Gym leaders are more often than not adults, SuMo was the only one with replacements that were largely kids.
I wonder if we haven't gotten another Virtua Fighter since because we bitched too much about this.Yeah the community reaction to her has been super positive, and we haven't seen any bullshit from Nintendo regarding her like say...
You mean the 2016 anime, yeah? Casca was dark skinned in the movies afair
Yes, and like every time some random outsider grabs an artist's work and "fixes" it it was extremely rude.
They asked people on Twitter not to dogpile the person who instigated it and they hashed it out privately it seems. They took less issue with the critique and more with the repost/crude edit I'm guessing.
It's only a limitation of art if you consider less instances of the fanart community whitewashing darker skinned characters due to internalized biases to be a limitation of art.
This is the problem I have. This is something worth having a dialogue around, but it's not much of a dialogue when it's people shouting at a Japanese artist who barely speaks English. I don't think the artist has responded to the controversy itself though.
Ok. There's definitely value in the conversation in and of itself, but I definitely feel like there's going to be enough examples of stuff like this (unfortunately) that if you're going to center the discussion around one specific piece it makes more sense to choose one whose artist can actually learn from the situation
I don't watch Steven Universe, but that's the second time I've seen this referenced in this thread. What was the fiasco?...
I doubt he/she gives a shit about the opinions of filthy gaijin.
Yes, people are free to *criticise*, not disrespecting
Yeah there was a lot of disrespect going on there over someone just trying to draw cool art to please people. There's better ways going about this.
I mean I'm not going to argue that Japan as a whole doesn't have a xenophobia problem, the issue here is that they're taking a general problem and slapping it onto an individual without any proof
Oh, well that sucks...
Thankfully they seemed to have sorted their issue out in private messages but yeah the original response was not pretty. I'm not a fan of people "fixing" other people's art as it gives off that feeling of "I'm better than you, THIS is how it should be done" which is just plain rude. There are ways to assist and help artists understand "x" or "y" without venturing into dick territory which I hope some of the tweets in the OP highlight.
Oh I had thought we were talking about the White Garnet thing.
This. No side is wrong here, people are free to express themselves however they like and they can be offended, which I know I often am when looking at fan art and places that show various depictions of every character in existence. But despite being offended I just look at it as creative freedom and part of the overall experience.
A really popular Japanese artist drew Steven Universe fan art that portrayed Garnet with bright pink-ish skin, and the Steven Universe side of tumblr railed against them extremely hard. iirc they apologized and tried explaining through the language barrier that they attempted to do a light source effect with her hands. It wasn't like they didn't have experience with drawing Garnet either, because they had already drawn multiple pieces of her beforehand where she looked just fine.
The fact that it's an immediate assumption of an individual without proof is pretty terrible though.
Agree. I met some of the nicest people in Japan. Let's not generalize.
It's not like TPC is a stranger to changing skin tones.
