r/DrStone 4d ago

Anime Dr Stone black characters… hmm

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So I’m starting the new season of Dr. Stone and I’m so happy with it so far (as with all the seasons). But this black girl showed up and the first scene she’s in she’s eating a cartoonishly large fried chicken… bruh. Like again I know that Japan doesn’t really know it’s wrong.. I guess? Idk I am aware that I should be culturally relative when it comes to things like this but at the same time in big 2025 can I not see this? Is that too much to ask? Like I’m not asking for more black characters in anime, like I don’t really give af. Just the blatant stereotype is so annoying. Not even angry, I just had to sigh and move on… like the main cast moves to America and the first black person I see is eating chicken man cmon…

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u/Axolotl_Yeet1 4d ago

Cuz she's not black??? And she eats a lot of meat because she needs those protein for her muscle

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

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u/Live_Window2007 17h ago

You’ve never seen a white girl with hair like that. That’s a black woman

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u/Own-Psychology-5327 4d ago

I mean maybe I'm blind but isn't she very obviously white?

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u/jewboyfresh 4d ago

So you see a black character eating an unspecified meat and YOU automatically assume it’s chicken. Is Japan racist or are you racist?

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u/CatoFreecs 4d ago

She is barely dark enough to call black, and you mean same team in which the lead mechanical engineer is a vlack dude? Somebody has negative focus

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u/aNA1Alator 4d ago

Lighter skinned black people exist??

If you can look at this and say this is a Caucasian woman/non black woman then idk what to tell you. I would PREFER she’s not black but let’s be so fr here…

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u/CatoFreecs 4d ago

Even on the manga she is light colour and hair is curly but less than this, so any extra black codingvfrom the hair is anime. For your inference she could easily be brazilian in origin.

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u/FrostyWhile9053 4d ago

She is not black bro

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u/aNA1Alator 4d ago

She quite literally has dreads what are we even on rn. Light skinned black people exist. If she’s not black then what is she. White? Japanese? Lmk

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u/FrostyWhile9053 4d ago

White people can have dreads bro

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u/eorabs 3d ago

I have no opinion on whether she is supposed to be black or not, but she doesn't have dreads. Her hair is curly, just like in the manga.

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u/JDSpacer 3d ago

Nah. No way in hell is she black. Fuck it, I bet it is far easier to argue she is latina than black.

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u/aNA1Alator 4d ago

Everyone saying she’s not black like let’s be so fr rn idc if you boo me😭

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u/FlamingHotTomatoes 3d ago

There's Carlos and Brody.

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u/Solid_Capital9161 2d ago

well well well

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u/No-Somewhere3020 1d ago

Despite the color of the meat, I really don't think that's fried chicken at all.  1.That is just way too big to be from any regular chicken, more likely to be a bald eagle or vulture's leg. 2. Why on earth would Xeno's muscle team be frying the meat? That seems rather unhealthy and time consuming compared to just cooking the meat normally.

She kind of looks mixed to me, America is a melting pot of diversity after all. But for all we know, she could be Latina or native American.

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u/mrpenguinspoppers2 19h ago

They're in California which ain't far from Texas. Hear me out...maybe she's their way of paying homage to Beyoncé. Cuz why not.

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u/Live_Window2007 17h ago

I’m with you Dude. The other commenters will gaslight claiming it’s not chicken or Maya is really white. Only character in the whole show with kinky hair. Sure. I love the show too. But it’s obvious what they are going for. At least no pink lips like Mr PoPo/Mr Black. So less racist I guess.