Noin's loyalty to Zechs is almost terrifying. The way that they wrote her behavior towards him really irks me. This powerful military woman who follows some man who barely acknowledges her around like a puppy, and hangs on his every word? She's almost as bad as Une is towards Treize. At least we can somewhat tell that Treize is smitten with Une, though he tries to hide it (he has no problem with her seeing his nudity [then again, if my body looked as good as Treize's, I'd show that off too] and invites her to partake of wine with him, and violates her personal space from time to time . . . Treize himself may be oblivious to it, and may be trying to manipulate her, but it's obvious he's into Une. She is a capable and loyal woman, who could blame him?). With Zechs, it's hard to know for sure. He obviously trusts her, but . . . well, to go further into that would include spoilers.
I, too, have always thought that their depictions of the Earth were missing some pretty huge land chunks.
It is interesting that you write that Wufei was going to be African. I wonder if that means he would have been sub-Saharan African, or North African (although if Quatre is Berber, he could technically be North African, and some folks do include some regions of North Africa in what they consider to be the Middle East). As an African-American, one of the things that saddens me about anime in general is the seeming lack of characters of sub-Saharan African origin. Perhaps someday . . .
It is probably good that Wufei was not sub-Saharan African, because if his personality was going to be the same as it is written now, he would have been the poster child for the Angry Black Man trope (not necessarily a bad trope, but I do tire of seeing it--we are capable of emotions other than anger!).
Re: teal deer running around the world --
I, too, have always thought that their depictions of the Earth were missing some pretty huge land chunks.
It is interesting that you write that Wufei was going to be African. I wonder if that means he would have been sub-Saharan African, or North African (although if Quatre is Berber, he could technically be North African, and some folks do include some regions of North Africa in what they consider to be the Middle East). As an African-American, one of the things that saddens me about anime in general is the seeming lack of characters of sub-Saharan African origin. Perhaps someday . . .
It is probably good that Wufei was not sub-Saharan African, because if his personality was going to be the same as it is written now, he would have been the poster child for the Angry Black Man trope (not necessarily a bad trope, but I do tire of seeing it--we are capable of emotions other than anger!).