IANFIJ, but pretty sure it says something to the effect of
Nemuno: (sighing) "Such a cute face!" "Won't you stay the night?!"
Cirno: "K."
nemuno says "menkoibe!" with menkoi meaning cute/adorable/precious in hokkaido/tohoku dialects (according to jisho) and "be" being a sentence ender in the tohoku dialect (also from jisho). hopefully any translators can properly capture this because i can't.
Since Hokkaido and Jisho are cold, rural places, how about an American Midwest dialect? Nemuno's dialogue could be something like, "Oh, for cute! Won'tcha stay for the night?"
Since Hokkaido and Jisho are cold, rural places, how about an American Midwest dialect? Nemuno's dialogue could be something like, "Oh, for cute! Won'tcha stay for the night?"
Mmm yes... I had to look up 'decuple', and it means to ten-fold a number. The Greatest Army didn't have to face a lot of communists --- unless, as I suspect the splendid Tanya joined a Freikorps after the war --- but even in a world of fast-changing loyalties, there were not 80 million of them in Europe including Mother Russia, so her plucky idealism would have to be disappointed.
Claverhouse said: but even in a world of fast-changing loyalties, there were not 80 million of them in Europe including Mother Russia, so her plucky idealism would have to be disappointed.
Mmm yes... I had to look up 'decuple', and it means to ten-fold a number. The Greatest Army didn't have to face a lot of communists --- unless, as I suspect the splendid Tanya joined a Freikorps after the war --- but even in a world of fast-changing loyalties, there were not 80 million of them in Europe including Mother Russia, so her plucky idealism would have to be disappointed.
Good idea, though.
communist china has more than plenty of them, and knowing full well about chinese history I'm sure Tanya's gonna have an easy time, loyalty is not even an issue on her part.
Whitewashing already existing minority characters reduces the presence of minorities in spaces that already lack them to begin with, whether in be in the media itself or in the community that consumes said media, like the reverse cannot be argued for "blackwashing" when it comes to white people. A lot of the arguments made against "blackwashing" hinge on black people having equal representation in media to white people (which allows them to be segmented away in fandom discourse), so when white people are told that isn't the case they start complaining about "why are you making this political" and saying that they can't represent themselves with given characters. Because the truth of the matter is that black people aren't equally represented in media, even more so in popular media, and so, just like you see with white people, they'll want to represent themselves with the characters in media they love, and the logical conclusion of that is depicting them as black with all the accoutrements associated (just as you might see Asian characters basically being rendered 'white').
You might ask then "why not make characters they can identify with," or "make existing black characters more popular"? On the former, there's probably plenty of black characters already, but again, how many of those characters are popular, and even more so, how many of them are in popular media and accessible to general audiences? Most Western media anyone will consume will be made by largely white people and involve largely white people. Even if they were to make more black characters, the vast majority of characters black people will watch on TV, in movies, online, etc. will be non-black. So of course they're going to end up identifying with way more non-black characters than they do black - even more so if the black characters they do see aren't representative to them. And on the latter, which ones? Like, firstly, we're being sane here and not counting tan/gyaru characters, they aren't black. Secondly, a lot of black characters, especially in anime, are just side-characters, so there isn't much that can be done to make them more popular. And third, depending on where you look, the depiction of black characters is.... not good, so those characters aren't getting popular in the black community whatsoever. So, there's no political agenda behind "blackwashing", it's just black people depicting the characters they love as black, just as you'd see white people doing the same essentially.
The reason "blackwashing" occurs is because most characters in popular media are not black. If there were way more black characters in popular media then it likely wouldn't be as common (though you ultimately can't stop people from depicting characters as being from any group, not just black). Regardless, no one complains about "blackwashing" if the art is well-drawn to the person that might complain, and doubly-so if it is sexually-charged art.
And here's the other common argument levied against "blackwashing", trying to render it equal to whitewashing by looking at both in isolation as just "raceswapping". But you cannot look at "blackwashing" and whitewashing in a vacuum. As mentioned already, whitewashing already existing minority characters reduces the presence of minorities in spaces that already lack them to begin with, and that includes the spaces which consume that media in the first place. You cannot argue that someone deciding to whitewash minority characters in a series or franchise where 99% of the characters are white (or white-passing, since as you say, we are talking about Asian[-inspired] characters here) in a fandom that also majority white doesn't implicitly say something.
In a world that's sane and doesn't have the historical legacy of race issues we're suffering with today, both "blackwashing" and whitewashing would be equally seen as harmless. But we don't live in that world, and likely never will. "Blackwashing" is harmless, whitewashing isn't.
You're essentially justifying blackwashing with representation "argument". But nobody is obliged to represent any race/ethnicity in media. That's not a law. If an director wants to make a film where 100% of the cast is white/black/asian, they should be able to.
White (or "white-passing" as you put it) characters stay white. Black characters stay black. End of story.
You mentioned the solution yourself - create and write better black characters. Not snatch white characters and paint them black. This applies to popular media, this should apply to fanart by small scale artists the same. It's admittedly a very optimistic thought, but if a black character is written well, characterized well, taken care of by storytellers over the course of many, many years, one day that character will be as iconic as Superman. That's the solution - not blackwashing Superman.
This applies to popular media, this should apply to fanart by small scale artists the same.
And this is where I fundamentally disagree. I just don't see in what world it makes sense to apply to small-scale artists the same standards that we apply to corporations engaging in diversity mandates and cynical tokenism. They aren't the ones the corporations are appealing to, they're appealing to the kind of consumer who'd write in an AI generator 'black superman'. It's not the fault of small-scale artists that corporations don't care to make better-written black characters in popular media (or rather, hire creators who would want to do that, to address your point) and just lazily blackwash existing characters. You can't equate the two at all.
It's not their fault, but it doesn't give them an excuse either. It makes no difference if the artist is blackwashing characters out of some earnest good intention, and the corporation is doing it out of greed, results are the same.
It's not their fault, but it doesn't give them an excuse either. It makes no difference if the artist is blackwashing characters out of some earnest good intention, and the corporation is doing it out of greed, results are the same.
As in that meme from The Office, they're the same picture. When you pander to a certain demographic, EVERYONE will hate you for it, INCLUDING said demographic.(We're looking at Velma. That bastardization should have NEVER been greenlit in the first place)
Mari has different rank than everyone else, though I imagine that also has something to do with the lack of other decoration on her uniform. She lacks that circular pin with the inscribed red circle and black dot that everyone else has.
Does this artist do literally anything other than draw characters as nazis?
Why not? commie artists draw their characters with commie shit all the time and you don't hear people complain about it. It's always losers whining about characters wearing hugo boss uniforms.
I wonder if RL Dober actually liked one of the stallions she mated with. I see quite a handful arts with her and Taiki Shuttler by themselves. Other than Special Week liking her, anyone knows if Dober actually liked any of the horses?
No wonder Kouhai-chan has a crush on both her sempais. Douki-kun was going to stand up for her (but she stopped him), and Douki-chan did stand up for her.
After thinking about this scene a bit more, I've got even more questions. I am hardly an expert on Japanese culture in general or Japanese office culture in particular, but is this not unusually confrontational behavior from Douki-chan? Openly disagreeing with someone else like this doesn't seem like it's the "done" thing. A scene like this would not be out of place if it happened in the US, which is much more of an 'ask' (vs. 'guess') culture than I thought Japan was.
I wonder what yomu's Japanese audience is making of this storyline.
I wonder what yomu's Japanese audience is making of this storyline.
I don’t know where the main Japanese fandom lives, but the Twitter replies are basically positive. They roughly fall into 3 groups.
1. “Douki-chan/kun are so cool/capable.”
2. “That’s a good memory!”
3. Shipping stuff/comments about the origin of Kouhai’s Douki-dokis.
Group 3 also contains the subcategory of horny comments. For example, “This is… the Kouhai-chan is bi theory. Hot.” Also, “I feel like it would be best if Kouhai-chan devoured both of them at the same time.”
Old comment, but the fact this not exactly the common attitude is what makes it so good on Douki-chan's part. She stood up for her Kouhai, conventions be damned.
