Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket has Professor Lunland as the sole black character, and Gabriel as the sole Latino.Later in the show, Judau ends up befriending a young pilot from Africa, but his time on the show is very brief. Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ has the black Shinta and Ambiguously Brown Qum, but that's about it.Jun Hono, the half-black, half-Japanese pilot from Great Mazinger and Mazinkaiser.It's also implied that minor character Tom Tanaka might be part black, though it's never clarified either way. Simon is the only black character in Durarara!!, though a black gangster is also seen in the episode "Heaven's Vengeance".
He often uses Gratuitous German, to boot.
Understandable since the series is set in a small Japanese town, and usually it tends to be large cities that take part in student exchange programs with other countries. Central High's Vice President is the only black character in Daily Lives of High School Boys.Nunnally fits into the paraplegic category.There's also a supposedly elite pilot who dies mere seconds after she first appears on screen.Rakshata and Viletta are the only non-white/Chinese/Japanese characters of any plot importance, and of the two, Rakshata is the one who gets played in a more positive light.Yasutora "Chad" Sado in Bleach is half-Japanese, half-Latino in an otherwise manga-typical all-Japanese cast.He joined Armin's side under Yelena's leadership, in the hope of liberating his people. Some seem to belong to the upper class, others are from nations subjugated by Marley. Black people have been observed here and there in the manga. Onyankopon is the only notable black character in Attack on Titan.A show set in California featuring equal parts whites, Asians, and Mexicans would be credible, but not so a show in rural Maine with the same cast (simply because rural Maine is overwhelmingly white), and a show set in the American Bible Belt would have a hard time convincingly justifying multiple self-professed atheists in a cast of ten (unless a major theme of the show is nonconformity or religious/atheist tensions).Ĭompare Captain Ethnic, Token Nonhuman, Token Human, Token Enemy Minority, Token Minority Couple, Token White, Twofer Token Minority, Five-Token Band, Informed Judaism, Black Vikings, Token Black Friend, and The Smurfette Principle. However, this can be Truth in Television in cases where the prevalence of the minority, combined with the size of the cast and the demographics of the setting, make it genuinely unlikely that there will be more than one member of the minority present (not that this would justify stereotypes, but it would justify having only one minority). This trope isn't necessarly limited to characters on the side of The Protagonist, a cast of villain can contain Token Minorities as well. You can even have one be explicitly antagonistic. Taking this approach, Unfortunate Implications are unlikely to happen unless you somehow subject them all to the same stereotypes. If there are instead four minorities (assuming a sizable cast), they can all have different strengths and flaws which round them out and make them generally equal to the rest of the cast. This is very likely to lead being a Flawless Token and make him The Scrappy. This isn't out of contempt for minorities this trope simply causes problems with representation, where, for example, the single black guy is forced to be exemplary of his entire race. You might see this term used derisively in most contexts. Sometimes, there are token animals, aliens, or monsters representing ethnic minorities in a group made of supposedly "white" ones. Usually, the token non-mammal is a bird, but reptiles, amphibians, and even invertebrates are certainly not unheard of. Often the majority of the animal cast is made up of mammals and there is a token non-mammal. In some casts of animal, alien, or monster characters, World of Funny Animals or not, there is a majority species and one or more minority species.