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@spitepouch : for real, it makes me so mad bc yeah, Laika isn’t as big name as like Dreamworks or Disney, but I feel like it’s popular enough (especially with the continuing popularity of Coraline and Paranorman) that they could’ve at least hired ONE japanese person to be in it?? Especially since the protagonist is a child it would’ve been great to introduce a japanese child actor with that role??? but nah let’s have a white kid for some reason

@mysticdoughnut : I love Laika i’ve really liked all their films thus far (except boxtrolls, it was nice to look at but it was kinda dull otherwise) and I think Kubo’s probably my fav now but I just had the nagging thought the whole time that wow, they could research japan and japanese culture well enough but getting at least one japanese actor would’ve been too much i guess……………  like it was strange bc i felt both included and not bc hey! a movie about japan! that’s rare!! to bad behind all those cute animated characters are white people™, can’t have both a japanese character and actor that’d be too much