On February 17, 2022, when episode 6 of the mini-anime series ''Petit Sekai'' titled "Petit Sekai: Leo/need Style" first premiered on [[YouTube]] in early 2022, it was accused by some [[woke]] neo-puritan American viewers of "doing/promoting [[blackface]]" and "cultural appropriation" due to a scene inspired by [[gyaru]] fashion substyle of [[ganguro]] perceived as being blackface. The next day, the episode was withdrawn indefinitely and a public apology in both English and Japanese was uploaded on the official [[Twitter]] account, quite probably with the reluctance of the Japanese work side due to woke American imperialists. The removal of the episode is controversial and many fans of the game and the show, either Japanese and American, especially Japanese, were disappointed with the company's decision, with some even openly blaming SEGA for its "bending the knee" and "listening to outraged Twitter users who insist that everyone should respect foreign cultures while applying and imposing their own Western prejudices, views, puritanism and imperialism against foreign media and subcultures". The episode was reuploaded to YouTube on the 15th of March 2022 with some modifications, removing the typical ganguro tan and make-up and also the tribal items. The anime ''My Dress-Up Darling'' received the same hypocritical, ignorant and bigoted attack by woke puritan and racist parasites, however, it didn't bend the knee like SEGA and Project Sekai did.<ref>https://en.datosjam.net.pe/anime/otaku/petit-seka-anime-apologizes-after-accusations-of-racism/</ref><ref>https://nicchiban.nichegamer.com/project-sekai-short-removed-for-blackface/</ref><ref>https://boundingintocomics.com/2022/02/20/sega-shelves-petit-sekai-episode-indefinitely-following-accusations-of-blackface-from-western-audiences/</ref><ref>https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2022/02/19/political-correctness-infiltrates-japan-as-project-sekai-short-removed-for-blackface/comment-page-7/</ref><ref>https://www.calcuttanews.net/news/272320824/anime-episode-pulled-for-blackface</ref><ref>https://www.kakuchopurei.com/2022/02/project-sekai-anime-short-pulled-by-sega-for-blackface-from-western-fandom/</ref><ref>https://m.imdb.com/title/tt17066860/trivia</ref>
On October 21, 2021, the event "Revival my dream" was released on the Japanese servers of the game. This event sparked controversy among woke imperialist English-speaking viewers on social media due to the cards’ costumes portraying perceived (again, "perceived") racial stereotypes of [[Native Americans|Native Americans or American Indians]] and a character in the event describing “forest dwellers” as “barbaric”, which some people took as "racist" or "colonialist towards Native Americans". Due to the wording English Twitter account if of Colorful Stage, some might theorize that the Western developer might have - like the hypocritical imperialists they are - asked the Japanese developer for permission to alter the original content, but were denied, and thus chose to simply not have the event at all. Due to this, the event was skipped in the English server. Players defending the event have stated that it was intended to be a reference to the movie ''[[Princess Mononoke]]'', and that the story was about overcoming racial prejudice. While <ref>https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2022/09/23/hatsune-miku-colorful-stage-western-version-cancels-event-due-to-inappropriate-content/comment-page-8/</ref><ref>https://www.gamerbraves.com/hatsune-miku-colorful-stage-cancels-revival-my-dream-event-after-racial-allegations/</ref>
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