>>53807237Nah, the Afro gag/ fetish that Japanese people have is clearly rooted in seeing Afros as an oddity as best, that they strongly associate with funky disco culture or something. But other drawings explicitly depict having an afro as humorous, unattractive, or unwanted, and there’s a fixation on giving afros to non black people, or having afros forced on a character through one means or another (getting burnt, electrocuted, having a forced makeover, magic or hypnotism.) Sometimes the hair is presented positively or neutrally though, but the negative examples can’t be overlooked.
Black artists typically don’t draw kinky afros on characters that are not black (they’d sooner raceswap a character with or without adding an Afro before drawing a non black character with a ‘black hairstyle’), and certainly wouldn’t depict Afros in any of the weird, negative, or voyeuristic ways that Japanese ‘new afro haircut’ or ‘Afro daruma’ hair does. If Afro hair is explicitly focused on in a black person’s art, it would be more clearly ‘pro-black’ or ‘representational’.
The Afro fascination is not always a fetish, but’s obviously a cartoon/anime trope that has turned into a fetish for certain randos on pixiv and deviant art, just like several other cartoon gags of that nature.
https://www.pixiv.net/en/tags/アフロ化/artworks 
