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Originally posted by AALIYAH DANA
there's also this
No wonder Game freak doesn't understand blackness
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Originally posted by Yndda
jinx is NOT blackface, it's actually a pokémon based off of ganguro, which is a type japanese street fashion.
ganguro is supposed to be people challenging japanese society's general concept of beauty, that is; black hair, pale skin, neutral makeup. ganguro instead had bleached their hair to white or blonde, applied fake tan to their skin, and use colourful makeup.
it has nothing to do with black people or blackface
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Originally posted by Yndda
there's a form of ganguro that even goes further with the fake darker skin (top-left pic). it's called manba
considering that 1) pokémon is from nintendo which in turn is japanese and 2) pokémon came out in the 90s, which is when ganguro (and related fashion trends) started to pick up, a lot of people accept/think that this is the origin of jynx.
also there's a chance it was based on japanese folklore, too. search up yama-uba.
also I don't see that quote's point; pokémon is japanese, and blackface is essentially unheard of in japan and is really a western culture thing. NVM this.
looking at japanese culture, it's very VERY hard to think that jynx came from blackface.
I mean yeah I understand why people would be outraged by it, people from western countries that is which is why its colour got changed to purple. I won't blame them. but to act like jynx DEFINITELY has racist backgrounds is a bit farfetched imho. I can understand why one would initially be wary tho
people have already told you multiple times that this is anime art, not art with eurocentric features in mind big vertical oval eyes with shiny retinas, a dot nose, and a line for a mouth are anime features. have you ever seen someone from europe with a dot for a nose and a thin ass mouth? no, because this is a CARTOON
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Did you even READ your own thread?
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