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Ranking of worst cliche graphics for a Japanese rider
1- Shin Sanbongi’s surf graphic
2- Sakura Yosozumi’s skeleton geisha with a sword and fan
3- Mami’s. But at least the one in the left seems to be self-consciously cheesy.
What Japanese riders had actually decent graphics?
Right now I can only think of Toyota’s classic Cat and Mouse graphic from Santa Cruz
honestly what a garbage fucking take. when japanese people want to celebrate their culture, you mock it. japanese are proud of their culture. let them celebrate it. that should be the end of it.
Who says they have any real say in the graphic?
There are a billion more ways to celebrate Japanese culture, than with easy, cliche tropes. Evidence does it extremely well. As with some other Japanese brands.
I’m not sure a skeleton geisha samurai or some foreigner fantasy take of Japanese culture is really something they are proud of.
(Edit-the skeleton samurai was done by Hirotton, a Japanese artist. But he does a lot of skeletons, so it doesn’t really save him from the basic cliche argument)
Do you think an American riding for say, an African brand would be ‘proud of their culture’ to have a fat cowboy driving a hummer full of semi-automatic rifles with a mouthful of McDonalds fries?
But fuck it, I’ll ask Sakura next time I see her. Maybe Mami if I bump into her again.