Talk:EMIYA (Alter)/@comment-30308390-20190302201151/@comment-30308390-20190303014602

I understand that much, but when I listed all those things I meant to bring attention to the whole design, not each thing on their own. As you meantioned they had the concept of a prisoner in mind when designing him but that's also just part of the whole picture.

My aspergers ass got the best of me there but I'll try again: it seems that in HIS specific case NA felt that his overall characterization could be seen as racist. I tried pointing out how it was not such a far-fetched conclusion. Guess they didn't want people from a completely different cultural background to look at this Japan-made japanese man who looks like a black man think of him as a racist joke character, and of course this is a delicate subject. Japan has it's issues with xenophobia and racism too.

So yeah using the word "awkward"was an awkward decision, but I'm surely not here to discuss the amount of times Fate made me disappointed. Like I said it's more of a delicate situation or a potential faux pas that Demiya's design could bring. Again, their answer to this apparent problem felt weak and didn't amount to much other than making some people mad for a different reason. But this is also why I'm typing this stupid blog; it's not a big deal at all. In the end they just lightened his skin and changed some text. They could've made some truly extensive change to things that could be deemed racist yet they did not. Yes, it looks like some hack job done for the sake of denying potential blackface but that also means hardly anything changed. There's no need to get worried or angry about such meaningless things. It's been one and a half year or something of NA FGO and this is the first time they changed a character like this and only because it could spark up some troublesome stuff for them. I believe they aren't crazy enough to turn this into normal occurance, they don't even have enough freedom to do so. They should know they'll just make the nerds that pay them angry.