Sorry, I was being a jerk: There’s no such thing as “shogun armor”. (Google it bruh.) I’m guessing both you, the guy you replied to and the article writer have no idea what a shogun is.

What is “shogun armor”?

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A 45 year-old guy and a 30 year-old woman?

If they’re bringing the setting to America, they have no obligation to use Asian-American leads unless it would bear some importance to the plot. And considering they’ll need some kind of magic in the movie, I would hope they wouldn’t use minorities at the risk of evoking the Magical Negro/Asian trope.

Why would it make sense for Western filmmakers to try and craft a story set in Japan?

I don’t understand why they even bothered with the “live-action remake” approach.

Your reason for cynicism is pretty pedestrian compared to others’ reasons for being cynical, yet you think your opinion matters more. Sounds familiar somehow...

The protests stop when it starts to seem like they’re producing results, like some kind of national action to train police officers on de-escalation, or to hire better police officers by funding police departments better.

The point is that because the military sends teenagers to their deaths in far away lands like Vietnam and Afghanistan to defend America (?), you should just shut your liberal mouth and salute the flag like a good American who respects the sacrifices of said teenagers to uphold the the American way of respecting the…

I feel bad for you. I would probably be reprimanded for being openly political in the workplace, but I certainly wouldn’t be fired for having political views that someone else might oppose. Especially since I’m doing a good job helping to make the company money—as any of the drivers and crews are.

I’m not a Nascar fan by any stretch, I just love my country.

pwrshft is obviously a white male and doesn’t care about others’ problems, and so I imagine he thinks the country is already doing just fine, and if anything it was doing better before that darned Obama ruined the country.

Absolutely—the hilarious and sad thing about conservatives is that although they bray and moan about people being less American than them, they’re the ones that understand American history the least. If it were 1776, people like Richard Petty would be Loyalists bemoaning the inconvenience and violence that the…

Is Brock a real name?? Honestly, I can’t fathom parents naming their little newborn baby “BROCK.”

Are you replying to the right comment? I never said Daniel Dae Kim or the fictional character are hapa, and I never said either look like one. In fact, I said Daniel Dae Kim looks totally Korean, and not Japanese.

What I want to know is, what do Japanese folks think of the name “Ben Daimio?”

Yeah, the people complaining aren’t considering the nuances here and I would venture a guess that the reason is because the people complaining aren’t Asian and so they don’t understand the perspective of people like me and Daniel Dae Kim.

I’m sure there’s a minority of East Asians who don’t like actors from another East Asian country portraying them, but unless the role is for a speaking part in said country and the actor is not natively proficient, then I’m pretty sure 99% of people don’t care. Just look at all the ethnic Japanese and Korean actors in…

You come across as an overly-sensitive, hysterical sort of person.