Activist Genshin VA fired/replaced
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No blacks is part of what makes Genshin Impact a good game.
source: ‘Zenless Zone Zero’ And ‘Honkai: Star Rail’ Voice Actress Gets Replaced After Appearing To Signal Boost ‘Genshin Impact’ And HoYoverse Boycott
Well, HeroHei said it himself- at least she's not being performative
Genshin Impact will be releasing a new expansion soon and some of the themes are apparently borrowed from Aztecs. Leftist activists then went on a rampage complaining that the new playable characters are "too White".
The fucking irony is that there are several English VAs that are non-White, yet they have no issues voicing "White" characters.
Reminds me of that time someone complained that Rami Malek was playing some ancient Egyptian.
Just one problem.
Rami Malek IS EGYPTIAN.
As I understand it, there’s a decent chance that the ancient Egyptians—or at least the pharaohs and ruling class—were significantly lighter than the modern day Egyptians. Somehow, I doubt that’s the objection the woke were raising though, right?
The complaints of the woke were "there's too many Chinese-coded people in this Chinese game. Why isn't the Chinese phone game about appeasing Chinese audiences more about Africa?!"
In general? The usual lefty bullshit, 'this isn't diverse enough so you need to add more blacks' or some variation of the usual retarded-ness. Then they got told to basically pound sand and started throwing temper tantrums all over social media.
I recently saw an anime called Astra Lost in Space.
In the dub, the character Ulgar is voiced by a relative newcomer named Christopher Dontrell Piper, and if you couldn't tell from his middle name that he's black, you could sure tell in his performance, as his blaccent (what a weird word) kept bleeding through into his performance. They really didn't have any other takes to use? His acting itself was fine...
Then again, that show's dub was pretty cursed to begin with. The character Luca is revealed halfway through to have been born intersex, and he's voiced by trans actor Ciaran Strange.
And the main character is voiced by the once-great Josh Grelle...just before he announced his transition and changed his name to Jessie James Grelle.
Never watch dubs if you can avoid it. They always add blacks
One of my favorite dub actors, Bill Butts, is black.
But he can hide the accent. Piper can't--not yet, at least.
Imagine watching anime without subtitles...what a horrid way to live.
I'm watching anime not words
I watch anime on 2x speed and still have time to read the subtitles leisurely, then slowly drag my eyes across the entire scene taking place.
WHAT THE FUCK??
Yeah. That was so disappointing to learn. He's one of the best there is...and he fell victim to the woke mind virus.
So the first Issei is a child porno collector, and the second Issei is a tranny.
Oh God, Scott Freeman. What a disappointment to learn about that guy.
Most ironic name ever, at least.
Also, just to nitpick, he was convicted of possession of CP, not actually...yeah.
Rightly convicted, imprisoned, and blackballed, at least. Should've been worse.
Whoops, corrected.
Had that same issue with the dub for Monoke, with Jada Pinket Smith playing some character and it was REALLY fucking jarring.
It's not just black people, either--ever heard Liam Neeson in Ponyo?
Neeson is a wonderful actor, but MAN did he phone it in for that movie. He sounded borderline BORED.
This is why you get people who actually give a shit about voiceover, and who can act with JUST their voices, not people who only know how to act in front of a camera.
It's a very different set of skills. I know--I used to do it myself.
The first thing I do with any foreign game or movie is enable native language and subs. I've never had a bad experience doing this, and ZZZs China cast in particular is great.
I wondered if that's the reason they replaced a couple of VAs in ZZZ.