Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20161211174540/@comment-14138255-20161220015630

KNN005 wrote: Then nothing will ever change then. We'll never know if things could be better than this because people like the status quo too much. Have it their way. Race side: no, things won't change. Things are fine the way they are and people like it (even among people who the representation is being directed to). Sure, some more diversity can be a change (even smaller things like architectural designs people didn't see before from a real world culture), but it won't get automatically better because more tokens were added. And it's not like anything else will come of it anyway, there isn't a point (we've come a long way from the offensive and inaccurate carictures of the past. If it happened nowadays, righteous uproar shall ensue). And that's not considering if it makes sense in story.

As for anime cliches and shit: it already is. Again, Madoka Magica, Evangelion, Fullmetal Alchemist (a bit), Hellsing Ultimate (don't get to proud of yourself Hellsing, Alucard's still boring), Berserk (that also has a black female protagonist that's great until.....the incident *brr*). All of these push the envelope in their own way and don't submit too much to insular Japanese culture (except maybe Evangelion....but it fits into the story a bit).