• This information could get white to play this, me and many others, seem to be pretty obvious non-white roles. The only cast members are not white in the Fire Nation guys that are technically.

• Yeah, yeah, I forgot that I can only like a moviemaker more than you guys after suffering an injury or something. I think internet comments will always be flame wars, no matter what... Well, I still think Shyamalan is brilliant, even though I don't expect too much from Airbender.

• No Jet? The fangirls are going to wail in agony over that one!

• She only has 4' legs in the Manga, she's pretty short in the anime

• While I personally didn't like the show, I did like the fact that it attempted to set a story in an Asian-inspired world with people who looked Asian. This rendition...doesn't really look anything like the show, especially in terms of casting. I dunno, when the casting call asked for "WHITE PEOPLE PREFERRED" for the lead roles, that's really suspect. Eh, I'll just wait for the Journey to the West movie to come out. At least there will be characters I can identify with more there, and there will be no crazy-ass shippers in the theater.

• It should also be pointed out that the Japanese LIKE natural blonds. Plus, from what I understand, it's also a sign of a powerful individual (which Sailor Moon IS). It also helps the character stand out and is a reflection of their personality. Also more than half of Japanese people DYE their hair. It is also likely an outlet of creativity in regards to hair. You may not know this, but in Japan, there is a conformist attitude. In school, for example, young people are expected to dress and 'look' a certain way. This includes hair color. Many schools in Japan have rigid standards in this regard and students with lighter hair (that's closer to a natural brown or even reddish) will get picked on.

• Well, the actor playing Sokka was white enough to play a Cullen in Twilight, not that they're related genetically or anything.

• To their credit, Ozai having the very power that made him terrifying taken away is pretty fitting.

• Why SHOULDN'T it have Asian ethnicities? It lends a greater level of believability and authenticity. Otherwise, it looks... ridiculous. If this world were set in a place that were based on Africa; from the clothes, food, history, mythology, culture and everything else, and the characters were White, what do you think the reaction would be?

• I kinda sorta had this frame of mind, caught an ep of Avatar an had to completely reassess my position. Avatar is amazingly good.

• Yeah, Lake Laogai is one of the best eps of the series.

• Actually, Nickelodeon should sue Cameron for using the Avatar name. After all, didn't the cartoon series use the name long before Cameron stole it? Now, Nick has to rename their movie so people won't confuse their movie with Cameron's and so Cameron doesn't sue them?? Come on! Nickelodeon is owned by NBC/ Universal, so it's not like they don't have the resources to sue. Then again, who distributed Cameron's Avatar? If it was Universal, then I take back my suggestion.

• I don't think the cast is that white or they don't look that white. From what I can tell the idea in the movie is Fire nation-Indian/tan skin(I hear they were casting Mexicans as well), Earth nation-Generic Asian, Air Nation- Who knows, whatever they decided the actor who plays Anng looks like, and Water I guess is supposed to be European. Tho I don't think the actor who plays Sokka is actually that white (looks like a mutt to me) and the actress who plays princess Yue is very ethnic looking. but then again maybe I don't know what I'm talking about as a women of mixed race. I just find it very hard to place race at all anymore and in the end who cares? As long as they can act and they movie is faithful to the heart of the story i will be happy.

• i think the kid looks like aang...

• i think you meant "understands"

• :Totally enjoying mental image of fat cat with a cigar and monocle:

• I love pretending things that I watched as an impressionable, stupid kid are perfect while everything new sucks! Not that I'm saying all cartoons from the 80s and early 90s were shit, just that I'd say the ratio of good shows to bad shows is more or less the same. The reason kids TV no longer all seems good to you is because YOU'RE NOT A KID ANYMORE!

• Ahhh it all makes sense now. I could have sworn I saw a trailer for this months ago, while Avatar the movie was being promoted as well. My brain can stop hurting. I have never watched a second of the cartoon as well. But this film does look really good.

• Boo, the scar is one of the main characteristics of Zuko and really helps to define his dichotomy. It's disappointing that they would just want him to be "pretty." Hopefully the character won't suffer for it.

• Um. The Na'vi line was clearly a joke, wasn't it? Like I said, I 100% agree that the live action cast should reflect the ethnicity of the characters as presented in the animation. It's something I strongly agree with, all I was saying was that one would have to start boycotting a lot of other entertainments one probably enjoys, based on basically the same parameters.

• wrong! no implication. i meant just what i wrote.

• Don't think I said America=white chief. In my mind though it's kind of almost as "racist" to expect an entirely Asian looking cast, considering this series doesn't take place in Asia. Much like the cartoon, the movie seems to incorporate Asian elements to depict its culture, but this doesn't mean the characters in this fictional fantasy world created by Americans should necessarily look Asian.

• Ok but here's what I'm saying...these American creators co-opted Asian elements to create their fictional world. The world they created is not Asia,it's a fantasy world. Just because these Americans incorporate Asian elements into the world, why does everyone who dwells within have to be Asian? If japan took over the whole world right now, would we all ethnically become Asian looking?

• But a pan Asian world doesn't necessarily have to have Asian ethnicities. When you think about it, the culture that influences this American cartoon doesn't necesssarily have to reflect in the races of the characters. I understand what you guys are saying, but just because the American creators of this imaginary world wanted an Asian cultural look, by no means does that absolutely require the characters races reflect that. It's a fictional fantasy world after all.

• She's also a six-foot blonde. Very Japanese, that.

• You've got to learn to calm the fuck down.

• man I didn't mean to start up a firestorm in the discussion *runs* DBZ, I didn't watch it simply because it was anime adaptation made by Hollywood, nuff said. The whole thing with Goku played by Caucasian actor didn't enter my mind. There's that thing with whenever anyone in series go SSJ they go from different color hair to blonde was always an interest debate topic for the voices in my head to argue over, that's a whole different topic. That said, here is a different issue. The creators, like many have said, out of respect for the cultures, researched and styled their creation in such a way that would definitely gives people the impression that it's an Asian origin world. I'm gonna stop ranting.

• Take THAT, type-casting!

• I will dispute homogenization. Even if we accept that the blanket term of Asian applies to everyone in the cast, including the vast breadth of racial qualities that includes, Avatar still had rather diverse groups. Each Nation is rather distinguishable from one another, although amazingly all of them were able to pass as Fire Nation in Book Three. I guess people in the world of Avatar can't see race. Would that we were all so lucky.

• Easy, they cut out the the joke and filler episodes, each Book had plenty. Also they chopped Jet's storyline out.

• Right, Superman is semitic

• I loved Dante Basco in But I'm a Cheerleader.

• I liked Signs and The Village. Lady in the Water was ok-ish, but it was such a blatant masturbatory act. Casting himself as the writer who will inspire a great world leader and then killing a film critic as the only character death, come awnn.

• Untrue, members of the Earth Kingdom in the film are cast with Asians. Earth Kingdom just gets little play in the first Book.

• I disagree partly! The second season was still pretty good. C'mon, Dai Li badasses and Toph learns to bend METAL!

• But it's a little different with Avatar. Bale played Batman as an American. Takei is Japanese-American, Sulu is just Asian. But in Avatar, the Fire nation is very much an analog of ancient Japan, Earth Nation is Chinese, Water is undefined native culture, and the Air Nation are Buddhists.

• And Zuko's voice actor is Filipino... well in the same way my wife is. Pretty brown but completely American.

• I dunno. The posters do look good but I'm still a bit miffed that there wasn't any open auditions.

• I love how morons get pissed and blah blah blah all over the place when clearly they have no idea what they are talking about. Protip: All Americans are not white.

• Um, Na'Vi aren't real, so a human playing a Na'Vi doesn't mean anything. And Sulu wasn't ever meant to be Japanese, he was just played by a Japanese actor, and even if he was, I'd rather see an Asian in the role than a white guy. I do think that Ra's Al Guhl should have been played by a vaguely Middle Eastern guy, though Watanabe's race is irrelevent because he was a decoy. And since American and Scottish are not races, I'm not touching that. The bottom line is that it's really clear the the animators intended for the Airbenders to be Tibetan influenced, the Northern and Southern Water Tribes to have Inuit influences, and the Swamp Tribe to have Vietnamese influences, and for the Fire Nation and Earth Kingdoms to have Chinese influences. They worked incredibly hard to adopt these elements without relying on stereotypes and taking the easy way out. They even had an adviser so they could animate the martial arts sequences just so (and truly, Avatar has some of the most beautifully animated martial arts sequences I have ever seen) and M. Night just tossed all that aside that did whatever the fuck he wanted. And speaking as a nerd with brown skin, it was nice to see a show, and such a well made one, with people who looked like me.

• (Continued) While the standards of race in the fictional Dragonball Universe is vastly different from ours, that doesn't change that fact that the characters and backgrounds were created with a clearly Asian look/feel/sound, etc. Therefore, it is safe to assume that ALL the characters, INCLUDING Goku, DESPITE being an alien, would fall into the racial ethnicity that WE would recognize as Asian. Feel free to dispute that, but if you're going to make that claim, then you have to apply to heroes like Superman, who, like Goku, came from a another planet as a baby and was raised on Earth. You wouldn't dispute Superman's ethnicity, would you?

• 'Dragonball' and the character of Goku are based off of the story 'Journey to the West', one of the most famous Chinese legends that centers on Hanuman, the Monkey-King, on whom Goku is based. Using your argument, we should assume that Superman isn't Caucasian, he is Kryptonian. Yet, it's clear that, by standards WE recognize, he IS Caucasian. And using that same logic, we can assume Goku, though also from another planet, when you also use our standards, is Asian.

• Yes, I HAVE seen Asian-American actors perform. But there seems to be an implication in your post that by hiring actors who look the role, there would be a sacrifice in quality in regards to the acting.

• Now THAT should have been a nerd law: When DMing, you must skillfuck as many players as possible to teach them to round out their characters.

• And now.... before some idiot tries to ridicule me for typing "Mr. Pop", and I get some snarky "what is a Mr. Pop? huh huh"... you know what I meant. "Mr. Popo." Typos happen, and I didn't see it before I hit enter. Laptop keyboards are more difficult to type on and the O didn't register. The same thing could happen to anyone. Even someone whose point is still right, like mine is. Get over it. Anyway.... just to make sure that everyone in the world understand this for the last fucking time (and because it cannot be more obviously stated or important), Goku's not a goddamn fucking Asian. For the last time. Saiyan =/= Asian. Besides, if people think that Dragonball Evolution's only problem was Goku's nationality, they obviously didn't notice that he was also cast as an emo, horny, angst-ridden, little high-school douchebag that just stumbled out of Dawson's Creek who makes weird faces, and whines about everything, while nothing else about him or any facet of the film from the actors to the set design to the plot specifics, to the general concept even resembled the anime or manga. That being the real fact of the matter, it's absolutely fucking pathetic that these weeaboo cumstains all over the internet somehow think that the nationality of the actor playing a monkey from space single-handedly ruined a film, when there are at least 600 other things that ruined the film far more effectively. This stupid fucking "OMG GOKU IS ASIAN" bullshit needs to die once and for all. Saiyan. Not fucking Asian.

• SHUT THE FUCK UP SHUT THE FUCK UP SHUT THE FUCK UP. Goku is NOT Asian. JESUS I hate it when stupid fucking assholes keep saying Goku is Asian. He's NOT fucking Asian. Dragonball or Dragonball Z, or even fucking GT doesn't even take place on the same Earth that we even know. Dragonball universe doesn't have any fucking Asians in it. There are however, Namekians, and Dog people, and Anthropomorphic pigs, and hick farmers, whatever the fuck Mr. Pop is and tribes of people who appear native American despite there being no "America" in Dragonball Earth. Goku's not fucking Asian, you stupid cock. You know what he IS, though? He's a fuckin SAIYAN. And we don't know WHAT race Saiyans are supposed to look like, but my guess is that they look like fucking Saiyans. Sayian =/= Asian. THE END.

• Thirded. "Unbreakable" is his ONE good film. "The Sixth Sense" relied only on the twist for quality since there was TOO MUCH foreshadowing for it once you've guessed it.

• Well on Sulu, I believe he's actually mixed race (Japanese and Filipino), although Cho is still neither. But Sulu was supposed to be a character that kind of represented all Asian groups (ie Sulu referenced by Rodenberry). But I agree with your point. But then again, it's also true that the casting in Avatar is a very miscasting compared to Sulu. (They're colorfacing, after all.)

• Very true, and that does annoy me. Is it so hard to find a good Japanese guy to play a Japanese guy? But, I do love John Cho so I have nothing against him. I thought he did a great job. I don't think that race should necessarily dictate who should/shouldn't be able to take on a role... I agree that maybe these kids are great actors and can really do a great job as the characters.. But you know, at least John Cho IS Asian. Simon Pegg is from the general region (I know, he's British, not Scottish but you know what I mean). I just don't understand how they could have gotten white people to play what, to me and to many others, seem to be pretty obvious non-white roles. The only members of the cast NOT white are the Fire Nation who are technically the "bad guys" ....

• In general, from photos of the actors during breaks or official movie stills online, the scar was barely there. Granted, there weren't any good up close photos. But from afar the scar should be super noticeable. In those photos...they were just barely. It looks like Hollywood wants their Zuko to be pretty.

• When I first looked at the Zuko poster I totally thought it was Michael Cera. Talk about a pants-crapper.

• Given the fact that Mike and Bryan spent YEARS researching Asia, from the various cultures, architecture, cuisine, mythology, philosophy, traditional clothing, history and everything else pertaining, plus consulting with various experts on Asia and asked for advise from Asians and Asian-Americans how to do this and treat the various source materials with the respect they deserve... then yes, I'd say that would reasonably qualify them to create a story based in a pan-Asian world.

• Are you suggesting that there are no Asian-American actors that BOTH look the part and can act???

• Mike and Bryan offered creative advise and made a list of things that would be essential to the plot... but they did NOT write the script. M. Night did. And it's up to HIM what get's put in, left out, what's changed, etc. Mike and Bryan have NO control whatsoever in that regard. They may be the creators, but they don't own the rights to the show. Nick Studios and Paramount do.

• ...James Doohan wasn't Scottish either. He was a Canadian who was very good at accents, and he actually decided to make the character Scottish since, according to him, many of the world's great engineers came from Scotland.

• Kinda dropped out of Ultimate X-Men, but I'm pretty sure it was just Fury.

• "Aang is ASIAN!!" so is goku, but we all know how THAT story ended up now didn't we? -sigh-

• if said asian actors could both look the part AND act it well, then i wouldn't have a problem with it! however, most often times they would choose someone to just be ethnically correct and let the acting goes to shit! i hiring a caucasian means that the characters i've come to love are saved from on-screen butchering, then i guess you can call me happily compromised.

• oh god no!

• and it's 'Phoenix King', Anatidaephobia. the fire lord at that time would be zuko's bitch-ass, slap-her-till-she-dies psycho hoar sister azula. and YES!! YESS!! the final fight is definitely worthy of such an eloquent story-telling. however, it was dulled down with the fact that it was a children's show and therefore FORBIDDEN to show an-on-screen death. which kinda sucks, really. anybody here who wants to see aang limit breaks ozai, or zuko doing a "Finish Her!!" on that azula slut, gimme an amen!

• now THIS is what an "Avatar" should LOOK like!!

• In fairness, Cameron copyrighted the title "Avatar" long before the cartoon came out. Nickelodeon was kinda screwed either.

• She appeared in the second "Book." I think it's supposed to be one "Book" per movie. How they plan to condense down a season into one movie, I don't know.

• This isn't exactly the same as Daredevil's casting, though. Imagine if in addition to Michael Clarke Duncan, they also initially cast black actors for the other leading roles of Daredevil, Elektra, and Bullseye, with casting calls for the characters saying they were looking for actors who were "African American or any other ethnicity." Under those circumstances, wouldn't you think they had gone out of their way to seek out black actors and avoid white ones? That's much more like what happened with Airbender - they favored white actors to play Asian characters. Plus, Daredevil takes place in modern America where it's commonplace to find a wide variety of races. The people in Avatar's world was more homogenously Asian, so non-Asian characters are even more out of place.

• <BLOCKQUOTE>Nothing is Asian about avatar TLAB except the vaguely Asian look of the anime inspired animation.</BLOCKQUOTE> And the clothing the characters wear. And the characters' names. And the food they eat. And the buildings they live in. And the weapons they use. And the language they write in. And their art. And their festivals. And, well, most every facet of all the cultures in the entire show. But beyond all <I>that</I>, there's hardly anything Asian at all, I guess.

• Yes, the girl who's obviously dressed in a Japanese schoolgirl's uniform, whose name is a reference to a Japanese children's tale about the moon, who hangs around with a Japanese priestess, <I>clearly</I> isn't Japanese.

• My feelings about Avatar:The Last Airbender are pretty much like how some people feel about Star Wars, Harry Potter, and (fuck you Cameron you cock sucker) Avatar...It's the bees knees. Best animated series ever period. It just nudges out The Batman Animated Series for me...and I love me some Kevin Conroy voiced Batman... As for the movie, I have hope based on the effects from the trailer and the fact that the creators of the show wrote the screenplay and are acting as executive producers. Here's hoping.

• Hate to break it to you... but M. Night DID write the script for the film.

• Too late.. He DID write the script.

• Yes, I agree completely! I was unsure about this show at first, but once I started watching it I realized how amazing it is. And I think M. Night will do an amazing job, and keep the essence of the show. The whole casting drama is unfortunate, but I think it'll turn out great regardless. I hope the final battle is as great on the silver screen.

• It's not meant to apply to all characters everywhere, certainly. But it absolutely applies to many. One thing you seem to be missing is that there is no such thing as a neutral observer; we're ALL affected by the cultures we grow up in. In any case, the Asian world that Avatar takes place in is beyond dispute, and Katara and Sokka certainly aren't white.

• I think just about everyone would agree that a good actor is better than a bad actor who looks the part. But there are thousands of excellent Asian actors out there; the moviemakers could have their pick. I could maybe understand it if they were trying to use a well-known actor to headline the project, but the only semi-famous one of the main group is that Twilight guy.

• Ohhh please don't suck, please don't suck, please don't suck. If it's good enough I'll even ease up on the Aan Aint White rant that everyone loves to do.

• What Darth Shoju said. Additionally, the two creators of the series have stated explicitly that Avatar is meant to take place in a world based on certain Asian cultures. No, that doesn't make it "real" Asia, but it does mean the main characters wouldn't be lily-white.

• I don't have a problem with a dark-skinned Zuko, though it does creep me out that the only Asian in the main cast is the "bad" guy--for now, anyway. It's the whitewashing of the rest that I object to. Dev Patel actually would have made a great Sokka, but I'm willing to give him a chance at Zuko.

• Damn. Photobucket is blocked at the place I was posting from, so I assumed the pictures weren't showing up because of that. Well, here's another way to see all the hundreds of Asian elements in Avatar: actually watch the show.

• While it would be nice to have characters look their nationality...really...I don't care. I'd rather have a good actor who can nail the role but looks different than one who looks the part...but couldn't act his way out of a paper bag.

• I remember filling out my law school application and looking at the affirmative action checkbox and realising I counted as 'Asian / Pacific Islander.' So, basically, someone like myself - both parents from Goa - is lumped in with everyone as far east as Pakistan and as far west as Hawaii. I wish they'd just have put 'places whose students apparently do well enough in school that they don't get any special treatment', because at least that would have been honest. I didn't wind up checking the box, of course. Was a bit too insulted by the whole deal.

• AMEN! and i thought that Aang's final battle with the Fire Lord was one of the most epic battle scenes ever. The first two seasons are kind of immature and awful but the last season just escalated to a new degree of undeniable awesomeness.

• Word, Toph is by far the best character in the show, which is saying allot since the others are very well done also. Rob, definitely check the show out. In my opinion (FWIW) it's among the best TV series, live action, Western animation or Anime that I've ever seen. It sits proudly on my shelves next to Cowboy Bebop, Planetes, GITS-SAC, Hellsing OVA, BSG, Pushing Daisies, and all the other shows/movies I own.

• Let me just pile on and say that Avatar (the REAL non-crappy Avatar!) was a great show.

• I enjoyed the Avatar series! I really really hope the movie is as good as series! I would be so sad to see a good story destroyed. The trailer was interesting. Are we going to see any more trailers before it comes out? Just a thought.

• It looks humorless and white washed. Not terribly interested.

• You've clearly suffered a serious head injury and you need to call 911 immediately and get assistance. "The Happening" was one of the worst movies ever projected onto a screen. And that's counting every home movie ever made.

• As far as casting goes I'm still butt hurt that Ben Fucking Affleck was Daredevil but I'm getting over it.

• if they can have ben affleck as daredevil and nick cage as ghost rider apparently anything's possible. besides, i though kingpin WAS black in the ultimate reboot. unless that was just nick fury and mr sinister.

• I just recently finished getting through the first season of Avatar, and yeah, its pretty cool. This movie could go either way, we'll see.

• Do we actually have to PAY you to not watch the second season of Torchwood? You've already seen Children of Earth, give up while you're ahead!

• None of the characters are "Asian" in our sense of the term, since there is no Asia in this world. And Asia, need we remind you, encompasses half the world's population, including China and Japan but also Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, India, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey, etc. etc. etc. People who keep saying "Aang is Asian!" like that's one unified ethnicity are being racist too. That said, what's with having someone dark-skinned playing Zuko?? He's one of the palest characters in the show. And the scar is nowhere near as extreme as it ought to be. That's just... lazy or something.

• not going to lie, for a really long time [check up until about half-way through the trailer the first time], I thought it was this, I was pretty fucking bummed when I realized it was some other thing. So, well... I'm just glad this is really a movie, and yeah I hope M.Night stays the hell away from the script. I've also only watched the first season of the show, so I'm not going in incredibly biased. Yay!

• I totally agree with you... in spirit! If you're going to boycott this, you're going to have to boycott a lot of other films. Did you know John Cho and Simon Pegg, who played Sulu and Scotty in the Star Trek re-boot, respectively, are neither Japanese nor Scottish? Did you know Christian Bale isn't American, and that Ra's Al Ghul (the character) is neither Japanese (like Ken Watanabe) or British (like Liam Neeson)? Did you know that Jake Sully isn't a Na'vi? Don't get me wrong. I 100% agree with your sentiment, but, unless you're prepared to retroactively boycott whole swaths of cinema, you should reconsider... Unless you're boycotting because, as a man of Indian heritage, Night should be more aware of sensitive racial issues in casting, like this. That's fully supportable, and I support it! ;)

• the problem with Shamalaymalam is that he wanted to replicate the surprise ending of Sixth Sense. As others have said in this thread, he has a great eye, and great sense of timing. It will be good to see him get out of the great mystery, suspenseful long shots mode and into a more 'standard' movie. And yes, I too loved Unbreakable and Signs. But, the only thing that comes close to Sixth Sense in my mind is The Others.

• That helps me to see where you are coming from, but I see things differently. IMO, LoTR was European (more specifically British) because Tolkien was trying to create a mythology of sorts for Britain. The folks at Nickelodeon who made Avatar were clearly fans of the cultures represented in the cartoon, and were honest enough about their inspirations to keep the characters ethnically true to the inspiration. I think that when it came time to make a movie, someone made the executive decision that having a basically non-white cast would lower the domestic box office. Personally I think that is a fallacy, and one I hope will go away soon.

• I'm still pensive. All the ethnicities are a mess. Oh no, gotta make the Water tribe caucasian because they're the good guys. We don't like dark skinned people so now they're the Fire Nation. I like how Shaymalan is a man of color and yet still did this. It's hilarious.

• I've read that article before and it's absolute bullshit. Anime characters look Caucasian to Caucasians, and east Asian to east Asians. Fine, I can live with that. But... ask someone who's neither Caucasian nor east Asian what nationality Sailor Moon is, and I can garuan-damn-tee you the answer WILL NOT BE JAPANESE. A neutral observer is much more likely to think the characters are Caucasian than Asian.

• I think my issue may lie with the cartoon itself. Considering it's an entirely american production, to call it a "uniquely Asian story" as someone else did in the same way LOTR is a uniquely European story...it seems weird to me. Lotr is a European story because it's creator was European. Avatar is American, so it's strange to me that all these Americans have crafted a uniquely Asian story.

• No objection to Unbreakable being a very good movie - hell, even the obligatory twist was fun, even if I'd whispered to my then-girlfriend that [SPOILERS] "Sam Jackson is Lex Luthor" [END SPOILERS] about an hour earlier. At any rate, anything would be better than that horrible one where it turned out killer trees were behind everything.

• Fire Nation is Japanese, Air Nomads are Tibetan, Water Tribe is Inuit, and Earth Kingdom is China. VERY IMPORTANT!

• So American = white? This cartoon made clear use of Asian and Inuit culture visually and thematically. And at least one of its voice actors was Japanese (Mako). Are you saying you don't see anything disrespectful about essentially saying: "We love everything about your culture except you. Buh-bye." Casting the guy from Slumdog Millionaire helped, but it didn't make a lot of sense (Fire Nation was clearly Japanese, not Indian). At any rate, despite my personal distaste for the casting choices, I'm sure I'll still see this in the theatre. I'm a whore that way. *sigh*

• Haha what? Basically that article just made japanese people look like huge racists. Which to be fair, most of them are. But the notion that Japanese people immediately identify large eyed, blond haired cartoon characters as Japanese doesn't change the fact that to most of the non Japanese world, anime characters look Caucasian because they feature distinctly non Asian traits (exaggerated eyes and light hair). The article goes on to say that basically Japanese people know what they're doing because when they portray an African or European ethnicity, they racist the fuck out of it. Good points all around.

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