I love anime, my favorite shows are Bleach and Eureka Seven, but I have always wondered why are they all white?
Shouldn’t they be tanner?
2007-02-05 09:32:07 · 12 answers · asked by VeganCat 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Comics & Animation
I read an article about this in terms of manga. The author says that Americans and European-dominated societies notice a lack of racial identifiers and see the characters as "white". The Japanese, not having the same influence, only see the characters as "people". When a non-Japanese character is drawn in manga, the artist will clearly identify this character as foreign with racial stereotypes.
I have not done justice to the article. Even though it is a little long, I recommend reading it. My response came from paragraphs 5-8. Here is the link to the article: http://www.matt-thorn.com/mangagaku/faceoftheother.html.
2007-02-05 12:26:35 · answer #1 · answered by wavchad 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
that's because people think that white is the prefect color for beauty and resembles purity but not all anime characters have white skin, you should watch "Peach Girl". if you think all anime characters have white skin then your wrong. try watching a wide variety of anime next time..^_^.
2007-02-05 14:36:09 · answer #2 · answered by Muchan_6 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What Afro Samurai, the main character is black
u dig
2007-02-05 09:41:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To give the show more diversity and to give respect to the other king of animation Walt Disney and he is white.
2007-02-05 09:38:49 · answer #4 · answered by Falcon Christian Li 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hmm.. I guess you would be mostly right if you were to look at their skin color but most of the time they really are from japan.. even if they dont always look japanese...
2007-02-05 10:27:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are they meant to be yellow?
Didnt think so. It just depends on the anime.
2007-02-05 09:52:20 · answer #6 · answered by littleminnie1000 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In some of them, like Host club, they aren't full blooded Japenese, so they don't look like it..
The others I don't know I haven't really thought much about it
2007-02-05 11:26:33 · answer #7 · answered by his wife 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who says they're white?? They're japanese, unless it's set somewhere other than Japan
2007-02-05 13:23:07 · answer #8 · answered by Donovan D 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some characters are black like boondocks& afro samurai & peach gal.
Most characters are japanese. So they would'nt considered "white".
2007-02-05 10:23:50 · answer #9 · answered by jamesnimbus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thats the way they made anime characters in japen
2007-02-05 09:46:36 · answer #10 · answered by CROWN_PRINCE 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋