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As an Alabamian, I would very much appreciate someone who can translate this for me!

Thundergnat said:

As an Alabamian, I would very much appreciate someone who can translate this for me!

I'm going to second this request. Tuscy chibi a real cutie as well.....Drum might be losing her mind.

Thundergnat said:

As an Alabamian, I would very much appreciate someone who can translate this for me!

Until the proper translation is available, may I suggest Google search image translation option? The only translation that makes no sense is the line "ここに アタイがいる"

Thundergnat said:

As an Alabamian, I would very much appreciate someone who can translate this for me!

Pork99 said:

I'm going to second this request. Tuscy chibi a real cutie as well.....Drum might be losing her mind.

Done.

I can fix Diogenes-chan......

I like the little detail that Plato's video is 2 hours and 34 minutes long, whereas Diogenes's is 23 seconds. There must be a joke here about how it takes a lot longer to explain something than to mock it.
And also gordon ramsey.

Crazy jar nudist The Original Troll.

Yeah, Hu Tao's not surviving this encounter.

What would the Angel be saying if Mahiro found out that truth...? :D

GO FOA ITO!

I'm not sure how to translate the secondary commentaries. Any help would be appreciated.

Ah yes.
The famous *oppai slash"

Also it's been a while since we've seen Ai-chan in casual clothes.
Trying to remember who else we've seen wearing similar attire 🤔

Finally she playable and got a VA, still seia got bullied

udzn12 said:

Finally she playable and got a VA, still seia got bullied

Who's "seia"?

:3 will always be the true Frieren.

Mi jest wstyd za was, to jest post papieżowy a nikt tego nie zauważył przez 17 lat :(

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Brynica said:

Mi jest wstyd za was, to jest post papieżowy a nikt tego nie zauważył przez 17 lat :(

Nie inaczej siusiaczki

Wonder if this counts as an indirect kiss lol

A Nishizumi-Shimada hybrid? Miho's innovative improvisation combined with Mika's carefree attitude? Maho's rigid discipline combined with Arisu's tactical prowess?

japanic said:

A Nishizumi-Shimada hybrid? Miho's innovative improvisation combined with Mika's carefree attitude? Maho's rigid discipline combined with Arisu's tactical prowess?

Just to be clear there are no evidence that Mika is from the Shimada style Family

You're right, it's not homo, cuz I'm pretty sure this Oda is a dude

Don't know the powerscale of Blue Archive but can't believe Remilia getting beaten with how op she is

Hina can only even exist at her original power level if they're inside of the simulation, meaning that Remi is fighting under someone else's rules.

And if there's anything we know for sure in Touhou it's that environmental rules have a huge impact on power levels. SSiB being case in point. There may even be safety limits in place for the simulation meaning there are parts of Remi's powerset that just don't work.

RNGCombo said:

Hina can only even exist at her original power level if they're inside of the simulation, meaning that Remi is fighting under someone else's rules.

And if there's anything we know for sure in Touhou it's that environmental rules have a huge impact on power levels. SSiB being case in point. There may even be safety limits in place for the simulation meaning there are parts of Remi's powerset that just don't work.

Since when is Blue Archive a simulation?!

Alixiron said:

Don't know the powerscale of Blue Archive but can't believe Remilia getting beaten with how op she is

Remi getting beat is mainly just for the plot.
Going for actual powerscaling rules, Remi just stomps hard. Remi dealt with Reimu who is far worse than Hina is a lot of way.

Man they really nerfing Remi into the ground for Hina to even scratch her.

Gotta love that Laplace's face is an Almight parody, Drake is a Virgil parody and Maxwell is a Dio parody.
Funtastic event!

Hank88 said:

Gotta love that Laplace's face is an Almight parody, Drake is a Virgil parody and Maxwell is a Dio parody.
Funtastic event!

Drake is actually Dante here.

What a crybaby! (Xp)

Commander: Quit being a crybaby!

Syuen: DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!

(Syuen's exclaims with an blue useless goddess-like expression)

Shifty: Please everyone, The Raptures approaching towards our position!

(Shifty blindly guns blazing with a mingun)

Syuen: This is not the time! Go back into your desk!!

A RvB: Drafted reference.

Modern Record of Lodoss War, let's gooo!

iori98 said:

I actually like this piece way more than the others I can't exactly pinpoint why but that's the feeling I get from this picture, The okina one still takes first place though. With that said the artist is a kind of a hypocrite since they can't tolerate black characters getting "whitewashed". Don't get me wrong the low effort shit where the only change is the skin color is definitely racist bait but I feel like if an artist goes through the effort to reimagine the character as a different ethnicity then it should be considered acceptable and not inherently racist.

Finally a smart comment in this brain dead website. fun fact for you weebs out there who love Japan. one of the 7 lucky gods
Benzaiten is based on the Hindu goddess Saraswati so you can say Benzaiten is Japanese wash Verison of a Hindu goddess so would you complian about that? Look objectively if someone wants to make Verison of a character of a different race and ethnicity for fan art it fine as long your not making it to be offensive. As long it doesn't change the canon of the official work it as has little to no impact. And I find it interesting as an artist to make a character in a different ethnicity because I personally find it interesting see what a character look like in a different race. that doesn't mean someone is racist and just because an artist make a character that are all race swap to be a specific it doesn't mean they hate any other race don't be so fucking uncharitable. obviously if they made fan art of a character they like despite them not being the race they are obviously that sign there not racist because they wouldn't make art of the character at all. do people like that exist yeah sure but unless they show that their being racist just keep a fucking open mind

Dancing_Menreiki said:

that there are only 2 kinds of problems in this world, real world problems and first world problems.

Which are both problems at the end of the day. All you are doing is just being smug about it while helping nothing.
I hate to break it to you, but first world is still part of the world, if anything the most influential part of the world.

https://tenor.com/view/peter_griffin-oh_my_god-who_the_hell_cares-gif-27709716

Damian0358 said:

Whitewashing already existing minority characters reduces the presence of minorities in spaces that already lack them to begin with, whether in be in the media itself or in the community that consumes said media, like the reverse cannot be argued for "blackwashing" when it comes to white people. A lot of the arguments made against "blackwashing" hinge on black people having equal representation in media to white people (which allows them to be segmented away in fandom discourse), so when white people are told that isn't the case they start complaining about "why are you making this political" and saying that they can't represent themselves with given characters. Because the truth of the matter is that black people aren't equally represented in media, even more so in popular media, and so, just like you see with white people, they'll want to represent themselves with the characters in media they love, and the logical conclusion of that is depicting them as black with all the accoutrements associated (just as you might see Asian characters basically being rendered 'white').

You might ask then "why not make characters they can identify with," or "make existing black characters more popular"? On the former, there's probably plenty of black characters already, but again, how many of those characters are popular, and even more so, how many of them are in popular media and accessible to general audiences? Most Western media anyone will consume will be made by largely white people and involve largely white people. Even if they were to make more black characters, the vast majority of characters black people will watch on TV, in movies, online, etc. will be non-black. So of course they're going to end up identifying with way more non-black characters than they do black - even more so if the black characters they do see aren't representative to them. And on the latter, which ones? Like, firstly, we're being sane here and not counting tan/gyaru characters, they aren't black. Secondly, a lot of black characters, especially in anime, are just side-characters, so there isn't much that can be done to make them more popular. And third, depending on where you look, the depiction of black characters is.... not good, so those characters aren't getting popular in the black community whatsoever. So, there's no political agenda behind "blackwashing", it's just black people depicting the characters they love as black, just as you'd see white people doing the same essentially.

The reason "blackwashing" occurs is because most characters in popular media are not black. If there were way more black characters in popular media then it likely wouldn't be as common (though you ultimately can't stop people from depicting characters as being from any group, not just black). Regardless, no one complains about "blackwashing" if the art is well-drawn to the person that might complain, and doubly-so if it is sexually-charged art.

And here's the other common argument levied against "blackwashing", trying to render it equal to whitewashing by looking at both in isolation as just "raceswapping". But you cannot look at "blackwashing" and whitewashing in a vacuum. As mentioned already, whitewashing already existing minority characters reduces the presence of minorities in spaces that already lack them to begin with, and that includes the spaces which consume that media in the first place. You cannot argue that someone deciding to whitewash minority characters in a series or franchise where 99% of the characters are white (or white-passing, since as you say, we are talking about Asian[-inspired] characters here) in a fandom that also majority white doesn't implicitly say something.

In a world that's sane and doesn't have the historical legacy of race issues we're suffering with today, both "blackwashing" and whitewashing would be equally seen as harmless. But we don't live in that world, and likely never will. "Blackwashing" is harmless, whitewashing isn't.

You're essentially justifying blackwashing with representation "argument". But nobody is obliged to represent any race/ethnicity in media. That's not a law. If an director wants to make a film where 100% of the cast is white/black/asian, they should be able to.

White (or "white-passing" as you put it) characters stay white. Black characters stay black. End of story.

You mentioned the solution yourself - create and write better black characters. Not snatch white characters and paint them black. This applies to popular media, this should apply to fanart by small scale artists the same. It's admittedly a very optimistic thought, but if a black character is written well, characterized well, taken care of by storytellers over the course of many, many years, one day that character will be as iconic as Superman. That's the solution - not blackwashing Superman.

Anya_Jackal said:

This applies to popular media, this should apply to fanart by small scale artists the same.

And this is where I fundamentally disagree. I just don't see in what world it makes sense to apply to small-scale artists the same standards that we apply to corporations engaging in diversity mandates and cynical tokenism. They aren't the ones the corporations are appealing to, they're appealing to the kind of consumer who'd write in an AI generator 'black superman'. It's not the fault of small-scale artists that corporations don't care to make better-written black characters in popular media (or rather, hire creators who would want to do that, to address your point) and just lazily blackwash existing characters. You can't equate the two at all.

It's not their fault, but it doesn't give them an excuse either.
It makes no difference if the artist is blackwashing characters out of some earnest good intention, and the corporation is doing it out of greed, results are the same.