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Posted by: FloodPsychologis
Posted by: Swagoth Ur
Posted by: FloodPsychologis
Posted by: Swagoth Ur
New challenge: Give me ten more. It's a rarity cause while the Japanese aren't entirely Xenophobic, they still hold some racial distance from others.
Well, there aren't many black people in Japan so that kind of distancing isn't unusual.
I mean, when you make a show you aim to relate with your demographic. Just like how in america the most common main character type is a 30-something caucasian with brown hair.
So why not make them look Japanese? Why so many blonde hair blue eyes, brown hair green eyes (and yes there are rainbow colours) and red haired and green eyed characters?
It isn't impossible to find characters with black hair and brown eyes, but they all look like white people.
I don't know why people think anime characters look western. I just don't see it, most westerners don't have freakishly large eyes, no nose and rainbow hair.
Anime characaters are just supposed to look cute or visually appealing. Big eyes and bright colors are big parts of that.
Also, to me the adverage anime protagonist tends too look like the adverage japanese teen.
I'm not sure where that image is, but there was a comparison between anime characters and the skull shape and face structure of Caucasians, Mongoloids and Negroids, and anime character faces are definitely closest to Caucasians. But having blonde hair and blue eyes, or other European hair and eye colours is not found among the Japanese populace. European eyes are bigger than Japanese eyes and again, anime eyes are closer to European eyes than Japanese eyes, and have European colouring too. Their skin is almost 99% of the time European skin colour also. There are some Japanese people with very pale skin, but their skin is closer on average to maybe some Italians who are a little tan, whereas most anime characters have very very pale skin.
Perhaps, but I'm just saying anime character's aren't designed to look like any perticular race, just to be as visually appealing as possible. Pale skin and vibrant colors are visually appealing to many people, especially japanese.
Besides if you really look at the facial structure, they like much more closely cute animals like cats rather than humans.