Someone on TCJ talks about the Avatar casting.

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The post includes a variation upon the phrase "I don't care whether they're black, white, or purple." Always a good sign!

Unrelatedly, it's alarming when you put down some thing you're reading, go back to it a couple days later, and upon googling discover that one of the people discussed therein has died in the interim. Specifically, Shio Sato died on the 4th, and I was reading this interview with Keiko Takemiya.

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I think the better counter-argument is to wave around a large picture of Will Smith.

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Oh, right. Sorry -- I'm really not just a big movie buff, and I'm not good at thinking of movies and actors unless prompted for them.

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Argh, the more I read the article, the more it makes me faceplant.

"I find it remarkable that the Asian race is even at issue today when Hollywood adapts anime into live-action blockbusters."

Now, I'm not usually one to quibble about the precise definition of whether a western-created work of art can allowably be called "anime" or not. There are some conversations in which it can be put into a category with Japanese anime and still be meaningful.

But using a western cartoon as an example of hollywood's fantastic multicultural acceptance of asian culture? FAILTASM.