Nah B: Scarlett Johansson Cast As Lead For Ghost In The Shell

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It was announced that Scarlet Johansson would be cast as Major Motoko Kusanagi for the Ghost In The Shell movie. We can obviously tell the difference between the actress and her character just by names alone. Kusanagi is a Japanese woman, where as Johansson isn’t. I first found out about Ghost In The Shell by watching it with my brother. I was too young to know what the plot was entirely but seeing him so enamored with it is what made me get into anime and mangas. I know how big a deal Ghost In The Shell is for the anime game (drafted from the Manga leagues) and this casting feels like the proper homage isn’t being payed. It’s not like we were expecting Hollywood to learn their lesson with casting white actors as Egyptians in Exodus: Gods and Kings but come on man. Yall can’t even get a Japanese (or even an actress of asian descent) actress to rock this? Nobody has anything against Scar Jo, we still want that Black Widow movie or a movie where the white female lead doesn’t kill a guy for not speaking English (mind you they were over seas) as she did in Lucy. She got 100% use of her brain and thats how she was using it? I think they meant she got even more access to white privilege. The privilege is strong with this one [divider type=”space_thin”] I think my biggest concern is that as we saw in Dragon Ball and Avatar: The Last Airbender, Hollywood is going to start white washing anime films now at a higher rate. I don’t want that to become true but at the s…