Live Action Movie: Akira

[Sapphire]

That's because you're only a casual fan of Asian culture/anime, Sapphire.

Look at it this way, imagine if they remade Roots with white actors, but kept the African names and slavery back story. How would you feel about that mini-series?

I obviously wouldn't care. Or maybe even find it amusing.

lol It's a wonder that we've been talking on this forum for 5 years, and still you stay stupid shit about me all the time.

(Edit: I wouldn't appreciate it if anyone was trying to ridicule Amistad/Roots, though. Slavery is serious so it depends on the hypothetical production in question.)
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Anime/Japanese L-A productions have a cast of all one race because the people who make the stuff are from a homogeneous society. To take it so literally and say OMG THE PURPOSE OF THE STORY IS THAT THEY'RE ALL ASIAN, THIS IS SIGNIFICANT, YOU NEED ASIAN is a little odd to me. In fact I believe it is only intentionally significant to the story if they purposely emphasize that there are separate races/looks.

If the race of the cast from the Asian TV side were not initially homogenous, and intentionally had various races and certain looks, I would probably pay more attention to the integrity of the looks/race of the actors. But even then, I know you can only go so far. So at that point if they actually kept that sort of heterogeneous integrity, I would see it as a very nice perk, just like the casting in most British TV (see below).

As a side-note, British TV has some of the most racially diverse productions I've ever seen. As long as you're good, you get the part (even if you're BUTT ugly). I quite like that.