I don't care about nothing else going on in this thread. I just need to know who this is? Claaaaawd......Real people don't look like anime characters even if their skin tone is similar. "Thick Samus" doesn't match Samus's body type but she doesn't get shyt for it. I wonder why.
I still think they look like white people at times.
"Actually it feels like Disney kind of made things more of a mess don't ya think?"
Is that guy in the pic serious?"Boy you look just like a leaf village ninja"
I still think they look like white people at times.
They(Japanese) say that it'd be boring to have characters that look all the same(black hair, slanted eyes etc.) so they do that to differentiate. Here's a couple of comments from some Japanese natives from some blog with my quick translation
"If all the characters were Asian, it'd be boring because everyone looks the same."
"Actually it feels like Disney kind of made things more of a mess don't ya think?"
Source
外国人「何でアニメキャラは白人に見えるの？」 日本人「何でアニメキャラが白人に見えるの？」 - 日々のストレス溜まりまくり
*The link this person links to doesn't work but it's suppossed to be some japanese granny.*
"anime grandma.
This is why. After WW2 and America occupying Japan, this is how anime has been seen as for a long time. US military cartoons are what anime has basically tried to look like and it's predecessors(anime) has amounted to this basically."
If some Japanese folks can say this, Idk why people defend the designs and say it's all japanese looking. I'm aware of how outside characters are depicted (Long nose, blond hair, blue eyes, shaky japanese in the original dub.) but that's an exception.
Having characters like Super Saiyan Goku, u know turning blue eyed and blonde haired sort of evokes that thought and feeling of characters teetering on the edge of being caucasian.
Like this for example:
These characters are tweaked to look western.
also not every character is some animes are Japanese but going by your original point, you'd say that they look japanese. One piece characters aren't even Japanese as per the mastermind:
The guy behind the series said this himself.
So, that's my point. Sometimes they look white.
I still can't get over how bad damn near all the One Piece time skip redesigns are.I still think they look like white people at times.
They(Japanese) say that it'd be boring to have characters that look all the same(black hair, slanted eyes etc.) so they do that to differentiate. Here's a couple of comments from some Japanese natives from some blog with my quick translation
"If all the characters were Asian, it'd be boring because everyone looks the same."
"Actually it feels like Disney kind of made things more of a mess don't ya think?"
Source
外国人「何でアニメキャラは白人に見えるの？」 日本人「何でアニメキャラが白人に見えるの？」 - 日々のストレス溜まりまくり
*The link this person links to doesn't work but it's suppossed to be some japanese granny.*
"anime grandma.
This is why. After WW2 and America occupying Japan, this is how anime has been seen as for a long time. US military cartoons are what anime has basically tried to look like and it's predecessors(anime) has amounted to this basically."
If some Japanese folks can say this, Idk why people defend the designs and say it's all japanese looking. I'm aware of how outside characters are depicted (Long nose, blond hair, blue eyes, shaky japanese in the original dub.) but that's an exception.
Having characters like Super Saiyan Goku, u know turning blue eyed and blonde haired sort of evokes that thought and feeling of characters teetering on the edge of being caucasian.
Like this for example:
These characters are tweaked to look western.
also not every character is some animes are Japanese but going by your original point, you'd say that they look japanese. One piece characters aren't even Japanese as per the mastermind:
The guy behind the series said this himself.
So, that's my point. Sometimes they look white.
Lol you walk into the house in a Goku uniform to an Asian wife everyday. fukk outta here clown.
Uhh no. Asians don't look like white people. Maybe in video games and cartoons like I said initially when they're altered to look ambiguous.Thing is, lots of Asians look like white people - particularly the women - with the main difference being their eye shape.
Probably after eye surgery, eye contacts, blonde hair and dress style they can even then you can tell.
