Astro Boy is a 2009 Japanese/American computer-animated 3-D film based on the highly successful Japanese franchise of the same name by Osamu Tezuka. It is being produced by Imagi Animation Studios, the animation production company of TMNT and the upcoming Gatchaman. The studio announced the project in September 2006. It will be directed by David Bowers (Flushed Away) and produced by Maryann Garger with Pilar Flynn as associate producer. It has been announced that Freddie Highmore will provide the voice for the character of Astro Boy in the movie.
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try googling Do anime characters look caucasian and you’d be surprised how many hits you get. Some people consider it a serious enough issue that they write formal academic papers on it
how about you? Do you think that they look japanese or caucasian?
it’s a bit fast. Just pause it from time to time so you can read the subtitles
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I’m not arguing that the characters are definitely japanese and definitely not white as most characters are ambigious enough to be interpreted as any race
It may seem like i’m overanalyzing anime but this is actually a response to those who are overanalyzing anime.
Basically some people think that the japanese have a warped self image and they base this conclusion on the fact that anime characters look caucasian to them.
In this video, i argue that the characters may not necessarily look white to everybody and so any conclusion based on the fact that they look caucasian is poorly grounded.
also, I said that asians are good at cosplay but i never said that white people are bad at cosplay.
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I think i made an irresponsible generalization as well when i said that whites living in japan experience racism. It would probably be more appropriate to say that they get no special treatment. I edited the video already
