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Mar 7 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
April was originally conceived as an Asian woman. Laird drew her as white. Eastman probably thought of her as biracial (half white half black) like his girlfriend of the time (and future ex wife) who the character was named after.
#TMNTMutantMayhem #TMNT
April O'Neil's ethnicity shifted a lot from the beginning. Early TMNT fans will recall that they also turned Baxter Stockman from Black to Caucasian for the TV show. Personally, I don't think ethnicity is core to most of the TMNT characters outside of Splinter and Shredder.
#TMNT
Tired: should April be Black or Caucasian?

Wired: Are the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Asian Americans?
#TMNTMutantMayhem #TMNT
(I mean, their dad is Japanese and they were born and raised in the USA. So of course the answer is yes!)

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I think it's beautiful how manga evolved in a way that rendered overly prescriptive age/gender/orientation based genre labels essentially meaningless.
It's WONDERFUL that Crayon Shin Chan is "seinen" (for men) and Fist of the North Star is "shonen" (for boys). And no, we don't need to "fix" that. It's better when the labels don't actually matter cos you can focus more on the content that way
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Mar 7
It doesn't matter if Michael B Jordan didn't know that the classic cross counter shot in manga/anime came from Ashita no Joe. What matters is that he felt that punch in his heart and passed it down the line undiluted.
Also odds are that he has intimate awareness of Ashita No Joe, but it's easier for him to mention DBZ and Naruto in interviews. Also clearly Naruto is his fav and he's being true to his heart.
And yes, Rocky 3 (1982) ends w/ an iconic cross counter too! BUT:

Jordan specifically cites the cross counter from Naruto as his inspiration

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Mar 6
Faust was originally Dr. Baldhead in the very first Guilty Gear and I'm not quite sure how to explain this to a Western audience, but he somehow really did clearly read as a giant Chinese surgeon to an Asian audience. Image
Dr Baldhead reads as a Chinese coded character the same way Citan from Xenogears also does. They are wearing Chinese (not Japanese) clothes and somehow the circular glasses help convey that they're learned doctors (traditional Chinese medicine has been long practiced across Asia) ImageImageImage
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Mar 6
Really refreshing article from Computer Gaming World (Nov 1990) where the writer heaps praises on Japanese RPGs on consoles. Interestingly, they still refer to them as CRPGs.
The "C" in "CRPG" stands for "computer." This was standard at the time to distinguish videogame RPGs from traditional pen and paper tabletop RPGs. But notice how the writer for a computer gaming magazines didn't feel a need to distinguish computer vs console or east vs west. Image
BTW I hope this helps to settle the debate on whether Zelda is a "true" RPG or not haha.

"it was definitely a CRPG"
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Mar 6
Supersize Me was terrible. If you want to see a great, legit documentary on the bizarre industrialization of food in America, please watch King Corn instead. It's far less obnoxious and far more insightful and interesting. Full thing is on YouTube:
King Corn opens up with the main 2 filmmakers getting an ,"isotopic analysis" of their hair (a record of what we eat) which determined that over 50% of the carbon in their bodies was derived from corn, almost all of it indirect through corn syrups and corn fed meats! Image
Really fascinating article on how our hair is a record of everything that we eat (and how to access that information) here:

uvamagazine.org/articles/the_h… ImageImageImage
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I feel like not enough people are aware of this.
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They want you to pay them to learn how to make animation that you can't legally own.
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