Posted by: Gaara444
Anime characters do have a tendency to look more western. It's hard to find a constant stream of Anime titles where the characters have nothing but black/dark brown hair and squinty eyes, with elongated chins.
Posted by: jacobwseibers
We also have rainbow hair?
Honestly all the anime i've seen they have relatively big eyes, some skin tone, and some distict hair color. I don't know if they are trying to get at anything with this, but I don't see any sense of inferiority. Someone posted above that many anime take place in Japan. So it can't be that they feel westerners are "superior." Plus history and culture only support the idea that the Japanese are proud peoples. I think in the end the art style in anime is simply distinctive and perhaps reflect Japanese views on immersive culture. I mean... people with hair from Black to White and everything in between, fat, skinny, tall and slender. I haven't seen an anime where characters were distinguishable (in terms of real life races).
Except for maybe that one stereotypical black-looking pirate in One Piece. It seemed too obvious there. :/
[Edited on 11.27.2012 1:18 PM PST]