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REVIEW: Terra Formars GN 1

MohaCario wrote:

Angel'sArcanum wrote: The cockroaches are clearly based on exaggerated body structures of black people.... Isn't it racist to say and a stereotype that every blackskinned man has a huge body structure ? And everyone can be a cockroach if you "exaggerate" it.

I also though of that it, its more racist to assume they are based on black people than the cockroaches themself.

Unless we get some proof of it being racist, i.e the author admitting it was based on black people and not the homo eretcus, I doubt I will ever change my opinion on this.
A lot of people seem to have forgotten that a lot of the old stereotypes for black people are based on the belief that black people are 'lesser' evolved humans. You know what a 'lesser' evolved human looked like? The homo eretcus.

So now we can't make any humanoid creature resemble the homo eretcus because its racist?

A work can't be racist unless its intended to be racist.

FINALLY SOMEONE POINTS OUT THE BLATANT RACISM! Geez, all the critic reviews and fans I've seen seem to miss the extremely obvious and offensive racism and stereotyping, it's disgusting.

You're simply playing passive and trying to label me racist for pointing out what the author is clearly doing. That's just you being negligent and trying to redirect the blame when I'm simply pointing out the obvious. Why would the author flat out come out and say he's racist? "Oh yeah, I just really want some controversy and have my manga's reputation totally stained by my prejudice thoughts." That's the whole reason he's only doing it in the manga to begin with - to hide his messages and thoughts in a work of fiction. That doesn't make it any less offensive given how it is hardly that subtle, and even if it was more subtle, prejudice is prejudice.

I was gonna stay out of this after seeing how quickly this derailed into insanity but might as well say my piece:

As a black person myself I'm honestly not really offended by the Terraformars designs. As many have already pointed out the idea behind the character designs is pretty clearly based on depictions of homo erectus and given Japan's usual ignorance on racial matters, I'm far more willing to believe that's where the author got it from then some super racist agenda.

That said the series is full of racial sterotypes, some much more blatant than others but for the most part it generally doesn't feel like it's trying to shove them down your throat and it's mostly harmless as the cast gets more diverse later on and there are more to root for.

Personally I don't take the series that seriously since everything thing from the plot to the characters is really goofy despite how seriously it takes itself, but it's totally understandable that people are offended by some of the material and trying to proclaim people as being morons for being offended is kind of unnecessary since some of the material is a bit dodgy.

I will say though that the series does get better about treatment of it's female characters later on (though that creepy cup size thing never goes away) but what was said is pretty much right for everything that happens in the first volume.

Do stealing cars and getting them high really have to be plot points then? Why do those need to be incorporated into it?

Do stealing cars and getting them high really have to be plot points then? Why do those need to be incorporated into it?

There supposed to be HUMANOID cockroaches and not just huge cockroaches. So it's obvious that they have human eyes instead of compound eyes and two legs instead of six.

You are talking like you know that that was his intention. The racist thing that you saw in them were YOUR thoughts and not the author's. The author clearly based them on homo erectus.