- [E21 Enter! The World of the Shinigami]Jidanbō is a gatekeeper character whose design heavily relies on offensive, outdated racial stereotypes. He wears a Turkish fez, reducing a deeply historic cultural symbol to a lazy aesthetic for a lumbering "exotic palace guard." His exaggerated facial features closely mirror anti-Black caricatures, while his personality invokes the primitive "noble savage" trope. This combination of insensitive visual coding makes his character one of the most poorly aged elements of the series.
