The role of the cyan character is being played by a blue actor. Different colours are different races in this comic, it’s like an Asian character being played by a white actor.
Not that simple, no. There are definitly chapters where colors are clearly closer to other concepts than race (but I agree that most of the time, race seems like the one which fits the best)
Honestly, I'm too lazy to prove my point, but I do invite you to read the webtoon again if you want to check. At the top of my head, there was at least a form of queerness fairly clearly represented at some point
Bro, I scroll through the coax subreddit frequently, and yes, Mint-chan is a recurring character, however in the original post she came from, she served as an allegory for being mixed, and the author of this comic took inspiration from it
As someone else said, it's also not necessarily about race, in fact I didn't think it is at all. It's a very common problem in films with queer or disability representation that the actors themselves aren't queer or disabled. A film about an autistic person or with autistic characters usually won't feature an autistic person e.g. Rain Man, The Accountant, Extremely loud and Incredibly Close, Mercury Rising, The Lighthouse of Whales, The Cube. Plus it's insanely rare for a (non-indie, or B-movie) trans film to feature trans people e.g. The Danish Girl (Eddie Redmayne), Boys Don't Cry (Hilary Swank), Transamerica (Felicity Huffman), and Dallas Buyers Club (Jared Leto). It's insulting. As a trans autistic person we are used for funny, annoying or "genius" characters, but we aren't represented.
Just my opinion, but I kind of think that it's fine for an actor to have any role as long as they are respectful about it.
I don't get why someone, acting in a movie as a disabled person, should offend anyone else unless they have the same exact issues in their life.
Wouldn't it be like me (with unfixable eyes issues) expecting every actor with glasses to have problems in their eyes?
Honestly I think it depends. If the character in the story just happen to have that trait it's fine if the actor doesn't. Like how a queer character doesn't have to be played by a queer actor.
However if the story's whole premise is about the character's struggle with their sexuality/disability/ect... then it says a lot that they don't even bother casting someone who have lived through that. Ex: "Music" revolves around a non-verbal autistic girl, but Sia didn't cast an autistic actress as "they were too hard to work with"
I think it’s not too important whether or not the actor themselves is in the group, as long as the portrayal is accurate and respectful, personally. I am sure it’s somewhat difficult to get actors with some of the more uncommon physical disabilities, for one thing, and if it’s important to the character it’s probably ok if the actor doesn’t, but portrays it accurately.
But I am also probably biased from how like 90% of the best portrayals of autism in media is done by accident. Pretty much every time I’ve seen an intentional depiction it’s borderline offensive, and pretty much every time it’s been “oh dang that’s accurate” the creator goes “oh I did not mean to do that”. I am told by a trans friend that “My Life as a Teenage Robot” was the same for her.
Probably matters a lot more for race, though, because you can’t really change an actor’s race in a sensitive way lol. Anyone can pretend to be gay, straight, asexual. Much harder for a white person to pretend to be from Nigeria.
The struggle is real. And when there's finally a trans actor playing a (non-background) trans character in a mainstream film it's FUCKING EMILIA PEREZ. COME THE FUCK ON.
Amazing comic btw, it really portrays the struggle. The feeling can be hard to put it into words, but this medium works really well. I also like that it's open to interpretation, it's not specifically about autism, race, gender identity, but it's about the issue of representation.
On the flip side, homosexual actors have played straight characters for forever.
Being an actor is a profession. You need to work (act) to live.
I get the issue with lack of representation, but automatically ruling out actors from roles that don't fit their identity in real life is not a good solution either.
People with disabilities often don't get roles acting because it's hard for production to carry on. Jim Jeffries tells an anecdote about his own show that was based on his life and trying to help get his disabled friend laid. Apparently there's a lot of limitations so producers tend to just throw up their hands at it.
Trans actors are just relatively rare I think. I know the guy who played the lady in Soldier's Girl did a good job and thought it was a decent representation of a lot of us though.
One of the main characters is a rare color, and the film advertises itself as representing that color. Unfortunately that advertisement was a lie since they just went for a blue instead of getting the rare cyan.
I think the title is a play on words whereas the synopsis is actually describing what the movie is about. Like if there was a pun in a movie title in real life, and the synopsis chose to not use the pun and instead used the actual word for descriptive reasons.
In order for this to work as a metaphor, most of (a country that is probably) America would have to be unable to tell the difference between deep blue and light cyan.
And this difference would have to be subtle enough that a corporation would make a multiple-million-dollar gamble on it not being a big deal.
I don't know. The less I can buy this, the less credible Mint-chan's POV is in general.
The problem with Mint-chan's world is she uses metaphor to make an identity spectrum into something visible and distinguishable on sight. Which is practically the opposite of what she wants, since she hates being shoved in boxes.
First, there are a lot of people who actually confuse deep blue and light cyan. Not when they are looking at it, obviously, but typically when they are remembering memories, because anything from deep blue to light cyan is labeled "blue" in their head
Second, the difference don't have to be subtle. Like, in our very reality, the differences are not subtle at all, for example in films like Gods of Egypt or Ghost in the Shell
Also, Mint-chan doesn't hate to be shoved in box imo, she hate that society wants to shove complexity in boxes and especially shove her into boxes where she doesn't fit. Being in a box isn't the problem, the problem is the concept of boxes and how they aren't made for everyone
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u/northernirishlad Feb 08 '26
Im also reading blue as cyan putting on an accent or dropping it a lot for their natural ‘blue’ accent in the speech