serious opinion though, anime in general is actually somewhat Asian looking.
On one hand It definitely overemphasizes light features, in order to appeal to white money (look at pre-90s anime and you'll see tons of dark hair colors, Ranma 1/2, astroboy). so the casual observer says anime "just looks white" and ends there (and they're...somewhat correct).
But if you can look past the pigment part, they don't look "Caucasoid" at all. They tend to have really wide faces, upturned noses, upturned eyes, spiky hair etc
So many ask "why does anime look white", and it's valid to criticize the lack of dark skinned chars and abundance of white-coded chars. But at the same time I think it's eurocentrically ignorant to ignore the obvious "european-coded" look that animators use for characters of EXPLICITLY euro descent, (longer face, more convex nose, etc) showing that the JP anime characters ARE supposed to look physically distinct from "white people".
Also I think that Europeans and especially Americans, because of the racial diversity, are overreliant on color cues, and less likely to notice structural stuff in the face (when everyone's the same color you pay more attention to facial structure).
It's also unintentionally disingenuous to equate the blindingly diverse colors of anime to the...much less diverse colors of actual europeans. Diverse colors ARE there, but...90% of Europeans are just brown haired to slightly-lighter brown haired, with brown or drab grey eyes, a far cry from crystal platinum blonde and sea-green eyes and flaming red hair, which are honestly pretty rare. Not to mention green/pink/purple etc impossible colored hair/eyes.
Actual Japanese people don't usually perceive anime characters as white, and I see why. There's also a behavioral thing for me where the pace at which they talk, and the mannerisms they have, are COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY DIVORCED from actual Americans--I have a lot of trouble thinking of anime characters as being explicitly European, EVEN the ones for whom it's canon in the story.
Also now that I look closer it's curious how both Lenin and Stalin are depicted more asiatic than Trotsky.
caliper time
serious opinion though, anime in general is actually somewhat Asian looking.
On one hand It definitely overemphasizes light features, in order to appeal to white money (look at pre-90s anime and you'll see tons of dark hair colors, Ranma 1/2, astroboy). so the casual observer says anime "just looks white" and ends there (and they're...somewhat correct).
But if you can look past the pigment part, they don't look "Caucasoid" at all. They tend to have really wide faces, upturned noses, upturned eyes, spiky hair etc
So many ask "why does anime look white", and it's valid to criticize the lack of dark skinned chars and abundance of white-coded chars. But at the same time I think it's eurocentrically ignorant to ignore the obvious "european-coded" look that animators use for characters of EXPLICITLY euro descent, (longer face, more convex nose, etc) showing that the JP anime characters ARE supposed to look physically distinct from "white people".
Also I think that Europeans and especially Americans, because of the racial diversity, are overreliant on color cues, and less likely to notice structural stuff in the face (when everyone's the same color you pay more attention to facial structure).
It's also unintentionally disingenuous to equate the blindingly diverse colors of anime to the...much less diverse colors of actual europeans. Diverse colors ARE there, but...90% of Europeans are just brown haired to slightly-lighter brown haired, with brown or drab grey eyes, a far cry from crystal platinum blonde and sea-green eyes and flaming red hair, which are honestly pretty rare. Not to mention green/pink/purple etc impossible colored hair/eyes.
Actual Japanese people don't usually perceive anime characters as white, and I see why. There's also a behavioral thing for me where the pace at which they talk, and the mannerisms they have, are COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY DIVORCED from actual Americans--I have a lot of trouble thinking of anime characters as being explicitly European, EVEN the ones for whom it's canon in the story.
rant over you can take my calipers now
:bruh:
The fuck you on about