http://blog.livedoor.jp/honnyaku_blog/archives/34664515.html

Whoa. I remember making this thread.

Reminds me of Japan stalking the Saki threads on /a/.

>Nanana's "twist"

I'm not sure how I feel about it. I feel like it came out of nowhere.

But I really like master detective and her trap meido

>>88415
There were hints, but I wouldn't have caught on them either, if /a/ hadn't pointed them out. That said, MC just went from really likable to complete asshole and I'm not sure I like it.

>>88410
Wait, since when they care about us?
Excluding westaboos, they generally disregard anything not japanase.

http://archive.foolz.us/a/thread/99152732/

Forgot how great this thread was. I don't think any doujin could ever top this.

Damn, this chapter was adorable.

So I was watching monster and reading some Attack on Titan and wow. Japanese people are racist as fuck I know this isn't news I just didn't realize how subtle it was. . Neither of them needed a japanese character. That the Japanese protagonist is the best character at whatever or people won't read it is weird.

>>88441
Japan still has rampant xenophobia. All sorts of reading out there about it.

>>88442
I know but that you can't tell a story without a single non-japanese person there has got to be restricting.

>>88443
Even Lupin the 3rd is half-Japanese. They just stick it somewhere in the lineage if they have to, but with most series either taking place in Japan or fantasy Japan it's not really an issue for them.

>Persona 4: The Golden Animation
>Space Dandy Season 2

I'm hyped for July.

>>88443
Actually, this question set me wondering about examples of anime without any ethnically Japanese protagonists? The one example that comes to mind is Cowboy Bebop. I've never seen Baccano, but am I right in guessing there are no Japanese in that show either?

>>88449
The parts of Jojo that take place entirely outside Japan (1,2,5,and 7).

>>88451
5 is pretty bad, he lets his asspulls get away from him repeatedly in that part.

And Araki was actually pressured after part 2 by his editor to introduce a Japanese Protagonist, thats why Jotaro was a jap.

>>88449
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Baccano!_characters, Baccano has a Japanese character, who in the anime gets limited if any screen time because he's not part of the whole train thing.

>>88441
Are you saying it's racist because it has a Japanese lead, or is there more to this?

If it's the former, than U.S. isn't really different with all out white superheroes.

>>88451

Technically, every single Jojo from Part 3 and on is some sort of ethnic mutt, but I can't think of a single one that wasn't part Japanese.

Jotaro - Quarter-British, Quarter-Italian, Half-Japanese.
Josuke - Half-British, Half-Japanese
Giorno - Not 100% sure, here. His biological father is Johnathan Jostar, but he was apparently living as a Japanese kid before awaking his stand so he's likely got a Japanese mom, so even the entirely-born-and-raised-Italian kid with a British dad doesn't escape this.
Jolyne - Half of everything Jotaro is, but her mom is presumably from America, so it could be anything (including just Japanese again.)

>>88449

Michiko to Hatchin? Sorta? There's also El Cazador de la Bruja, which as far as I can tell takes place entirely in Mexico/the Southern US, and none of the characters have Japanese surnames. Fullmetal Alchemist for sure. There are Asian people in it, but they're pretty obviously based off China, not Japan.

I don't hold it 100% against them, because they're gonna make media that appeals to them, I just kinda wonder sometimes.

God help you if you're Chinese, though. Then all you have to look forward to are characters like Fan Fan and his entire family in Rosario + Vampire, or the recently introduced teacher in Nisekoi, where they kinda constantly hammer it into your skull that these people aren't Japanese (hair buns everywhere.)

And I can't think of a single Korean outside of Sun Ken Rock.

>>88461
>the Japanese protagonist is the best character at whatever
It's true that there's a white version of this too (the whole mighty whitey plot) but that gets called out as tasteless too.

>>88463
Hey, you forgot Johnny. Unless you were wrapping him up in Jonathan, but that doesn't really seem fair.

Finally got around to watching PMMM: The Rebellion.

Now I'm sad and confused. Homura goddammit why do you have to be a little biblical-allegorical bitch about everything

>>88474

But when you think about it, isn't everyone much happier? Everyone but her, I mean.

>>88463
Another chinese character of note was Tao Ren, from Shaman King.

>>88463
Thank goodness Japanese people just ignore Koreans rather than sticking them in their media. The way some Japanese people treat them, we'd be seeing some Shylock-equivalent bullshit right there.

I just wish all anime could have the ethnic variance and cross-cultural of the 1994 classic, G Gundam.

>>88483
Hei probably counts, since his sister is named Xing and so.

>>88491
Chinese Electric Batman

>>88456
that's pretty lame

Also
>Getting to that part in monster where Johan is literally prettier than the female love interest for Carl.
Come on Monster. Why are you doing this?

>decide to watch Ping Pong
>it's Evangelion

>>88510
Is that your only frame of reference for literally everything?

>>88518

No. There was a time on this board where a post like >>88510 would prompt lively discussion, but it looks like there are just jerkasaurus buttheadtrons like you and me left so here lemme hold your hand through this conversation a bit.

So there’s this young boy in the cusp of adulthood…

…who has worked hard to keep a quiet, uneventful, solitary life…

…until an ever-present but painfully absent authority figure suddenly calls upon him to serve a higher purpose.

The boy begins his journey by reciting a mantra to himself…

…and with his aloof and misunderstood compatriot…

…whose emotional and motivational shortcomings leave them fundamentally incomplete as a person and incompetent with basic principles…

…but is nonetheless is an important element of stability and simultaneously an agent of change for the boy.

The two spend most of their time dedicated to monotonous training and everything seems fine until…

…a foreigner garbed in red shows up…

…that violently changes the boy and his compatriot’s environment…

…and resents their new position…

…in comparison to previous achievements…

…and especially their new repatriation.

The boy is pushed by the past of his teacher…

…and the boy pushes back with his own morals and senses of right and wrong…

…until a fearsome outsider begins a siege…

…that ultimately destroys his compatriot…

…forces the boy to change his own sense of reality…

…and reveals what the boy is truly capable of.

Also, both have criminally enjoyable openings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NshFCEt8-tg

So... should I be expecting Ping Pong to end in Human Instrumentality?

Joking aside, I wouldn't mind a "End of Ping Pong" edit/amv/picture/thing. I can see it now: Smiles and Kong sitting on the beach with a giant Peco head staring up into heaven.