>>41454048A lot of context got lost in translation. Original pokemon anime came out during a time when anime was not mainstream tv yet in the U.S., the Gameboy had limited color palette so skin tone was paid much attention to until GBA games and he was characterized as a skirt chaser, who could cook, with a shit show of a father who left him, his siblings and his mother.
The truth is Americans were kind of racist for associating all those qualities with a black guy. Obviously with all we know now he's either Okinawan or South East Asian.
