Sailor Moon Whitewashed? WTF Twitter?
Has Twitter ever seen an Anime in their lives? Seriously Anime is not as a rule atomically accurate, racially accurate, or any of that nonsense. Is is crazy shit happening to interesting people, henti aside. Once again American’s on Twitter are trying to tell Japan how to think,feel, be Asian, all that shit one country should not be doing to another. I love some of the translated responses coming out of the Sailor Moon Redraw Challenge.
Bishojo Senshi Sailor Moon or Pretty Solider Sailor Moon shorten to Sailor Moon for the rest of this, was created, as in written and illstrated, by Naoko Takeuchi who in case the name didn’t clue you in is Japanse. The Manga came out on December 28, 1991.The title character being a MOON princess from the MOON the Senshi/Scouts being princess from the other planets besides Earth.
After almost all life in our solar system was wiped out she and her Shenshi/Scouts were reborn on Earth a long time later. As you can see quite a few inhuman hair colors here as is common in Anime/Manga. Now once everyone is alive and activated they all look the same as they did when they died pretty much. Usagi, Moon, and Haraku, Uranus, can have either White or Blonde hair and it’s fine.
The first Anime came out March 7, 1992. A Live Action Sailor Moon came out in 2003-2004. Here are what the Senshi/Scouts looked like in the Live Action adaption made in Japan by Japanese people.
Sailor Moon Crystal, a second Anime with a more Manga art style came out in 2014. The Inner Senshi, as the 5 main are collectively called kept true to their Manga/Anime colorings.
There is also a Live Action stage show where they look like this.
So since the early 90s Japanese fans have loved Sailor Moon. Sailor Moon in every depiction is BLONDE or WHITE haired. In the Live Action TV show the Inners all have normal human coloring when not transformed.
However in the Live Action Stage Show Usagi is still BLONDE.
As is Haraku.
So at best they, and other Anime characters, can be interpreted as Japanese with Western or Inhuman coloring, blue, teal, green, and pink hair anyone? However as those translated quotes suggest Anime characters are not meant to look Japanese by default and demanding they be drawn that way is at best ignorant of Anime’s and Japan’s history and culture and worst the typical American’s know best racist shit Twitter was being called out on. This series is decades old and anyone of any color or gender can wear a fuku and defend the Earth from evil aliens. Talking cats not included.
So seriously stop trying to police everything and tell others how to think and act. Humans have been bonding in this Fandom for longer then Twitter has been a thing and we and Anime are not going anywhere anytime soon.
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"KonoSuba" Becomes Top-Selling Series in Digital Store Book Walker's Ranking of 2017
Book Walker, one of the largest digital bookstores in Japan, today announced its sales ranking of 2017 for 12 categories, based on the sales figures from November 15, 2016, to October 31, 2017. The store now has over 400,000 digital titles (100,000 up from last year's 300,000) from major Japanese publishers, including Kadokawa, Kodansha, Shueisha, and Shogakukan.
Instead of the previous two years' champion, Fujino Omori's Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, Natsume Akatsuki's KonoSuba: God’s Blessing on this Wonderful World! became the top-selling series in the overall sales ranking. The increase of sales was mainly thanks to the well-received TV anime second season aired in January to March of this year. Meanwhile, the best selling manga was Ryoko Kui's Delicious in Dungeon ranked 3rd in the overall ranking (1st in the male manga), jumping from the last year's 10th. The crown for the most popular female manga was taken by Yuki Suetsugu's Chihayafuru for three consecutive years.
Overall Sales Top 10 Series in 2017
(the ranking in 2016)
1 (2). "KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!" (Natsume Akatsuki/Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko)
©Natsume Akatsuki, Kurone Mishima/KADOKAWA CORPORATION
2 (1). "Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?" (Fujino Omori/GA Bunko)
3 (10). "Delicious in Dungeon" (Ryoko Kui/Beam COMIX)
4 (-). "Saga of Tanya the Evil" (Carlo Zen/Kadokawa Comic Ace)
5 (68). "Classroom of the Elite" (Syohgo Kinugasa/MF Bunko J)
6 (11). "Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend" (Fumiaki Maruto/Fujimi Fantasia Bunko)
7 (3). "No Game No Life" (Yu Kamiya/MF Bunko J)
8 (17). "The Irregular at Magic High School" (Tsutomu Sato/Dengeki Bunko)
9 (75). "Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody" (Hiro Ainana/Kadokawa Books)
10 (-). "KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! Extra" (Hirukuma/Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko)
Male Manga Series Top 10
1 (2). "Delicious in Dungeon" (Ryoko Kui/Beam Comics)
©Ryoko Kui/KADOKAWA CORPORATION
2 (-). "March come like a Lion" (Chica Umino/Young Animal Comics)
3 (11). "world's end harem" (LINK, Koatro Shono/Junmp Comics +)
4 (-). "Saga of Tanya the Evil" (Carlo Zen/Kadokawa Comic Ace)
5 (13). "My First Girlfriend Is a Gal" (Meguru Ueno/Kadokawa Comic Ace)
6 (-). "A Certain Scientific Railgun" (Kazuma Kamachi, Motoi Fuyukawa/Dengeki Comics)
7 (5). "The Bride's Stories" (Kaoru Mori/Beam Comics)
8 (3). "NEW GAME!" (Shotaro Tokunou/Manga Time KR Comics)
9 (-). "Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken" (Fuse, Yasuki Kawakami/Sirius KC)
10 (-). "Anenarumono" (Pochi Iida/Dengeki Comics Next) Artist(s) Mitz Vah
Female Manga Series Top 10
1 (1). "Chihayafuru" (Yuki Suetsugu/Kodansha Comics BE LOVE)
©Yuki Suetsugu/Kodansha
2 (2). "Oatku ni Koi wa Muzukashii" (Fujita/Ichijinsha comic POOL)
3 (11). "Nigeru wa Haji daga Yaku ni Tatsu" (Tsunami Umino Kodansah KC Kiss)
4 (-). "Isekai de Kuro no Iyashitette Yobareteimasu." (Miya Fujima, Yuichi Murakami/AlphaPolis)
5 (-). "Cardcaptor Sakura -Clear Card Chapter-" (CLAMP/Kodansha Nakayoshi)
6 (6). "Ore Monogatari!" (Kazune Kawahara&Aruko/Margaret Comics)
7 (-). "That’s what Åsa found in Japan" (Åsa Ekström/Media Factory)
8 (20). "Tokyo Tarareba Musume" (Akiko Higashimura/Kodansha KC Kiss)
9 (-). "Honzuki no Gekokujyou" (Miya Kazuki, Suzuka/To Books)
10 (-). "Isekai de Cafe wo Kaiten Shimashita" (Ringo Amezawa, Mei Noguchi/AlphaPolis)
Source: Book Walker via press release
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Recruiting the fandoms
So my teacher asked my to make a list of anime for him to watch, so I was like ok….
So the guy was going to be a priest but became became a teacher instead don’t ask I don’t know the details
so when I went to making the list of anime I liked I realized that he would let out the holy wrath on me cause only like one or to would be appropriate for him, since being an almost most priest and I was like da fuq am I supposed to show……
Please if you have any ideas
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