There’s a big difference. Naruto is set in a fictional country with a fictional culture, anything goes. Ennead is set in an existing mythology believed by an existing culture in an existing country. Yes the author can do what they want, but people are also allowed to criticise their choices, their ignorance, and their inaccuracy.
egyptian people had very diverse skin colors.
Okay then what about bleach? Main boy has orange hair. It literally doesnt matter what show you point out I mean look back at ramna 1/2 the chinese girl has purple hair. I get what you mean but there are plenty of examples of this being done elsewhere. And just like the other comment said the diversity in Egypt is amazing even back in the day where this story would have taken place. And egypt considers itself a middle eastern country which middle eastern people have such diverse skin color from dark to the palest of pale. You can 100% disagree with me and the way the comic presents itself but on the other hand I can do the same and defend its artist right of creative freedom.
Except Bleach and Ranma BOTH do not use an existing mythology from an existing culture believed again by an existing group of people? Soul Society is made up, the ponds that change people in Ranma is made up, and Ichigo’s hair is already pointed out as strange in-canon already.
I’m saying that this work wants to use an existing mythology, and by the way that the writing is going, it wants to be taken seriously. In that case, I will also criticize it seriously, and question its accuracy. Egypt is located in BOTH North Africa and in the Middle East, I question why then would a main character be so Caucasian-coded and NOT be of either descent instead (because yes there are fair skinned middle eastern men, but you can STILL tell a grown man from the middle east apart from a grown man from Europe). Why then would the Caucasian-coded man be the protagonist, and why was every single man who raped them in this series a big brown man. Sure an author can exercise their creative freedom, but I will criticize how they used their creative freedom to once again enforces the stereotype that big brown men are always aggressive, and that light-skinned people are in danger from them.
You do remember that our "caucasian" lead murders a bunch of people and assaulted another lead of brown skin color? He keeps the mother of his child locked up? Besides the one interaction, the main person who assaults the main guy has green skin. No one is a good guy in the story, everyone is fucked up.
Also they dont clearly look white, I cant believe you cant this through your head. If anything they look more Asian because this was made by someone asian. And if you wanna debate and this shit more just look up pictures of what tutankhamun would look like today or reference pictures of pale middle eastern because honestly I cant tell the difference between them and white people. It really ain't that different. Fyi the main dude has BLOOD RED HAIR and EYES! no one has that color naturally. He ain't white, it's just a style choice.
If this wasn’t a serious series talking about serious topics I wouldn’t give a fuck. But it is so I’ll point out its inaccuracies as loud as I want. You read him as Asian, I read him as Caucasian, but the point is he’s still inaccurate because either of those characteristics would be extremely rare for the region.
And don’t you think that Middle Eastern and North African people want to see a complicated morally gray protagonist that does bad things but can still be sympathetic because of the suffering they’ve endured in a story? This setting gave the author a chance to make a complicated story for someone that wasn’t light skinned for once, it would be INCREDIBLY easy too — they had enough sense to make other characters poc. But instead they specifically chose to make their morally-grey, complicated main character as a light-skinned dude, who gets raped by the big poc dudes to garner the fandom’s sympathy.
In so tired of this back in forth this shit is so stupid. Go argue with someone else about the skin color of a FICTIONAL CHARACTER who is a GOD of a dead religion. Also just because it's rare doesnt mean it isn't true. Look it up white people and asian folk have been in Egypt for a very long time. And if you're this upset about a book you need to reevaluate some things ok? It really ain't this serious no ones looking for representation in yaoi
A lot of yaoi don't take itself seriously, and usually that's the norm! But clearly this isn't one of those kinds of yaoi -- this one wants to be gritty, real, and raw, and has a very serious plot with complicated characters. So I will give it the respect it deserves as a written work, in that I give it kudos for writing things outside of most people's comfort zones and making interesting characters that I want to learn more about, but I will also criticize it accordingly because it wants to be taken seriously.
Seth is also the god of "FOREIGNERS", people... Look him up and you'll see it makes sense for him to look foreign!
NONE OF THE CHARACTERS ARE WHITE. jeez. just like Naruto isn't white even tho he's blonde and blue eyed none of the characters in this comic are white, i mean the main guy has red eyes and one of the other gods has blue hair. none of their choices were done to make a character look white it was purely a design choice to make the characters stand out from one another.
and on the terms of being accurate the artist has done a decent amount of research and making some of the gods look just like how they were depicted, for example Osiris being shown with green skin.
you guys gotta understand that the person who made this comes from a country that doesn't have an issue with white washing like dude its Korea. chances are they didn't even think about what others might assume the gods races are when they chose the skin tones. they prob just wanted the gods to stand out from one another and since most of them have their faces covered one of the best ways to show them as different is the skin color.
so stop all this nonsense jeez youre reading yaoi calm down (づ￣ ³￣)づ