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Ayahi Takagaki Joins Cast of Tropical-Rouge! Precure Anime
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New character Elda to appear in 7th episode on Sunday
Toei Animation revealed on Saturday that it has cast
Tropical-Rouge! Precure anime. The character will debut in the show s seventh episode on Sunday.
The show premiered in Japan on February 28.
Crunchyroll is streaming the anime as it airs.
Tropical-Rouge! Precure has a theme of the sea and makeup. The show will feature a transformation item shaped as a cosmetics compact. The anime s tagline is Transform with makeup! Invincible motivation! The anime centers on Manatsu, who moves from her small island birthplace to a city and starts middle school. On the day she moves she meets a mermaid girl named Laura who is looking for the legendary warriors the Precures. Laura s hometown, the mermaid country of Grand Ocean, has been attacked by the procrastination witch, who has stolen the country s motivation power.
Japan’s tennis champion Naomi Osaka, who is biracial, was depicted in early cartoon representations with white skin and light-colored hair, causing an uproar from Japan to Australia. But now, with a new comic that celebrates her exploits – and better portrays her features – Ms. Osaka joins the crowded pantheon of strong female characters and a small but growing gallery of Black characters in Japanese manga.
Creators of manga, and its movie counterpart anime, have all too often relied on stereotypes in portraying the features of Black people.
Author and Japan Times columnist Baye McNeil points to the earlier debacle over Ms. Osaka’s cartoon image as a catalyst for change. “As awareness is raised in various Japanese media,” he says, “some artists are definitely taking better care when they choose to include non-Japanese characters in their works. Nobody wants to be the focus of negative global attention. It’s sad, but sometimes it takes an incident like this to mak