#basquash

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[doyouknowthisanime]

Do You Know This Anime?

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Chosen One: Right Man Wrong Call

Now, finally, let's talk about my favorite subversion of the Chosen One narrative: "Right Man, Wrong Call". This is one related to the last two tropes, and one I see even rarer than the other two - though again, the Matrix definitely kinda goes there.

So, destiny calls. The Chosen One either refuses or is outside the service area and does not receive the call. However, some random person overhears the call and thinks to themselves: "You know what? I would like an adventure!" and just goes and saves the world.

I chose a picture of one of the most underrated anime I know ofor this: Basquash! Because Basquash is very much themed around the Chosen One trope and subverts it in multiple ways. Basically: there is an apocalypse looming in this world, and the powers to be are desperately searching for the Chosen One. Heck, there have been clones created artificially in an attempt to create a Chosen One. And they all failed. And now the apocalypse is imminent, when the people find our protagonist and put all chips on him. He has to be the Chosen One.

And without spoiling too much of the plot: He isn't. The big twist is, that he is not the chosen one. Never was. However, in the end he goes: "Fuck destiny." Drums up the other failed chosen and together they save the world. (Especially beautiful: The apocalypse is caused by capitalism, and the character who the plot hints at being the actual chosen one cannot save the world, because she got disabled by a lack of affordable healthcare, and due to this cannot go onto the adventure, because the adventure does not meet her accessibility requirements.) Seriously though, y'all should watch Basquash! It also has a killer soundtrack.

Another very prominent example is obviously The Matrix, where it is highly implied that Morpheus is the Chosen One, but Neo becomes the Chosen One, when he just decides to be it. Doubly then deconstructed in Resurrection, when it turns out that it is indeed the love that made them Chosen. But in the end it was always about the decision to be the hero, that made them Chosen.

This is trope that goes especially hard, if it ends up being only one fated hero, but because that fated hero does not show, in the end it is a community of people stopping the BBEG, because it is not as if they were going to watch their world burn.

This trope obviously does deal with the main issue I have with the Chosen One trope: The fact that it takes away the agency of the characters. In this case though, the characters do have agency. They are not saving the world because it is their destiny, but because they just decided they will not stand by and let the world go to ruin just because the hero did not show.

As said on Tuesday. My own story Mosaik mostly goes into this. Sure, the heroine does not even know that there is a Chosen One mechanic in this world, but she sees something bad happening, and she chooses to do something about it. Yes, eventually a certain deity deems herself worthy of chosen powers for doing just that, given she is up against a literal goddess - but she starts the story out without those powers. xD

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Relicia Burakku (Hazbin Hotel OC)

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[creatingblackcharacters]

here to gush about a Black anime character from an anime called Basquash! here name is Miyuki Ayukawa and while she was not a main character, she was extremely popular (to the point ppl perferred her over the other main character, Rouge). her design was clearly made by someone who respected the Black community and wanted to give Black girls time to shine! and keep in mind that this was made in 2009 so this is another mega big deal! ok gushing over

Oh that's dope!! I like her hair!! And yeah, for 2009, that's absolutely thoughtful, and she was preferred?? 🥹🥹🥹 I'm happy you shared this with me, thank you!

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Black Female Anime & Manga Characters Masterlist

Alex Benedetto Gangsta | Alice Virtue's Last Reward | Allura Voltron Legendary Defender | Annette Castlevania Nocturne | Anthy Himemiya Revolutionary Girl Utena | April Darker Than Black | Atsuko Jackson Michiko to Hatchin

Canary Hunter x Huntr| Carole Stanley Carole & Tuesday | Claudia Grant Robotech | Coffee Cowboy Bebop |

Dorothy Great Pretender | Drolta Tzuentes Castlevania Nocturne

Felicia Darkstalkers | Franceska Mila Rose Bleach

Iris Pokemon

Janet Dragon Ball Superhero

Karako Koshio Deadman Wonderland | Karui Akimichi Naruto Narotu Noruto Narotu? (Note to Self, Check Name Later)

Lashiti Dimension W | Lenora Pokemon

Michiko Malandro Michiko to Hatchin | Miku ??? | Mira Nygus Soul Eater| Miyuki Ayukawa Basquash | Morrigan Darkstalkers

Nadia Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water | Nessa Pokemon |

Ogin Afro Samurai | Olivia Pokemon

Radiant Ocoho | Rhonda Vega Children of Ether | Ryme Pokemon

S.A.M. Cannon Busters | Shinobu Jacobs No More Heroes | Sister Krone The Promised Neverland | Sowande Sakaki Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!

Yoruichi Shihōin Bleach

Anime Tag | Black Anime Characters | Anime Fanart | Anime Art | Anime Style These tags are a little unkempt. I will admit to having a blindspot with most anime.

Note: Sometimes, I am confused whether something is a video game or an anime, and sometimes they are both, but sometimes, I have them tagged as the wrong one. So, if there's a character on the blog that might be an anime character that I have tagged as a videogame character instead, I may or may not switch them over from the Video Game Character Masterlist, if someone lets me know who's misplaced.

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If Dick & Wally had a kid?

If Wally & Roy had a kid?

If Dick & Roy had a kid?

If Jason & Wally had a kid?

Name: Bartholomew John "Barry" West

Gender: Male

General Appearance: spiker hair like Wally'd except for black, and green eyes with light freckles, generally has Dick's more slender figure as opposed to Wally's more broad shoulders.

Personality: He is loud and outgoing like his parents, is a bit flirtatious like Wally in his younger years, he has Dick's more suave ways of handling potential partners as he gets older

Special Talents: He is a gifted acrobat and good at science, he also inherited Wally's super speed.

Who they like better: Wally

Who they take after more: Dick

Personal Head canon: Barry learned to play the fiddle well.

Face Claim: Yuichiro Kyakuya from Seraph of the End

(DickxWally I)

(DickxWally II, Wally tends to have twins lmao)

Name: Alfred West

Gender: Male

General Appearance: Wally's Red hair, Dick's blue eyes, Wally's more broad physic.

Personality: More introverted and quiet than most of his family, he prefers to sit to the side and not be the center of attention.

Special Talents: He draws and paints very well, much like his twin brother

Who they like better: Dick

Who they take after more: Wally

Personal Head canon: He does game design in his free time

Face Claim: Dan JB from Basquash!

(Wally&Roy I)

Name: Irene West

Gender: Female

General Appearance: Their shared red hair, freckles, broad shouldered like her dads, their shared green eyes

Personality: Can't sit still, easily excitable and distractable, loves to have a lot of fun

Special Talents: Speedster like Wally, gifted at science

Who they like better: Wally

Who they take after more: Wally

Personal Head canon: She learns all about the native life and animals of north America to surprise Roy and make Wally super proud.

Face Claim: Takiko Souma from Tokyo Ravens

(Wally&Roy II)

Name: Diana West

Gender: Female

General Appearance: same as Irene

Personality: Calm and collected like Roy, has an explosive temper if pushed to far, strong and proud to be herself

Special Talents: Archery and a speedster like Wally

Who they like better: Roy

Who they take after more: Roy

Personal Head canon: Diana loves horse riding much like her namesake and is a gifted equestrian.

Face Claim: Takiko Souma from Tokyo Ravens

(DickxRoy)

Name: Janet Grayson

Gender: Female

General Appearance: Red hair, Dick's Blue eyes, broad shouldered like Roy

Personality: Down to earth, a bit quiet, protective, and determined

Special Talents: Acrobatics and Archery

Who they like better: Roy

Who they take after more: Dick

Personal Head canon: Janet becomes the second female Robin in universe

Face Claim: Meg from Burst Angel

(JasonxWally I)

Name: Andrew West

Gender: Male

General Appearance: Jason's black hair, Wally's green eyes, broad shouldered like his dads

Personality: quick tongued and determined, he is very rough like his father in Jason.

Special Talents: Speedster like Wally, is great with fire arms and close combat

Who they like better: Wally

Who they take after more: Jason

Personal Head canon: Andrew is dedicated to literature and graduating college in honor of Jason, who never got the chance.

Face Claim: Geppei Okaki from Magical Meow Meow Taruto

(JasonxWally II)

Name: Harper West

Gender: Female

General Appearance: Red hair, broad shouldered like her dads, blue hair, has a widow's peak

Personality: Calm, compassionate, scholarly

Special Talents: science and speedster like Wally

Who they like better: Jason

Who they take after more: Wally

Personal Head canon: Harper can play the harp.

Face Claim: Mirori Saeki

[strangeauthor]

holy shit its finally done i need to take a 10000 year break ANYWAY heres my inspo

shows/anime/manga in the picture

-Basquash!

-G Witch Gundam

-Bleach

-Zombieland Saga

-The Owl House

theres more im inspired by but i have No Spoons to add them this was hard enough as is bye

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Basquash: Miyuki

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This one amazing anime you have probably never heard about

You know what? After talking a bit with a friend about this anime, I really gotta tell you guys about it.

For fucks sake: Watch Basquash. Yes, the show is more than a decade old, but fucking nobody watched it back when it was released, because people were too put off by the concept of the show to give it a chance. But literally I know few anime who understood the issues around capitalism and how it destroys the world better than this one did.

If you have heard about the show, you will probably know it as "the anime where mechas play basketball and some women have giant tits". Which... Both is true. But it also does not capture the essence of this show at all.

Let me tell you what the show is actually about.

Dan JD lives on the planet Earth Dash. He mostly does small time crime, trying to collect the money to allow his sister to travel to the moon. Because the rich people all live on the moon, which is why the moon has much better technology. This also includes medicine. And Dan's sister, Coco, was once a gifted basketball player, but through an accident became wheelchair bound. The technology on the moon could fix her legs. When Dan's childhood friend Miyuki returns from the moon with one of the mechas responsible for Coco's accident, Dan uses it for quite a bit of chaos - and incidentally starts Bigfoot Street Basketball through it, later known as Basquash.

And yes, you can kinda see the basics of the capitalist criticism in this short description. But believe me, that only scratches the surface. Because oh boy, this anime is basically just one big metaphor on how capitalism destroys the world - and how the lack of social mobility might well be the reason that the people who might have the skill to save us never get access to the kind of techology they would need for it.

I am going to explain under the cut - because of spoilers. I think the show is very much enjoyable even with the ending spoiled, but if you just wanna watch it... Go ahead. Please. Do yourself the favor and watch it!

Okay, let me talk a bit more about what actually is going on in this show.

For the destruction he commits in the first episode, Dan gets send to prison, though he gets out two years later. He kinda get into steering one of the mechas (called "big foots" in this world) himself and quickly starts to figure out how to use the thing to actual play basketball. And indeed, his stuff in the first episode lead a lot of people to play "street basketball" with those mechas.

Even though he had been in prison, someone shows up to want to sponsor Dan with this new sport. In fact, quite a lot of people become interested in how Dan plays the sport. And for the first bit we just have them play the sport, travel a bit, see different parts of the world.

Now, there is ton of capitalist commentary going on during this first half of the show, too. But nothing compared to the second half.

Because around the halfway mark we learn, why people are so interested in Bigfoot Street Basketball, aka Basquash. And this reason is that for a while now the moon has been put out of orbit, because the rich people build their city all on this one location, making the moon much heavier on one side. And this will lead to the moon crashing into earth, killing everyone.

Now, of course rich people could have changed the way they behaved or stuff - but they didn't. Instead they banked on a prophecy about a chosen one with the ability to move orbits with a glowing ball. And because the basketballs that Dan throws start to glow, everyone assumes he is the chosen one and can save them. So, basically they can keep on going like they do and he is just going to save them.

But there is two issues. For one, they cannot be sure about it. For two, he is a little anarchist.

Which is why the backup plan is to genetically engineer a chosen one.

Never the less, in the end they have Dan there, trying to do the thing that would push the moon back into orbit and... he fails. Because it turns out, yeah, he wasn't the chosen.

We never learn, who is the actual chosen, but the series strongly implies that it would have been Coco. Who gave up basketball when she became wheelchair bound.

Now mind you, the show is actually fairly good about this. Because Coco herself is happy with where she is in life. She has become a writer, she likes writing, and she is frankly annoyed that Dan only cares about "fixing" her disability.

But yeah, she might have been the one to save the world - and she was not in the position to do that, because her economic circumstances basically made it that she could not access the kind of care she would have needed to fulfill that role.

And this is just... the amount of metaphor going on that I really cannot help but bow to. This is AMAZING writing.

Of course, in the end the world is still saved, because everybody realizes that waiting for the one legendary chosen hero is bullshit anyway and everybody should work together to find a solution, which they do and manage to save everyone.

But... Yeah, fuck. This show is so good. And it is just very unfair that because of the concept people just never watched it.

Oh, and also: This series has one of the most banger soundtracks ever. Just listen to the fucking ending.

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I submit Miyuki Ayukawa from Basquash :3

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BFCD Masterlist || Black Femme x Asian Character Relationships

This is a list of the ships with at least one Black female character x at least one Asian person or performer (Instances in which the characters aren't human will count as the person portraying the character's race).

As of the 4 Year Anniversary of blackfemmecharacterdependency April 30th, 2024, I am not going to be active. I decided to simply post what I had. The list is incomplete for the foreseeable future, but everyone is welcome to add on to it. Especially because I had several ships planned that I didn't get a chance to add before I had to stop maintaining the blog.

General Tags:

Black + Asian (This is for People with Black and Asian in them. They aren't necessarily ship representation, but sort of are because they are a product of such relationships and may be used for FC's if you have a character of similar makeup)

Black x Asian (This is for ships) | Black women with Asian men | Black women with Asian women | Black Woman with a Bigender Asian | Black Woman with Nonbinary Asian

Exceptions include if there is a nonbinary performer who plays the role of a female character, or vice versa, on the Black end. If there is an EXPLICITLY AFAB MALE, please do not suggest or expect them to appear.

List will include people from and with backgrounds from the countries on the map, but I don't intend to put any from Russia's portions, unless a special circumstance appears.

It was a little bit difficult for me to figure out how to curate the list (there are more of these relationships than I realized. So, for now, its mostly separated by regions of Asia, with the left portions on one list and the right portions on another. Not a perfect breakdown but everything to the left of China (west) and South is going to be the first part, and China to the east will be the second.

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4400: Keisha Taylor x Soraya TV

Anything's Possible: Kelsa x Khal Movie

Big Brother: Taylor Hale & Joseph Abdin Reality TV/Real Life

Jonesy: Susan x Nisha Comic Book Series

Mythic Quest: Dana x Rachel TV

The Haunting of Bly Manor: Hannah Grose x Owen Sharma Mini-Series

Lucifer: Mazikeen x Eve TV/Comics

The Princess and the Frog: Tiana x Naveen Cartoons/Misc

Ragnarok, The Animated Series:Judia x Iruga Alam (Idk enough about these characters to know anything. I will put them on this end, because it sounds like this is where they go)

Sleepless: Pyppenia x Cyrenic Graphic Novel

Tut: Suhad x Tutankhamun Miniseries

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Anime

Basquash!: Miyuki Ayukawa x Dan JD (I will be so honest with y'all. Inthe years of finding content, none of the times that I have ever found some, I have never seen an inkling of a pairing from that show and so just don't expect to see them here just because I included the names from suggestions)

Bleach: Yoruichi x Soi Fong

Borotu: Karui x Choji Akimichi (Once again, had no clue. Actually, I didn't know there was a Black women even In this series, which gives me pause to seek out content. Them fandoms where you never see the negress usually 1000% cannot be trusted. Long story short: Don't expect content.)

Hunter x Hunter: Canary x Amane | Revolutionary Girl Utena: Anthy x Utena

Books

Can't Escape Love: Regina Hobbs x Gustave Nguyen Book - Alyssa Cole

Let's Talk About Love: Alice x Takumi Book - Claire Kann

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Hazel Levesque x Frank Zhang Book Series | The Sun is Also a Star Natasha Kingsley x Daniel Bae Book/Movie

And just a fun tidbit for y'all. This assignment has my computer thinking I need suggestions. I haven't read any of these, but came across them, so here you are.

Cartoons

Amphibia: Jess x Ally | Dragon Age Absolution: Miriam x Sapphira | The Dragon Prince: Janai x Amaya | Inside Job: Gigi x Andre (Adult) | Invincible: Amber Bennett x Mark Grayson (Adult) | Miraculous Ladybug: Ayla x Marinnette | The Owl House: Skara x Willow | The Proud Family: Penny Proud x Kwok

Comic Books

Batgirl: Rebirth: Frankie Charles x Malaya | DC Bombshells: Nell Little x Alysia Yeoh | Goldie Vance: Marigold "Goldie" Vance x Diane Kimura | Ms. Marvel: Tyesha Hillman x Aamir Khan | X-Men: Ororo Munroe x Yukio

Movies

Boogie: Eleanor x Boogie | Bottoms: Josie x Isabel | Cinderella: Cinderella x Christopher | Lightyear: Alisha x Kiko Hawthorne | Ninja Assassin: Mika Coretti x Raiko | Romeo Must Die: Trish O'Day & Han Sing

TV/Streaming Series

The Baby-SItters Club: Ashley Wyeth x Janine Kishi | Black Lightning: Anissa Pierce x Grace Choi (Comics/TV) | Chicago Med: April Sexton x Ethan Choi | Dark Matter: Nyx x Two | Fate: The Winx Saga: Aisha x Grey | Gen V: Marie Moreau x Jordan Li | Heartstopper: Elle Argent x Tao Xu Webcomic/Streaming Series | Hunters: Roxy Jones x Joe Mizushima | Into the Badlands: Veil x Sunny | Killjoys: Aneela Kin Rit x Delle Seyah Kendra | Motherland: Fort Salem: Abigail Bellweatherx Adil of Tarim | Neon: Mia x Felix | New Amsterdam: Helen Sharpe x Cassian Shin | Helen Sharpe x Akash Panthaki | Nine Perfect Strangers: Delilah x Yao Book/Miniseries |

Orange is the New Black: Poussey x Soso | Power Rangers: Aisha x Adam | Aisha x Rocky x Adam aka Nesha's First Throuple | Tanya Sloan x Adam Park Kids TV | Riverdale: Josie McCoy x Reggie Mantle | Josie McCoy x Sweet Pea | Shadowhunters: Maia Roberts x Jordan Kyle Book/TV | Star Trek TOS: Uhura x Sulu TV/Movies | Star Wars: Jannah x Rose | Ketsu x Sabine | Pamich x Jessika Cartoons/Comics/Movies | The Umbrella Academy: Jill x Ben Hargreeves | Wheel of Time: Nynaeve al'Meara x 'Lan Mandragoran Book/Streaming Series

Webcomics

Dom & Mor: Morgan x Dominique | He's Harmless, I Swear: Tammy x Tomoya | If You'll Have Me: Momo Gardner x Priscilla Giang Webcomic/Graphic Novel | LMLY: Sofia x Leon Webcomics

Video Games

Mortal Kombat: Jacqui Briggs x Takeda Takahashi

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To Reiterate: The list is incomplete for the foreseeable future