I'm not trying to start anything or get into any kid of idpol argument.
I'm just wondering why so many anime, many of which never receives a release outside of Japan, and takes place in Japan, is filled with characters who are obviously not Japanese.
Picrel, with a redhaired green-eyed character and a blue-eyed blonde, in the anime, both are native Japanese. They also have big noses like Caucasians.
What's going on here?
>>13036Basically. Same reason so many characters have unreal hair colours.
The real interesting question is why they are so enamored with Germans…
>>13037>The real interesting question is why they are so enamored with Germans…The idealized or simulation of German culture and royal British culture is like a fantasy land of order and divine rights to privilege.
That at least appeals to me because being rich and powerful just because would be pretty sweet and I don't feel I deserve any less.
And order in this fantasy German culture is nice because stupid shit wouldn't be happening all around me that makes no
apparent sense.
My 2c
>>13034Japan has an obsession with germany/ very white Europeans in general
Many characters either are half European/Japanese, have blonde hair and blues eyes, or randomly speak German.
Not to mention fully Caucasian people shoved into their media, but have a weird aversion to anyone that isn't of European decent.
Also, they still have a problem with portraying black people yet have no problem drawing white/europeans
>>13034Short answer: That is what the majority of the market wants and they are in the business of selling views of their anime.
Some studios recognize that non-whites are part of their audience and have an ensemble of protagonists , such as "Black lagoon" that had Rock , a Japanese man , Revy a Chinese-American woman , Dutch an African-American and Benny , a white (Jewish?) American . and it was pretty well received. Probably because they concentrated on making storytelling their first and only priority and left idpol at the door.
>>130341. the "normal" anime style is a mutation of disney, as another anon pointed out. Disney has always been popular in Japan, and it was a huge formative influence on manga and anime
2. said style is often drawn with only the vaguest possible shit given giving towards what XYZ ethnicity looks like IRL. To most japanese people, anime characters just look like stylized japanese, and when a character is a different ethnicity, boy howdy does it let you know
>>13411A lot of that is a holdover from the 90s/00s/early 10s. Back then most western animation was either family stuff or edgy sitcoms. As trashy as anime as a whole has always been, at the time, it was one of the few places where you actually occasionally saw animated movies and showed geared at adults that took themselves seriously. You didn't see a whole lot of western stuff doing the equivalent of something like Perfect Blue or Angel's Egg
That said, the situations has been changing as more mainstream western animation is exploring dramatic stories intended for older audiences. Probably the most famous example I can think of is stuff like "Love, Death and Robots"
>>13411What are you talking about? The Japs and the French are fucken CHADS. And a lot of American animation is also fantastic.
Granted, I don't look at Japan with rose-colored glasses or like Japanese corporate capitalism so…
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Also, don't the chinlets uncritically worship the 50s too? They have such tendency towards fanaticism already, they are unable to engage any country or period critically if they love certain aspects of it.
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So I saw this picture on stupidpol. It's true that it's typical woke idpol but it brings an interesting point. It is weird that we see this more often, why aren't there more examples like the pic in my previous post? So lame. Funny how light-skinned characters get all this fancy-shmancy hair that compliments their design but dark-skinned characters are all either albinos or skin recolors, it's weird. Like the artist has applied a filter to their skin and called it a day. Although Yoruichi has a cool design, it works. She doesn't feel like a recolor. Wonder why she looks so good (don't tell me it's her ass, it's not because I'm horny, I promise).
>>13130>sees one character who's half-European>sees one character who's blonde with blue eyes>sees one German<THEY'RE LITERALLY OBSESSED WITH THESE ARCHETYPES!!Random bullshit go!
>>13131>and all of them have huge melonsOr a chest as flat as a plate.
>>26207euro race scientists thought it would be funny if we call white people caucasian since at the time they figures europeans come from the caucasus, hence caucasian.
this is the same stuff that makes jews and arabs technically able to call each other anti-semetic. it's old race science bullshit lingo that's still alive for some reason
>>23265this. Nost Western aination celebrates awkwardnes and snark far too much.
Anime allows characters to be funny and quirky without being compleely toxc and over-comical.
Imagine if Naruto was written by Western authors.
It would be more South Park with ninja aesthetics.
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