Serious question. Not /pol/ either. It occured to me after the

The majority of people who got pissed about GitS had no knowledge of the property. The opening text in the fucking 1995 movie alone alludes to technology erasing things like race and nations.

But hey, internet warriors need something to be outraged about every afternoon.

>>83078072
Is it because of the names? Names like Makoto and Hideo are clearly asian

>>83077998
Saiyan's are Toriyama's commentary on Americans. Their names are English puns, they have huge appetites, and Vegeta has a nuclear bomb as his super attack.

>>83078072
So lets cast Shaneeeeqwa as Jane Excalibur since that's the equivalent to Motoko Kusanagi

Draw a stick figure.
White people see it as a white man
Asians see it as an asian man
Blacks see it as a black man

To the japanese, these characters appear japanese. The end, stop making these threads, stop asking this question. This is the end all answer, because if you diagree you are wrong, just keep re reading the top four lines

>>83078331
Except it nots a plain stick figure you fool.

More like
>Draw a cartoon character with traits that only certain races posess like blonde hair and giant round blue eyes
>Now draw a european setting around them and name the character Alphonse Elric
>I..ITS ASIAN I SWEAR

FTFY

>>83078433
Except for the fact that character is specifically called european.

>>83078331
That is objectively incorrect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DhoBuU1Dtc

>>83078331
>Implying its this simple
>When characters are drawn with diverse feature

Damn look at these asians!

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>>83078718
Forgot pic

>>83078331
>To the japanese, these characters appear japanese

Commander Black would like a word

>>83077998
>>83077998
>Same goes for those horrid Death Note movies.

No matter how you look at it, Death Note is clearly 100% set in japan

>>83077998
I don't see how DBZ is a perfect example of the characters being white, but okay.
>Goku has big round eyes, peach colored skin, is a foot taller than 90% of the cast
Yea, you're just stereotyping here. There is probably some actor from Asia's industry that could portray Goku and meet these characteristics.

Also your basis on separating Vegeta as white is only because of his widow's peak. But he's also short, has slanty eyes (goku has them as well when he wants to look menacing), if we're going by your logic of stereotyping.

For FMA, yes. MC is white.

>Or is it really that offensive to cast characters based on how they look/are drawn
No, it isn't. Does Scarjo look like Motoko? Why is Gal Godot WW?


5/10 got me to reply.

>>83079552
No.

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>>83079552
Explain why every dragon quest protag looks like goku then. The angry eyes arent the same as the asian eyes you fuck wit. For fucks sake there are actul asians ton compare goku to in the show and Goku looks more like the white characters

>>83078331
Japanese people have a fetish for European features though.

Goku, unlike Bulma and he others, is not Japanese. He is Chinese. Not even joking, he is Chinese.

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>making live action anime movies
Literally why?

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>>83077998

>>83079716
A style of the animation that they attributed to their main character so he would look handsome. A fetishization of western appearances.

There's no denying Goku has white features. And that's why its almost impossible to cast him. Because there's such an association with him being asian, yet his look and fit are a crossbreed between two races.

I don't even know anymore..
Go ask Toriyama what he intended

>>83078331
No, it's a stick figure. You fucking idiot.

>>83079905
He's based off of a chinese mythological character but saiyans aren't chinese.