Universal is making a Voltron movie

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There names are not reflected of their race with maybe 1 or 2 exceptions if you even view it like that. They are just names.

http://imgur.com/a/mE2cy

Most of those characters are not Asian. And that's just the main cast. The only character said to even be Asian is the character Daniel whom does not exist in the original media. He only exist in an earlier American version of the show.

This is a multicultural cast very similar to Captain Planet if I had to give it any sort of relation to another cartoon. The only difference is the character design for Voltron is garbage and completely outdated. It was localized with the name changes because the race and names are not important, and Japanese names are not common in America.

What the characters look like doesn't matter because obviously there is a discrepancy based on what part of the world views it, hence the ambiguous features and fictional other attributes in their appearance, which is common in Anime and completely intentional. The same way for some strange reason, Japanese people see Goku as "Asian looking" (He doesn't) and the west see's Goku for what he really looks like. A Saiyan. Because he distinctively looks different then the rest of the cast that features White and Asian characters and looks nothing like either of them.

Basically, some of these character can pass as white in the original Japanese media. BUT, this isn't even a problem because the movie is being made by the same company that created and redesigned Voltron in 2016 and again their features are ambiguous at best with maybe 1 character being Asian. The rest are multicultural with literally one white guy in it or possibly 2. Most news sites praise the cartoon for this very fact. If the movie is being based on anything, it's going to be based on the restablished 2016 version. Why didn't you shout foul play when the cartoon was made? Or what about the previous cartoon version? The 2011 version features specifically an Asian, Black, and Caucasian female as the main cadets of the series.

This is why I get confused on these boards. You guys, like I said, just see something about Japanese anime being adapted in the west, and cry white-washing and racism for absolutely no reason.

Asians are not suffering because they aren't in enough movies. They are in plenty of movies, west and foreign. Someone has to be at the bottom of the least sold racial group in America. It just happens to be Asians. Oh well. Pretty sure White people are at the bottom in many other domestic box offices in the world. Gee, I wonder why that is. I wonder why the majority race of a country is the largest market demographic for a given location.