Hollywood White WASHES Japanese Anime in movie adaptation

[Morphine Prince 107,527]

This is all due to marketing. It's purely financial. They are ADAPTING a foreign film into an American version for an American audience, which btw if you didn't know is around 60% white. Of course most of the cast would be white. People want to watch a film where they connect to the characters. 

I'm probably a minority in my opinion here but I think films should just stick to the race they are. 

In this case, the actress should've been Asian.

I don't want a black Spider Man or whatever, if they were white, they're white. 

 

 

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

Anime characters don't all look Asian. Some do, but the grand majority don't. They look human. They don't belong to race, with features that belong to all races. Color in particular is irrelevant, because most characters have a mixture of skin colors, many fantastic in nature, and a spectrum of hair colors, from black to pink.

In fact, what's so admirable about Japanese people is that they imagine, draw, and perceive those characters as Japanese because they aren't as judgmental when it comes to race like most Americans so they don't bother to stereotype them.

That's why Americans view them as white. They do so because it's natural for them to believe that the default human is white. 

The thing is, it's absolutely ironic for people to insist that these characters should be Asian, when they are anything but. The claim is that, because they were drawn in Japan (creators) and have Japanese name (did you expect them to name her Sally or something?), then the character is Japanese.

That's just a wrong analysis. You drawing a character in the USA does not make the character American, and you giving a character the name of Bob does not make that character American. Those characters exist in an alternate reality. They aren't real. 

So no, I disagree, and I think that all this does is perpetuate divisiveness. If this particular character had more stereotypical Asian features, then it would have made some sense if the point was to try to match the phenotype as much as possible. As it stands, it doesn't.

While I agree that minorities in the USA should receive more prominent acting roles, this entire situation is nothing more than faux outrage while having the unfortunate implication that only Asian actors should play "Asian" roles, as if their race is the only reason they should be cast, when race has nothing to do with the story.

Perhaps an Asian character would have been a better choice. The thing is, there's nothing wrong with a white one doing it either. If you believe otherwise, you my friend, are a racist.

The entire point is to lift minorities to be equal to the majority, not drag the majority down.

[Fiona Apple 13,006]

Gosh everything is offensive nowadays 

[Creyk 18,048]

So unnecessary. The girl in that anime doesn't even look Japanese. She looks totally white. This is one of the silliest complaints that has become a trend to hop on these days.

[KingRedd 3,139]

1 hour ago, Alien Tulip said:

Yeah I totally get you but if Gaga ever has a biopic she needs an italian girl like her sister to play just like how MLK needs a black man to play him but still look like him. It would be weird if they casted a regular white girl with blonde hair, blue eyes and pale skin because that's not how Gaga looks like. 

Then you see the point Anime fans are making? Lol having someone play an Asian character and conveniently not be Asian is weird to them lol just like having a pale white girl with blue eyes play Gaga is weird to you. 

[Gagaloth 87]

Maybe the Japanese should start drawing their characters to look Asian and not Caucasian with big round baby blue eyes and stuff...

 

[RAMROD 111,283]

4 minutes ago, KingRedd said:

Then you see the point Anime fans are making? Lol having someone play an Asian character and conveniently not be Asian is weird to them lol just like having a pale white girl with blue eyes play Gaga is weird to you. 

If a character is explicitly and strictly Asian, I can get and it is wrong to turn them into another race.

But some mangas and animes never really pointed out a race or nationality with their character.

Such as Dragon Ball, is Goku Japanese, no, he is an outer space creature who were rescued to Earth.

He can be anyone as far as I'm concern. And he might got that Asian sounding name because he happened to landed in Japan with his space ship.

Just because a story came from Japan, doesn't mean it should have all Asian cast.

The most recent example is Attack On Titan live action films, they made two of them last year, and it was filmed by Japanese. But they ruined it themselves by changing and get rid of many characters that fans know and love in the manga because they are European, their name stays the same but their face didn't match, examples: Armin Arlert and Jean Kirstein who  gotten heavy change. And they got rid of one of fan favourite, Levi Ackerman, among others such as Annie, Reiner, Marco Bott, Historia, etc, and replace them with original characters who are explicty made to be Japanese, which caused displeasure within the fanbase, both Japanese and Global fanbases. The movies heavily panned and it was indeed one of the worst films of 2015.

With Ghost In The Shell, it is unfortunate, but I am willing to give it a chance if the plot is good and none of the Avatar Aang and DBZ BS plots.

[Gagy 419]

I dont care if they got a Non-Asian actress for the role. She's a ghost in the shell anyway. That means, her body is a cyborg and she can change it anytime... 

Im more worried about the whole movie itself. I dont want another Avatar: The Last Airbender real action movie mess. 

[Lord Temptation 11,209]

Film is art but it's also pop.

Hollywood is a fame factory, but like most factories are capable of lots of waste.

[FRANK1991 3,329]

This topic is changing into Anime characters don't look Asian

Someone on Twitter suggested Rinko Kikuchi as the lead:

She was the female lead in Pacific Rim

To get back to the Characters don't look Asian, it's a bit ironic actually......

Japan adores Western Culture. I was curious and asked a few Japanese why they use katakana (an alphabet system used for foreign words) a lot when it's basically English. They said because it sounds cool. Kinda like how Americans like to tattoo Chinese words without knowing what it means because it looks cool. 

Manga and Anime style is a beautified version of reality but the characters have strong jaw line, pointed nose, and large eyes; all traits of White Caucasian. So what about the foreign characters? Well, they are even more exaggerated with even larger noses and huge chins! 

This phenomenon has made live version films between Eastern and Western very interesting:

American comics have the style of hard-looking features that makes them look almost statue like. When they are turned to movies it's a success because the people playing them are hotter then the statue-like face.

Japanese comics have a more diverse style but they generally have softer features. A lot of them are so beautiful that they are way past the naturalistic humans. That becomes a problem when you try to get someone to portray a character that doesn't even look human anymore. So the live versions of Anime and Manga always look bad.

[nikola 4,342]

I mean they could have gone for asian actress but Scarlet is the great actress so i am not mad........

Also i think that there are asian actors that got bigger roles in movies......i mean there is asian actress in resident evil movie..............

But i get why are they mad.......i just hope they dont go and attack scarlett because its not her fault.

[Gianni Versace 2,987]

11 hours ago, elijahfan said:

Well, people need to realize that it's a much bigger issue than a casting choice. Hollywood has been remaking foreign films for decades - producers would rather remake the same film in English with a complete anglo-saxon cast than distributing the original thing.

Americanization is a real thing, also because Americans would rather see a Hollywood film than a subtitled Japanese, French or German picture. It's also up to the people to go to artsy theaters and to open their tastes to other cultural products. For the industry to change, people also need to change. Just sayin'.

there are asian americans sweetie

[xdeki666 245]

never heard of it

[River 119,434]

White washing is:

Exodus: Gods and Kings - white Moses (Christian Bale), only 2 Middle Eastern actors, none are Jewish/Israeli - to make a movie about the bible without one single Jewish actor IT IS white washing.

Of Kings and Prophets - ABC tv show (canceled after 2 ep) David is white like the rest of the cast, only Samuel actor is middle eastern.. and again no Jewish/Israeli actors.

Gods of Egypt - all white except for one Indian actor, 0 Egyptian actors.

And the list go on and on, Hollywood is white washing the middle east history, culture and literature and it seems that nobody cares or talking about it.. I wonder why..

@LebaneseDude do you have any more examples?

[Jester 6,367]

LMAO

Isn't the point of anime making characters look 'white' or at least not Asian  Those huge eyes are like the opposite of what Asian eyes look like and it's just one of the things