why are anime characters drawn white??

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You attribute it to "Whiteness" they don't see dying their hair Blue/Green/Blonde/Red or wearing different colored
contacts as trying to become "white people", they see it as differentiating themselves from Japanese homogeneity.
You also think "Huge eyes" is a "White" thing, someone here pointed this out with a video.
Most anime/manga drawings involve eyes with an Almond shape, this is considered
attractive in Japan/Asia, and so characters are drawn this way.
You don't get this because you're american, there is a clear culture gap here.
They don't have a multicultural manifestation of individualism like Americans do,
their culture is largely Japanese and because of this they do specific things which
may not make sense to someone who isn't from Japan or any country where everyone
"looks" the same.
You can see this in America when white people who grow in largely white communities develop
an affinity for a different culture. They'll change their attire and even their speech to fit the "image".

I brought up subcultures in Japan and related this to Anime/Manga because Anime/Manga obviously draws inspiration
from the entirety of Japanese culture, they also draw inspiration from "Western" sources as well.

This isn't to deny that an appreciation of White people's culture or beauty
happens in Japan, just that people completely overstate this while trying to
simplify complex cultural phenomena into 'Dey Just wanna Be White !"

So basically they find non japanese eyes as attractive?

Well that proves the point of this thread even more.

 

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So basically they find non japanese eyes as attractive?

Well that proves the point of this thread even more.

Some of you struggle with reading so I'll just use pictures :

 

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Some of you struggle with reading so I'll just use pictures :

That still doesn't explain the hit and miss.

You show me a match here yet many animes have characters who are japanese with their eyes wider than that. It lacks consistency.

One example being Naruto.

 

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That still doesn't explain the hit and miss.

You show me a match here yet many animes have characters who are japanese with their eyes wider than that. It lacks consistency.

One example being Naruto.

 

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blonde hair blue eyes.

European.

 

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blonde hair blue eyes.

European.

And if you dyed her hair blonde and put blue
contacts in her eyes, she'd still have asian features.
Peep Naruto's eye shape and face shape, against hers.

IF you don't get it then
I don't know what to say.

 

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This is your average japanese person:

The female you posted eyes on the other hand aren't common and for those type of eyes like hers to be regarded as beautiful shows that they value something that is closer to the western look like a person would value their skin being lighter because its closer to white.

 

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And if you dyed her hair blonde and put blue
contacts in her eyes, she'd still have asian features.
Peep Naruto's eye shape and face shape, against hers.

IF you don't get it then
I don't know what to say.

Naruto hair isn't dyed nor does he wear contacts. It is said that its his natural hair and eyes which isn't natural among the japanese.

 

[Matt504]

And if you dyed her hair blonde and put blue
contacts in her eyes, she'd still have asian features.
Peep Naruto's eye shape, against hers.

IF you don't get it then
I don't know what to say.

are you implying that Naruto has asian features based on this one off photo of a Japanese female with large almond shaped eyes, you'd be VERY hard pressed to find real world examples of Japanese people with eyes like hers.

compare this baby's eye shape against naruto's.

I guess this is a little nipponsei baby right?

 

[Arishok]

Cosplays of Naruto, who would look more like him in live action

 

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Cosplays of Naruto, who would look more like him in live action

Europeans of course.

They wouldn't even need to dye their hair or wear contacts.

 

[Matt504]

Cosplays of Naruto, who would look more like him in live action

that Japanese kid looks white, I guess all it takes is blonde hair and blue eyes to transform Japanese ppl to white.

 

[Arishok]

Pretty accurate Yu Yu Hakusho cosplay

 

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The female you posted eyes on the other hand aren't common and for those type of eyes like hers to be regarded as beautiful shows that they value something that is closer to the western look like a person would value their skin being lighter because its closer to white.

^^^EXACTLY.
Some Japanese folks have
1. wider eyes,
2. reduced/no epicanthic folds, and
3. creased upper eyelids ("double eyelids").
It is not common for a Japanese person to have all 3 traits in combination, but it happens. Japanese beauty culture glorifies that which is RARE, so their idealized cartoon characters have these just such eyes.

Recall in "Memoirs of a Geisha" how the main character was singled out as a special child because she had light gray eyes. She was promoted at future-whore school because her eye color is RARE among Japanese people -- not because she looked Caucasian.

In my trips to Germany, I met young folks who considered people with both not-white skin and darker hair (in combination) to be exotic. They were from homogenous towns full of with yellow-haired, tall, white people. Those towns were the opposite of America's racial melting pot.[/img][/B][/I]

 

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that Japanese kid looks white, I guess all it takes is blonde hair and blue eyes to transform Japanese ppl to white.

He's actually mexican