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NEWS: Crunchyroll, Adult Swim Announce Original Fena: Pirate Princess Anime for 2021

You do realise that this an anime right? Even if they specify a century they're set in, they are never historically accurate.

There were islands taken over by the British Empires that the people didn't have "dark" skin.

Also if you didn't notice samurai and ninjas weren't pirates in the British Empire but no the inaccurate thing is her skin colour.

nargun wrote:

You do realise that this an anime right? Even if they specify a century they're set in, they are never historically accurate.

Yes, that's true for all forms of historical fiction, and when it's just something to make the plot work better, like with The Death of Stalin, it's fine. But when the inaccuracy reflects historical revisionism, particularly revisionism that that's employed by real-world bigots, that's a problem. And that's what we have here. The myth that European colonists kept other white Europeans as slaves is common among racists to try and minimize evil of race-based chattel slavery.

Now maybe this is just a case of the Japanese producers being ignorant about Western Culture, but if this is a co-pro with two American companies involved, they should've pointed out how problematic this is.

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There were islands taken over by the British Empires that the people didn't have "dark" skin.

Yes, the British took over Ireland, but as badly mistreated as we were, we were never chattel. If you're referring to the Caribbean, the people there were dark skinned, just not black, and certainly darker than this pasty waif.

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Also if you didn't notice samurai and ninjas weren't pirates in the British Empire but no the inaccurate thing is her skin colour.

Yeah, and that's a difference done for fun. I've got no problem with that. Calling a white woman chattel in the context of the British Empire is fundamentally different.

The myth that European colonists kept other white Europeans as slaves is common among racists to try and minimize evil of race-based chattel slavery.

Utsuro no Hako wrote:

The myth that European colonists kept other white Europeans as slaves is common among racists to try and minimize evil of race-based chattel slavery.

"Indentured servitude". Look it up.

I know right. Like sure all we got at the moment is a minute long trailer but it is just a teaser, that successively gives out the basic hook of the show which is samurai ninja pirates which isn't really a bad concept. Nothing wrong with having some optimism & waiting for a new show to show off its chops especially since it has the rest of the year & next to further refine itself.

I'm not saying it is but I feel like at least some of the negativity is due to the show being Western backed by Crunchyroll & Adult Swim.

Ermat_46 wrote:

Fenrin wrote: Not really understanding the lack of enthusiasm for this project, it looks interesting and really beautiful and I'm digging the character style. This is the first time I've been this excited about an original anime in a while. Because the entire thing looks like one of those myriad of disposable Netflix original animes in the vein of B: The Beginning, Hero Mask and Sword Gai.

Except B was actually good.

Fenrin wrote:

Not really understanding the lack of enthusiasm for this project, it looks interesting and really beautiful and I'm digging the character style. This is the first time I've been this excited about an original anime in a while.

Same here. Really like the artstyle a lot and it's the most promising anime original I've seen in a good while. It's a shame there's a big (or at the very least very vocal) part of the anime fandom that's always going to complain whenever there's some kind of western involvement in the production of any series (be it CR, Netflix, Toonami...)

I know Toonami passed up on airing more One Piece because they wanted less long running shows on the block but also like One Piece is right there if they wanted to air a pirate anime. And there's even new dub episodes out now.