'I loved watching the Disney Channel and listening to Swift's 'You Belong With Me' as much as the next teen, but Naruto's desperate need for societal acceptance, camouflaged by his unabashed optimism, spoke to me more.' -hocus_polkus
, a 15-year-old Japanese high school student who was mistreated by classmates because of her tanned complexion.This boy that I like doesn’t like me because he doesn’t like girls with dark skin!During my teens, I leaned more toward male-focused shonen anime and manga — an anime category traditionally made for boys ages 12 to 14 — so I never acknowledged the visual similarities between characters and myself in the way Leclerc and Mimi did.
I was 22 and a new graduate from the predominantly white University of Washington. You could smell the white suburbia radiating off me as I sat on a bench in Prospect Park and people-watched. Many of the Black women of Brooklyn rocked brightly colored hair, , and flashy outfits on a casual Tuesday afternoon. They spoke with their chests and were the stars of their own stories. Something clicked: These Black women were the shonen anime protagonists I had idolized for years. ? They’re the most underestimated characters in the series. They have amazing, unique features — whether it’s bright blonde hair, dark skin, or unshakable resilience — that stick out.
"A lot of the stories in anime specifically were a lot darker than what we would see on regular TV," said Lerclerc."When I talk to my husband or other Black men about, for example, it’s the father aspect of it. It’s the brotherhood of it all, like with Vegeta and Goku going back and forth. There’s a lot of parallels with that in our community."was the first show I watched that was for children but didn’t treat me like a child.
"I have noticed some similarities with some of my favorite characters, mostly being that they are also quiet but throughout the series, show their strength and are extremely reliable," prominent Black cosplayer
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