Is Ibuki still an outcast in your Rewritten project or is he not?
Yes, but it's a lot more specific and is not written as an easy, reassuring story about finding acceptance. I think Ibuki's sense of displacement in canon is vague and, honestly, a bit generic within storytelling about diaspora. I personally don't find it touching. From my perspective, as a mixed and Indigenous person who was born in Japan before I moved to America as a child and has had struggles with Japaneseness my whole life, it feels very... Artificial? Impersonal? Like how this sort of lived experience is understood by outsiders? At the very least, it's a very convenient narrative for Wajin to consume and feel sympathetic towards. It does not challenge them at all. In fact, I think it's very flattering to Wajin. If anyone else of a similar background wants to chime in, I'm curious to see how they feel about Ibuki's writing in this regard.
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