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I really wish there was an option on those Customer Service Surveys that says specifically, “The representative I spoke to was lovely and helpful and deserves all of the raises but I think that you, as a corporation, should die in a fire.”
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In Memory of the Victims
The names of those who passed away in KyoAni’s arson attack are finally being revealed, so a dedication for them and their contributions to the animation world seems in order right now. In respect to the deceased, I’ve refrained from posting pictures of their faces and opted for using their works as a form of recognition instead.
Director Takemoto Yasuhiro
Color designer Ishida Naomi
In-between animator Uda Junichi
Key animator Kigami Yoshiji
Finish animator Tsuda Sachie
Key animator Kuriki Ami
Production manager Yokota Keisuke
Art director Watanabe Mikiko
Character designer Nishiya Futoshi
And newly hired staff members Oomura Yuuki and Kasama Yuka
May all of them rest in peace, and let us never forget their names.
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*gaslighting parent voice* I’m sorry if you feel hurt by anything I did to you, just know that it was never my intention to hurt you and that I love you
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I was high off my ass last night and had this dream where I was in this dense ass forest and sitting there was a tall woman. She was so tall I couldn’t see her face but she was wearing gold and I was like “uh...hi?” And she said “I made you, do you know that?” And I nodded and she was like “I hear your thoughts. Why do you hate my creation? Why do you try to destroy yourself? I made you perfect as you are. Please don’t break my heart”. Then she started crying and it flooded and I woke up with fucking heart palpitations like what does it Mean™️????
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This is legit a huge problem in anime and games from Japan CONSTANTLY everywhere
I get it about Nessa
But in the long history of Pokemon, I wouldn’t say it’s her skin that’s the reason she’s dressed so sparsely.
Tl:dr; CW: Pedophilia
Nessa’s very clearly a child character, and even since the 90s when Pokemon first came out, there has been at least one teenage female bait character in Pokemon. I remember, because I was there. This same uproar happened for Misty when Pokemon came to America. They pulled certain episodes off the shelves at Blockbuster, or skipped them on the Saturday line ups. At age 8 I didn’t notice the skipped episodes, but when I watched the subs in my teens, some things were VERY different.
The first one was Misty. She wore precisely as much clothing as Nessa does now. Her only purpose in the series was to attract boys… and well:
This managed to make it past localization once or twice i think.
This type of stuff was ALL OVER anime back in the 90s. (like dragonball, where Chi Chi ‘s child outfit was a string bikini and Bulma, a CHILD and also tech genius was a panty shot gag ).
American localization did a lot to protect Misty’s image, like repainting her trainer card so she’s not nude , but it still came through that she, a girl of only 10(Japan)/14(US) was an object of desire first and foremost.
I read the American version of this (right) as a 10y/o. I read the fansub version on a nostalgia kick in my 20s and thought the scanlators had lewded it. For reference, in this series Misty is 12. I’m rather glad that 10 y/o me got the SFW version.
Now, back to the theory that Nessa’s exotique blackness is the reason she’s wearing that swimsuit. Most of the folks complaining about this bring up how Nintendo’s black characters are portrayed…while completely ignoring the black people IN Pokemon.
To be absolutely fair though…the pokemon series only seems to have discovered black people in 2014, so let’s look at the like, 5 they’ve had since inception:
A child, Auntie, MMA fighter, and uh…. that guy
The R34 of these characters, and subsequently the cultural memory of them, is pretty sparse. In a series as vast as pokemon, you have to reserve your interest. Long term fans know this, and so do creators.
If you think the character designs aren’t also carefully selected marketing plans, you don’t know pokemon. Let’s look at Iris. She’s one of Ash’s youngest companions and very consistently coded as a young child.
Fully clothed, open stance, child proportions. Absolutely cannot be misconstrued as a teen.
She’s an accomplished gym leader and otherwise fits the entire bill for companion character, EXCEPT, her outfit doesn’t lead to easy R34.
Now let’s look at some teen characters. Pokemon is reluctant to name ages because they learned very clearly from the international reception of Misty that a 12y/o with underboob isn’t gonna fly.
What DOES fly is age-ambiguous girls. Is she or isn’t she young enough to be clean and pure, but old enough to be sexy and not send ya to jail.
But cr0w!!!! That’s just how they draw women!!!!!
Well for one that’s not fair. I demand himbo rights
For two, without Google, which one of these young women is confirmed over 18? It’s impossible to tell because what makes Pokemon character designs so interesting and varied also blurs the concept of age. These are the proportions and face structures they use for female designs ages 15-23.
In comparison, the vast majority of adult (but not elderly) women are coded similar to this:
This woman clearly has a mortgage and a 100% interchangeable pod wardrobe. She has opinions on gruyere
There are tons more examples, including the player trainer’s mom, random trainers they meet, and more experienced gym leaders. As with any model, the potential for lewds are there. There’s plenty of Nurse joy R34 out there.
The key here is not that Nessa is getting optimal sun exposure due to her skin but probably because Pokemon has had an ephebophilia problem since 1989. It’s not as blatant as uh, it once was:
but the series still puts out a lot of ‘barely legal’ designs of young teenage girls. Every generation had at least one, even after all of the redesigns and localization made the overall IP way more G-rated.
Pokemon has proven that they can and will make a black female trainer. It’s not a problem for them at all. The problem is if they want that trainer to be a selling point for the game.
Gen 6 Schoolgirl, probably not much younger than Nessa
Lenora, who all yall imMEDIATELY forgot existed
It’s just that if they plan to feature a young female, usually Ash’s companion, she’s going to have something that draws the eye to her panty line. Even after literally 30 years of making the series kid friendly, it still comes out. There has to be at least one major bait character, and it’s going to always be a teen-coded girl.
It’s ok to be critical of media, but harping on someone else’s knee jerk reactions become performative when you don’t think about all the other parts of the puzzle. Are you hyperfocusing on Nessa because she’s in a swimsuit, or is it really just because you want to nitpick the black character that’s getting attention?
If you make this swimsuit thing about being black, you have to ignore the much longer history of creepy pedo-attracting that still seeps into pokemon character design.
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