Two other things I felt missing from this movie that were a big piece in both mos and bvs were the media and the military. The justice league seemed to be working in isolation outside of an actual world that exists where they have an impact
AND ANOTHER THING why is marie suddenly so pale hmmm??? :))))
like why the literal fuck have they made the only brown man in the series who a) isn’t a goddamn villain and b) is a regular in these upcoming arcs in particular so much paler than he’s supposed to be? why have they decided to make this brown man so much less brown? what’s up with that anime team? what THE FUCK is up with that? 🙂
apparently colorism is the Only Option™ when an anime team likely over did it on the Shiny Animation Style budget.
OF COURSE OF COURSE they had to drop more of their budget on other important things, like making allen look like an infant and the EXPANSION OF EVERYONE’S NOSES
Notice how they made him bald and took away his dreads….
I think this problem goes way back before Hallow actually? This piece Hoshino made during the original publication of the Phantom Thief G arc (and subsequently also featured in her artbook Noche and B&W in Volume 18 or 19!) and Marie is much much paler than his first anime self which always struck me as odd. v
However, looking back upon Marie’s earlier arts by Hoshino I discovered that there is no (or at least none that I could find) art of him by Hoshino herself (since she is the Source Material!) where he had dark skin. I’m discounting the anime from my search since it is an ADAPTION of D.Gray-Man and not it’s Source Material. Volume 15 Cover: v
Whilst Marie is always depicted slightly darker than all the others, he’s never been depicted as dark as he was in the first anime, as such I’m led to believe that Marie’s depiction in the first anime was a decision made by the animators and the subsequent white-washing was an attempt to make the colours more accurate to those that Hoshino provided.
It’s quite the peculiar predicament since many fans, particularly those who were introduced to DGM via the anime (myself included), perceived Marie as a very dark skinned character especially since he was rarely featured in colour pages and along with other indications that he was not white (the dreadlocks). This suggests to me that Marie is still a POC, but lighter skinned than his original anime counterpart.
Please note that I’m not trying to excuse the anime of white-washing Marie but these are simply my observations! If anybody has any artwork MADE BY HOSHINO HERSELF that contradicts my findings from Noche, please do share them! Nor am I saying that dark skinned depictions of Marie are wrong (I still picture him this way), I’m just noting that it seems to be different from the way Hoshino depicted him, and that DGM:Hallow is doing its best to replicate the characters as Hoshino sees them and that it is perhaps this reason Marie has been white washed. Hallow’s accuracy with colours would also explain the change of Timothy’s hair colour from complete blue to the brown & blue combo that Timothy sported prior to his full innocence activation in the manga. ( link )
The more i think about it the more i cannot understand why they would make Luke a police officer.
If you think about it this way, Luke and came to Jocelyn after valentine betrayed him with nothing. He used to live in idris, i hardly doubt he has any important documents to become a police officer, he could make them made but he hardly seems like that type of person who would go through all that trouble. Now a bookstore on the other hand, which is part off his house tells me that he is trying to stay low key and that it is just more convenient. Plus Luke is a smart guy with lots if knowledge so him owning a bookstore is just fitting.
Now in the books Cassie never really stated what exactly happened once the joined the mundane world, but i think Luke owning a bookstore was such a big part. To me you cannot have Luke without it.
I personally dont see a need to change this detail, it worked perfectly fine for the books. Which brings me to my next point.
A lot of people who maybe weren’t the biggest fans of the book and the producers are fighting to make this show for people who didn’t read the books. But here is the thing, until the show picks up book readers will be your main audience. We will be there from the beginning through casting choices to costumer choices, we are there. The movie did the same thing, ignored the readers to cater to a wider audience and it failed.
For once i just wish the producers would consider the reader in this and not just assume we are okay with the changes.
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