Comments on: George Takei to Hollywood: “Quit Whitewashing Anime”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:06:47 +0000

firenation's building look like thailand
while airbender clothes somehow resemble Himalayan monk
Waterbender looks like ainu tribe from japanese
and earthbender is chinese

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 29 May 2011 05:33:32 +0000

I don't think The Last Airbender flopped because it had a white cast. Anime in general doesn't feature Japanese-looking characters, and The Last Airbender wasn't a particularly Asian story as much as it was a universal one. If I had to pick a reason it flopped, it would be because in so many ways it missed the point of the "anime" (or American cartoon in the style of anime, if you prefer). The Fire Nation was played by Indian actors, all of whom overacted their parts and came off as charicatures rather than characters, when in the anime (for lack of a better word), they were as white as anyone else, save the water tribes (who strike me as a Native American/Aleutian ethnicity more than anything else). It's also impossible to fit 6 1/2 hours' worth of story into a 2-hour movie. It really should have been either a longer movie or a movie in several parts.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 16 May 2011 12:47:02 +0000

I hated that George took away a straight role from a straight person. They should have cast Sulu better and gotten someone that didn't predominately suck cock.

George should only be allowed to play gay roles. See what I did there...

Idiots...

By: tyciol

tyciol — Wed, 04 May 2011 08:20:09 +0000

Actually Samuel L Jackson already does every VA role in secret.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 04:07:06 +0000

Except the bong

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:03:34 +0000

"Another example would be Jesus, that somehow is portrayed as a snow white caucasian man, even though he was a jew and likely quite brown if he would have existed."

Yeah, apparently you know very little about historical sources.

By: Shiratto

Shiratto — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 23:23:22 +0000

Oh my

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:07:19 +0000

Persians ARE Caucasians.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:04:44 +0000

Can't wait to lol when I see the Caucasian kid is being called AKIRA.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:09:19 +0000

The only reason it looks good to you is because you can't understand a damn thing they're saying.
Japanese are notorious for being among the worst live-action actors ever, present article company excepted.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:01:18 +0000

There was a badass azn mercenary on The Substitute 3, not like anyone watches any of those after the first. He was a knife nut, a role typically reserved for hispanics. Also had a fat old guy black knife nut. Shame two great action characters got stuck in such a cruddy movie series.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 21:47:33 +0000

apparently that anon has never heard of 'black jesus'

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 21:46:07 +0000

Goku is too dumb to be asian, though. Clearly must be played by an American. Texan, even.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:12:34 +0000

Whitewashing? Talk about being racist lol!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:19:26 +0000

lols man , seriously if they gonna change it so much dont even keep the same name just say in credits inspired by akira would be less uproar about it but I just dont get why they dont understand that it better not to change too much stuff I mean the god awful dragonball evolution movie like I dont even know how fox thought it would be a success seriously are they so detached from reality ? Its hilariously stupid.

By: Wallace Hunter

Wallace Hunter — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:12:30 +0000

Another symptom of the same disease.

By: Wallace Hunter

Wallace Hunter — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:06:21 +0000

I'd watch Dragonball made by the Wachowskis.

By: Wallace Hunter

Wallace Hunter — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:04:08 +0000

If I wanted to read, I'd go to school. Also, there are only three countries. The US, Canada, and Mexico. If it isn't basically the same as Canada (pinkos) then it's like Mexico (third world shithole). I am a typical American voter.

By: Wallace Hunter

Wallace Hunter — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:39:42 +0000

THIS A THOUSAND TIMES.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 06:37:34 +0000

I was gonna say something about adaptations, who I think this movie is supposed to appeal to, what I think should be done to make an adaptation work and how Takei sounds like a fan of Akira and is more annoyed that Asian-Americans won't be well represented in this as they should be than anything else BUT he had to mention The Last Airbender and that it flopped because it was an Asians with no Asians. I have to ask, did he see that movie?! The cast's ethnicity is nowhere on the radar when it comes to The Last Airbender's problems!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 06:27:35 +0000

If you have seen Red Alert 3 promo video:
George Takei: ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 06:24:03 +0000

Replace the entire cast with Samuel L. Jackson! That is a movie fated for fucking win!

By: PrinceHeir

PrinceHeir — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 06:22:02 +0000

god damn you hollywood, always ruining anime and other asian films, seriously why fucking english? it's supposed to be japanese in the first place, second why asian americans? there are tons of asians that actually know how to act instead of those wanna be's in hollywood.

fuck hollywood

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 04:07:47 +0000

Para mi la mejor solucion a todos estos problemas, es EL BLOQUEO CULTURAL. Que ningun asqueroso anime/manga,artista etc...salga de japon, y que nada de lo que ellos llaman "basura occidental" entre a su territorio. Asi ni los japoneses, ni nosotros, nos tendremos que quejar de la "JAPONIZACION" de lo "occidental" (que mierda con los pendejos y esta palabra) por un lado, ni de la "OCCIDENTALIZACION" de lo japones, por el otro lado.