[Ryzorian]

Anime characters have a large varity of hair color, eye color and hair styles so people could tell the different characters apart. Least orginally that was the reason. Anime has a lot more "western" characters in them than before, where they state what country they hailed from. ( Britain and France seem to be the big two right now)Though the names useually are the real key.

As to fashion, I never really cared, I just wear what works for what I'm doing. Performance is more important than look to me. Sides, Midwestern look is T-shirt ( useually with some logo), Bluejeans and tennis shoes. Not really alot of "catwalk" material here.