asieybarbie:

alostbird:

asieybarbie:

alostbird:

asieybarbie:

oh. this again.

The anonymous actually has a good and valid point. You racebending Sailor Moon who is a Japanese woman, is indeed offensive.

I’m fully aware of what her ethnicity is. I’m not trying to erase the fact that she’s Japanese. so what…am I not allowed to draw a black Sailor Moon, even if I’m fully aware of this? I wanted to re-imagine and adapt her as a race that matched my own, simple as that. how is that wrong or offensive? is this harming anybody? it doesn’t change the fact that she is canonically Japanese, we know this. so what. is. the. problem?

By racebending her, you are erasing the fact that she is Japanese. That’s kind of the point like wow.

Make up your own character. How. hard. is that?

NO. it’d be more “erasing” if I didn’t acknowledge that she was Japanese, and dismissed her as being “white” simply because she has blue eyes and blonde hair in an anime. I know better than that.

like I said, if I’m RE-IMAGING her as being black, while that still doesn’t change the fact she IS Japanese CANONICALLY and I’m fully aware of this, how is that wrong?!

You know if we’re going to get really, really picky about this, only Japanese people should cosplay Sailor Moon then, right?  No more white girls cosplaying Sailor Moon.  That’s racist, right?  Because she’s Japanese.

Also, isn’t Sailor Pluto dark skinned in the manga?  So what happened with that in the anime?  Is the anime racist then, too? 

Also, it’s skin color you’re debating, not ethnicity.  There ARE dark skinned Japanese people.  They do exist.  So it’s not race you’re even talking about, it’s skin color, which makes you the racist one.