New Screencaps, Character Designs For X-Men Anime

Oh dear god Cyclops–could he be or look anymore ultra-feminine? Least Storm looks good although the Japanese have a spotty record when it comes to race–they overglamorize white people, completely mask the Japanese to appear white and completely denigrate people of African and Latino descent. I see they squeezed in Armor into the team instead of Jean Grey, Iceman, Colossus, nightcrawler or any other character that would be stunning to see in an animated form. (sigh) here’s hoping that Blade is allowed to be suitably black, masculine, bad-ass and not speak in some weird rap style (looking at you Killer Bee from Naruto)—although it’s a given that he’ll have one bad-ass asian sidekick who will be the star of the piece while Blade is more background filler.

Seriously. What’s up with his posing?

I was thinking exactly the same thing

Looks better than X-Men first class.

Not terribly fond of Cyke’s character design but this looks pretty good. I wonder who will be doing the english voices.

Yeah… because Cyclops looking less stereotypically masculine is such a bad thing, and appearing less stereotypically masculine must automatically make him gay. For goodness sake. None of these things mean he isn’t cool, and strong, and heroic.

On a positive note, I am loving the quality of this art. Some of those previews are beautiful.

I don’t like the design, but I’d be fine with a gay Cyclops. Or Wolverine for that matter. And for all of you who equate effeminate with gay, there are vast numbers of gay men who are anything but effeminate.

I would have no problem with the whole team being gay. But while your last statement is true, it is also true that there number relatively few straight men who are effeminate.

And I would argue that being “strong”, “heroic”, “badass” and a “leader who makes the hard choices” does not mean that one must appear or be stereotypically masculine. These admirable qualities are not limited to appearances, sexuality, or how one places on a scale of masculinity and femininity.

is rogue and remy going to be in it? (oh and cyclops is work’in ittttt!)