/animu/ - Anime & Otaku Culture

They are probably used to seeing western people in most media that isn't from japan,or they don't want every character to look exactly the same.

>>15445

White people are attractive, brown people aren't. All of the girls that can afford it bleach their skin as part of their plastic surgery package.

>>15445

I think it's more of a coincidence.

>>15454

>asking otaku who know the characters what their races are

Maybe if he used original characters this would have some credibility behind it. Anime artstyle evolved from Disney(white people) anyways.

>>15461

I assume the inspiration was Bambi and it evolved from there. Osamu Tezuka who is the father of anime/manga saw Bambi 80 times. He liked the cutesy style and huge round eyes on the Bambi characters in which he decided to replicate onto his human characters. It's all pretty much a coincidence that the style evolved to having characters look a bit Western.

>>15463

Exactly. Bambi was an inspiration for anime, like how Spider-Man was the inspiration for Tokusatsu superheroes. Here's an example of pre-Tezuka anime.

>>15464

There was a period when anime took inspiration from American rubberhose style cartoons.

>>15463

>Osamu Tezuka who is the father of anime/manga saw Bambi 80 times. He liked the cutesy style and huge round eyes on the Bambi characters in which he decided to replicate onto his human characters.

It's amazing how influential Bambi is.

>>15465

Correct. Anti-weeb is a codeword for anti-white.

>>15464

>Spider-Man was the inspiration for Tokusatsu

No lie, Spider-Man has been a template for every other Tokusatsu hero since.

>>15469

How did Spider-man even get his giant robot in the japanese show?

>always

There are plenty of anime where characters actually look Asian like Ping Pong or at where they at least all have dark hair.

You picked the worst example possible though, I don't see any character that could not be asian with the exception of the middle guy having light-brown hair. Are you referring to the fact that they're tall? Because in a country where everyone is about the same height, people who are only 10 centimers longer than the average Jap look like giants to them so "tall" characters like that are in reality just slightly taller than the average Japanese male.