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Originally Posted by MMM
You keep making this point, but I don't buy it. Japanese actually have a great variety of skin tones naturally. Some people turn blue when it's cold! And many Japananese people tan beautifully.
You often see women using parasols and covering their arms in the sun to avoid getting darker.
This is not from a desire to look "Caucasian" but there is a faction of Japan that beleives lighter skin is more beautiful (like a porcelain doll). This idea of beauty has been around a lot longer than the Western influence (think kabuki and geisha).
For animators, the reason most characters have lighter features is NOT because they want thier characters to be Caucasian, but it is easier to show facial expressions on a lighter "background" of a lighter skinned face.
Sure, in shows like Black Lagoon you have white characters, black characters, Chinese characters, etc... but unless their character is specifically from another country (or planet), I assume they are Japanese.
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Hm you may have a point about wanting to have lighter skin before western influences came in. But thats still sad. I still feel like its denieng who you are. Even if its not influenced by westerness, its still trying to be not Japanese. No one in Japan looks the way anim characters do. Maybe some celebritys, but not most of the random people walking down the street.
And yes there are lots of diffrent tones but its the same general colour.