Twitter is a huge social network with countless artists ready to get enough attention to promote their work, there are so many artists that each one has to find a field in which to stand out. One of them is SOUL (@SoulKingLives)an artist whoturn popular anime characters into colored characters“, and recently did this with Anya Forger of the franchise SPY x FAMILY.
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The publication was not well received by the community, especially due to the fact that the whitewashing is generally criticized for the fact that “make characters of color white“, but blackwashing, which is precisely the opposite, is accepted and even applauded by these same people. Some notable comments include:
- «Oh, but if I do the opposite with a black character, it’s wrong, right?».
- «I’m going to say this. By making these “recolored” images of anime characters, you’re not really fighting racism. You’re just reinforcing it. You find validation through the media of other cultures, instead of creating original characters, who look like you».
- «Why is this practice normalized?».
- «Draw Nagatoro a lighter tone: people are up in arms. He draws Anya several shades darker – people applaud him. oh internet».
- «Just make your own character if you want black representation, or are you not capable of that?».
- «Do you try so hard but don’t create original art? Why?».
- «It’s not realistic. Why is this necessary? I don’t mind the color swapping you’re doing here it’s just weird».
- «People are free to make these edits, and there is nothing fundamentally wrong with them. But if the racebending is okay in this direction, then it’s okay in ALL directions. The people who make them can’t complain about a black character becoming white or Asian or whatever.».
- «This image is false because if it were real, the father would not be there».
- «She looks cute, but the best they could do is create her and put her next to Anya. Without removing the Anya that we know».
- «You forgot to remove the father in the image».
Sinopsis de SPY x FAMILY
For the agent known as “Twilight”, no order is too high if it is for the sake of peace. Operating as Westalis’ master spy, Twilight works tirelessly to stop extremists from unleashing a war with neighboring Ostania. For his latest mission, he must investigate Ostanian politician Donovan Desmond by infiltrating his son’s school: the prestigious Eden Academy. Thus, the agent faces the most difficult task of his career: getting married, having a child and playing family.
Twilight, or “Loid Forger”, quickly adopts humble orphan Anya to play the role of a six-year-old daughter and prospective Eden Academy student. As a wife, she meets Yor Briar, an absent-minded office worker who needs a fake partner to impress her friends. However, Loid is not the only one with a hidden nature. Yor is actually the deadly assassin “Thorn Princess” and for her, marrying Loid creates the perfect cover. Meanwhile, Anya is not the ordinary girl she appears to be; she is an esper, the product of secret experiments that allow her to read minds. Although she discovers her true identities, Anya is thrilled that her new parents are cool secret agents! She would never tell them, of course. That would spoil the fun.
Fuente: @SoulKingLives en Twitter
© Tatsuya Endo / Shueisha SPY x FAMILY Production Committee
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