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** It's doubtful that they were referring to Ganguro style. Ganguro was a counterculture style born against typical beauty standards that you'd expect of a YamatoNadeshiko - of black hair, with their bright, usually bleached, hair, and pale skin, with their artificially tanned, stereotypically orange-ish skin - though it literally translates to "black-face," Ganguro isn't based off of mocking black people, and wouldn't be racist. Thing is, the fashion trend died off in Japan within the decade it was born. What doesn't help is that some translations have the girls referring to the women they're basing it all off of as "sisters," and show the women as curvy women with afros. By and large, even tossing away the fact that it was a style from a decade ago, these weren't part of the mainstream Ganguro style. And even with the types of Ganguro that did use afros and browned skin, those are still blackface. Regardless of the author's intention, the effect is that it's seen as blackface. If it was intentionally written in, it's messed up, but at least Riko smacked her for it.
*** Except their was a black woman scrolling behind the screen during the scene. And Maki was singing a soul song. It was clearly in imitation of a black woman.

* ValuesDissonance: The {{blackface}} scene. There's no way they would have gotten away with that on an American show. And it's doubtful that they were referring to Ganguro style. Ganguro was a counterculture style born against typical beauty standards that you'd expect of a YamatoNadeshiko - of black hair, with their bright and colorful hair, and pale skin, with their artificially tanned skin. Not only had the trend died out a while back, but some translations have the girls referring to the women they're basing it all off of as "sisters," and show the women as curvy women with afros. By and large, these aren't part of the Ganguro style, which, while it does literally translate to "black-face," isn't based off of mocking black people. And there are styles of Ganguro that are based off of imitating black people - but in form and function, these kinds of Ganguro are blackface, and still racist. Regardless of intention, the effect is that it's seen as blackface. It's possibly messed up for it to be written in, but at least Riko smacked her for it.

* ValuesDissonance: The {{blackface}} scene. There's no way they would have gotten away with that on an American show.

* {{Blackface}}: In episode 8, as a throwaway joke, with some UnfortunateImplications thrown in.

* ValuesDissonance: The {{blackface}} scene. There's no way they would have gotten away with that on an American show.

* ValuesDissonance: The {{blackface}} scene. There's no way they would have gotten away with that on an American show. If it gets imported to the states, it's likely that scene will be cut, since it's potentially very offensive (and, conveniently, it's a {{BLAM}}).

* {{Blackface}}: In episode 8, as a throwaway joke, with some UnfortunateImplications thrown in.

* {{Blackface}}: In episode 8, with some UnfortunateImplications thrown in.

* LesYay: Riko and Maki, and the girls are all over them.