Cho’s view doesn’t make Swinton sound malicious at all. I’d say that’s some white fragility afoot. Chi portrayed Swinton as a hapless white person trying to make themselves feel better about some whitewashing she participated in. The emails don’t contradict that. Swinton just goes on and on about how the whitewashing…

Can’t wait for the music if it’s still Joe Hisaishi who’s doing it.

Hotline Miami?

There’s never too much time to fight the oppression of your culture.

This is more than just an inconvenient change to a franchise that people have grown up with, this is about the loss of cultural identity. Nintendo, admittedly, isn’t solely responsible for that loss but it certainly is helping it along.

Wow, you know many languages! Very impressive.

Yeah. I remember clearly understanding that the characters clearly were lepers back when I first saw it as a dumb high-schooler in the late 90s, so it couldn’t have been that subtle. I’ve never heard it described as an ‘urban legend.’ That seems silly.

Wait, the fact they were lepers and discriminated against elsewhere was an urban legend? I thought that was a super obvious part of the story.

Soon.

um... Where the hell is Sound Euphonium? It's essentially Whiplash: The Anime.

I hope they continue with this trend and the next Mario Kart iteration is simply Super Smash Karters

The lack of Death Parade in this list is disturbing.

Go read the excellent top comment on this post by GertrudeFrances. I think you're feeling how you're supposed to feel as a "white" (still, NOT Black) person. Roll around in it for a while. Feeling it is the first step.

I agree 100%. I think that it's almost impossible to feel a sense of detachment listening to this album as a white person. That's part of why it's so good. I can't necessarily understand it fully because I haven't lived it, but it's impossible to not be drawn into it and confronted/engaged by it.