>>5697392>America doesn't really have a robust animation industry that is equal to what the east hasThis has got to be the stupidest thing I've ever seen.
The american animation industry dwarfs Japan, it's not even a competition.
The highest grossing anime film of all time (Demon slayer)
Isn't even in the top 50 for highest grossing animated films
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_animated_filmsThe entire anime industry was spun off from Tezuka being inspired by Disney. Meanwhile the west literally developed animation as a medium.
>Anime is heavily marketed in the westIt isn't, we only get a fraction of it thrown our way.
The vast majority of studios don't focus on the west at all because the anime industry is largely funded by BD sales, pachinko, and merchandising most of which is exclusive to Japan.
Even if that were the case we market movies, games, and tv in Japan and China too, does that mean we need to include one of them in every casting? No, because that would be ridiculous.
People can relate to stories without having every character look like them.
>Anime draws incredibly heavily from western influences alreadyThat doesn't mean they have to include black or any other western races in anime. Western media has done the same many times, that's how cultural contact and exchanges work.
>I agree but there are some directors that intend otherwisewe're not talking about "some directors" though, the medium as a whole doesn't have that many white characters. Though you might start seeing more along with black characters and characters of many other ethnicities due to trends.
>Why does wanting representation for one group preclude representation for another group? Nowhere in the video did the creator even imply that other races shouldn't get representationIt doesn't, it's just pointing out how whiny and self-centered the whole argument is because he frames it as if it's some unique thing black people have to deal with.
