he had a lot of fans who didn't see the racism in pretending to be a japanese woman with broken english.
it does, but I'll keep it as mentioned in the tweet. they could be reusing a ton of assets for a unified look
May I respectfully ask what is racist about that? I mean, it's obvious it's not exactly in the best taste. But I personally fail to see how pretending to be someone who speaks English as a second language is inherently racist. I'd be happy to learn how I'm wrong, I just don't get how something that's awkward and cringeworthy translates into "that's racist behavior."
Pretending to be another race online and roleplaying with broken English to fulfill that is racist. I don't really know how else to explain that.
afaik he dumped a bunch of stuff before fucking off and not all of it has made it's way into the public eye yet
given the other rumors about the JSR GaaS game, it's closer to what you fear
Ehh, I mean I guess so. I don't think the impersonation was derogatory. And it was believable.
Yeah, but it could also just be games of telephone and mistranslations. Not all of MysticDistance's Sega info was correct (Banana Rumble will be Apple Arcade exclusive, lol), and given that this game is seemingly leaning into being an social media phenomenon making a protest for change through graffiti art, it'd be incredibly strange to just shoot some cops.
One of the issues is how Asian women are fetishized in the west. Role playing as a Japanese woman with broken English, knowing this persona would be sexualized in the eyes of their English speaking followers, plays into the cultural framing around Asian women that persists to this day. It really isn’t that far removed from things like blackface.
You need to deeply relearn the concept of racism because intent has absolutely nothing to do with it.
Well, I guess I can sort of see that point with regards to blackface, although I don't think the fetishization of Asian women is directly comparable to the history of minstrel shows in America or the much much more widespread practice of blackface worldwide.
Gum and Combo are in the background of the only officially released image for the game.
I agree with you there. Harm caused is much more important than intent of behavior. But still, I'm also asking what exactly is the harm to Japanese people by pretending to be a Japanese person who can't speak English well. I don't think it's inherently racist to pretend you're from another country and can't speak English well when you're trying to hide your identity online.
Wut?
it's clearly still there. just differentThe cartoony, stylized character designs are gone???
Midori was no different than literally any vtuber out there pretending to be something they aren't. Folks are only upset because they were horny for the character that they learned was a man and are trying to call Midori racist instead of realizing their fetishization of Asian women is the problem.
This is incredibly early footage, but there is definitely still cel-shading here. Characters have outlines, and they're still cel shaded. There's motion blur now (that I don't think looks good personally) but this is how cel-shading looks with higher poly models. The folds in Beat's jeans and hoodie feel like they're being done to emphasize that.
Clearly in what way? They look like normal human character models with some light cel-style lighting. The cartoony proportions and sharp, squared-off shaping is gone.
You caught me. I was really horny for a Twitter account and now I'm calling them racist to cover my shame.
This is a bad take in general but within the context is even worse. The assumption that Asian women specifically are inherently sexualized in the west is a generalisation (at best) but even if we assume this is the case you can't say that this is what was happening with Midori (it was not some elaborate persona trying to catfish people, AFAIK) or that this is even remotely comparable with blackface.
DJ Professor K has pretty huge hands, so I imagine they're still being a bit cartoony with proportions. Future already leaned more towards realistic proportions for characters, just kinda failed cause it was an early Xbox game.
I mean, are you not the one who essentially said that the character of Midori was comparable to blackface because she was intentionally making herself sexy for her following? Literally not one bit of Midori's tweets were sexual in any capacity.
So you didn't see the sort of things that account's followers would say? Professions of love, requests to date/marry, etc. The belief is that their reason for portraying themselves as an Asian woman in particular was to try and attract that sort of attention.
A lot of Midori's tweets were like "teehee, don't have a crush on me I have a boyfriend
" which is incredibly weird to come out of an account that was actually a straight white guy.
Okay that looks a lot better to me. Those shots of Beat gave me a "fanmade Unreal demo" vibe, but this looks more like what I'd expect.DJ Professor K has pretty huge hands, so I imagine they're still being a bit cartoony with proportions. Future already leaned more towards realistic proportions for characters, just kinda failed cause it was an early Xbox game.
But again, that's more admitting that the problem lies with the followers feeling betrayed that the account is run by a man more than Midori being a racist caricature. Folks are mad they can't be horny for her anymore, not that she was a racist portrayal of a Japanese woman.A lot of Midori's tweets were like "teehee, don't have a crush on me I have a boyfriend
I think the skybox in the leaked gameplay are literally using the Unreal engine default skybox so, kinda? This is definitely early footage that wasn't meant for the public and I don't think most of it should be taken as what the final art direction is gonna look like, aside from some basic flair things like the graffiti basically exploding onto a wall while grinding.
Classic MysticDistance moment.
I was never horny for her, I have a boyfriend lol.
I don't think you know what you are talking about and quite frankly this conversation has taken the wrong turn. Kinda weird to just say this after your previous posts but whatever.
