Good stories aren’t difficult to make if you have the creativity and the will to make something that doesn’t have to rely on harmful stereotypes for representation. Problem is, there isn’t much incentive to do so cause that’s not profitable, and in the end we all know that’s the reason why anime can be so toxic in a patriarchal and mostly homogeneous society.
Or they tell you to go make your own…like damn they have plenty of depictions of actual white people with blonde hair and blue eyes, but they can’t depict Black people properly??
Oh yeah that’s a fact…ahem…Mr. Popo…
At most we’re just a set piece, we don’t have any genuine depictions 😔
Michiko to Hatchin is probably the only one I can think of with main characters specifically. Maybe Afro Samurai but I mean…that’s kinda on the nose…
Japan isn’t very good at depicting Black people unfortunately lol
Oh yeah I started watching this dude recently, he’s pretty based
I think it handles the whole “game but irl” theme pretty well, the growth of the MC seems pretty balanced as he does work for every power that he gets instead of getting free power ups off screen, and as he gets stronger so do the nature of the threats.
The art is def amazing though like wow.