why are anime characters drawn white??

[Ohene]

so every asian is a wimp and every white person is a power lifter? it's a cartoon. they could make the characters 6 ft 5 body builders if they wanted. and they do that. they just make them look and sound white for some reason. i wanna know why.

 

[mozichrome]

I've always thought there was a subliminal message behind Dragon Ball Z. Just think about it for a second. Black haired and brown eye'd Saiyans become "super" when they turn into characters with blonde hair and blue eyes. And this is all the doing of Asians.
And I've always found it quite ironic that they'll depict blacks with humorously big red lips and black skin but can't even draw characters that look distinctively "Asian".

where was the self hate during this

 

[Batman]

where was the self hate during this

Toriyama never wrote DBGT. He had nothing to do with it. It's not even canon.

 

[mozichrome]

Toriyama never wrote DBGT. He had nothing to do with it. It's not even canon.

right, move the goal posts breh

 

[Matt504]

where was the self hate during this

you missed the entire point of DB being brought up in this thread, it wasn't about self hate, it's about the white supremacy power structure vs. non-white parallels.

 

[Arishok]

Toriyama never wrote DBGT. He had nothing to do with it. It's not even canon.

I thought he oversaw it though

 

[mozichrome]

you missed the entire point of DB being brought up in this thread, it wasn't about self hate, it's about the white supremacy power structure vs. non-white parallels.

my comment was toward

Black haired and brown eye'd Saiyans become "super" when they turn into characters with blonde hair and blue eyes.

isnt all SS suppose to be blue eye'd/blond hair of they continued the white supremacy power structure?

 

[Matt504]

my comment was toward

isnt all SS suppose to be blue eye'd/blond hair of they continued the white supremacy power structure?

Let me simplify this for you.

Frieza and his ilk= cacs
Saiyans = oppressed groups

 

[Luke Cage]

this is what white characters look like.

 

[Batman]

I thought he oversaw it though

"So how ya'll doing for this next episode?"

"We decided to make the Super Saiyan 4 form into some hairy monkey tail nikka instead of the blonde haired blue eyed thing you had going on in DBZ."

"Aight, cool." *Walks out of the studio*.

 

[Arishok]

"So how ya'll doing for this next episode?"

"We decided to make the Super Saiyan 4 form into some hairy monkey tail nikka instead of the blonde haired blue eyed thing you had going on in DBZ."

"Aight, cool." *Walks out of the studio*.

He designed the characters for GT and SSJ4

 

[TrifeGod]

It's hilarious how Anime Art is really limited in regards to the person's attributes. Almost all anime drawings look the same. They just tend do put all their creativity in the animations and any type of accessory.

Anime to me has fallen into the same category as music. You find a common ground and/or blueprint to success, and you build off that. If it works why change it? Recently they realized their ignorance and started to draw ethnic people "normally." The reasoning for their racist ethnic drawings is way deeper than just calling them racist.

You could say it's self-hatred. But if you draw anime. The whole point is to exploit attributes way out of proportion. It is not meant to be realistic. Sometimes..just so happens they look white.

Common Anime eyes.

Looks nice right? Ok let's just pretend if they drew thier own realistic asian eyes.

Ok so, you want me to draw the above eyes into anime. It's no way I can make those look asian while keeping them "anime."

The closest you would come to...

 

[cole phelps]

Uub was basically their apology for drawing black men with bright red lips.

aint uub indian?

 

[Bingoman]

i meant in the english dubbed versions. sorry for not clarifying.

 

[Blackout]

He designed the characters for GT and SSJ4

Wrong.

The one who designed the SSJ4 was Nakatsuru Katsuyoshi.