Anime: Cannon Busters Voiced by: Kamali Minter. When LeSean Thomas, animation co-director for The Boondocks, announced that he was creating an anime series for Netflix, Black anime fans were hype ...

There are so many Black female characters in anime shows. Whether they’re commanding the screen with fierce energy, embodying ...

Fortunately, this trend has started to change recently with the addition of a few great characters. Here is a list of 15 Black anime characters you should know. A (Fourth Raikage) – Naruto Shippuden ...

In an anime series full of unique characters, it’s awesome to see a person of color represented in such a bizarre world. Avdol was the epitome of badass, and his Stand Magician’s Red was fire ...

I don't always look for dark-skin characters in anime anymore. Even with Mirko [Quiñones' character in My Hero Academia], I was always campaigning for a person of color to play her.

This anime series is one of the few that get at the inescapable politicization of being someone with black skin (and sensitively so). Black and brown fans of anime, myself included, have made the ...

But he makes sure not to call Jet a Black anime character outright, as if to be respectful of Billingslea’s characterization. “There’s a lot of blerds, or people of color who are not ...

By and large, anime protagonists have inspiring backstories and an iconically infectious resolve. As it turns out, so do many of the actors whose vocal talents help bring these characters to life.

Instead, she reimagines these characters as if they had curly, coily or kinky hair, like a lot of black people do. For many of the characters she cosplays, like Vegeta from Dragon Ball Z, Isabelle ...

Creating a new Black action hero in animation . In the anime series, Yasuke wields a sword against humans, robots and magical beasts in fight sequences with stunning choreography.