It is a mystery
Tory Lanez Stan
Asking what race anime characters are drawn to be, is like asking what race are tv or movie characters
Anime characters are depicted as people from various groups as that is their intention.They try to have a variety of backgrounds for visual-related diversity or plot related purposes. Not everyone in anime is from Japan, some people are from western countries and have a western look on purpose.
Look at the anime monster
Tenma (protagonist) is from Japan:
Johann Liebert(antagonist) has a European background.
You can very easily distinguish both characters' backgrounds even if I didn't tell you.
90% of the time it's very obvious where the character is from and 10% of the time it's intentionally ambiguous because they aren't representing any pre-existing culture at all (large blue hair etc.) especially if its made for adults.
More examples: Light yagami (asian)
edward elric (euro)
Cowboy bebop (western about cowboys - american)
samurai champloo (samurai show - asains)
Mitchiko and Hatchin (anime set in brazil - brazillians)
Hopefully everybody finally gets it now
any questions ?
Anime characters are depicted as people from various groups as that is their intention.They try to have a variety of backgrounds for visual-related diversity or plot related purposes. Not everyone in anime is from Japan, some people are from western countries and have a western look on purpose.
Look at the anime monster
Tenma (protagonist) is from Japan:
Johann Liebert(antagonist) has a European background.
You can very easily distinguish both characters' backgrounds even if I didn't tell you.
90% of the time it's very obvious where the character is from and 10% of the time it's intentionally ambiguous because they aren't representing any pre-existing culture at all (large blue hair etc.) especially if its made for adults.
More examples: Light yagami (asian)
edward elric (euro)
Cowboy bebop (western about cowboys - american)
samurai champloo (samurai show - asains)
Mitchiko and Hatchin (anime set in brazil - brazillians)
Hopefully everybody finally gets it now
any questions ?