Those characters are still quite clearly signaled to not be Japanese via commonly having blonde hair and not having Japanese names. I'm talking about the average anime protagonist who is named something like Daisuke Yamada and has dark hair and lives in Shinjuku but still somehow gets mistaken for white even though he's clearly meant to be a Japanese teenager living in Japan. Because that was the assumption I was correcting, as Konrad's comment implied to me that that was what she was saying.
As a American ,bandit Keith is peek american
Besides the already noted pale skin, another factor is the anime convention of often giving characters large eyes to make them cuter or more expressive. "Anime eyes" are a thing, after all. That makes them look non-Asian, at least in the perception of Westerners. And since your "average anime protagonist" is supposed to be young and cute, they get the cute eyes.
Okay, I must have missed it here. That's the series with the deaf prince who's best friend is an outsider from a despised minority, where the most visible antagonist is blonde blue eyed and conventional. Did I miss something?
Their is a entire kingdom of Korean coded people who are all portrayed as selfish and has the entire kingdom put to death.
Yeah, I would never have noticed that there was Korean coding in what seems to me to be a western fantasy setting
No one is saying racism should be excused because it's Japanese. Personally, I think that Japan is a very racist society. Just that anime is an import from a very different culture - most importantly for this discussion, a culture that has never had to culturally reckon with its own racism like the West has. Or had to culturally reckon with Nazism, or slavery, which is why the latter two pop up in favorable lights way more often in Japanese works.
In Japan it's obvious right wing propaganda. In an American context it felt, at the time, on the right side of normal; if it was a novel it would be published by Baen and few people would've batted an eye. These days those aspects are more problematic due to the country's ongoing political shift, of course.
Again: most anime fans don't know much about Japan.
While this is a more valid point - do people seriously not remember the lesbian censoring that went on when Sailor Moon was localized? - it's also... kinda not a big issue? Like, I remember The Discourse around Zombie Land Saga, that claim that the localizers had made Lily trans was debunked fast and then swept aside. Guilty Gear has gone through a similar progression, aside from a few very loud voices.
Speaking as a former 'western anime fan', bullshit.
Okay, fair point, I was probably being too general myself by the end there. I will agree that there's a sizeable subset that know and are being willfully ignorant. And yeah, my problem with Konradleijon's premise is being too general in their language and a bit too condemnary for how general that language is.
Yes most anime fans are cool. But many are blind to basic analysis and a subset of those are alt right members who love Japanese media because it isn't infested with the woke SJWs
Narnia is well written. It's open about it's Christian image but doesn't beat you over the head with it. Also, if you're raised in a Christian household, it may go over your head because it fits so well with what you've already been taught that you don't question it.
Oddly enough I rather dislike Lloyd Alexander for his bastardization of Welsh folkloric figures. He continues the standard Christianized "all underworld/Otherworld figures are Satan with his demonization of the benevolent figure Arawn, he turns the trickster spirit and noted rapist (and possible sister fucker) Gwydion into a noble Aragorn ripoff, and that's just the start.
