Apparently it was a huge hit in Asia. Iirc the title of the film was even changed to "Baymax" in some countries.
Kind of ironic how Big Hero Six racebended it original all-Asian cast to be something else, yet the Asians still loved it. Almost like they can like something without being represented in it, and are capable of not throwing shitfits over 'erasure' in a comic.
From Hiro being fully Asian, GoGo and Wasabi being fully Asian, Honey Lemon is strongly implied to be fully Asian but with dyed hair and contacts, and Fred is Ainu, an Asian ethnic minority...
... to Hiro being half white, GoGo still being Asian at least, Wasabi is black, Honey Lemon is """"Latina"""", and
Fred is white.
Mysteriously, you rarely hear chimping about this blatant erasure of characters of colour, but I guess it's considered alright if Asians (including darker ones that are an actual opressed and persecuted minority in Asia) get changed to Blacks and western Browns and even white as long as it happens alongside Asian->Black racebending.
Cool and interesting and unique characters for kids getting completely changed and racebended to better appeal to woke Western adults.
Wakanda is fine, but an all Asian cast has to be diversified, apparently. If they weren't so desperate for Chinabux, Disney probably would have diversified live action Mulan too.
He was so cool, too.
Actual diversity gets erased, but Baymax has plenty time to teach kids about trannies using tampons!
