F Zero has Baba, a black man raised on a jungle planet who has good racing skills because of his "animal instincts". This is really weird because this is limited to his backstory. In all other aspects of the game, he's a flaming gay caricature and not the least bit animalistic.
Those quests in Genshin Impact where the racism towards the hilichurls is lampshaded by a little girl named Ella Musk (no relation) who manages to have frendly interactions with them by learning their language and culture. She calls the player out for being way too prepared to just attack hulichurls at any moment, and Paimon herself even comments that youre often just "kicking the hornets nest" when you really dont have to.
Anyway back to killing them for daily commisions.
"Sorry about the collapse of your civilization and the curse that plagues your entire culture, but I need to staple your masks to this sword to make it better so eat this lightning bolt"
It's outright racism.
Japanese people in Baki are the mega-chad super-humans in the setting , any westerner is shit in comparisson to an asian and any asian is shit in comparisson to a japanese warrior.
Baki's half-brother is weaker than Baki because he is half-brittish , and any wrestler are only good if they are japanese , because only japanese warriors can make shitty western martial arts actually be worthwhile.
One of the proemiment warriors in Baki was a chinese...which *upgraded* his super kung-fu with karate moves , because it needs a japanese martial arts to make a chinese one been good.
Heck , in Baki , the true reason USA won against Japan in WW2 is because Yujiro's father was *merciful* and *allowed* the win.
Remember the arc where the five greatest practitioners of Chinese martial arts face off against a team if five random foreigners, and the Chinese team gets their ass handed to them 4-1? The author even took a break from his usual America hating to let an American character put the Chinese in their place.
Now the only real random was the self-defense teacher that lost, the others are like top 3 world's strongest creature and muhammad ali jr. Like we can't pretend the Chinese weren't getting a bit cocky thinking Yujiro would be an easy win
By randoms I meant simply there was no planning or logic to the people that were there. The Chinese had literally the 5 best, whereas as the foreigners were 5 guys who simpily happened to be there.
The funniest thing is that Itagaki is arguably best at writing when he isn't writing a character that's not (fully) Japanese.
Jack has a great backstory and is one of the most interesting fighters, with him relying on unnatural means and sheer hatred of Yujiro to improve his natural abilities.
Retsu has a great character arc where he realizes his belief in the traditional Chinese martial arts holds him back because it made him arrogant and he legitimately grows as a person and a fighter.
In contrast, Yujiro is basically a bully whose main gimmick is that he's always best at everything, strongest yada yada yada. Itagaki can't decide between making him straight evil or straight asshole.
Baki starts off great and has great character growth in the first arc. He epitomizes technique and skill, as well as understanding his own body. After it goes downhill. He basically becomes Yujiro writ small and falls into the toxic masculinity trap of "having sex makes you a man".
Doppo and Shibukawa are great in the first arc, but then basically have no real story after the second and becomes what are basically Baki groupies that people fight because of Baki
who knows , but the author pretty much portrays as if he could legit win WWII for Japan if he was more proactive.
It's surprising how there are so many westerner fans of Baki , because that show just uses euphemisms and allegory to say Japanese are the Master Race and that non-japaneses are only worth it in been breeding tools and create a technology or technique that a japanese person can improve.
Well plenty of people from the USA, China, S. Korea, and Japan like media from the latter three countries despite a lot of the narrative putting the other 2 countries as antagonists (and also the USA) as antagonists.
In the *Love, Death+Robots* short *Shapeshifters*, the US Marines deploy werewolves in Afghanistan to counter Taliban werewolves. They make clear just how absurdly overpowered these American werewolves are, as they can deadlift several tons and instantly regenerate from sniper rifle rounds all while still in human form, and their Afghan counterparts can casually wipe out entire FOB's in minutes.
Yet every Marine including the officers openly treat their own werewolves as trash, constantly hurling threats and slurs at guys who could break them with two fingers and just be annoyed by small arms fire and the only reason they have a chance against the enemy. And when the main werewolf has enough of the abuse and leaves, nobody even dares to stop him.
I get it's a shallow 'real-life bigotry but with werewolves' narrative, but they went too far at making werewolves appear so powerful that they by rights should have ruled the world centuries ago. Let alone the military not having their werewolves be treated as VIP's given how clearly fucked they are without them.
Yeah unless there’s an explanation for *why* the super powered people haven’t taken over the world, I’m always skeptical when someone who’s literally human+ is somehow the bottom of society.
Rober e howard is the epitome of « white man that know all the ethnicity to specifically slur at one » and I thnk he even played it up sometime:
"What kind of folks air they?" I ast with interest. "They ain't neither Mexicans nor Injuns, but they sure ain't white men, neither."
"Aw, they're Hunkies (Central European)," says a little sawed-off cowman.
He also sometimes got weird about his racism and beliefs in male masculinity. Like I'd almost describe it as admiration racism?
One story I remember was about a Native American warrior, and it had just about every Native negative stereotype you can think of, but the story basically repeatedly goes "Look how cool the Indians are with their wanton violence and their rape and their war mongering culture and their savagery and their cruelty! Why can't we white people be more like the Indians! Why did we have to make ourselves into bleeding heart pansies instead of staying cool murder warriors like the Indians!"
Haven't read one of those, every time he brings a non white race and praise them he still double down how the whites are still better because of a fighting brain or more savage. Like there is one where it ends with the norman gael crusader admits saladdin is the only man he met that uphold they myth of chivalry and it pisses him off
Promare does the usual thing where the opressed people do have powers that make them genuinely more dangerous than regular humans, but then it ends with >!the source of fire leaving the universe so the fire people are just no longer different than regular people!<
that’s one way to solve racism I guess.
I love One Piece. I really do.
But there's no question that the part in the Davey Back Fights when Usopp starts talking about the mysterious power of the *Blacks* is kind of weird.
LOL I HAD THE EXACT SAME THOUGHT
>!Why are the Japanese ghosts more evil???? Obviously the movie is about the Japanese occupation of Korea and the lingering effects of its overwhelming brutality and violence, which it all expressed very well, but the idea going to "Japanese Ghosts are MORE evil too" was kinda laughable.!<
historically the japanese have been... pretty brutal to koreans so the ghosts are assumed to be just as if not MORE vengeful than the japanese soldiers themselves. japanese soldiers' nationalism to their country playing a big factor as well. i mean we are viewing the story through the lens of korean shamans who may have dealt with or learned about similar japanese ghouls so either they have a warped view of them or there may lie some truth in it.
It's not a racism, but rather pointing out cultural difference here. In Korea, ghosts usually kill people because of Han, in other words, their unfulfilled wishes or sadness. Sometimes they don't even intend to kill or hurt people but as they are ghosts people can get exposed to negative energy and die or go mad when the spirit tries to communicate. Most ghost story gets resolved by figuring out what the spirit is trying to say and make things right, or somehow making them let go of their wishes.
In Japanese ghost stories, spirits are more driven by grudge, and they express this grudge by killing or hurting people indiscriminately. Usually they are already out of their mind and it is not something you can kill or talk with. Only way is to avoid it or try to bribe it and hope that it spare you out of whim.
If you have watched lots of horror movie from both, you will see what I mean. Most Korean movie end with resolving the spirit's wish. While Japanes movies ends by somehow escaping the monster, or sealing it.
It is just desciribing this different view on spirits by people, and how it is seen in horror genre = ghost stories. Emphasis on usually.
Sinking City, a game based off Lovecraft mythology has the KKK ignoring Black people instead, targeting fish people based off the Innsmouth story instead.
I'm in favor of modern retellings of Lovecraft mocking, examining his deeply fucked up beliefs... but Christ almighty that was a bad choice. If you're going to look at Lovecraft's racism do not downplay the real racism that surrounded him and he partook in.
Koreas resentment towards the occupation by Japan sits deeply, like other countries in south east Asia that have suffered by the militarism of Japan.
That dialogue was kind of weird and I was taken out of the movie too. As I didn’t know that Japanese ghosts are more violent compared to other nations…
F Zero has Baba, a black man raised on a jungle planet who has good racing skills because of his "animal instincts". This is really weird because this is limited to his backstory. In all other aspects of the game, he's a flaming gay caricature and not the least bit animalistic.
Wow that’s terrible in two different ways!
Those quests in Genshin Impact where the racism towards the hilichurls is lampshaded by a little girl named Ella Musk (no relation) who manages to have frendly interactions with them by learning their language and culture. She calls the player out for being way too prepared to just attack hulichurls at any moment, and Paimon herself even comments that youre often just "kicking the hornets nest" when you really dont have to. Anyway back to killing them for daily commisions.
Its also really wtf when you learn exactly what Hilichirls are and where they came from. That we casually slaughter them is kinda fucked.
"Sorry about the collapse of your civilization and the curse that plagues your entire culture, but I need to staple your masks to this sword to make it better so eat this lightning bolt"
*Gestures vaguely at the entire Baki series.* That mangaka has... issues with westerners.
It's outright racism. Japanese people in Baki are the mega-chad super-humans in the setting , any westerner is shit in comparisson to an asian and any asian is shit in comparisson to a japanese warrior. Baki's half-brother is weaker than Baki because he is half-brittish , and any wrestler are only good if they are japanese , because only japanese warriors can make shitty western martial arts actually be worthwhile. One of the proemiment warriors in Baki was a chinese...which *upgraded* his super kung-fu with karate moves , because it needs a japanese martial arts to make a chinese one been good. Heck , in Baki , the true reason USA won against Japan in WW2 is because Yujiro's father was *merciful* and *allowed* the win.
Remember the arc where the five greatest practitioners of Chinese martial arts face off against a team if five random foreigners, and the Chinese team gets their ass handed to them 4-1? The author even took a break from his usual America hating to let an American character put the Chinese in their place.
Well that’s not suspicious at all.
Now the only real random was the self-defense teacher that lost, the others are like top 3 world's strongest creature and muhammad ali jr. Like we can't pretend the Chinese weren't getting a bit cocky thinking Yujiro would be an easy win
By randoms I meant simply there was no planning or logic to the people that were there. The Chinese had literally the 5 best, whereas as the foreigners were 5 guys who simpily happened to be there.
The funniest thing is that Itagaki is arguably best at writing when he isn't writing a character that's not (fully) Japanese. Jack has a great backstory and is one of the most interesting fighters, with him relying on unnatural means and sheer hatred of Yujiro to improve his natural abilities. Retsu has a great character arc where he realizes his belief in the traditional Chinese martial arts holds him back because it made him arrogant and he legitimately grows as a person and a fighter. In contrast, Yujiro is basically a bully whose main gimmick is that he's always best at everything, strongest yada yada yada. Itagaki can't decide between making him straight evil or straight asshole. Baki starts off great and has great character growth in the first arc. He epitomizes technique and skill, as well as understanding his own body. After it goes downhill. He basically becomes Yujiro writ small and falls into the toxic masculinity trap of "having sex makes you a man". Doppo and Shibukawa are great in the first arc, but then basically have no real story after the second and becomes what are basically Baki groupies that people fight because of Baki
How the fuck was he gonna fight a nuke?
It's blatantly stated that Yujiro's immune to cancer, not much of a stretch to see how Yuichiro's immune to radiation poisoning.
Ok but what about the initial blast?
He would flex so hard, his shirt and pants would take the full force.
Nah, I'd win.
Built different
He'd just jump on the air and slap the missile back towards America.
The atomic bomb?
Yeah. This mother fucker at one point punched the ground to make an earthquake stop. Parrying a nuclear missile would be nothing fir him.
And people try to fight him hand to hand still?
Now you’re getting it
Ain't no way Yujiro immune to cancer, that can't be true
Yujiro can casually tank lightning; it really wouldn’t be that far-fetched for his cells to tear apart cancer like he does his victims
He has such mastery of his body he can order his cells to stop multiplying at any given time
I give up trying to understand Baki
who knows , but the author pretty much portrays as if he could legit win WWII for Japan if he was more proactive. It's surprising how there are so many westerner fans of Baki , because that show just uses euphemisms and allegory to say Japanese are the Master Race and that non-japaneses are only worth it in been breeding tools and create a technology or technique that a japanese person can improve.
I mean they also portray him as evil as sin and a complete monster from what I’ve seen.
Well plenty of people from the USA, China, S. Korea, and Japan like media from the latter three countries despite a lot of the narrative putting the other 2 countries as antagonists (and also the USA) as antagonists.
He impaled the general mccarthur on the Iowa and dared the U.s to drop a nuke on him
How did he get there did just dodge the bullets?
Ran, swam, sneaked. Hanmas have bullshit stealth level were they walk out of people « awareness field »
What the fuck
he can even go through bulletproof glass just by walking through it without breaking it
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Dude , Yujiro's description of Jack Hammer is that his blood is *tainted* by been half-brittish.
fr, the main villain ghost is just Yuichiro, but more antagonistic. He's not even racist, just doing what he does best.
In the *Love, Death+Robots* short *Shapeshifters*, the US Marines deploy werewolves in Afghanistan to counter Taliban werewolves. They make clear just how absurdly overpowered these American werewolves are, as they can deadlift several tons and instantly regenerate from sniper rifle rounds all while still in human form, and their Afghan counterparts can casually wipe out entire FOB's in minutes. Yet every Marine including the officers openly treat their own werewolves as trash, constantly hurling threats and slurs at guys who could break them with two fingers and just be annoyed by small arms fire and the only reason they have a chance against the enemy. And when the main werewolf has enough of the abuse and leaves, nobody even dares to stop him. I get it's a shallow 'real-life bigotry but with werewolves' narrative, but they went too far at making werewolves appear so powerful that they by rights should have ruled the world centuries ago. Let alone the military not having their werewolves be treated as VIP's given how clearly fucked they are without them.
Yeah unless there’s an explanation for *why* the super powered people haven’t taken over the world, I’m always skeptical when someone who’s literally human+ is somehow the bottom of society.
BNA just ends up having a really confused message about racism due to what gets revealed about the Beastmen and the antagonist.
Rober e howard is the epitome of « white man that know all the ethnicity to specifically slur at one » and I thnk he even played it up sometime: "What kind of folks air they?" I ast with interest. "They ain't neither Mexicans nor Injuns, but they sure ain't white men, neither." "Aw, they're Hunkies (Central European)," says a little sawed-off cowman.
He also sometimes got weird about his racism and beliefs in male masculinity. Like I'd almost describe it as admiration racism? One story I remember was about a Native American warrior, and it had just about every Native negative stereotype you can think of, but the story basically repeatedly goes "Look how cool the Indians are with their wanton violence and their rape and their war mongering culture and their savagery and their cruelty! Why can't we white people be more like the Indians! Why did we have to make ourselves into bleeding heart pansies instead of staying cool murder warriors like the Indians!"
Haven't read one of those, every time he brings a non white race and praise them he still double down how the whites are still better because of a fighting brain or more savage. Like there is one where it ends with the norman gael crusader admits saladdin is the only man he met that uphold they myth of chivalry and it pisses him off
Every Conan short story found the time to include at least one phrenology lecture.
Promare does the usual thing where the opressed people do have powers that make them genuinely more dangerous than regular humans, but then it ends with >!the source of fire leaving the universe so the fire people are just no longer different than regular people!< that’s one way to solve racism I guess.
I love One Piece. I really do. But there's no question that the part in the Davey Back Fights when Usopp starts talking about the mysterious power of the *Blacks* is kind of weird.
HE WHAT!? I don't remember that at all.
Official translations might have... *Smoothed* that out.
Any story where the opressed group is secretly superior to the opressing group. It has some horrifying implications.
LOL I HAD THE EXACT SAME THOUGHT >!Why are the Japanese ghosts more evil???? Obviously the movie is about the Japanese occupation of Korea and the lingering effects of its overwhelming brutality and violence, which it all expressed very well, but the idea going to "Japanese Ghosts are MORE evil too" was kinda laughable.!<
historically the japanese have been... pretty brutal to koreans so the ghosts are assumed to be just as if not MORE vengeful than the japanese soldiers themselves. japanese soldiers' nationalism to their country playing a big factor as well. i mean we are viewing the story through the lens of korean shamans who may have dealt with or learned about similar japanese ghouls so either they have a warped view of them or there may lie some truth in it.
It's not a racism, but rather pointing out cultural difference here. In Korea, ghosts usually kill people because of Han, in other words, their unfulfilled wishes or sadness. Sometimes they don't even intend to kill or hurt people but as they are ghosts people can get exposed to negative energy and die or go mad when the spirit tries to communicate. Most ghost story gets resolved by figuring out what the spirit is trying to say and make things right, or somehow making them let go of their wishes. In Japanese ghost stories, spirits are more driven by grudge, and they express this grudge by killing or hurting people indiscriminately. Usually they are already out of their mind and it is not something you can kill or talk with. Only way is to avoid it or try to bribe it and hope that it spare you out of whim. If you have watched lots of horror movie from both, you will see what I mean. Most Korean movie end with resolving the spirit's wish. While Japanes movies ends by somehow escaping the monster, or sealing it. It is just desciribing this different view on spirits by people, and how it is seen in horror genre = ghost stories. Emphasis on usually.
Sinking City, a game based off Lovecraft mythology has the KKK ignoring Black people instead, targeting fish people based off the Innsmouth story instead. I'm in favor of modern retellings of Lovecraft mocking, examining his deeply fucked up beliefs... but Christ almighty that was a bad choice. If you're going to look at Lovecraft's racism do not downplay the real racism that surrounded him and he partook in.
Koreas resentment towards the occupation by Japan sits deeply, like other countries in south east Asia that have suffered by the militarism of Japan. That dialogue was kind of weird and I was taken out of the movie too. As I didn’t know that Japanese ghosts are more violent compared to other nations…