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Rafu Shimpo

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Los Angeles Japanese Daily News

Author Archives: Jordan Ikeda

Posted inEntertainment

Into the Next Stage: “The Last Airbender” — The Last Straw

by Jordan Ikeda 07/03/201002/16/2022

By GUY AOKI Rafu Columnist Before this week, critics of the film version of “The Last Airbender” didn’t  have a script or any secret footage to analyze. All they knew was that a popular television series about a fantasy world inhabited by only Asian and Inuit people was going to star three white actors and Asian […]

Posted inAnime, Columnists, English

Into the Next Stage: Do Your Public Duty: Boycott ‘The Last Airbender’

by Jordan Ikeda 06/17/201002/16/2022

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