Current Events > It is almost as if you have to find something white to hate

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https://www.indiewire.com/2018/12/netflix-ghost-in-the-shell-anime-series-2020-1202026562/

I hate even bringing this shit up, but it is getting ridiculous. Voice acting? that is what it has devolved into? Most the characters are pretty racially ambiguous to begin with.

did people hate the live action movie? Scarlet Johansen is pretty damn white tbh. I personally thought it good in terms of action and visuals but her character was a bit boring and the story was just meh and kinda predictable.
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what the hell does an asian person sound like? maybe their angle is just to have more diversity in the industry but then why would the asian people be forced into "asian voice roles"?
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Samurai Jack is racist now.
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Reminder we had a black guy who voiced Kratos in GOW.

The Live action movie? I could understand the complaint there. But VA? Gtfo.
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Seems pretty tone-deaf since people complaining about race months before the film adaptation came out helped to sink that one too. Why's it so hard to let asians act and perform voice work?
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MARKINGRAM22 posted...

https://www.indiewire.com/2018/12/netflix-ghost-in-the-shell-anime-series-2020-1202026562/

I hate even bringing this shit up, but it is getting ridiculous. Voice acting? that is what it has devolved into? Most the characters are pretty racially ambiguous to begin with.

Wheres the outrage over Rugrats not being voiced by actual babies.
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The voices need to come from authentic synthetic voice boxes

CrimsonRage posted...

ImTheMacheteGuy posted...

did people hate the live action movie? Scarlet Johansen is pretty damn white tbh.

the movie wasn't well-received and people did complain about scarlett being white

In my opinion, people shouldn't be getting up in arms over things like that when it's a matter of "not the character's original body." Same as in Altered Carbon for example.

On a side note, I went on imdb to look up Diablo 3 voice acting because I know not all characters are voiced by people of their presented race and I thought I recognized a voice or two from a few animes I've watched. I was wrong about the voice actors being the same people and ended up going down a nearly hour-long rabbit hole and found like a ton of other stuff the Diablo 3 voice actors have done that I didn't even know about, including one whose picture I only "sort of recognized" even though she's one of the main characters of a show that's currently running and I just watched an episode yesterday. When I saw the show in her credits I was all "wtf how did I not immediately know who she was >_<" (she had a thick accent voicing in D3 though)
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ImTheMacheteGuy posted...

did people hate the live action movie? Scarlet Johansen is pretty damn white tbh. I personally thought it good in terms of action and visuals but her character was a bit boring and the story was just meh and kinda predictable.

That was the dumbest complaint. of course it would be Scarlet, she is the biggest female box office draw, especially action move wise alive. There is no Asian actress even close, and this isn't star wars that has mainstream recognition where you can cast unknowns in huge roles. Also, she was playing a Robot...

I would say a better example was Death Note, where they purposely didn't cast asians which was really weird. The only issue with that is people complained about white washing, but you also had black people playing Asian characters which was ignored. Just be consistent.

MARKINGRAM22 posted...

ImTheMacheteGuy posted...

did people hate the live action movie? Scarlet Johansen is pretty damn white tbh. I personally thought it good in terms of action and visuals but her character was a bit boring and the story was just meh and kinda predictable.

That was the dumbest complaint. of course it would be Scarlet, she is the biggest female box office draw, especially action move wise alive. There is no Asian actress even close, and this isn't star wars that has mainstream recognition where you can cast unknowns in huge roles. Also, she was playing a Robot...

I would say a better example was Death Note, where they purposely didn't cast asians which was really weird. The only issue with that is people complained about white washing, but you also had black people playing Asian characters which was ignored. Just be consistent.

Hmm, I actually have that on my Netflix to watch list, but it reminds me of the live action full metal alchemist, because I heard that people bitched about the main character being played by an Asian actor while the anime character was supposed to be white. If the same people are complaining in both cases, fair enough, complainers gonna complain. If people are complaining about one but not the other... well that's just fucking misguided and stupid.

"Waaaahhh white actor playing Asian anime character = D:" but "Asian actor playing white anime character = cool beans and totally not waaah"

That would be bullshit also if vice versa. Both are fair or neither is fair.
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Yeah. This is why I hate white supremacists
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Why was Goliath voiced by Keith David, and not by an actual gargoyle?
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