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Honestly in that picture she were just tanned, usually when a girl is tanned in manga are rapresented like this. This author always show different type of beauty while using her oc, but if you think that was makeup dunno, or if the tanned curly hair means blackface...
Btw the point of the author Is showing all type of beauty, especially the discriminated one, as far as i know being tanned in Japan is a "bad things" or something that don't make you beautiful, so I think it's more correlated to this than to black people.
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i of course know that it wasnt done with bad intentions and that the author is probably uneducated when it comes to black people, but that definitely wasn't supposed to represent a tan. the afro and the outfit are both reminiscent of late 1900s black women. additionally, there are already fashion movements in japan that involve tanning in order to fight against colorist beauty standards (gyaru)
im so confused because is the picture of her in different hair and outfits at the beginning of every chapter the mc? if so what is up with chapter 8????????? no because I'm not even joking but is she doing blackface