I am happy I was mostly disconnected from Tumblr discourse. I thought it was dumb—especially when people started saying all Black characters should have dark hair and dark eyes. Anime fan L. I felt like it was directly going against how I wanted people like "me" to be depicted! And everyone was just drawing us in such boring, generic ways for the sake of representation or realism, but it didn't even match the people I know or my own family’s appearance! In the end it's one reason I never got involved in fandom- the loudest people didn't want weird girls like me tobe acknowledged.
With Velvette, I realized when she was in the episode in her chair with Alastor, where she just has an afro, though I was curious before but never really knew but it left my mind quickly. Regarding HH, it's definitely not the best, lol. I have a hard time watching things I dislike, so I don't think I can confidently call it bad with my whole chest as if it was totally bad to me, I probably wouldn't watch it, but then I hear Vag say something like "I didn't know angels could be hurt," and I die a little inside.
I added Semiu and things in my afterthoughts because I haven't watched Gachiakuta yet, but honestly, the Black VAs in the English dub are why I haven't.. I usually watch things subbed, but Jabber’s VA is really good., but I dislike English direction for VA post 2015 a lot of the time.. So I haven't decided yet… <-- endless loop.
I hope to also read Ichi the Witch, but I've been waiting for it to be further along. I've heard it's good, and Descaras… I see her often in passing while browsing my manga scanlations, and she is so, so cute. We're getting a lot of random fun rep in manga and things lately which makes me happy, but I want more.. more.. (greed)
