Using this opportunity to plug the greatest comic book of my lifetime, Y the Last Man, for telling this story (men going extinct) near-perfectly.
Kiley242
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This mother fucker next to me at this bar is about to go extinct in 3 minutes.
As a die hard fan of the original movie and Stand Alone Complex, this is sickening. Major MOTOKO KUSANAGI is clearly Japanese. IDGAF what they’re bullshit weak ass racist marketing reason was FOR ANY OF THIS. This sends the clear message that Hollywood executives would rather pay a team of animators to FUCKING CHANGE…
...And to Japanese people they look Japanese. They sometimes look like Japanese people with blue or pink or yellow hair, but what you’re seeing as visual signifiers of whiteness are typically taken by Japanese viewers as signifiers of being Japanese, or as typical flourished of the anime style (the huge round eyes,…
So white amirite?
My experience, as a biracial woman who knows a lot of white people, has been the exact opposite. I’v never known a white person to stay away from a movie, tv show, etc because a character was a person of color - I’ve known quite a few who stayed away because a character of color was played by a white person or because…
Honestly, I think that if they wanted to go with Scarlett Johansson, they might as well set the movie in the United States instead of Japan. It would make a lot more sense IMO.
Yellowface is yellowface even if it’s CGI.
Nope. He’s Japanese SDF Ranger. You see, Americans don’t have a monopoly on military terminology. We get to see his old colleagues firsthand in the second season of Stand Alone Complex, and they are very much Japanese soldiers working for the Japanese government.
Blue eyes. Black hair.
Sure, she could be caucasian. It’s not like there aren’t thousands of caucasians living in Japan, and with the Asian population decreasing, maybe more caucasians came in.
That said, Johansson looks awful as the Major.
No.
Just like the six foot tall white guy who is her partner?
She sounds like a Japanese woman. Who lives in a Japanese city. And works in a Japanese government.
Yes, this Indian Superman really dominated the cultural narrative until the Zack Snyder reboot.
I’m with you on this. They can waive away all the cyborg-body switching science they want but at the end of the day the character has always been Japanese and her name is friggin Matako Kusanagi. Yes, this is an adaptation and fictional characters are flexible but we live in a society where that notion on holds weight…
I have half Asian kids. I think they are beautiful but they aren't Asian. They have white features. And yes, it is galling to see that Hollywood is only ok with Asian roles being played by people who have white features.
Except, you know, her hair, the shape of her eyes, her skin...
Hey, genius. We’re a diverse, multicultural country that dominates the international media scene. Good job with that false equivalence, tho.
So exactly what they did with Edge of Tomorrow/All You Need Is Kill, renaming Keiji Kiriya to William Cage when he was played by Tom Cruise.