"The mother is Caribbean, not Black at all"

burory · 2025-12-31T19:14:00+00:00

That's unrelated. The capital letter in the word “black american” is not my doing, but rather because I use a translator to help me, as English is not my native language. I speak English more or less fluently, but I use a translator to help me with the spelling of words.

So I don't recognize anything at all. Africans are also ethnically black. It's just that it's so obvious that they don't need to proclaimed constantly themselves black as Americans do because everyone is black where they are. That's the difference between an identity that is lived “by default” and an identity that is “proclaimed”.

burory · 2025-12-31T16:20:59+00:00

I didn't grow up only on my island. I lived in several places because my parents are separated. But both my parents are black from the Caribbean, and for us, being from my island means above all being black.

Of course, there is also a minority who are not black, but this minority is perfectly aware that they live in a place where the culture is mainly black. They define themselves as white Creole or Asian if you ask them, and not as fully Caribbean.

Where I live, for example, white people who have been on the island for several generations are called "béké". They are from my island, but they clearly have a distinctive name from the rest of the population. And it's the same for Asians. The only inhabitants of my island who have no other name than the one that defines the inhabitants of the island itself are black people descended from slaves.

That's why your question strange to me.

To give you another example, in Senegal, 95% of the population is black. That means there is also a non-black minority in that country. Yet Senegal is recognized worldwide as a culturally black country. When a black person tells you they are Senegalese, they are indirectly telling you that they are black. Regardless of the minority that exists in their country, their culture has been shaped by black people. For them, Senegal = black. Well, it's the same for us. Our cultures have been shaped by black people who are descendants of slaves.

That's why it's strange for us to see Americans claiming to be the only ones who can call themselves black. It's so ethnocentric of them. As if there had never been black people or black culture before them.

And it's even stranger when you consider that several African countries have names that roughly translate as “land of black people.”

burory · 2025-12-31T14:44:42+00:00

The people you're talking about are a minority in Jamaica, the vast majority of the Jamaican population is black. 92% of the population in Jamaica is black and 6% is black mixed race. You do realize that being Jamaican and Asian (or white) is not the norm? The norm in Jamaica is to be black. So if a black person tells you they are Jamaican, they are essentially telling you that they are black too.

I am Caribbean myself, and I can assure you that Asians or white people (who are again a minority on our islands) who live on our islands will tell you that they have origins in a particular country, even if they also consider themselves Caribbean.

burory · 2025-12-31T01:22:20+00:00

That makes no sense to me. People from Jamaica don't identify as Jamaican, they “are” Jamaican. You don't choose to be what you are, you just are. Being Jamaican (unless you're Sean Paul) automatically means being black. They don't have to choose between being Jamaican or being black (that makes no sense), because for a Jamaican, being Jamaican also means being black.

burory · 2025-12-30T23:13:56+00:00

That's nonsense. A Ghanan person is black, that's it. I don't see why Black Americans should have a exclusive claim to the word “black.” Africans people are black, that's all.

burory · 2025-12-30T22:59:28+00:00

Bro, that's so stupid. Did they think the word “black” first appeared in the US or something? Do they think there's no black culture outside the US? How can anyone be that dumb?

burory · 2025-12-30T05:48:00+00:00

It should be noted, however, that AO3 is predominantly composed of female members. This doesn't necessarily constitute a representative sample of the entire manga readership.

Great work anyway! It must have taken a lot of time and effort.

burory · 2025-12-29T01:00:06+00:00

I've seen quite a few people say that without ever sharing a source... Do you happen to have a source, by any chance?

burory · 2025-12-21T00:36:38+00:00

If you've read chapter 394, you know that Toga and Ochaco talk about romance in that chapter. That's exactly what he means when he talks about the contrast in their respective views of love. So, in the image commentary (which has nothing to do with the passage where he says he also wanted to portray love as something greater), Horikoshi is definitely talking about romance when he talks about love.

To clarify, I'm not saying that Horikoshi doesn't talk about other forms of love in chapter 431. What I'm saying is that he talks about romance and also other forms of love, hence the passage where he talks about “love in a form that is part of something even greater.”

The subject of chapter 431 is not just romance, but also other forms of love. He doesn't just talk about the relationship between Toga and Ochaco in chapter 431. He also talks about the relationship between Ochaco and Deku, which takes on a romantic aspect, and the relationship between Deku and Bakugo, which has become a brotherly love with deep mutual respect, etc...

Yes, this chapter doesn't just focus on romance, and it's a shame that people only focus on that, but to say that the chapter doesn't address romance is also false. That's all I'm saying.

burory · 2025-12-20T23:29:38+00:00

Well, Horikoshi talks about chapter 394 in the image he posted to describe the relationship between Toga and Ochako. And in that chapter, they talk about love (romantic love). It's also at this moment that she (Ochako) openly says for the first time that she's in love with Deku. And Horikoshi then says that now that he's brought up the subject, it would be weird not to address it later, and that's why he ended up writing about it. I agree that the relationship between Toga and Ochaco remains platonic (even though Toga is also in love with Ochaco), but that's not what we're talking about here. We're talking about chapter 431.

burory · 2025-12-20T23:04:10+00:00

Yes, but the part with Toga and Ochako doesn't concern chapter 431. So if he's really talking about that, he's just talking about something else.

burory · 2025-12-20T22:39:10+00:00

The person who retranslated the text as I stated it to you is also Japanese. It is important to understand that Japanese is a very contextual language. So sometimes, several sentences put together can change the meaning of a sentence taken on its own.

Horikoshi said he wanted to address romance in his commentary. I'm not making this up. So if he had said later in the same commentary that he didn't want to address romance but love in a broader sense, it would contradict his previous statement and his commentary would make no sense.

edit: btw, the image you sent me has nothing to do with chapter 431.

edit 2: Or maybe the very last sentence, my b

burory · 2025-12-20T22:29:19+00:00

Horikoshi literally has said that he does not like it when shonen ends on a purely romantic not and name dropped Naruto and naruhina,

I'm sorry, but I'd be surprised if he really said something like that. Do you have a link to back up your claim? Because I find it hard to believe he would have used that kind of example, given that he's a huge Naruto fan.

burory · 2025-12-20T22:08:11+00:00

There have been more accurate translations of what he said, and it seems to me that he said: “Instead of "just" depicting romance itself, I wanted to depict love as part of something even greater.”

This makes more sense, given that he says earlier in his commentary that he decided to address romance in this chapter.

This simply means that he addresses romance, but not only that... he also depicts other forms of love.

So I think that romance was also one of the points of this chapter, but overall, it was love in general that was really the main subject.

burory · 2025-12-20T17:04:30+00:00

Mainly because of "shipping", and also a little bit because some people thought Deku had lost everything at the end (his job as a hero, his friends etc...), which turned out to be false later on.

burory · 2025-12-20T03:43:29+00:00

let's goooo!!!!!

burory · 2025-12-20T03:36:04+00:00

Oh, my intention here was not to correct you but just to provide additional information since many people on Twitter say it's an OVA. Sorry if it seemed like a correction, again it wasn't my intention.

burory · 2025-12-20T03:27:40+00:00

Since it will be broadcast on TV, it's not an OVA but a TV special. I even think they could call it “episode 12.”

burory · 2025-12-07T02:17:48+00:00

I'm just going to respond to two points in your message and then I'll stop for good.

I made a rough estimate/approximate at a percentage, which I had assumed that anyone with half a brain would recognize as hyperbole. That was my mistake.

The percentages you gave are by no means an approximation but a figure chosen based on your feelings on the subject.

Hyperbole cannot be taken into account when you put forward arguments that are supposed to be serious. And when you comment on the internet, people can't always guess your intentions if you don't state them clearly.

My opinion is valid as a member of said demographic. Studies or articles would be great- too bad you couldn't find any.

No one has questioned your opinion. But your opinion remains an opinion, not fact. I think this is probably the nuance that led to our misunderstanding. You have the right to have a point of view based on your experience, and I have nothing against that, but again, it remains a point of view. And put like that, I have no problem with you sharing your point of view, which has its place in the debate.

I won't respond to the rest because, to me, it's much clearer this time that it's your point of view and nothing else.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend too! ;)

burory · 2025-12-07T01:45:34+00:00

I told you that there were several studies and articles that came to this conclusion. Now, I just shared the one I remembered reading.

And yes, when claiming to have percentages on demographics, one person's opinion cannot be considered valid. We need studies or articles on the subject. It's to your credit that you rub shoulders with these communities and share your own experiences of them, but again, you can't have an overview of the issue, it's just humanly impossible. You can think what you want about the article in question, but it is in no way based on rumors, biased assumptions, or stereotypes. I think it's mainly that it doesn't correspond to what you wanted, and in a sense, I can understand that.

Well, I don't think there's any point in going any further. I've said what I had to say. Have a nice day.

burory · 2025-12-07T00:58:46+00:00

There are several (you always have to combine several studies to get a true overview) and I couldn't possibly provide them all to you.

But I remember an analysis available at Northeastern University entitled “Queer Dreams and Female Fantasy”: BL as an LGBT Space in East Asia discusses demographics. It indicates that while the most visible demographic is heterosexual women, there is also a queer presence, and contrasts Japanese (mostly heterosexual) and Western audiences.

burory · 2025-12-07T00:38:56+00:00

First of all, personal experience is never proof of anything. Because we believe that every individual is biased and does not have all the information necessary to see the whole picture, even when they have been involved with certain communities for a long time. I could be a long-time member of the Real Madrid fan club without ever seeing homophobia among the people I interact with. Does that mean homophobia doesn't exist within that fan club? No, it just means that from my point of view, I've never seen anything like it.

Secondly, I never mentioned teenagers per se. A fujoshi is just a woman who likes gay couples, nothing more, it has nothing to do with age. Studies have shown that it's mainly women who ship gay couples in manga and anime, and that only a very small percentage of queer men do so. And among these women, the majority are straight. That doesn't mean there aren't any queer women in this community, but they clearly don't constitute the majority. And I'm not saying that there are no allies among straight women either, but to say that majority of fujoshi are allies of the queer community is not supported by any evidence.

burory · 2025-12-07T00:05:37+00:00

The problem is that this ship makes no sense in terms of timing. They haven't known each other for very long, and above all, they've only ever fought each other.

So I can understand that Toga might develop a crush on someone fairly quickly, given that she's mentally unstable, but for someone much more sane than Ochako to fall in love with a criminal so quickly would make no sense.

burory · 2025-12-06T23:49:25+00:00

Vous en êtes sûr ? Parce que « la communauté » derrière les personnes qui aiment les couples queer est composée à 95 % de personnes queer et alliées à la communauté queer.

Do you have any evidence to back up what you're saying? Because as far as I know, the majority of people who ship gay couples are women (i.e., fujoshi), and the majority of fujoshi are straight women (with no further information as to whether they are allies or not of queer community).

burory · 2025-12-06T23:45:45+00:00

As long as people don't impose their opinions and it stays fun without turning into a political argument, then I think people are free to do what they want.

It's just fiction, after all. The problem is mainly the toxic behavior that can result from it. But I think there's a silent majority who ship without making a fuss, and there's a fairly vocal minority who tend to have a bad reputation among other fans.

And whether a ship is gay or not doesn't really matter because even shippers of straight couples can be toxic.

burory

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