Ever wondered why there were no Black people in Anime, especially in the world where I live; we have some ugly-as*ed Demons there, but NO Blacks!
Here's why:
"IT IS A CRIME IN JAPAN TO INCLUDE A BLACK PERSON IN ANIME OR A VIDEO GAME."
A direct quote from:
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/black_peopl...
2007-09-10 11:35:25 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Comics & Animation
Are you a troll? Or just stupid? On Yahoo it's hard for me to tell sometimes...
But just incase you are the latter- you're using uncyclopedia as a source, which is a PARODY of Wikipedia.... Why are you quoting that?
[EDIT] To people giving me a thumbs down, did you even look at the site? Let's look at some more "facts" from that page:
-There are 800 trillion blacks in the world
-4 of them live in Canada
-Their oficial religion is Voodoo
-etc
And while there aren't many black people in anime, there aren't many black people in Japan either. But there are a few. Heck, Samuel Jackson voiced the lead role in Afro Samurai- a black man. I guess they broke the law when they made that one, huh?
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[SECOND EDIT] I was looking for some statistics on the Japanese population and I finally found them. 98.5% of Japan's population has a Japanese decent, and most of the remaining 1.5% are from other Asian decent. (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ja.html#People ) That means that only about 1 in every 1000 people in Japan is black- and most of these live in the major cities. A Japanese person living in a rural village may not even know a single black person. Off the top of my head I can think of about 30 black anime characters. That's not too shabby considering it is representing .1% of a population [/EDIT]
2007-09-10 11:44:23 · answer #1 · answered by Mat of the RSPSOA 7 · 8⤊ 3⤋
Actually, there are black people in some animes.
Example :
FFVII
Bob from Tenjho Tenge
Pedro from Excel Saga
There are many animes with africans & westerns races characters.
Its not a crime. Just from the animes & the characters with different races, we could know that the japanese just want to be friendly & to have good relationships with other races & countries. I also have some japanese friends & they all are really friendly. So, PEACE to all people in the whole world ^^ Have a great day !
2007-09-12 10:53:43 · answer #2 · answered by Macoto17 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Um... Are you positive? something called "uncyclopedia" doesn't sound very promising...
Bleach, one of the most popular animes/mangas out there, has two important characters who happen to be black. Yoruichi, who becomes important when Ichigo goes to the Spirit World, and Kaname, a captain (the captains are the most powerful soul reapers). I've seen more black people in anime before, too.
2007-09-10 19:14:38 · answer #3 · answered by sawlmw2003 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i never noticed it before but not that im contradicting u but i saw cartoon in adultswim where there were black ppl
but ur sharp i never noticed before becuz as far as i know most of the anime are made in japan and the anime characters are mostly look like japanese 2 cuz the creators are japanese nut i never know that its a crime
thx for informing i was a bit shocked about this : o lol
2007-09-10 19:42:02 · answer #4 · answered by 1-4-3 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
what? nooo... there are black people in anime. For example, there's Buccha from Air Gear, Yoruichi from Bleach, Bob from Tenjou Tenge...
and uncyclopedia is NOT a good source to reference to.
2007-09-10 18:58:25 · answer #5 · answered by Lola C 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Just looking at your source makes me NOT take your question seriously.
Besides, I've seen a lot of dark-skinned characters in anime and they're just as cool as the fair-skinned ones.
2007-09-11 06:53:04 · answer #6 · answered by Otaku in Need 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Lol, then explain Afro Samurai and Eureka 7.
2007-09-10 21:55:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anderoo 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
90% of what you read on the internet is total BS. Honestly, think about what you read BEFORE you take it as fact.
2007-09-11 17:26:15 · answer #8 · answered by YAOI_GIRL 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i never really noticed that there were no black people in comics/ amine?
is that the same with magna then?
2007-09-10 19:23:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Woah! That's mean! Oh well.. I've seen a lot of dark skinned ppl on a ton of mangas, but I read a lot... -,-' But that's just cruel.. -,-'
2007-09-10 18:41:31 · answer #10 · answered by Angel 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋