I have a feeling I shouldn't go there...but I'm going to anyway. While this series has some great personifications, including the only ones of Bogo and Clawhauser I've seen so far, I have to ask...why is everyone white? I know the rule, "You can't ask people why they're white," but the theme of the movie is celebrating diversity and overcoming prejudice, and while that's hardly exclusive to external features and includes less visible things, I would at the very least kind of expect Bogo to be black, given his voice actor, his species' place of origin, and his name (I hear "m'bogo" is Swahili for cape buffalo).
Perhaps because they don't know? Going by the artist's twitter, it's entirely JP-based. I wouldn't automatically assume that everyone in the world would just straight up know the ethnicity of the original voice actor, origin of the animal, yada yada yada, or whatever complicated thing ya have going on in yer head.
I have a feeling I shouldn't go there...but I'm going to anyway. While this series has some great personifications, including the only ones of Bogo and Clawhauser I've seen so far, I have to ask...why is everyone white? I know the rule, "You can't ask people why they're white," but the theme of the movie is celebrating diversity and overcoming prejudice, and while that's hardly exclusive to external features and includes less visible things, I would at the very least kind of expect Bogo to be black, given his voice actor, his species' place of origin, and his name (I hear "m'bogo" is Swahili for cape buffalo).
Bogo should have definitely been black, I'm not sure how they messed that up
That's because the easily offended will complain anyway. If the author actually draw an Afroamerican, you would be complaining about how he/she is making fun of black people it doesn't matter how it gets drawn. Few (more easily offended) complain about white people being parodied, touch a minority and the Internet breaks loose.
As an, erm afroamerican person, I'm not going to be terribly offended if a Japanese artist does not make a personification of a character that is "supposed" to be black (I haven't watched Zootopia) as not black. Unlike some I realize that people who are outside of America may not have the same perception of race as someone inside of America.
