Friday, January 8, 2021

Amazighs in Comics/Manga and Animations/Anime


1.     Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan of the Apes (Western, 962 Series) #143 [1]



2.     The Strain: Mister Quinlan-- Vampire Hunter #4, and #5

Example from inside the comic:

3.     Salva-Enna-Tibesti (サルバ＝エネ＝ティベスティ, Saruba Ene Tibesuti), Dimension W[2]

Salva-Enna-Tibesti  (aka "The Wind of Africa") is the CEO of robot manufacturer Islero and C.O.O. of New Tesla Energy Central 60 [3].





4.      Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic

The fictional Fanalis tribe in the manga is an Amazigh Carthagian tribe[4] [5] [6] [7]. A few fanarts were actually created around her for being Amazigh[8] and African[9].

5.      Usopp (One Piece)

In SBS (aka Shitsumon wo Boshu Suru) number 56[10], a fan asked: If the events of One Piece happened in real life, what would the nationalities of the Straw Hat Pirates be?

For which Oda responded: Hmm, well, just going off of their appearance:

Luffy (Brazil);    Zoro (Japan);    Nami (Sweden)

Usopp (Africa);    Sanji (France);    Chopper (Canada)

Robin (Russia);    Franky (America);    Brook (Austria)

Usopp was mentioned by his continent and not country, a lot of fans wished he was Italian[11] or Indian, but now that he’s revealed to be African, fans suspect he might be Somali, Ethiopian or the more likely Egyptian[12] / North African[13]; in which case he is Amazigh as Egyptians are genetically -and to a certain extent historically- Amazighs[14] [15].

6.     Jet Black (Cowboy Bebop)[16] [17]

If we Consider his light brown skin, his love of blues since a young age (a style similar to some Touareg music), his facial hair resembling that of ancient Moroccan tribes (mainly Atlas ones), and the fact that there was a whole part in the anime’s movie adaptation[18] taking place in Morocco[19], one may speculate the possibility of Jet Black’s ancestors being Amazighs who left Tamazgha and went to Ganymede.

Bani Man of the Ida U Blal tribe
An Amazigh from the Ait Atta n’Oumalou tribe
An Amazigh  from The Ilemchane
An Amazigh of the middle Atlas
An Amazigh of Aït Hadiddou of Agoudal

7.     Kilik Rung[20] (Soul Eater)

This one is a little bit confusing and highly speculative, because although the character wears what clearly looks like a Touareg Tassmmousst (Chomeissa), the series author says that Kilik is a black character that he created due to lack of black characters in most mangas[21], and that his name is inspired from the black main character of the West African folktale Kirikou and the Sorceress. So since the author came forward about Kilik’s race, name, and potential origins i.e west Africa that has mainly Touaregs but also Sub-Sahara Africans, one might suppose that this character is culturally misleading, or at the very least a cultural misunderstanding (we can’t speculate on a mix racial origins since it is stated he’s black and not half-black), of course unless the pendant shape I based Kilik’s Amazighity on is just a coincidence, cultural similarity, or cultural stealing.

8.     Mororon

Mororon, the queen of Tajine Kingdom..

Her name has the initials of Moors, Moorish, and the country of Morocco (which is a is a kingdom too)

And Tajine is an Amazigh Moorish Moroccan traditional dish.

She wears a highly decorated robe..

The robe’s name is Kaftan, an Amazigh Moorish Moroccan traditional female robe.

Her bodyguards wear a hooded robe..

Its name is Tajllabit, an Amazigh Moorish Moroccan traditional unisex robe.

Mororon loves wine..

And it happens that Morocco has some of the best wine in the world[22].

Mororon in her introduction cheered with a line quoted from the Hollywood movie Casablancaa, which was made in Morocco, and Casablanca being a city in Morocco[23] [24] [25].


[13] And if you ask me he really has an Egyptian stereotypical look, oddly enough he reminds me of the science communicator El Dahih https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw_2KqLwJZxk8E0HNrVMM_pSAFS6_InrQ 

[14] Keita SO (2005). "History in the interpretation of the pattern of p49a,f TaqI RFLP Y-chromosome variation in Egypt: a consideration of multiple lines of evidence". American Journal of Human Biology. 17 (5): 559–67. doi:10.1002/ajhb.20428. PMID 16136533. S2CID 33076762.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajhb.20428

[15] Henn BM, Botigué LR, Gravel S, Wang W, Brisbin A, Byrnes JK, Fadhlaoui-Zid K, Zalloua PA, Moreno-Estrada A, Bertranpetit J, Bustamante CD, Comas D (January 2012). "Genomic ancestry of North Africans supports back-to-Africa migrations". PLOS Genetics. 8 (1): e1002397. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1002397. PMC 3257290. PMID 22253600.

https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1002397

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