Thanks for making this point in an eloquent manner. Since the default internet duscussion view on race representation seems to use american demographics for any white majority nation the asian-british community gets screwed over in these conversations despite the larger uk population.

Hey now, sometimes there’s brutal axe wielding sailors, or an inquisition against magic or that one country where the leader of that weird rigid monotheistic religeon lives. All well researched and nuanced takes on European countries and history.

I know exactly what you mean.

But it’s objectively an animated series and only subjectively an anime.

But if you follow that logic to its conclusion most animation ends up being Korean. Which seems overly reductive.

I was under the impression that gainax handed over the IP rights to the rebuild movies and they where entirely studio khara’s thing. I mean Anno recently sued them for unpayed royalties, doesn’t seem like a lot of funding was going on.

Yeah, it comes across more like a fetishization of gay people rather than a genuine push for inclusion.