as a half-black half-vietnamese person, yeah it's hurtful but they don't have that much impact on the story; it was kind of a product of its time, being serialized in 2007 and all
if you dislike it that much, then skip the chapters featuring it, i had to stomach it all the way through myself. the manga is a masterpiece aside from a few concerning things, go give it another chance
Yea ik they arent in the story that often but regardless, after the second time, i just felt like i was torturing myself reading it. I've seen a lot of mangas with this same unnecessary depiction of black characters and after a while, it gets tiring to just "power through" racism over and over and over again. It just ends up making me feel like shit so id rather just avoid it all together. There's plenty of great mangas from earlier years that don't have those racist stereotypes, im just better off reading those- for mental health purposes.
Appreciate you offering your perspective though
understandable!! but lmk if you need any philosophical manga like this, i got tons
Same, exactly my thoughts. It gets tiring and I shouldn’t be having to see shit like this but I also stomached it. I know it’s bad because it’s a bit desensitizing, where I recognize the authors ignorance but am sort of used to it..
tbf if you have to stop reading the manga just because of a stereotype that isn’t the worst i don’t think you’d be able to read the other fucked up shit going on in this manga so. good for you!
Its not your place to tell someone whether or not a racist stereotype that stereotypes their own race is "the worst". Idk abt you, but id rather not read a manga where the author themselves depicts my own people as a historically racist stereotype. Great job showing your insensitivity though.
Would've liked to finish reading, but the way the author drew and wrote the black characters in this was just fucking depressing. I knew smth was up when i saw the jim crow lips, but when they added in the heavy slang... Lemme just say that if you're not gonna bother to disregard racist stereotypes when writing a character of another race, don't write abt them at all-