Talib Kweli on White Supremacists Fetishizing Asian Women and Anime

[Black Magisterialness]

To be fair, those are major tropes in media in general.

Its over-represented in Manga/Anime...even more so from the 70-90's when the children of people who were bombed at the time were heading studios and writing the stories.

 

[MegaManX]

I've never understood why Anime characters looked the way they do.
You can't say it's based on how they look cuz they eyes big as fukk.

Not to mention Dragonball Z where the only way to obtain true power is to become Blonde haired with Color eyes

the reason they look the way they do is almost entirely based on the emotional concept of the character.

Eye size = morality.

Bigger the eyes, more innocent the character. This is why airheads have huge eyes and children too.

If the protagonist male is a pervert, their eyes will be average. If evil, they will be slanted, or damn near closed.

Toughness also uses this scale. With eyes being slanted for the bad asses and open for people with no skills.

Dilation = state of mind.

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

asian men are about work before women
oddly sexual and yet really timid when it comes to women

so of course they're gonna seek attention else where imo

 

[Mandarin Duck]

the reason they look the way they do is almost entirely based on the emotional concept of the character.

Eye size = morality.

Bigger the eyes, more innocent the character. This is why airheads have huge eyes and children too.

If the protagonist male is a pervert, their eyes will be average. If evil, they will be slanted, or damn near closed.

Toughness also uses this scale. With eyes being slanted for the bad asses and open for people with no skills.

Dilation = state of mind.

So the people who are making these animes decided that the characters who have features that resemble their people the least are innocent and pure.

Meanwhile the characters that resemble their people the most are evil

 

[John Hull]

The GOAT anime Ninja Scroll has asian looking characters.

 

[Gains]

The GOAT anime Ninja Scroll has asian looking characters.

most animes do

 

[Blackout]

Yep. I noticed in many animes the lead characters are blond: Full Metal Alchemist, Elric brothers and their father (as well as the lead bad guy), Sailor Moon, Naruto, Bleach etc. Many of their animes like Full Metal have German themed. They are still obsessed with Germany. Their characters rarely look Asian. Like I said in another thread, they know how to draw Asian looking characters since they draw Chinese characters like Chang on Gundam Wing with an Asian look, yet the Japanese characters look like the European characters. The Japanese are a strange people.

We had a whole thread calling this out.

Anime even came from Disney animation aka Western Theme. Combine that with their love for Germany and you got them being all over non japanese features.

Especially when you look at their ancient art and see how they used to see themselves.

Look at the eyes:

Nowadays anime has mostly western wide eyes unlike their art of old.

Weebos will come after you for pointing this out though.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Ike Turner needs to be a character in them shyts.


"Eat the cake, Anime"

 

[Juicy Ace]

It's just japanese cartoons my men, chill

 

[AlainLocke]

Anime is drawn the way it is...because the characters are not supposed to have a nationality or race...

Mukokuseki - TV Tropes
Mukokuseki (jp: 無国籍) is the use of physical features associated with certain ethnic groups in anime, with characters having traits like round eyes, light skin, taller stature, and various hair colors. It literally means "stateless" (i.e. "without nationality"), though the term relates to more abstract anime and is used for hyperbole in this case.

 

[Mandarin Duck]

Anime is drawn the way it is...because the characters are not supposed to have a nationality or race...

Mukokuseki - TV Tropes
Mukokuseki (jp: 無国籍) is the use of physical features associated with certain ethnic groups in anime, with characters having traits like round eyes, light skin, taller stature, and various hair colors. It literally means "stateless" (i.e. "without nationality"), though the term relates to more abstract anime and is used for hyperbole in this case.

Please tell me how anime characters aren't supposed to have a race again

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

 

[Ironman]

Dragonball/Kenshin the only goat shyt out there.

but yeah man lots em playing those weird ass pedophile bordeline games like on the ps vita and such.

No lies told. If you disagree guess what?

 

[Mr.Big Meat McGee]

Why do peoe keep using this fake quote? Miyazaki is literally making another anime film right now.


Also a lot of generalizations being thrown around in this thread.

 

[Mandarin Duck]

Also a lot of generalizations being thrown around in this thread.

Such as