A Japanese fan-artist decided to take a crack at the new Pokemon trainer Nessa, drawing her under different lighting circumstances that caused her to look lighter than usual. This became a peeve for the perpetually perturbed, and they decided to make their displeasure known to the artist.
Sankaku Complex picked up the news after various Social Justice Warriors filtered into the thread of Najuco’s chic illustration of Nessa, which you can check out below.
ルリナさん…….. pic.twitter.com/SVJhuoFx55
— najuco🦖3日目西I-27a (@Naju0517) June 13, 2019
The replies under the drawing and around Twitter, however, are anything but chic.
The Social Justice Warrior types are fussing up a storm over Nessa being “whitewashed”.
— best boy (@rawrneru) June 15, 2019
There you go now leave pic.twitter.com/4XsV4hlZY1
— 🐢Sparky🐢 #WaterGang (@Sparkpoodle1) June 15, 2019
Why is she so……. light?
Hmmm… nope. pic.twitter.com/6YnFDsjgNg
— Shanice 🦄 (@TrinityRoze) June 15, 2019
This is a drawing of a tan white person. Black kids can’t enjoy seeing themselves in media without y’all sending the message that lighter is better. https://t.co/FbYB2bsfdZ
— 9️⃣5️⃣ Sundjata Suma (@JataTheGod) June 16, 2019
Nessa is a brown girl. Please make sure your art reflects that. 🙁 https://t.co/G2IuQ7SCIc
— Celeste Tial @ Blerdcon (@IAmCeleste1) June 15, 2019
this would be cute if you got her skin tone correct, white washing is ugly https://t.co/59liifHQeb
— TriniZaddyan (@szvka) June 14, 2019
How can you be so talented but can’t draw dark skin folk? A shame. https://t.co/OmVga71sqf
— Tatianna (@shockofthequeen) June 18, 2019
There are hundreds of comments and thousands of tweets about it, as evident by the fact that more than 31,000 people liked the original artwork.
And while Social Justice Warriors definitely took aim at Najuco, she also had a strong showing of support from normal people, too, many of whom attempted to explain that all of the Social Justice types don’t represent all of America and the West, and that she should just ignore them.
This art is fantastic. It is not “whitewashing”. The people complaining are just venting their ignorance of how color theory and lighting works. I say this as a black man that this art is gorgeous. Don’t worry about these crazy people. They’re not worth your time.
— ゴジラ Cerberus 2077 (@KaijuCerberus) June 16, 2019
SJW westerners are so fucking dumb lol like just let the person draw whatever they want, no one cares about your dumb views on this character and why they’re black and all forms of fan art depicting her should depict her as “black”. :/ Don’t you people know how lighting works? https://t.co/lWJLVGchq2
— Zephyr (@9_Zephyr) June 15, 2019
Absolutely love it. Love the colors and her pose.
People can be so stupid sometimes, this is not “white washing” a character, idiots. https://t.co/bdGpVm7PE1
— Carlos~カルロス🔥 (@Ditto_MiesterCG) June 15, 2019
The damn sjws are at it again… Just because she has darker skin tone doesn’t make her Black. She could be from other races for all we know 😑. https://t.co/INk2lLioCg
— Seira (@xseirarax) June 18, 2019
Y’all wanted her to have Vantablack skin? LMAO, it’s just the artist’s pallette and way of lightning. It isn’t whitewashing, just an artstyle. pic.twitter.com/IZ54nsbMRa
— ҒᏆΝ ᏆΝ Ꭰϴ ᏦᎡϴΝᏀᎡᎪᎻ (@VicBossFaalGein) June 16, 2019
Even with Najuco getting a lot of support for the piece, and plenty of people defending her piece saying that the skin tone changed due to lighting, there were still some people convinced that it wasn’t lighting that was the problem, but rather lightening.
For everyone that says it’s correct because of ‘lighting’ needs to look at how in this piece, all the colours are made more saturated, save the gold which is made darker. but the skin tone is made desaturated and lighter and that aint how lighting works, chief pic.twitter.com/tHPxo0d1Kx
— artsy gay ghost ☆. comms open (@poplovania) June 17, 2019
Najuco also engaged in a conversation with someone who tried taking her work and darkening the image. During a private direct message conversation Najuco and the other girl came to an understanding, and the girl deleted the image where she darkened Najuco’s picture.
A few mad lads took it upon themselves to mine the salt from all the butthurt Social Justice types angry about Najuco’s illustration by going all the way and simply making Nessa white to satirize ignorant Westerners who take Japanese art and then proclaim to “fix it”. The tweet garnered nearly 4,000 likes. Thus, Anonemose managed to stir up all kinds of hatred with the image below.
hey @NintendoAmerica I just fixed Nessa, please hire me#PokemonSwordShield #Nessa #Pokemon pic.twitter.com/yM6KTz8HTK
— 杏子 ❁ (@Anonemose) June 12, 2019
its okay to have shit taste
— 杏子 ❁ (@Anonemose) June 12, 2019
same
— 杏子 ❁ (@Anonemose) June 12, 2019
It’s sad that people can’t even draw fan art anymore without getting dog piled by the politically correct police, but it’s good that Najuco managed to take the whole thing in stride. Unfortunately, given that artists can’t be artists without having to wade through a gauntlet of nonsense is a prime indicator of how degenerate Twitter culture has become.
(Thanks for the news tip notsureaboutthatonechief)
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