Ichigo's Topics (2007)

I didn't even notice. And I've read nearly all his works on this sites. Lol (=・ω・=)
I do love his artwork.

I don't know where you heard the author is male but on Baka-Updates they say the author is female. And I tend to think that this site has good and accurate information.

Then I am a very confused person.

I thought the name Akira was a male gender name. But you're right kleineputchen, Norikazu Akira is a woman.

Maybe it’s a pen name. Or her parents just really wanted a boy. Lol

Baka-updates.mentioned a mangak brother. Ken something. But it was norikazu... so a pen name is quite possible.

*Mangaka

stupid

I get ya, it does always suck a little. We're all out here too. Don't sweat the haters.

The mangaka doesn't mean it in a racist way: it's just that there's this difference in colors, and they're not used to it in Japan. So they find it exotic and beautiful. In my country, we're all snow white. When I was a kid, my teacher married a black man and had a baby. She took her to class, and we were totally dumbstruck with admiration, it was the best looking baby we'd ever seen! The whole class was fighting to hold her, the boys as much as the girls :-D
Her name was Saya, I'll never forget her. Too cute to be alive, the color of milk chocolate, and eyes that made Bambi look ugly! That was the first black baby I saw, so I know how Japanese people must look at a white girl with blonde hair and blue eyes, and be amazed at it. it's actually the opposite of racism, I'd say.

wow now who sounds racist? got a problem with blondes? blondes are just more exotic to the Japanese due to them mainly having dark eyes and hair. it is not meaning to cause a issue. your just making it sound like they are insulting. It's pretty sad and funny all in the same breath. Sorry hun besides the Native Americans, Alot of the English, Dutch, German and Scandanavian immigrants were blonde. Just don't get your knickers in a knot over a manga. ╮(￣▽￣)╭

Michaeldamico: you're being too harsh. I'm pretty sure Ichigo has no problem whatsoever with blondes.
It's just that in America (you should know, since you've got the American flag near your name too), after what's been happening there lately, every occasion one race is pointed out out as "more beautiful" than any other, tends to leave a bit of a bitter taste in the mouth, even if it isn't meant to do so. Let's not call each other racists, if we're not.
People who have to live with prejudice all their life tend to become over-sensitive, I get that.
Aside from that, in Japan eveyone being black-haired and dark-eyed, the contrast with blonde and blue-eyed people is greater and therefore looking more exotic and interesting (and thus also more beautiful) than any other skin and eye-color. That's true.
Besides, the mere concept of racism has nothing much to do with the concept of beauty; more with that of power, guilt, value, prejudice, fear and anger... I'm pretty sure that the murderer in Charlottesville didn't look whether the lady, his victim, was ugly enough to his taste before he crushed her under his wheels! And the racist white cops who kill young black men simply because they're black, don't check if they're ugly enough before they shoot... Beauty has nothing to do with it.

I'm black, when I was in Japan people kept asking to take pictures with me and complimenting my hair and eyes and skin. White Americans are the most commonly seen foreigners in Japan but Japanese people are in awe of most foreign looking people.

Yeah, and there's no racism in it, whatever Americans tend to think, Japanese simply aren't racist. This is something that grows into a people over the centuries, it gets worse and worse. In America, ever since Columbus, it has been carefully developed by the authorites, in order to first eliminate the Native Americans, afterward to make the people feel no guilt at all while selling and buying black people as slaves and working them and bullying them, and after that to set up the different groups of colonists from everywhere in the world against each other, making them jealous of each other, importing the religious hostilities from where they came from, Irish immigrants, mostly Catholic, against descendants of the "Founding Fathers" who were originally British and Portestant, later on the Jewish immigrants fleeing from the antisemitism in Germany and Eastern Europe, the Italians from poverty after the war destroyed their country, and now the muslims, and so on and so on. It's a mixture of fear, jealousy, anger, gruge and suspicion.
Being a country that has never had such termoils, thanks to the wisdom of the shoguns and especially Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Iyeyasu Tokugawa, Japan has had a totally differnt kind of history: They were closed away for centuries on their own, left in peace and escaped colonization alltogether, up till the 19th century.
So, even the horrible defeat and occupation by the American army hasn't given them a common 'gruge' against the rest of the world, since the crushing defeat with fire bombs and nuclear ones wasn't just horrible, but at the same time freed them from the military dictatorship they suffered just as much as the rest of the world did.
So, mixed with the humiliation of the defeat and the pain, there was also some sort of relief and gratitude.
That's why people from other countries, with eyes, skin and hair of a different color merely makes the Japanese become curious and interested, even enthusiastic, instead of angry and suspicious.
Generally, of course. there will always be people who will be angry at everyone who looks different or comes from far away.
But since it's not in their basic cultural History to be obsessed with anger and fear of "gaijins", the curiosity and admiration will usually prevail.

Despite him/her being from America, it is very likely they just simply refuse to believe such issues is happening. I’ve come across many people who have said that ethnic (non-whites) should just behave themselves and not break the law and obey the cops. They think that just because they, themselves, don’t get treated like shit, it means we (non-whites) are behaving badly so that’s why we’re treated so violently.

But you’re right. I don’t hate blondes. I even have a blonde streak in my hair.

You can’t be racist towards white people unless you’re discriminating against Jews alone. Racism is the oppression of a race by a government in a systematic approach. White people were not oppressed in America and don’t bring up Italians building the road because that wasn’t oppression. Having your entire race hunted down to the edge of extinction by some dumbass pervert who thought he was going to India and now, still being forced off their land is oppression. Having their voices ignored and their grave site dug up or plowed down by illegal government action is oppression. 300 years of slavitude and then segregation and having a giant cult of nutjobs wearing ghost blankets chase you down and slaughter you is oppression. The Nazis hunting and killing and torturing Jewish people is oppression. America kidnapping Chinese people or having them sell their own kind into hard labor and then having a law passed to stop Chinese immigration during the mass immigration years is oppression. Building concentration camps to lock up Japanese people or Japanese look-alikes during WWII is oppression.

I totally agree with you, Ichigo. Racism is merely an excuse to justify oppression. But there are tons of other types of other unjust discriminations: nationality, religion, life style, ignorance... just think of what they say nowadays: "not every muslim is a terrorist, but every terrorist happens to be a muslim!" which is, of course, not true. There have been terrorists of all types in history and today, among which the ones you call so well "nutjobs wearing ghost blankets". Or what about the creep who crushed the girl under his wheels in Charlottesville, or the other creep who shot an entire public to death from his hotel window in Las Vegas? None of those are muslims... but still, everywhere, in America as well as here in Europe, all muslims are suspected, just because there's this creepy sect who has been brainwashed into some twisted sort of Islam that has nearly nothing in common with normal Islam.
Ignorance is very dangerous, the greatest evil there is, as the great Greek philosopher Socrates said. He was right.
Still, where Japan is concerned, having such a different History background, there is very little real racism, the way it is in America or Europe. It's more like : OOOh! A person of a different race! How quaint! Look at his hair! His eye color! Do you think we could ask him if it's all right to touch him? He's got hair on his arms... And that skin of his! Omoshiroii neeeee?"
It's an innocent type of "racism", really. The way a toddler would point out a person with some difformation and go "look mommy, that man has a funny head!" or something. And his mother, embarassed in his stead, would scorn him and the kid would go: "why?"

lol I know I shouldn't laugh at this but I could't help it, it was just to funny when I read it.

Why not? Laugh to your heart's content. I know I did.

Why not... Well it's a bad thing to do isn't it? lol Even though he would deserve it.

Warm bodies cuz it was in 2012 I think or sooner idk really correct me if I'm wrong

I am part of the BDSM scene and yes, it has some things that are just downright bizarre, except Samantha discovering her sexuality, that is pretty nice.

Bruhhhhh same. ╮(￣▽￣)╭

IT Was still GOOD