The thing you're not taking into account is that the same way Americans project "white" as the racial default, Japanese audiences project "Japanese" as their own default, regardless of a character's hair or eye color. Unless a character is explicitly stated to be from somewhere else, it's usually safe to assume the…

Yeah. My objection here centers on long-standing casting practices present in the American film industry, an unfortunate tradition that Death Note apparently has no interest in bucking.

Here's the problem with your point, beyond its completely unnecessary condescension. While any element of an adaptation is subject to change, I can reverse the question: is there any artistic, social, or practical need to whitewash a character that could be played perfectly well (and with greater accuracy to the…

Yes…but we're not talking about the Japanese film industry, are we?

True. Canonically, there should be only one Asian in the entire film, and she shouldn't even be full-on Asian.

Hollywood, Hollywood, Hollywood…what part of the surname "Yagami" suggests "INSERT WHITE PERSON HERE" to you?

Considering everything he did is technically legal, and that he has more than enough money to buy his way out of almost any other form of retribution, it's nice to know there are still ways to hit this guy where it hurts him.

Kudos to Lying Cat and Old Lace. Brian K. Vaughan is really good at making up cool fictional pets, apparently.

I decided to mentally separate this as "HE LIKES A MOVIE! MOST PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET DON'T GET HIM!"

I think the stripped-down approach actually works very well for Twelve, who's fast becoming my favorite Doctor.

I'll be keenly interested if a lot of attention is paid to its community radio station, and the suave, deep-voiced man who runs it. Also, if there's a dog park that both humans and dogs are forbidden from entering.

Agree to disagree, I guess. I thought it was a lot of fun, in a way that genre movies aren't very often anymore.

While I generally hold Abrams' work in low estimation, I think Super 8 is actually a wonderful piece of throwback cinema that might be his best piece. I'm hoping the guy who made Super 8 is the one who handled Star Wars VII, not the guy who made Cloverfield.

We all seek approval. We just buy it with differing currencies. I seek mine with the number of books I sell, and I work hard on them to try and gain as much commercial and critical approval as I can with flourishes that appeal to me. Not everyone will think my material is quality, but I am (and should be) under no…

I don't know where "we" are at. I just think commentary like that is unhelpful and problematic, especially considering our society's already problematic attitudes towards women and their bodies. So I said something. I refracted it through a lens of sarcasm, but I said it nonetheless.

Oh, fuck. That's so unfortunate, since she totally got them in hopes of gaining your specific approval.

No, Let It Go *was* a breakaway pop hit.

Much as I don't like the way Nickelodeon's treated Korra, DiMartino and Konietzko have stated they actually prefer shorter story arcs, and that ATLA's long seasons were mandated by Nick.

Pendleton Ward has stated that this very reason is why he hasn't explicitly confirmed anything about Marceline and Princess Bubblegum's past in Adventure time.

Coming fresh off the finale: BOOM