But aren’t there quite a few popular anime where the most of the characters aren’t Japanese? Like Attack on Titan, most of the characters are German I think. And I think the setting in Fullmetal Alchemist is based on Germany or something.
Berserk is set in grim, dark medieval fantasy Europe and has a number of characters that are stand in for Indian people, a few that are implied to be biracial or actually black. IIRC there aren't any east Asians in Berserk at all. I wouldn't it call super, duper popular but it's a 30 year old series with a strong fan base.
this might be getting off topic, but It might take awhile before japan makes a decent diverse anime. those things do exist but it takes a lot of digging to get a few. japan in its current state is a very homogeneous country. unless we make our own "anime" or japan takes a shift into a melting pot, anime will mostly show japanese protagonist.
I'm not saying they have to value diversity. I'm saying to make a diverse anime specifically for global audiences. Like Legend of Korra(i think thats diverse) but made in Japan and marketed specifically to a global audience, not Japanese audiences.
You’re not really listening to me. To tie this in to the main topic, a lot of SJWs hold a similar belief and don’t understand that Japan just doesn’t care about aiming for the global market or even outright discriminate against the foreign dollar. Liscensing to other countries pays peanuts, and the money isn’t there to distrubute it themselves. Japan’s main concern is JAPANESE audiences, gaijin are a secondary concern.
Japanese properties are only really recently valuing the foreign dollar, mainly through releasing phone games as region free or, if the company is huge, translating the game if the property can establish a western fan base first. This is risky, but phone games can easily be self sustaining via events and whaling and just translating something costs less than making it from scratch. But anime is an investment, usually a quarter of a million dollars or more for 12 episodes. Anime companies produce so much anime because they are addicted to gambling on their own captive audience, but an anime for foreign audiences specifically is perceived as such a massive bet with so much more risk than normal when most anime is made either for children or the niche Japanese otaku market. Could they afford to try it out? Maybe. Do they want to? Probably not.
Discrimination can be seen in incidents such as Idolm@ster’s Million Live 5th Live, where all foreign audience members were put in a ‘gaijin block’ the night of the concert, meaning they were all put together in a large square in the nosebleeds regardless over their original seating.
Anyways, I’ve rambled enough. I DO think this is changing, particularly with Studio Trigger spearheading the march forward by opening a kickstarter and later a patreon. But ‘just make an anime for global audiences’ isn’t as easy as it sounds.
Most of my history teachers in school doubled as gym teachers, so I never really learned anything about history.
But after looking it up it does make sense why most non Japanese characters are German now.
The actual show promo doesn't even look that bad, but what the fuck is that gallery of fattards on the right? Why do they all look just so exceptionally retarded? Did they deliberately use the worst pictures they had?...
Imagine being so dumb that you ever thought CR supports the anime industry with all those subscription money that they ask in exchange of their shit quality streaming.
EDIT: wait, do people think I am mad at the one I replied because I said "dumb", I was talking about Crunchyroll users.
if the person who made this intended for this to be a redesign, they changed virtually nothing about the og character except making her a hambeast and changing minor details about the clothing so it can be less "cishet" baity
This suppose to be "genderfluid patrick andersen", idk who the fuck that is but after a quick search in google, it seems to ba a character from Slenderverse, specificially Michael Andersen's split personality.
And I don't know how the hell that shirt works, since genderfluid suppose to be "someone who change gender whenever they want", does he erase the clock arrow with bleach when he want to change pronoun or what
The actual show promo doesn't even look that bad, but what the fuck is that gallery of fattards on the right? Why do they all look just so exceptionally exceptional? Did they deliberately use the worst pictures they had?...
if the person who made this intended for this to be a redesign, they changed virtually nothing about the og character except making her a hambeast and changing minor details about the clothing so it can be less "cishet" baity
She seems jumps around 'tumblr artstyle' much.
Here's her tumblr if any of you are interested looking more http://chirbinbirb.tumblr.com/
She is a 16 y.o minor. I remember I followed her long ago when she was deep into fma, a normal gal. And then I unfollow her because I was not interested in fma anymore and when I come back months later, she became this genderspecial tumblrina, kinning with Roy Mustang.
You’re not really listening to me. To tie this in to the main topic, a lot of SJWs hold a similar belief and don’t understand that Japan just doesn’t care about aiming for the global market or even outright discriminate against the foreign dollar. Liscensing to other countries pays peanuts, and the money isn’t there to distrubute it themselves. Japan’s main concern is JAPANESE audiences, gaijin are a secondary concern.
Japanese properties are only really recently valuing the foreign dollar, mainly through releasing phone games as region free or, if the company is huge, translating the game if the property can establish a western fan base first. This is risky, but phone games can easily be self sustaining via events and whaling and just translating something costs less than making it from scratch. But anime is an investment, usually a quarter of a million dollars or more for 12 episodes. Anime companies produce so much anime because they are addicted to gambling on their own captive audience, but an anime for foreign audiences specifically is perceived as such a massive bet with so much more risk than normal when most anime is made either for children or the niche Japanese otaku market. Could they afford to try it out? Maybe. Do they want to? Probably not.
Discrimination can be seen in incidents such as Idolm@ster’s Million Live 5th Live, where all foreign audience members were put in a ‘gaijin block’ the night of the concert, meaning they were all put together in a large square in the nosebleeds regardless over their original seating.
Anyways, I’ve rambled enough. I DO think this is changing, particularly with Studio Trigger spearheading the march forward by opening a kickstarter and later a patreon. But ‘just make an anime for global audiences’ isn’t as easy as it sounds.
