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> roles that are obviously Caucasian Are they? Anime characters do not seem to be bound by typical (or even possible) hair and eye colours. Couldn't such chara
by TazeTSchnitzel 10y ago
> roles that are obviously Caucasian
Are they? Anime characters do not seem to be bound by typical (or even possible) hair and eye colours. Couldn't such characters be, well, ethnic Japanese people who happen to have an unusual hair colour? That seems to be the general assumption.
- seanmcdirmid 10y agoTheir ethnicities are often explicitly specified (Tameki has a French mother). Japan is also not that homogenous. Sometimes the ethnicities are left ambiguous, in which case it could be hair/eye coloring. In ghost in the shell, the protagonist is a robot or cyborg, ethnicity isn't fixed.
- krapp 10y ago>Couldn't such characters be, well, ethnic Japanese people who happen to have an unusual hair colour? yes, it's a conscious design choice[0,1]. They're not "obviously Caucasian" so much as "not obviously anything." [0]http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Mukokuseki http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Mukokuseki [1]https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Mukokuseki-rarely-appear-in-Western-Culture https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Mukokuseki-rarely-appear-in-W...