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                                         October 6, 2016

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"What Japanese Think of Whitewashing
(Ghost in the Shell, Death Note, Interview)"

by "That Japanese Man Yuta"                       "Um....  I
                                                  love takoyaki"
  Some of the people Yuta talked to said
  things like "it's anime, it's not supposed
  to be realistic".

  They commented that anime tended to have
  things like weird eye colors and hair colors
  that aren't plausible for a Japanese person.

  They hadn't really thought much about
  why an anime character like Naruto was             That's actually a
  blond with blue eyes, but some came up             fascinating response
  with the explanation "we're fascinated             in itself.  A lot of
  by white people".                                  us wonder about the
                                                     intended racial
  On another case, the casting of the main           background of anime
  character of Death Note, it struck them            characters...
  that that character really did seem more
  Japanese, and not allowing asian actors to         It could be, for
  audition for it really was discrimination.         example, that Japanese
                                                     people have different
                                                     perceptions of visual
                                                     cues that are associated
                                                     with being Japanese.

                                             It appears that this isn't
                                             the case: they regard anime
                                             as some other universe, but
                                             when they think about it they
                                             agree with my impression:
                                             they're fascinated by the
                                             look of white people.







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