I mean I get it. People are too hyped for nothing. It’s a mere coincidence that they managed to find several Asian actors to play the minor and supporting roles. Finding one to play the lead? That’s an impossible task. I’m sure they searched high and low to find an Asian lead actress. They’re rare like unicorns you…

Yea, they said this exact thing about Peter Pan and Rooney Mara’s casting as well.

I will let my anime gifs relay my thoughts on this.

That’s kind of a false equivalency. Maybe if Asian actresses were actually represented properly in the film industry, Johansson’s casting wouldn’t be such a big deal. But they aren’t represented properly. Whereas black people, while generally more represented in the film industry than other races/ethnicities, still…

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If you believe the two situations are interchangeable, then you don’t understand the importance of increased representation for people of colour (POC) in media with roles that are not ridiculous caricatures of actual POC. When is the last time an Asian actor was the lead in a movie?

Well, I wish you would speak to the folks who got freaked the fuck out because Spiderman MIGHT be a black guy, many of whom were comic/anime fans.

And by American, I guess he means black folk? Mexican? Asian? Native? Yeah, that’s gotta be it, huh?

It really frustrates me that 99/100 times in interviews like this, people aren’t challenged on their bullshit.

It is an international story — from the Japanese perspective. Public Security Section 9 isn’t Overwatch, FFS.

It’s interesting that he keeps referring back to the manga — which part of the manga does he mean? Is he trying to distance himself from Stand Alone Complex anime?

He’s going to need a bigger shovel for that hole he’s digging himself.

You do realize that there are Japanese Americans, right?

Pretty sure Japanese people also live all over the world, bro.

Also “stripped of cultural context”

I love how “international” means “white lead”

Clearly White people are more globally representative than anyone else. That’s weird since Asia and Africa are the two most populous continents in the world, but whatevs.

Paul referred to the setting of Ghost in the Shell as “an international world.”

“Paul also clarified the name of Johansson’s character: She is referred to as “the Major” in the movie, despite being known as Major Kusanagi in the source material.”