Why Asians Have To Be The One Cosplaying Anime Characters - FTP-Anime Forums

Xyw13 · 11-04-2009, 12:10 AM

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Originally Posted by ProudAsianKid

Reference = YouTube - Why Asians Have To Be The One Cosplaying Anime Characters
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There are some other reasons which better read on the video.

Asian Fail 1:

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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

Puzzlenoise · 11-04-2009, 12:57 AM

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.

EDIT:
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?

The|A-Pok · 11-04-2009, 10:49 PM

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

mjsh83 · 12-04-2009, 07:37 AM

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 ...

Puzzlenoise · 12-04-2009, 12:11 PM

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

swiftnight · 18-08-2010, 04:13 AM

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

dxnwo · 09-09-2010, 07:54 AM

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Originally Posted by 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

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 · 09-09-2010, 08:45 AM

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.

TheWolf · 12-09-2010, 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by dxnwo

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 · 13-09-2010, 03:38 AM

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Originally Posted by tomdawes

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.

11-04-2009, 12:57 AM	#2 (permalink)
Puzzlenoise Member Stablemate of FTP-Anime Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Europe, Switzerland Posts: 39 Thanks: 1 Thanked 3 Times in 2 Posts	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. EDIT: 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? __________________ SEGA-Portal.de \| MySpace Last edited by Puzzlenoise; 11-04-2009 at 01:10 AM.

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18-08-2010, 04:13 AM	#6 (permalink)
swiftnight Member Worthless Begger of FTP-Anime Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 6 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	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

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chakadoll Member Serf of FTP-Anime Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Philippines Posts: 11 Thanks: 4 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	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.