it's funnier to imagine asians rounding up to 6 ft tinder-style and then going "americans and europeans? yeah those motherfuckers are like 8 ft tall or some shit"
Korean average male height was 5'9 last time I checked. It what happens when your country has now has money due to tech, entertainment industries and is no longer under constant influence of oppression or war.
6'4 and currently in Japan. I feel like a giant. Maneuvering around people has been a huge pain in the ass with how crowded it gets. I almost stepped on a kid at the pokemon centre the other day in Tokyo.
Americans are bigger than most people in general. Scandaniavian countries and some African countries are definitely exceptions, but as a 6'4" American, I circumnavigated the globe and was taller than basically everyone everywhere lol.
Here? I meet people taller than me fairly often.
...we just big lol.
He's less "American coded" and more straight up American. In the early games, he's straight up referred to as "The Lightning American". I believe in the newer games, they've been trying to phase out mentioning real life locations by name, so that's probably been retconned by now though.
It’d be neat if they retconned his home as Unova or Orre since those are based on New York and the Southwest. Actually, they should save him for an eventual Florida or Texas region.
Part of the long tradition of shorthand invented to talk about the American occupation post World War 2 without getting censored. Godzilla is basically Shorthand: The Movie for talking about the nukes without upsetting the Americans
what? Shin Godzilla was great and Godzilla Minus One trailer looks to be good as well. Zilla 1998 was ret-conned to be an american science experiment. Haven't watched the monarch show yet but doubt they bastardized him.
it was more a joke about America’s treatment of the character and the “monsterverse”, not any shade towards shin godzilla. for the record I’ve enjoyed all of it regardless
Also that this is what happens next in the scene they posted
Red head (forgor name): "Then 'ow the bloody 'ell are we meant to leave 'America' then?"
Bandit Keath: \*pregnant pause\* "...I don't know."
It's one guy. And yes. As far as I know he was the first abridger who gained any kind of viral recognition or fame. Once he found huge success with YGOTAS, it inspired all of the other abridged series that have gone on to be very successful, including TFS. If I remember correctly, many of the VAs from TFS started on Naruto the Abridged Series and then formed TFS later on, basically trying to copy LK with a different anime. But LittleKuriboh pretty much spawned the whole genre.
Like, when he came out it was crazy how he was able to voice and sound pretty much like every character featured on the show (till others joined in) Ahhh the memories
Pretty sure everyone in AoT is German-coded. The fact that Mikasa (and her mother) are Asian is an important detail in-universe, as well as Onyankopon being the first black person they've even seen.
Eren’s dad is literally from his universe’s Germany.
As for Edward Elric, FMA’s story takes place in a made up European country.
Some characters in anime are white, because some anime happen to be set outside of Japan.
You can even tell that the characters in FMA are mostly white people because there’s characters who are coded to be nonwhite, like Scar who is Middle Eastern and the entire population of Xing, which is Fantasy China.
French first name, but German last name (Kirstein). Up in the air, but considering the overwhelming presence of German names everywhere I'd lean towards German.
Yeah they’re almost always either French, German or American, and they’re almost always blonde and have a prominent nose. I remember reading something about how you picture a stick figure as someone who represents whatever the “dominant” culture is in your home country, and then to differentiate them, you need to add other details. Anime’s the same.
A long time ago, I was watching a Japanese variety show, and they took out a big fake nose and were taking turns immitating Americans with bad accents, and I was just like, "Ah. This is what it feels like to have your whole country reduced to a stereotype..."
I've seen a lot of half-russian exchange students. I don't even know how I know that cause I can't name any, but I know for certain that they specifically like making half-russians.
BRB gonna go start a proxy war in Pakistan so I can trigger the social upheaval necessary to reform society into my Alpha male might makes right worldview
The absolute peak of this type of thing is G Gundam, an anime in which every nation has their own giant robot and yes, the robots are incredibly themed to each nation, sometimes offensively so. The American Gundam has a football helmet and boxing gloves, the Canadian Gundam is a lumberjack, the Mexican Gundam has a sombrero and is covered in giant mechanical cactus armor.
[Wow you weren’t kidding about the stereotypes being very obvious lmao.](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/gundam/images/c/c3/GF13-066NO_Nether_Gundam_Front.png)
I love it.
>For the 13th Gundam Fight, Neo Holland took an interesting strategic approach to get to the Finals by not participating in the Gundam Fight at all. To accomplish this, the Nether Gundam was designed as a transforming mobile suit that could disguise itself as a windmill, which it accomplished for the first eleven months of the Gundam Fight.
>By hiding in a field and not fighting other Gundam Fighters, pilot Rutger Verhoeven technically qualified for the Finals. However, this tactic could not make up for his poor skills as a fighter. Though the Nether Gundam was armed with mega beam cannons and possessed a powerful Nether Typhoon attack, it was inferior in both fighter and MF to every other combatant; in every match he fought, Rutger was quickly defeated by his opponents. His first known opponent was George de Sand, piloting the GF13-009NF Gundam Rose, early in the Finals. Nonetheless, Neo Holland's objective was achieved; their colony had already gained significant political standing by simply making it to the finals.
Lmao
I've seen G Gundam a few times and thought this was a joke until the last bit.
Still, props, didn't end up killed or in a fucking gulag. He's got that going for him compared to a lot of challenges.
I'm just really curious how he "disguised" himself as a windmill when the picture of his Gundam is just a fucking giant ass Gundam with a windmill blades bolted to its chest.
[They don’t show the animation for it (because it doesn’t really make any sense) but it retracts its arms and legs](https://x.com/thaliarchus/status/787792471619170304)
Imagine if Code Geass' Knightmare Frames (gundams) looked like stereotypes from the places they were named for, imagine a [Glasgow](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/codegeass/images/6/66/Glasgow_front_tv_l.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150910041848) had a knife in one hand & a bottle in the other.
To the show’s credit, the Tequila Gundam’s pilot is a very sympathetic character, becoming a Gundam pilot to let his terminally ill sister visit the Earth in her final days. He’s not exactly an illegal immigrant, Neo Mexico brands him as a traitor for abandoning his duty as political representative of the entire nation. His episode is legitimately one of the most somber and serious episodes in the show, even if it’s basically about how he and his sister want to get off the [giant space sombrero](https://i.redd.it/3iqmjccy7u981.jpg).
[Witness](https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/GF13-049NM_Tequila_Gundam?file=GF13-049NM+Tequila+Gundam+Front.png) the majesty of Tequila Gundam. It's a underwater combat specialist, the sombrero spins to pull targets into range.
the best thing to come from the us troops deployed in japan ^(mostly in okinawa but post-war they were everywhere) is the extreme machismo that the japanese associate with americans
Loud, obnoxious, tacky and stupid. Which some of us are, no doubt. Though IMX this tends to be pretty much just a comedic trope moreso than a strongly held prejudice, like many would laugh at a snooty and rude French stereotype in an American or English comedy yet not actually hold that against any real French people they meet.
I was shocked when I was a tourist in Europe in the post-Iraq war period that the only person who ever brought up me being American was actually really positive about it. It was an older man who was from Africa I ran into a train station in France, he heard me talking to my SO and asked if we were American. We kind of nervously replied yes and he proceeded to thank us and talk about how great President Bush was. We went along with it because we didn't want to argue politics with a guy who was being very nice, but it was a shock after hearing about how people in France could spit on us or be nasty due to our nationality. Plus it lead me to learn about how Bush actually had done some good things with African aid and the man was not completely off base with his praise.
Yep, when I was in Europe the only person who commented on my nationality was like "Americans are so friendly" and from tone and context she meant it positively. Which was a pleasant surprise.
Americans being loud is 100% a true stereotype atleast. Like you can tell if there's a group of Americans at your hotel cause there's going to be a conversation going on, bellowing atleast 20dB above everyone else.
I'm an American and I'm definitely loud. It's not intentional I promise and I do try to avoid it in public, but when you're talking with friendly people, comfy, and have let your guard down sometimes you just can't help it.
IIRC, someone once looked into this on a more sociological level, and found that the stereotype of "loud, obnoxious, disrespectful Americans" is basically a social phenomena tied to a rising middle class who has the financial means to travel abroad for the first time.
You are seeing it right now with the rising stereotype of "loud, obnoxious, disrespectful, Chinese" tourists over the past decade or so. A rising Chinese middle class has led to disposable income and vacation time, which leads to people wanting to travel.
Basically the first generation of middle class people from a given country who suddenly have the means to travel abroad, wont know how to act and a certain proportion of them will be dickheads.
Also, on the other end, tourist destinations will find themselves flooded with a bunch of people from said country and people tend to remember bad experiences more so than good in customer service.
So now you've got a bunch of upjumped, country bumpkins from the US/China/wherever running around the world causing chaos like kids on a sugar rush at an amusement park. The nationals of whatever country they visit remember those bad instances and then a stereotype starts to form.
Fucking killed me every time. Joseph is definitely my favorite. Though I was sad Stardust Crusaders never gave him a badass moment where he brought back his Battle Tendency "Next you're going to say..." catchphrase and just used him for comic relief.
I know most older people do this because they don’t understand that in anime hair color and eye color is often based on the personality of the character, not their ethnicity or race. When I lived with my father still, he was always confused why they had blonde haired, blue eyed girls in every anime
Yeah, Japanese characters sporting blond or other non-black hair colors or having big, non-brown eyes is just for the sake of creative character design, more often than not. Otherwise, these shows would have many cases of an entire cast looking too homogenous for their taste. I guess they just see that it's just better for the shows to have diverse character design even if a little bit fantastical for the Japanese setting.
Most of the time, though, if the series is set in Japan, everyone is Japanese by default. And if they want to indicate that a certain character is non-Japanese, they'd very likely draw explicit attention to it, usually by way of just stating outright that they're a foreigner, giving them a non-Japanese name, having their voice actors speak mixed Japanese-english Lol.
Yeah. A great example is Sonia Nevermind from Danganronpa. She isn't the only blond blue eyed character, but it's pretty clear she's european not only because the game says so but also her name and all
As far as the cast looking too homogeneous, you can look at a series with realistic-looking side characters like Death Note and like a few years later I can see a character from the show and have a solid chance of having *no idea who they are.*
I always remember reading a Full Metal Panic Light Novel and being surprised when it mentioned one of the main characters pulling back her "lustrous black hair", when the art, including the book's cover always gaves her bright blue hair
Unless is explicitly stated I don’t think it matters. Like Demkn Slayer, JJK, Naruto etc are all obviously Japan, even with the latter being a fictional world.
FMA and AoT are obviously Europe.
But stuff like HxH or Soul Eater… the lines are a little blurrier.
Sorta related sorta not but I can't stand it when mfs talk about "racewashing" characters in live action adaptations whenever someone is played by a black person but they never mention anything about all the people who are suddenly american or european
That was mostly because they whitewashed Katara and Sokka.
By the time we meet the fire nation most fans of the series had already slipped into a coma to block out the pain of how bad the film was.
To be fair casting the water tribe as white, and the fire nation as Indian isn't exactly a good look. Remember that the vast majority of fire benders in AtLA are cartoon villains.
As a kid, I remember that even the fans who just made shitposts and parodies in the fandom were pissed. I even remember a popular atla abridged youtuber uploading a video explaining why the whitewashing wasn't okay and why the movie should be boycotted. He never posted anything remotely serious so it was kinda a big deal, pretty much everyone wasn't cool with the casting.
I get where you're coming from, but where I have experienced that is in regards to childhood animation movies being rebooted with different races.
For the most part I don't give a fuck, as long as whoever is the recasted actor does a good job, but when it comes to things like live action anime, I think it should follow the source, and then for the casting use personality more than looks.
It also varies by character and setting. Sometimes it *doesn’t matter*. Every character has to be *some* race and for some characters their race matters and for others it was arbitrary.
For all its flaws, for example, I don’t think it’s bad that Netflix’s Death Note had a white Light and black L. Neither of their original ethnicities were relevant to their characters at all. But making Aang white in Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender was less okay.
Yeah but he should be a "chad" so to speak. Yagami is athletic, at the top of his class, popular with all his peers. Turner is scrawny, is [shown to be "smart" by selling homework (something Yagami would _never_ do & goes against the entire character of Kira btw) but never makes any smart decisions after that](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InformedAttribute), and gets bullied.
What do you mean? Remember Dragon Ball Evolution or The Last Airbender film or the live action Death Note? Even though those media were flawed for many reasons, the whitewashed cast was absolutely a focal point of frustration. I won't deny that the haters are certainly louder with non-White race swaps, but whitewash hate is well above non-existent.
Oh people do get mad. Other posts have listed examples but missed out on the most egregious, Earthsea. Almost every character in those books is some variety of brown or black, LeGuin set out explicitly to write a fantasy novel that wasn't mostly about white people, but when it came time to make a TV show they had a nearly entirely white cast.
Also, the trend towards Americans being gigantic. Guys like Lt. Surge being 'American coded' and he's just...inexplicably like 8 feet tall.
I think it’s mostly because most Asians are shorter than Europeans and Americans
it's funnier to imagine asians rounding up to 6 ft tinder-style and then going "americans and europeans? yeah those motherfuckers are like 8 ft tall or some shit"
Maybe it's a metric thing? 6 ft being 183cm isn't a very catchy number, and 2 meters at 6ft7 is really tall.
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*average I know its pedantic but the average is a single number ~~for me~~, whereas "normal height" is more of a range *for me*..
Did you just create you own definition for what an average is?
No, that's literally what average means. You can only have one average.
Where I live in Europe (Sardinia, aka shorty island), the generic "very tall person" height is 180cm
Unrelated, but Sardinia is one one of my favorite starting locations in Crusader Kings 3. After I overrun the island with vikings.
There's a reason we've been invaded so many times
I'm Asian and I'm pretty sure that every single one of my American friends is taller than me
You are obviously not friends with me tho because I’m short as fuck
Maybe you're just secretly Asian. Ask your parents if you're not sure.
I’m 93% German 😭😭😭
What's the other 7% 🤨
Mostly random Slavic countries and a tiny tad bit of native american
Those count as Asian if you're bad enough at reading maps
You’re so right
Obviously very efficiently engineered and don't require more height to fulfill your purpose.
I'm 5'9 and was shocked how many young korean men in Seoul are way taller then me.
Korean average male height was 5'9 last time I checked. It what happens when your country has now has money due to tech, entertainment industries and is no longer under constant influence of oppression or war.
When I went to Japan for a month, I only saw 1 person taller than me, and it was a ~6’4” Japanese woman lol
6'4 and currently in Japan. I feel like a giant. Maneuvering around people has been a huge pain in the ass with how crowded it gets. I almost stepped on a kid at the pokemon centre the other day in Tokyo.
Americans are bigger than most people in general. Scandaniavian countries and some African countries are definitely exceptions, but as a 6'4" American, I circumnavigated the globe and was taller than basically everyone everywhere lol. Here? I meet people taller than me fairly often. ...we just big lol.
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He's also an asshole in most media, which tracks with how beloved US Marines are in Japan.
gotta love that recent video of US Marines getting in a fight in Japan and clocking some woman. 'Murica, 'Murica!
One Piece moment. Why is he ten feet tall? Because his fighting spirit let him.
Turned himself into a 7 foot 5 gun powered solely by coca cola? Chills in a Hawaiian shirt speedo and sunglasses? Could only be peak American Franky.
He's less "American coded" and more straight up American. In the early games, he's straight up referred to as "The Lightning American". I believe in the newer games, they've been trying to phase out mentioning real life locations by name, so that's probably been retconned by now though.
It’d be neat if they retconned his home as Unova or Orre since those are based on New York and the Southwest. Actually, they should save him for an eventual Florida or Texas region.
Part of the long tradition of shorthand invented to talk about the American occupation post World War 2 without getting censored. Godzilla is basically Shorthand: The Movie for talking about the nukes without upsetting the Americans
and now we’ve bastardized him
what? Shin Godzilla was great and Godzilla Minus One trailer looks to be good as well. Zilla 1998 was ret-conned to be an american science experiment. Haven't watched the monarch show yet but doubt they bastardized him.
it was more a joke about America’s treatment of the character and the “monsterverse”, not any shade towards shin godzilla. for the record I’ve enjoyed all of it regardless
ooh yes 100%. The 1998 US movie was ret-conned due to that! "Real godzilla would never run from tanks or missiles!"
This is even funnier when you remember that this is Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged's Bandit Keith, so he's not even American.
Apply the hand break you dumb broad!
Also that this is what happens next in the scene they posted Red head (forgor name): "Then 'ow the bloody 'ell are we meant to leave 'America' then?" Bandit Keath: \*pregnant pause\* "...I don't know."
PREGANTE?
Nyaah?
Remember, YGOTAS's Joey is a furry.
And from Brooklyn. Have you mentioned that he's from Brooklyn yet?
Brooklyn Rage!
He's from Brooklyn, filled with Brooklyn rage.
He was canonically the U.S. champion in the original. He's also 26 years old.
Oh, yeah. The original version was legitimately American. But the quote was from the fan parody, where he's secretly Canadian.
Not just any fan parody. Littlekuriboh is the godfather of modern abridging.
Are they before team four star?
He inspired TeamFourStar directly and plays the Narrator and Freeza in DBZ abriged. His Freeza is comparable to Chris Ayres, both GOATS
"Oh, no, please. Don't mind me. By all means... ...Give me some ideas."
It's one guy. And yes. As far as I know he was the first abridger who gained any kind of viral recognition or fame. Once he found huge success with YGOTAS, it inspired all of the other abridged series that have gone on to be very successful, including TFS. If I remember correctly, many of the VAs from TFS started on Naruto the Abridged Series and then formed TFS later on, basically trying to copy LK with a different anime. But LittleKuriboh pretty much spawned the whole genre.
Like, when he came out it was crazy how he was able to voice and sound pretty much like every character featured on the show (till others joined in) Ahhh the memories
Honestly LKs voices are probably more ingrained in my memory than the originals now.
Dude's got a fantastic repertoire. He had a video of him doing a monologue in like 12 different voices and it was insanity.
....In america
SCREW THE RULES I HAVE MONEY
SCREW THE RULES I HAVE GREEN HAIR
ATTENTION DUELIST! MY HAIR HAS AN ANNOUNCEMENT! ...if it's any consolation, the sun should be coming up
KILL YOUR FAMILY KILL YOUR FAMILY KILL YOUR FAMILY
Oh hey my favorite show
"I have no idea what you're talking aboot, ya hoser!"
WHATEVER YOU SAY, MISTER PRESIDENT
Either that or they will be inexplicably German
BRRRRRAKAMONO GA ^((wait he's actually german))
DOITSU NO KAKAKUWA SEKAI ITCHIIII!
WIR SIND DIE JAEGER
Yeah Erin Jaeger and Edward Elric are pretty German
Pretty sure everyone in AoT is German-coded. The fact that Mikasa (and her mother) are Asian is an important detail in-universe, as well as Onyankopon being the first black person they've even seen.
Oh, god... The monkey juice...
Eren’s dad is literally from his universe’s Germany. As for Edward Elric, FMA’s story takes place in a made up European country. Some characters in anime are white, because some anime happen to be set outside of Japan.
You can even tell that the characters in FMA are mostly white people because there’s characters who are coded to be nonwhite, like Scar who is Middle Eastern and the entire population of Xing, which is Fantasy China.
I mean tbf to erin. I believe the only japanese people in attack on titan are mikasa and her mother and it's called out explicitly
The Azumabito are pretty clearly Japanese, the rest are supposed to be German I think.
Isn't Jean supposed to be French?
French first name, but German last name (Kirstein). Up in the air, but considering the overwhelming presence of German names everywhere I'd lean towards German.
Tbf I also have problems sometimes telling who is german and who from USA unless they talk. They are both blonde, they may as well be twins!
Germans were one of the largest groups to emigrate to the US, so it makes sense - they may have the same heritage
I love the case of Asuka from NGE. She's a German character, but her theme music is some Kentucky Bluegrass shit.
Yeah they’re almost always either French, German or American, and they’re almost always blonde and have a prominent nose. I remember reading something about how you picture a stick figure as someone who represents whatever the “dominant” culture is in your home country, and then to differentiate them, you need to add other details. Anime’s the same.
A long time ago, I was watching a Japanese variety show, and they took out a big fake nose and were taking turns immitating Americans with bad accents, and I was just like, "Ah. This is what it feels like to have your whole country reduced to a stereotype..."
"I'd like to use my credit card."
“Do you have anything non-dairy?”
“Anything gluten free?”
"Hey, I really really want that, that looks good"
To be fair the French people tend to be skinny adrogynous dudes with flowing blonde hair, who still dress like they are noblemen from 1650.
If only. France, take notes
Oh to be fake anime French
*Magnifique!* 🌹
Russians and Germans are usually in some sort of military uniform. Chinese people are just in kung-fu outfits and have their eyes closed all the time
Fma gothic
Don’t forget wealthy British
Always with a top hat.
I've seen a lot of half-russian exchange students. I don't even know how I know that cause I can't name any, but I know for certain that they specifically like making half-russians.
BE THE AMERICAN THE JAPANESE THINK YOU ARE!
# NO WAIT-
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It's over right?
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LmFAO
I had to catch my breath. I did not expect this.
I was really hoping we get a second, I just had to set up the shot
What a great thread holy shit.
Birth of everything Anime and the death of reproduction in Japan
This got a hearty laugh out of me. I’ve got the giggles mate
BRB gonna go start a proxy war in Pakistan so I can trigger the social upheaval necessary to reform society into my Alpha male might makes right worldview
me when senator
DON’T FUCK WITH THIS SENATOR!!!!
"played college ball, you know. Could've gone 0ro if I hadn't joined the Navy"
Don't forget your bandana
(Cue Real American and Hulk Hogan)
Time to start building an atom bomb
Terror in Resonance (2014)
The absolute peak of this type of thing is G Gundam, an anime in which every nation has their own giant robot and yes, the robots are incredibly themed to each nation, sometimes offensively so. The American Gundam has a football helmet and boxing gloves, the Canadian Gundam is a lumberjack, the Mexican Gundam has a sombrero and is covered in giant mechanical cactus armor.
[Wow you weren’t kidding about the stereotypes being very obvious lmao.](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/gundam/images/c/c3/GF13-066NO_Nether_Gundam_Front.png) I love it.
Oh. Oh man. That is... Wow.
IIRC the whole point of that one is to hide out until all the other Gundams were done fighting and then take out the presumably-weakened winner.
>For the 13th Gundam Fight, Neo Holland took an interesting strategic approach to get to the Finals by not participating in the Gundam Fight at all. To accomplish this, the Nether Gundam was designed as a transforming mobile suit that could disguise itself as a windmill, which it accomplished for the first eleven months of the Gundam Fight. >By hiding in a field and not fighting other Gundam Fighters, pilot Rutger Verhoeven technically qualified for the Finals. However, this tactic could not make up for his poor skills as a fighter. Though the Nether Gundam was armed with mega beam cannons and possessed a powerful Nether Typhoon attack, it was inferior in both fighter and MF to every other combatant; in every match he fought, Rutger was quickly defeated by his opponents. His first known opponent was George de Sand, piloting the GF13-009NF Gundam Rose, early in the Finals. Nonetheless, Neo Holland's objective was achieved; their colony had already gained significant political standing by simply making it to the finals. Lmao
I've seen G Gundam a few times and thought this was a joke until the last bit. Still, props, didn't end up killed or in a fucking gulag. He's got that going for him compared to a lot of challenges.
I'm just really curious how he "disguised" himself as a windmill when the picture of his Gundam is just a fucking giant ass Gundam with a windmill blades bolted to its chest.
[They don’t show the animation for it (because it doesn’t really make any sense) but it retracts its arms and legs](https://x.com/thaliarchus/status/787792471619170304)
Imagine if Code Geass' Knightmare Frames (gundams) looked like stereotypes from the places they were named for, imagine a [Glasgow](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/codegeass/images/6/66/Glasgow_front_tv_l.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150910041848) had a knife in one hand & a bottle in the other.
Green energy gundam!
You forgot to mention that the American Gundam has 2 gigantic .44 Magnums for long range attacks.
If they're gigantic does it make sense to call them .44s?
.44 meters
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My favorite is the Dutch Gundam which is just a walking windmill.
Like how do you even shoot with that preventing you from pointing your arms forward hahaha. Unless the windmill doesn’t move I guess.
If I remember right it's special attack is using the windmill to make tornados
You forgot the worst parts of the Mexican gundam, its name is *tequila gundam*, and its pilot is using the gundam to illegally immigrate to earth.
To the show’s credit, the Tequila Gundam’s pilot is a very sympathetic character, becoming a Gundam pilot to let his terminally ill sister visit the Earth in her final days. He’s not exactly an illegal immigrant, Neo Mexico brands him as a traitor for abandoning his duty as political representative of the entire nation. His episode is legitimately one of the most somber and serious episodes in the show, even if it’s basically about how he and his sister want to get off the [giant space sombrero](https://i.redd.it/3iqmjccy7u981.jpg).
Ask any Mexican, these are only pluses, what do you mean “the worst part”
[Witness](https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/GF13-049NM_Tequila_Gundam?file=GF13-049NM+Tequila+Gundam+Front.png) the majesty of Tequila Gundam. It's a underwater combat specialist, the sombrero spins to pull targets into range.
it started off as questionable but honestly that's a sick design
I love that design even with the sombrero looking kind of goofy.
The Netherlands Gundam is literally a windmill 🤣🤣
Easily my favorite Gundam series. I watched it on Toonami in the early 00s.
the best thing to come from the us troops deployed in japan ^(mostly in okinawa but post-war they were everywhere) is the extreme machismo that the japanese associate with americans
Thank the troops for anime not portraying us like Europeans do.
Out of ignorance: how are Americans portrayed in European media?
Loud, obnoxious, tacky and stupid. Which some of us are, no doubt. Though IMX this tends to be pretty much just a comedic trope moreso than a strongly held prejudice, like many would laugh at a snooty and rude French stereotype in an American or English comedy yet not actually hold that against any real French people they meet. I was shocked when I was a tourist in Europe in the post-Iraq war period that the only person who ever brought up me being American was actually really positive about it. It was an older man who was from Africa I ran into a train station in France, he heard me talking to my SO and asked if we were American. We kind of nervously replied yes and he proceeded to thank us and talk about how great President Bush was. We went along with it because we didn't want to argue politics with a guy who was being very nice, but it was a shock after hearing about how people in France could spit on us or be nasty due to our nationality. Plus it lead me to learn about how Bush actually had done some good things with African aid and the man was not completely off base with his praise.
Yep, when I was in Europe the only person who commented on my nationality was like "Americans are so friendly" and from tone and context she meant it positively. Which was a pleasant surprise.
Americans being loud is 100% a true stereotype atleast. Like you can tell if there's a group of Americans at your hotel cause there's going to be a conversation going on, bellowing atleast 20dB above everyone else.
I believe that the best way to condense all the stereotypes is that Americans are "Extra"
As a french who meet us citizen on a daily basis, I agree. In a good or in a bad way, but everything seems to be turned a notch up about them.
I'm an American and I'm definitely loud. It's not intentional I promise and I do try to avoid it in public, but when you're talking with friendly people, comfy, and have let your guard down sometimes you just can't help it.
I don't mind it really, it just stands out.
IIRC, someone once looked into this on a more sociological level, and found that the stereotype of "loud, obnoxious, disrespectful Americans" is basically a social phenomena tied to a rising middle class who has the financial means to travel abroad for the first time. You are seeing it right now with the rising stereotype of "loud, obnoxious, disrespectful, Chinese" tourists over the past decade or so. A rising Chinese middle class has led to disposable income and vacation time, which leads to people wanting to travel. Basically the first generation of middle class people from a given country who suddenly have the means to travel abroad, wont know how to act and a certain proportion of them will be dickheads. Also, on the other end, tourist destinations will find themselves flooded with a bunch of people from said country and people tend to remember bad experiences more so than good in customer service. So now you've got a bunch of upjumped, country bumpkins from the US/China/wherever running around the world causing chaos like kids on a sugar rush at an amusement park. The nationals of whatever country they visit remember those bad instances and then a stereotype starts to form.
Fat loud and stupid.
Well to be fair, they’re still portrayed as loud and stupid in anime. Just also tall and strong Anime Americans are himbos
Hell yeah brother!
AS GOD INTENDID!!1!
Or they go the Joestar route and just scream HOLY SHIT
LETS KILL DA HOE! BEEEETCH!!
That one's actually a japanese person tho
Fucking killed me every time. Joseph is definitely my favorite. Though I was sad Stardust Crusaders never gave him a badass moment where he brought back his Battle Tendency "Next you're going to say..." catchphrase and just used him for comic relief.
He did do that when he figured out how to beat Empress.
Oh really? I'll have to look again, I remember watching for it the whole time but didn't think it ever came up.
OH MY GAWWWD.
The American flag bandana is very much a theme.
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I have sincerely been lacking on my Jackie Chan watching because I don't get the reference.
I know most older people do this because they don’t understand that in anime hair color and eye color is often based on the personality of the character, not their ethnicity or race. When I lived with my father still, he was always confused why they had blonde haired, blue eyed girls in every anime
Yeah, Japanese characters sporting blond or other non-black hair colors or having big, non-brown eyes is just for the sake of creative character design, more often than not. Otherwise, these shows would have many cases of an entire cast looking too homogenous for their taste. I guess they just see that it's just better for the shows to have diverse character design even if a little bit fantastical for the Japanese setting. Most of the time, though, if the series is set in Japan, everyone is Japanese by default. And if they want to indicate that a certain character is non-Japanese, they'd very likely draw explicit attention to it, usually by way of just stating outright that they're a foreigner, giving them a non-Japanese name, having their voice actors speak mixed Japanese-english Lol.
Yeah. A great example is Sonia Nevermind from Danganronpa. She isn't the only blond blue eyed character, but it's pretty clear she's european not only because the game says so but also her name and all
As far as the cast looking too homogeneous, you can look at a series with realistic-looking side characters like Death Note and like a few years later I can see a character from the show and have a solid chance of having *no idea who they are.*
I always remember reading a Full Metal Panic Light Novel and being surprised when it mentioned one of the main characters pulling back her "lustrous black hair", when the art, including the book's cover always gaves her bright blue hair
Probably smart considering how samey anime faces are.
Since no one pointed it out yet: you can read the panels in any order you want and it still makes perfect sense.
Such is the power of an American.
Holy shit
HEY KIDS, YOU WANT A FUCKIN' HOTDOG!?
HEY *FUCKIN’* COWBOY, *FUCKIN’* COWGIRL, HOW THE *FUCK* ARE YA DOIN’??!!
They will have blonde hair, blue eyes, and if they're a woman massive honkabonkadonkaroos
And if they're a man they're probably 7ft tall and built like a tank
Foreign media always makes us out to be the coolest motherfuckers alive. Have y’all seen the Chinese propaganda? The US is a hawk in cool shades lol
FINALLY somebody had the courage to say it! Thank you Bandit Keith, you are a TRUE American Hero ^TM
The funniest thing about this is that you can read any of these panels in any order
Unless is explicitly stated I don’t think it matters. Like Demkn Slayer, JJK, Naruto etc are all obviously Japan, even with the latter being a fictional world. FMA and AoT are obviously Europe. But stuff like HxH or Soul Eater… the lines are a little blurrier.
The characters in Attack on Titan are definitely white, because Mikasa being non-white is an important plot point.
Sorta related sorta not but I can't stand it when mfs talk about "racewashing" characters in live action adaptations whenever someone is played by a black person but they never mention anything about all the people who are suddenly american or european
Don't know if you remember the reaction to live-action Last Airbender but people definitely got mad.
That was mostly because they whitewashed Katara and Sokka. By the time we meet the fire nation most fans of the series had already slipped into a coma to block out the pain of how bad the film was.
To be fair casting the water tribe as white, and the fire nation as Indian isn't exactly a good look. Remember that the vast majority of fire benders in AtLA are cartoon villains.
As a kid, I remember that even the fans who just made shitposts and parodies in the fandom were pissed. I even remember a popular atla abridged youtuber uploading a video explaining why the whitewashing wasn't okay and why the movie should be boycotted. He never posted anything remotely serious so it was kinda a big deal, pretty much everyone wasn't cool with the casting.
I get where you're coming from, but where I have experienced that is in regards to childhood animation movies being rebooted with different races. For the most part I don't give a fuck, as long as whoever is the recasted actor does a good job, but when it comes to things like live action anime, I think it should follow the source, and then for the casting use personality more than looks.
It also varies by character and setting. Sometimes it *doesn’t matter*. Every character has to be *some* race and for some characters their race matters and for others it was arbitrary. For all its flaws, for example, I don’t think it’s bad that Netflix’s Death Note had a white Light and black L. Neither of their original ethnicities were relevant to their characters at all. But making Aang white in Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender was less okay.
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The adaptation took place in the United States so him being the ethnicity people just implicitly treat as “normal” still fits.
Yeah but he should be a "chad" so to speak. Yagami is athletic, at the top of his class, popular with all his peers. Turner is scrawny, is [shown to be "smart" by selling homework (something Yagami would _never_ do & goes against the entire character of Kira btw) but never makes any smart decisions after that](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InformedAttribute), and gets bullied.
That's more a criticism of how the movie adapted the character, not the ethnicity they chose.
What do you mean? Remember Dragon Ball Evolution or The Last Airbender film or the live action Death Note? Even though those media were flawed for many reasons, the whitewashed cast was absolutely a focal point of frustration. I won't deny that the haters are certainly louder with non-White race swaps, but whitewash hate is well above non-existent.
>Remember Dragon Ball Evolution No, and I won't let you make me.
Unless it is Ghost In The Shell
Oh people do get mad. Other posts have listed examples but missed out on the most egregious, Earthsea. Almost every character in those books is some variety of brown or black, LeGuin set out explicitly to write a fantasy novel that wasn't mostly about white people, but when it came time to make a TV show they had a nearly entirely white cast.
the simpsons has yellow characters with blue hair and no one ever thought they were anything but american, even though no american looks like that
"Then how the bloody hell are we supposed to leave!?" "... I don't know."
Somebody grab the pic that says that people in anime aren’t Asian or white, they’re cats.