TOKYO: Japan’s three-time Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka has impressed a brand new manga character to look in a difficulty of Nakayoshi journal subsequent month, the publishers introduced on Sunday.
Her sister Mari Osaka is aiding with the character’s creation.
Naomi Osaka of Japan celebrates after her match towards Victoria Azarenka of Belarus (not pictured) within the ladies’s singles remaining on day 13 of the 2020 U.S. Open tennis event at USTA Billie Jean King Nationwide Tennis Heart, Flushing Meadows, New York, USA, September 12 2020. Photograph: Danielle Parhizkaran-USA TODAY Sports activities/File
“Rising up studying manga/watching anime was one thing that bonded me and my sister immensely so that is actually thrilling for each of us,” Naomi Osaka wrote on Twitter alongside an image of her character, full with tennis racket and pink hair.
Nakayoshi stated of their Tweet that the brand new manga, entitled ‘Unmatched NAOMI Tenkaichi’, shall be launched of their December 28th journal.
A earlier try to depict Osaka, who has a Japanese mom and Haitian father, as a cartoon character misfired, when sponsor Nissin depicted her with pale pores and skin and light-weight brown hair, creating public outcry.
The noodle firm eliminated the industrial and apologised to Osaka and stated that they had not meant to ‘whitewash’ her.
Japan has historically seen itself as a racially homogenous nation, though a number of profitable mixed-race athletes like Osaka, sprinter Asuka Cambridge and baseball pitcher Yu Darvish, are difficult that picture.
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