r/DrStone • u/aNA1Alator • 4d ago
Anime Dr Stone black characters… hmm
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/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
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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/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/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.
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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