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YMMV / Miraculous Ladybug S01 E14 "Kung Food"

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  • Alternative Character Interpretation: Considering the Compressed Vice nature of ChloĆ©'s racism and the fact that she showed a love of sushi in later episodes, some fans have interpreted her "just make sushi instead" remarks as her being Innocently Insensitive towards Wang Cheng — that, rather than falling into the Interchangeable Asian Cultures mentality, she just wanted him to make a food she actually liked.
  • Broken Aesop: While the episode's primary Aesop boils down to "don't be racist and treat all Asian cultures as the same", it falls flat when you realize the writers decided to make the akumatized form of the Chinese Wang Cheng a Shout-Out to Dragon Ball, an iconic Japanese piece of medianote . Additionally, two of the weapons he uses are a BFS resembling one that's wielded by yet another iconic Japanese character and a pair of sushi-themed tonfas (while tonfas are used in Chinese martial arts, the fact that they're sushi-themed unintentionally harkens back to ChloĆ©'s remarks that he should just make sushi).

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