto is popular globally. Anime is a varied and dynamic art form, but the fact that the characters look European is a point of appeal to White audiences.
Hayao Miyazaki criticized modern anime because it has become a very standardized art form, full of rehashed archetypes, that act in predictable ways and lack human characteristics. Most female anime characters do not act like real women, much less Japanese women. Even considering that many Japanese women are submissive in comparison to Western women, they are not that submissive. The fact that poorly written female characters, with little to no self determination, appeals so strongly to some men, is a disturbing commentary about those men. While it is unsettling anytime a man has a fetish towards a specific ethnicity of woman, something about otaku is that much creepier.
Nothing Talib Kweli said was unreasonable. While it is possible to enjoy anime without having a fetish for Asian women, or having a deference to European standards of beauty and/or White supremacy, it is perfectly understandable to say anime attracts those type of people.
However, beginning in the 1950s manga characters started to look European. Japanese characters were depicted on covers with Brown and Blonde hair. This trend has continued in modern manga and anime with many characters being European, not only by virtue of Blonde hair and Blue eyes, but in terms of build. Japanese have a tendency to be stocky with wide hips, compared to Europeans who are taller with longer legs and smaller heads. Japanese women are often drawn with pink nipples in manga/anime when Japanese women have brown nipples. Fashion magazines tend to lean towards more European looking models, despite the fact that most Japanese are not built like that. Akira Toriyama faced heavy criticism for making Goku turned into a green-eyed blonde in his Super Saiyan form, the subtle message being that in order to be more powerful, the Japanese man must become like a White man. Toriyama insists he made the hair a clear color, to make a simple visual distinction in a Black and White manga. He is likely being honest, but the fact that he and his team chose to make Goku's hair blonde is a point worth scrutinizing.
Japanese looking characters are present in manga, but the overwhelming number of full blood Japanese characters drawn to look like Europeans can't be denied. There is definitely deference to Eurocentric beauty at play. Quite naturally this appeals immensely to a Eurocentric audience. The author of Naruto attributes blonde hair to one of the reasons why Naruto is popular globally. Anime is a varied and dynamic art form, but the fact that the characters look European is a point of appeal to White audiences.
Hayao Miyazaki criticized modern anime because it has become a very standardized art form, full of rehashed archetypes, that act in predictable ways and lack human characteristics. Most female anime characters do not act like real women, much less Japanese women. Even considering that many Japanese women are submissive in comparison to Western women, they are not that submissive. The fact that poorly written female characters, with little to no self determination, appeals so strongly to some men, is a disturbing commentary about those men. While it is unsettling anytime a man has a fetish towards a specific ethnicity of woman, something about otaku is that much creepier.
Nothing Talib Kweli said was unreasonable. While it is possible to enjoy anime without having a fetish for Asian women, or having a deference to European standards of beauty and/or White supremacy, it is perfectly understandable to say anime attracts those type of people.
