Oh twittards...never run out of things to pick a bone with, aside from never learning in general. If anything, this will make people realize we're getting anime adaptation of this and thus boost the viewer count, so it's win-win with a side of people setting fireworks and burning themself on the side.
Wait, they made the sex slave dark-skinned? Holy shit, I may have social skills bad enough to warrant my family asking the psychiatrist to check if I had Aspergers, but even I'm not that dense. Then again, I actually live in a majority-black city instead of a place so white the liquor stores have half the place dedicated to boxed Rose.
Also, does anyone else think Shachi mixed up dwarves and gnomes? Because I'm pretty sure that's what happens with a lot of Japanese series that decide to depict dwarves.
Also, does anyone else think Shachi mixed up dwarves and gnomes? Because I'm pretty sure that's what happens with a lot of Japanese series that decide to depict dwarves.
It might just be that Dwarfs are different in Japan. Like how Orcs and Kobold depicted in America and Japan is entirely different.
It might just be that Dwarfs are different in Japan. Like how Orcs and Kobold depicted in America and Japan is entirely different.
Orcs and kobolds in Japanese fiction are derived from 2nd edition AD&D* orcs and kobolds who looked like pig-headed and dog-headed humanoids, respectively. A lot of Japanese-Western fantasy tropes are also similarly derived from 2nd edition AD&D.
(*In particular the artwork on the Advanced Dungeon & Dragons 2nd edition Monster Manuals.)
These looks are changed in later editions. Most Western fantasy tropes that came later are lifted from 3rd edition D&D, or contemporaries of 3rd edition D&D that D&D themselves yoinked from. Meanwhile the Japanese still retain the original 2nd ed AD&D designs.
Dwarves are different though, and are probably... well think they wanted a cute girl counterpart to male dwarves, so they just went with "lolis" instead of the original "gurl dwarves are also bearded" look.
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On a side note
Some of the weird 'gameified' mechanics in Japanese-Western fantasy can also be traced to 2nd edition AD&D. Among some other things, there's this one splatbook (basically like an expansion set or DLC for tabletop gamebooks) called Player’s Option: Spells & Magic that allows one to create a customized magic system. Some things include using extra-long incantations to power up spells, to sacrificing HP to cast spells in lieu of what passes for magical power ("spell slots"), losing access to learning other spells in exchange for easier access to a small selection of spells, putting restrictions on yourself like to only cast spells while wearing garish costumes or shouting at the top of your lungs in exchange for "character creation points" that can be spent elsewhere for other benefits... which you can then use to pick up things like once-per-day-cast this spell (and only this spell) with a higher power.
Done reasonably, you get something like the spell system in Slayers, and customized spells like Dragon Slave. Done hilariously just to see how far you can push the envelope towards bonkers while completely disregarding notions like practicality (and cost-benefit analysis)... you'll get Megumin. Learn only one spell, can only cast that spell 1/day, knock yourself out of casting that one spell while needing an extra long incantation... and you have to shout at the top of your lungs while wearing a chuuni outfit when doing so.
Dwarves gnomes kobolds and such have a lot in common especially when you consider that some people think thei original Norse dwarves and the “dark elves” might be the same thing together with the Christmas elves or the keibler elves.
Tiny cute elf mole people is what they end up becoming and there are several rpgs that just have them as subspecies.
I don’t know if it’s necessarily new, but that’s been my dilemma with Twitter cringe on bros subject.
On the one hand, the whole drama is weird, racist, often insulting to the original artist, has the stain of spite all over it….
But on the other hand I really REALLY like dark skin anime girls…and I don’t mind the dots form that perspective.
So both of my “heads” are in conflict with eachother, if ya know what I mean.
It's an usual occurance on ani/manga scene. Like artists who drew awesome art but only does guro/blackmail/rape doujins. Or directors who drew awesome storyboards but killed everybody at the end. Or studios that completely butchered a manga to anime/hentai adaptation. At the end you will need to choose between the two heads: will you stick to your ideals, or bow to you lust. I choose the latter on the first scenario, and holy fuck I regretted it so much. Still got nightmares from that baby blender scene.
