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, and japanese is. Thus, there is no need for them to “look Asian”, because no matter how ridiculous the characters look, everyone will assume they are Japanese. The same thing is true in America.
Do the Japanese see anime characters as being Japanese?
“The Japanese see anime characters as being Japanese. It is Americans who think they are white,” he writes. “Why? Because to them white is the Default Human Being.” To illustrate his point, he includes this image: Abagond says most Americans will look at this image and see a white person, because, he argues, Americans see the white as the default.
This of course begs the question “Are there any white anime characters that are not Japanese?”
There are plenty of Anime characters out there, that aren´t Japanese (in their stories anyway) but still have white skin and the same colorfull hair as other Anime characters in the same show that is storywise from Japan. The main difference they have, most of the time, is the form of the head and eyes .
Why do Japanese people think anime characters look like Westerners?
Because anime is a very exaggerated art style they naturally over-exaggerated the white skin aspect as well. But most Japanese people don´t think, that their anime characters look like westerners.
Why do anime characters look so pale?
Seriously though, if you mean “Why do standard Japanese anime characters look paler than their natural complexion”, that’s because the Japanese standard of beauty is pale, un-tanned skin. Anime characters are (usuall Originally answered: Why do anime characters look white ?
So, why do anime characters look like they’re from another planet?
The answer was that’s why so many anime characters literally look like they’re from another planet. Each character has so many unique features, skin colour included, that it’s silly to even believe certain things because a lot of it is realistically impossible. That doesn’t mean some Japanese Artists don’t draw white characters intentionally.
Why don’t Japanese people call anime characters white?
If you walked up to a Japanese person in the streets of Tokyo, claiming anime characters are “white”, they’d slap themselves. Because they don’t have the same biases as westerners do. Or the same biases as “anyone” outside Japan.
In Japan light or white skin is seen as beautiful, so most Anime characters are drawn with white skin. But that does not mean, that they are not Japanese. In fact, most Japanese people will identify these characters as being Japanese and not as being foreign.
Americans are so use to having animated characters being white that we assume Japanese characters are caucasian. The anime characters could be european but we assume white as the US version of white. The Japanese draw their characters to look Japanese. They don’t draw them with slanted eyes because it’s a racist stereotype on our end.