I guess you know better than the person who originally thought of the character. You definitely have more authority than he does when it comes to the character he conceived.

No they see people as people and not as a race. They do not care. Yes they have japanese names because it flows better in Japanese but most of Anime characters are representing tons of different races and cultures. For example the whole One Piece crew: The only one who is really Japanese is Zorro. All others were…

What about the author basically saying that she was perceived and based of a western person? I mean he must really lack imagination too!

The only people upset for the most part are Americas that love to complain about everything (and have little to know understanding of how movie studios work) America is just a bunch of whiners.

Well, a big part of it is PC bullshit. There have been legitimate cases of white-washing lately, but, this doesn’t feel like it. While the Major is Japanese, it is never stated what ethnicity her body is, and it’s clear that Public Security section 9 has an international aspect to it in the way it operates. When you…

If you look at the extra notes from Masamune Shirow in the compiled Manga release of the original books, the author himself mentions that a lot of it is based on Western characters and society, rather than Japanese, simply because he was heavily interested in it.

lol this is fucking gold. kotaku is so full of shit. journalists my ass. this is a tabloid article

I am promoting your comment, hoping it makes it’s way up above all this nonsense.

Kotaku isn’t anywhere close to telling the whole story here. Actually, that woman is insane, and there may have been very valid reasons to fire her that had nothing to do with anything Kotaku wrote here. Take a look at this post:

Actually, I’m kind of stunned that Nintendo took THIS long to fire her. Kotaku conveniently left out that Allison Rapp, who worked on Nintendo’s MARKETING team, had very radical ideas regarding underage sex and child molesters and child porn. No, I’m not talking about her essay mentioned on this article, but multiple…

I'm sorry guys, but I respect these men and women that are risking their lives every day (even if I don't always agree with the cause, and that's hardly their fault) to use them as some kind of bargaining chip for my own agenda.

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