Why are the japanese just allergic to making anyone remotely dark...ewwwww......

kaspianpurple said in comment #2618599:

Why are the japanese just allergic to making anyone remotely dark...ewwwww......

this was made 18 years ago

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trapster77 said in comment #2618601:

this was made 18 years ago

This was posted here 18 years ago. It was made at least 22 years ago when the Internet Archive first captured its gallery page.

trapster77 said in comment #2618601:

this was made 18 years ago

So? It doesn't excuse the whitewashing

kaspianpurple said in comment #2618886:

So? It doesn't excuse the whitewashing

@kaspianpurple just add lightened skin to your help:blacklists instead of making accusations in the comments

kaspianpurple said in comment #2618886:

So? It doesn't excuse the whitewashing

Back then the concept of 'whitewashing' doesn't even exist. People used to make arts of certain character in order to display their admiration for that character, not to make statements or whatever you'd think it would be.

Rathurue said in comment #2618893:

Back then the concept of 'whitewashing' doesn't even exist. People used to make arts of certain character in order to display their admiration for that character, not to make statements or whatever you'd think it would be.

Dude, nadia is clearly dark-skinned, making her white would be erasing the representation of dark-skinned people. If this artist were truly a fan of here they wouldn't turn her into a white demon lmfao. Also i'm black and it's very disappointing to see blantant racism in something i'm passionate about.

trapster77 said in comment #2618887:

@kaspianpurple just add lightened skin to your help:blacklists instead of making accusations in the comments

I can tell you're white 😭😭 why are y'all defending this so much and just can't accept that it makes me uncomfortable seeing a POC character being erased

kaspianpurple said in comment #2618898:

I can tell you're white 😭😭 why are y'all defending this so much and just can't accept that it makes me uncomfortable seeing a POC character being erased

Your eagerness to find an excuse to feel offended is your problem, stop making it everyone else's.

marcymal said in comment #2618901:

Your eagerness to find an excuse to feel offended is your problem, stop making it everyone else's.

Yes I am offended seeing "fan"art of Nadia being portrayed as white when she is dark-skinned because as a black girl who loves Nadia, it makes me feel alienated seeing clear racism in my community. I'm not trying to make it anyone else's problem you guys are just racist -_- it's really not hard to wrap your head around why it upsets me as much as it does

kaspianpurple said in comment #2618903:

Yes I am offended seeing "fan"art of Nadia being portrayed as white when she is dark-skinned because as a black girl who loves Nadia, it makes me feel alienated seeing clear racism in my community. I'm not trying to make it anyone else's problem you guys are just racist -_- it's really not hard to wrap your head around why it upsets me as much as it does

Not meaning to hurt your opinion, but this is a public art gallery. Danbooru don't take down posts based on ONE single personal complaint, your opinion otherwise, especially when it's a legacy media. Danbooru don't erase the past because someone don't like it; as long as it is compliant with the upload rules it stays.

Rathurue said in comment #2618904:

Not meaning to hurt your opinion, but this is a public art gallery. Danbooru don't take down posts based on ONE single personal complaint, your opinion otherwise, especially when it's a legacy media. Danbooru don't erase the past because someone don't like it; as long as it is compliant with the upload rules it stays.

I know, but that doesn't mean that i cannot be upset about it :/

kaspianpurple said in comment #2618908:

I know, but that doesn't mean that i cannot be upset about it :/

You guys are the same people that will throw a pissy fit over a white character being drawn as a person of color by the way.

kaspianpurple said in comment #2618908:

I know, but that doesn't mean that i cannot be upset about it :/

You were already given a solution to this: use your blacklist so you won't see it anymore. If someone were complaining about a character's skin color being darkened, they'd be told the same thing.

I will say Nadia was one of the first anime I watched, and I love Nadia and her character design. She is definitely canonically dark-skinned, and that fact is important to her storyline (even if she turns out not to be African, Middle Eastern, Indian, etc.).

That said, the way she is depicted, even officially, is all over the place. Even her official character designer, Sadamoto Yoshiyuki has drawn her with a lighter complexion from time to time (e.g. post #7770685). It probably stems from the same reason as the fact that her hair is straight (her very initial design featured kinky hair). It was easier for Japanese animators to draw someone more similar to people they were used to drawing. From that mindset it isn't surprising a Japanese animator or artist might conceive of her more as Okinawan in appearance than say Namibian. I don't think these people are intentionally white-washing, they are simply drawing from what they know.

Shinjidude said in comment #2618916:

I will say Nadia was one of the first anime I watched, and I love Nadia and her character design. She is definitely canonically dark-skinned, and that fact is important to her storyline (even if she turns out not to be African, Middle Eastern, Indian, etc.).

That said, the way she is depicted, even officially, is all over the place. Even her official character designer, Sadamoto Yoshiyuki has drawn her with a lighter complexion from time to time (e.g. post #7770685). It probably stems from the same reason as the fact that her hair is straight (her very initial design featured kinky hair). It was easier for Japanese animators to draw someone more similar to people they were used to drawing. From that mindset it isn't surprising a Japanese animator or artist might conceive of her more as Okinawan in appearance than say Namibian. I don't think these people are intentionally white-washing, they are simply drawing from what they know.

Ohhh i see. Thanks for info :]