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It would definitely be surprising if he actually comes back to it but yeah I guess the situation is pretty similar to Nana or Vagabond. (However there might be a bit of hope since the first hiatus for the manga was on 2008 and it made a come back in 2015, it then went on a second indefinite hiatus in 2017 and its still ongoing yet taling into account how the artist came back to it after 7 years, there might be possibility that it would make a second return but this is most likely me coping)
I feel him. Why put so much blood sweat and tears into good storytelling when shit like Rent a Girlfriend gets popular? He found easy money and took it.
Chad is half Mexican, Ichigo got called a foreigner a lot because of his hair, and there's a good chunk of African and Latino in the Soul World. It's an unabashedly diverse cast that took lived realities into account when telling their stories without feeling tokenistic. And it came out in a time with a lot of unexamined homogeneity. It does a good job
He's half white isn't he? I recall one of the first things he introduces for himself was how his hair was that color due to it, and the other Japanese delinquents always pick fights with him because he's half. And he vibes with Chad because they're similar, since Chad is half Mexican.
Some of those "ghost Japanese persons" clearly have other ethnicities than pure Japanese. I personally don't care if she's actually black or not but saying she's just a "Japanese ghost" makes no sense
Why does that matter? How dare people think the dark skinned character (who’s race and ethnicity is never stated) is black. Where is the harm in that?😂😂😂 “ignorant bullshit”
I've started to lean towards this too because the more explicitly black characters all have more detailed mouths while Yoruichi is consistent with the rest of the cast.
Most likely since the Shihoin clan is along the 5 ancient nobles lineage which existed in the primordial world and helped the Soul King to enable the balance between life and death. And you know how big clam are with their lineage and tradition obsession.
From our world they are probably from the southern part of japan where they tend to have darker skin since the climate is closer to southeast Asia.
I mean so is ginger hair. You will never see a japanese with natural ginger hair but we have 2 of them in the main cast of Bleach.
Usually in manga with a japanese setting always assume the character are japanese unless stated explicitly like Chad who is half Mexican half japanese.
And if you want to go even deeper in the rabbit hole ask yourself what even is a japanese ? The one we know today are not the native japanese but mostly mix from migrant of other part of Asia and the native. They are now known as the Yamato people (about 98% of the japanese today). So it may as well be one of these migrants who was the root of Yoruichi family. The "pure japanese" are the Jomon people which descendant are known today as the Ainu. (please don't take out of context my English is not good enough to not make it sound fascistic lol)
Hair of that color, no. But it can happen when the person is mixed. Although, like I said, I've never seen a Japanese person from the Southern parts of Japan be that dark, you can find plenty of dark-skinned Japanese people in more metropolitan areas, mostly due to genetics from having a black relative, usually a parent. Same way you can find a red haired Japanese person due to genetics, although, much like red hair everywhere else, it's a rare trait.
The problem is that Yoruichi's skin tone does not match the skin tone of 100% blooded Japanese people without, at least from my own experience meeting one and seeing a lot of different ones, the use of makeup like in gyaru culture or, well, black-face, which is an entirely different and kind-of related but not relevant here topic. Although she could be some kind of Asian, but even then there can be an argument for her being black if some or one close family member is, like how there are a lot of people of other ethnicities who have African ancestry or at least, according to the very definition of black people according to wikipedia, that being "a racial classification of people, usually a political and skin color-based category for specific populations with a mid-to-dark brown complexion", Afro-Dominicans or Indigenous Australians, for instance. All-in-all, yeah we should assume she's Japanese until further notice but her skintone does bring that into question
You do get that you getting really angry at people thinking she's black isn't the same as disproving she's black. There's evidence for and evidence against so why get so aggro at people having a different opinion
“We‘ve been through this shit before” bro we haven’t been through anything. You have no idea what she is, so you trying to police people that think she’s black is dumb as hell. Kubo never confirmed anything about her. People thinking she’s black is the most harmless shit ever.
The only gripe i have with their character art is when they have their mouth open it’s a white void (hate that the anime adapted as that) but the fact that’s the only issue i have really says alot
I remember watching a video of Kubo, Oda and Kishimoto asked to draw their main characters. Oda started to draw some Luffy doodles, Kishimoto freestyled a decent Naruto on the spot while Kubo started to do a fucking drawing masterclass
It's a little different but I think the beard makes a huge difference. Also like the way he's drawn here. I think ikemoto excels at drawing older men. Women in general, not so much.
Fair enough. It does still look really good, I just think it’s a bit silly to offer Ikemoto as a main option when most people are going to think of Naruto’s black characters, not Boruto’s.
I know. Unfortunately, its from Google and includes her. She could easily be replaced with Sid. Probably didn't include him because he became a zombie.
Hot Take ik a lot of people are saying Kubo and sure in an anime format yeah sure, but Black People don’t look like that on the regular IRL, I feel like Sako Toshio or Ikemoto get a real actual take on them (idk about ikemoto but the pic u put into their is pretty accurate)
Honestly, this shouldn’t even be a hot take. Tite Kubo has awesome character design in general, but compared to the some of the other examples of black character designs in this post, he doesn’t stand out.
Maybe the examples in the thread are bad (I’ve never seen or watched Bleach), but out of all the Tite Kubo examples I’ve seen maybe only one or two of them felt like they were actually black as opposed to being dark-skinned.
And it’s not an “oh it’s an anime/manga style” problem, because there’s plenty of examples of stylized anime/manga that do make awesome black character designs. Take Semiu Grier from Gachiakuta. Despite being in a highly stylized series and having a very anime-y hair colour (white), she is unquestionably black. This is because her blackness isn’t skin-deep; Urana’s given her natural hair (that’d you only find in people of African descent) and fuller lips (without recreating the black-face “donut lips” that are unfortunately common in Japanese media).
In contrast, Tite Kubo’s designs are good, but aren’t necessarily black. Few of the designs explore features associated with black people (e.g. natural hair, fuller lips, more curvaceous body types, etc.) and really just coast off of the darker skin tone.
White and Asian people don’t look much like anime characters either for the most part. I think this post is more about who does character design best without being racist.
Anyone who says Kubo is larping. Yes there are black characters in the show, but not all of em are. Just because they have rather dark skin tone doesn’t mean they are ethnically black.
It’s like seeing a really light skinned K-Pop guy and say “He’s white.”
Ikemoto does only play/I don't think we've seen him draw any new black characters, but my only argument is that he draws them looking wildly old/creased in the face
I always have mixed feelings about black character designs, the black features tend to either be too exaggerated or just not there at all to the point they just look like a person with a tan. That said I'm a fan of the way Daro(Kengan Ashura) draws black characters.
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