Why Asians Have To Be The One Cosplaying Anime Characters

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ProudAsianKid;41876 wrote
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Edit: I was asked by a friend to put some more arguments, so here they are for this noob:
Original Spanish manga
German Mangakas
And as we all know, manga can be always mafe into an anime. so, STFU and GTFO :)

The_A_Pok

I don't think I can even give an honest opinion about this thread...

Puzzlenoise

I'd rather say it's you, "ProudAsianKid", who is the racist, not the american who cosplay as Anime Charas.

When I'm looking a cartoon or playing a game, my kudos go to the developer - not to the country. So, if I like Phantasy Star Universe (just for example... I love the game, just got it yesterday), I won't thank whole japan. I'm thanking Sonic Team, the developer, and SEGA, the publisher.

I think it's just ridiculous, being proud of something you didn't achieve yourself. I couldn't be proud of my skin color; because I didn't do anything to get it. But if I'm writing a song or give a concert (just for example. I founded a Rockband and am the most active member), I am damn proud of it. Why? Because I did it myself. My song doesn't belong to Switzerland, where I live. The song belongs to ME. It doesn't get me upset if an asian, an american or an african likes my song and sings along with the lyrics I wrote. Quite the contrary! I'm even more proud, that my music got attention from different cultures. I don't care what's their skin, hair, expression.

How can you be so damn limited and just look on the outside of the people? It's no wonder your nickname is "ProudAsianKid". Don't get me wrong, I have nothing agains asians. But I don't set them higher or lower than others. For me, it's the personality that counts.
But when I see something like this, I just ask myself what's wrong in this world. This is racism at it's best. I guess you (ProudAsianKid) know, that each human is an individual. Heck, even computers are individual - each of them has their own serial number. But that's not the topic here.

Now, let's see... here in Switzerland, we have all kinds of people. My friends here come from all over the world. I have some who came from America, Asia, Africa, Europe - we're multicultural. Let's say we're all watching a few episodes of an Anime, and then the american guy comes to an idea: "Hey, those characters actually look awesome. Why don't we cosplay them, just for fun?".
What should the asian now be doing? He surely wouldn't answer "No, never. Even if you're my friend, you're just not asian! Forget it! You weren't born in the same shape of land as I was, so don't even think about cosplaying as this random anime guy. You don't have the right colour skin, you don't have the right face for that and you're just not japanese."

Heck, that makes this whole Anime-thing look like a sect. Nobody's allowed to have fun, if they're not asian?

Besides... in the Final Fantasy series, you ALWAYS have multicultural people. They're not all japanese. So the statement, that japanese Anime and Game-characters are always influenced by japanese people, is wrong.

Or what about Sonic Unleashed/Sonic World Adventure, for example. It was made in japan, but hell - there are all kinds of countrys, but japan isn't even in it. Should all these countrys blame japan for that? In this game, there are african, american, greeks, british, chinese, etc... should all these countrys blame this game, because it came from japan and as we know, japanese aren't african, american or whatever?

I could find thousand of arguments why your statement sucks.

If you're too lazy to read this text, ProudAsianKid, I'll make it short for you:
The real racist in here is you.

I don't know if you will even come again to FTPA, because you're a one-time-poster. I guess you just registered here, so you can advertise your underexposed video on youtube.

God, I'm happy there aren't a lot of the likes of you.

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Oh, I always wanted to see some japanese guy cosplaying "Bobobo Bo Bobobo". He surely has japanese hair, colour, expression, etc... and I guess all of you know Mr. Satan from Dragonball. Heck, what's so asian about him?

Puzzlenoise

This guy is just a troll. He commented a lot of his insane opinions on youtube, but the most of his comments are copypasted.

mjsh83

well, that proud...what ever... just put the good stuff of them, and criticize the bad stuff off Asia, but what about the bad stuff of the, as X showed...

they should help more, instead of criticize more ...

TheWolf

dxnwo;190716 wrote
I agree with your 1st paragraph, but NOT necc they look better. A blonde haired character looks better on a white guy cosplayer because those characters look western, not Asian. And they are drawn as Western, not Asian as their influence. But I do agree, there's no rule saying otherwise. Just have fun, regardless of skin color.

i'm with dxn - i find that MANY of the anime characters that i've seen look western!!

dxnwo

tomdawes;192444 wrote
i'm with dxn - i find that MANY of the anime characters that i've seen look western!!

In every anime, there's always a BLONDE dbl pig-tailed anime babe and after visiting Japan recently, I have not even seen one actual blue-eyed Japanese girl LOL.

I was at this year's Animexpo in L.A., the biggest in the US and it's mostly Asian cosplayers. I was also at this year's Comicon in San Diego and I saw a couple of Asian cosplayers in Justice League unis. Anime is for everyone and everybody and shouldnt marginalize any nationality. Just have fun and enjoy yourself in costume.

dxnwo

swiftnight;181176 wrote
just my two cents about the topic. well, it would seem more of a privilege for asians and to show pride for anime since it started in the asian side of the world. Plus the fact they look better cosplaying than western folks lol.

im not racist but asians do fit better at portraying anime characters. everyone has the right to cosplay too, there's no rule saying otherwise

I agree with your 1st paragraph, but NOT necc they look better. A blonde haired character looks better on a white guy cosplayer because those characters look western, not Asian. And they are drawn as Western, not Asian as their influence. But I do agree, there's no rule saying otherwise. Just have fun, regardless of skin color.

chakadoll

maybe it's because that asians have the looks of an anime character than from the other continents that's why many cosplayers are from asia.

swiftnight

just my two cents about the topic. well, it would seem more of a privilege for asians and to show pride for anime since it started in the asian side of the world. Plus the fact they look better cosplaying than western folks lol.

im not racist but asians do fit better at portraying anime characters. everyone has the right to cosplay too, there's no rule saying otherwise

eme813

Well~ I'm going to jump in on this one, because it's something I've always thought of myself, because I've wanted to cosplay before, but been warned by my boyfriend, who frequents 4chan and knows how scared I am of that place.

The thing that most people don't take into account about most cosplays we see done, is that the girls modeling the cosplay are just that, they are usually hired models. They don't have to have any interest in anime, or sewing, or do anything but show up and try (and I say try, because sometimes the looks they give are wayyyyy off) to look like the character they are portraying.

I was once listening to a podcast about an American woman who loves to cosplay, and was invited to take part in a cosplay event at a Japanese convention. She said that what really amazed her was that it was much more a sport there than here. You had people that made the costumes handing off the garments to the models, and they all had to get dressed in a certain amount of time, and in a certain amount of space and so forth. She said that she was so lost, because here she was with her store bought cosplay, and she did it more for the enjoyment of it than anything.

What really irks me about people who say cosplay sucks is because they don't take into account that the cosplay it seems every anime fan aspires to mimic, isn't real. Most of it is photoshop, and even taking that out of the equation, it's just that the people doing it are picked because they have a certain body shape and look. Most people that cosplay at cons just go as what they like, and buy their costumes.

If you really really looked, you'd know that there are plenty of non-Asian cosplaying anime characters that look as good if not better than Asian cosplayers. Instead of fixating on the ethnicity of the person, you should focus on authenticity and execution of the cosplay, because those can play a bigger role than something as menial as what country the person comes from.