I don't really mind that they made Jet black. After all, the VO actor for the anime series is black but why make Spike Asian and Faye white? In the original series Spike was white and Faye was Asian. I was wondering how they were going to explain how an Asian guy has a European-Jewish name but the trailers shows that he changed his name to hide his identity. Anyways, I hate the ethno swapping. I get if all the characters were white before and they wanted to add some color but this swap makes no fkn sense.
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Odpowiedź użytkownika bratface
15 listopada 2021 o godz. 5:53PM
Maybe they couldn't get an Asian actress at the time? Maybe Cho paid them off? And the actress who plays Faye is Hispanic.
Odpowiedź użytkownika movie_nazi
16 listopada 2021 o godz. 9:00AM
Yeah right. I am sure there is a line of well qualified Asian actors who could have filled that role. Hispanic is white BTW.
Odpowiedź użytkownika bratface
16 listopada 2021 o godz. 1:18PM
Some Hispanics consider themselves 'people of color'.
Odpowiedź użytkownika movie_nazi
2 czerwca 2022 o godz. 1:00PM
Hispanic is just a label to point out that their origins are of a Spanish speaking country. You can be hispanic and be asian, black, indigenous or white.
Odpowiedź użytkownika bratface
2 czerwca 2022 o godz. 3:06PM
According to some things I have read, the author stated in the third manga series that Spike was Oriental (an outdated term for asian).
Odpowiedź użytkownika movie_nazi
2 czerwca 2022 o godz. 3:43PM
According to Wantanabe, the anime's director when asked if Spike was Jewish (as the surname implies), he replied with a "Sure, why not":
https://screenrant.com/cowboy-bebop-anime-spike-spiegel-jewish-coded-explained/
Odpowiedź użytkownika bratface
2 czerwca 2022 o godz. 5:30PM
There are so many different statements by the people who are connected to this. Here is a statement by Wantanabe from 1999 (bolding mine):
"At Otakon 1999, Watanabe stated at the anime panel that the name Spike Spiegel was chosen because he liked the sound only, not because of Jewish origins. Kawamoto based the Spike's hairstyle and appearance on the Japanese actor, Yusaku Matsuda. The concept of Spike was created months before Kawamoto was hired and had input from Watanabe on designing the character."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Spiegel#Characteristics
Odpowiedź użytkownika movie_nazi
2 czerwca 2022 o godz. 5:42PM
Yep, that is actually totally what I suspected. He had no idea that the name was a common ethnically Jewish name and he just thought it "sounded cool" . That is so Japanese. 😁