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Doe posted...

Im not engaging with the premise that a black actor was cast for woke.

If the setting was changed from Japan to say the US then if someone complains about a black actor cast but not the setting itself then theyre racist. Theyre just mad theyre seeing a black person. Thats what was going on with Netflix death note for example.

One thing worth noting is that sometimes you get race changes or whatever in casting and the show/movie ends up being bad, but it's due to the writing and often has nothing to do with the race swapping in the casting. So even when you get people up in arms about it, they are just dead-in focused on race and not the actual problems with the adaptation. Basically happened with live action Bebop, as if Faye wearing skimpier clothes or Jet being white would've somehow mended it.

At the end of the day it's usually bigots that don't like art/gaming beyond their nostalgia and they'll happily eat slop if the thing conforms to solely the visual components and get cranky if it's changed on the most shallow level. It's just worth ignoring entirely since the industry rightfully refuses to engage with them since they're loser freaks