Oh Japan. You never cease to amaze me.

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1. They are cartoon characters; https://youtu.be/FpTbyGrhAJw?si=3fY91LSTzBYgGJBO

2. r/bigfoot

3. Bra ja nai yo.

4. /r/lostredditors

5. Hey dum dum this is from an actual series called Golden Eggs

6. It must be exhausting to think that everything and everyone is either a racist or a -phobe at first glance. Instead of researching it like a grown adult, your first thought (hopefully it was) was to see it as discriminatory when that’s not the case at all. Please grow up.

7. I never understood the appeal of Golden Eggs.

8. Maybe you never saw Golden Eggs. It was huge here about 15 years ago.

9. I keep seeing these ads inside JR. 😹

10. FYI the milk chocolate flavor doesn’t blend as well as the banana and berry flavors.

11. That’s hilarious

12. Everything but the mouth is fine. And the mouth is the aesthetic choice for all their characters. Just an unfortunate clash of styles. No malice, I imagine.

13. I saw this sticker on the train door this week. I was like WTF? 😅

    Now that I’ve seen the YouTube excerpt thanks to a fellow Redditor, it makes sense.

14. Japan doesn’t have the best track record of PC representations of minorities but this is obviously a very silly cartoon. South Park, King of the Hill, and Family Guy all have characters that represent racial stereotypes. I mean, just think about the way Asian characters are specifically portrayed in those shows. I think we should all have a sense of humor about ourselves but that’s just me and how you feel is how you feel. At the very least, if you feel this is an offensive representation of people it is most certainly not a Japan-specific problem.

15. I can’t believe this cartoon is still around. It feels ancient at this point.

16. Are you saying it is racist?

17. Not related to Tokyo

18. Ohhh, I like their protein! It’s really nice.

19. Lol anything happening in the universe is always about the states to americans even in Japan. Always. Absolutely crazy that this is somewhat triggering…Get help

20. I have these LINE stickers

21. What is disrespectful about these characters? What do you see that is wrong?

22. Being Black, I surprisingly didn’t take offense to this one. Not sure why.

23. Yawn.

24. So there’s this whole thing about weight lifters in Japan talking about protein all the time (and they use the English word). Thus the cartoon people linked and why these guys are on a pag of protein powder.

    Look at the gym trainer in Aggrestuko. Same thing. He litereally only ever says the word “protein”.

25. Love the anti-doping bit for the added reassurance. Like your average gym goer buying this is gonna compete in the Olympics 😂 

26. A little more context, the white/Japanese characters in the JR commercial also have the same red lips. (Would post a link if I could find one) It’s just the style, not racist intent.

27. u/StraightSauced

    [here](https://youtu.be/jYDcMsgvjBg?si=YRWCzG_qdC_CXUDV)

28. You must be fun at parties.

29. GOLDEN EGGS

30. A woman named Stephan huh

31. All the characters have the large square lips. It isn’t anti-Black or mockery of Black people.

32. Guessing the OP is American.

33. What’s the problem exactly?

34. Don’t let this guy find out what symbol we use for buddhist temples on maps.

35. I’d buy it just for the packaging

36. GOLDEN EGGS

37. And Comic Sans typeface too

38. “Oh, no! I am so outraged, and ready to save the poor and oppressed!” “Thank you Captain America!”

39. OP so ignorant its warp back to being funny