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Originally Posted by Kurisuten
I always wondered about this topic! In my opinion, anime girls don't look Japanese. And they DO look more like a western girls. I even read in a anime magezine that the creator of Naruto purppesly made Naruto with blond hair and blue eyes to appeal to the western culture.
I always wanted to look like an anime girl, and I'm American!
And ichigoichie, I always wanted to know a Japanese girls opinion about this topic!  |
Hi! What made me think that anime characters are non-Japanese was their profiles. They have long nose and western-like profiles. As for skin colours, I agree that most Japanese are not aware much of racial representations involved. Techinically speaking, animators often change the skin colours of characters just to make them distingished each other. But interestingly enough, dark colours represent strength/villains/outsiders, whereas light colours represent weakness/inocence/mainstream etc. Off course, there are always exceptions, though.
As the digital technilogy has developed, the effectiveness of colouring have got to mean more than before. (Colouring in MIYAZAKI's anime films is a good example.)
And probably this is debatable, but using western-look bodies is a way to avoid having Japanese viewers be conscious about their body images, sexualities, etc.