Lady Reiha
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Don't get me wrong, I'd wreck this chick in a heart beat. But Granma Tsunade she isn't. Granma Tsunade, much like Sailor Moon is clearly a caucasion charachter. You know I never really understood why Japanese animation is so dominated by whites. I mean I would assume they would draw themselves cus that's what's normal in their culture you know?
I wasn't debating that, it just strikes me as weird and I didn't really notice it until just them. That Asian girls seem to be the ones who are drawn to Cosplay, but there is a distinct lack of Asian Charachters in an art form that originats in Asia.
I mean I never get to dress up at anime or game conventions. Afro-Samurai (not techincally anime anyway) about wraps up the list of blacks in anime. I mean I can kinda swing guys like Kusanagi of Blue Seed cus he's dark skinned enough, but the lack of blacks isn't really shocking. The lack of Asian looking charachter IS odd. Arguably odder is that if I had to pick out the Asian charachters on Naruto Orochi is the first one to come to mind (though to be fair only Tsunade and Naruto really seem to be white.
But it doesn't seem limited to Naruto. It's like anime in general. Sailor Moon has (mostly) realistic hair colors and the girls are still clearly not Asian.
Course I've always found it . . .funny (I don't have a better word here) that Super Saiyans (and Super Hedgehogs) are blue eyed and blonde haired.
And Goku's superior form being a Blue/Blonde?
To be fair the rest of your point all makes perfect sense, it just seems odd to me that such a phenomon lasted particularly in a nation where people naturally have slanted eyes that they would maintain the practice that big caacuasion looking eyes are "good" and that an appearance more in line with their natural appearance (dark hair, slanted eyes) are most likely found in their villians.
Course I'm the guy who loves wonders at what point do two artists who obviously admire each other just shut up and work together. The guy who makes Naruto is obviously (and he admits) he is in many way emulating DBZ. Which really explains the Naruto(Goku), Sasuke (Vegeta), Orochi-Maru/Itachi (Frieza/Buu) relationship. Not to mention the color schemes
Then along comes Blue Dragon and suddenly Akira is writing a story about a guy possessed with a powerful evil force? At what point do these two just shake hands and say look I love everything you've ever done, lets do the anime that 30 years from now people will be comparing everything else to? you mean like they do to to DBZ and Naruto now? Yeah. K.
But it doesn't seem limited to Naruto. It's like anime in general. Sailor Moon has (mostly) realistic hair colors and the girls are still clearly not Asian.
Course I've always found it . . .funny (I don't have a better word here) that Super Saiyans (and Super Hedgehogs) are blue eyed and blonde haired.
Nuclear radiation. An even more concise way to explain any Japanese pecadillo which doesn't make sense.
And, there are plenty of dark haired/dark eyed Japanese heroes. Shinji Ikari, Heero Yuki, Yusuke Urameshi, Carrot Glace, I could go on and on. But, DBZ and Naruto would be considered to be better business assets by American producers, if only for the blue/blond connection. If you compare Americas's anime input to Europe's anime input, you'd picket every studio in Hollywood. Europeans have finished airing anime that isn't even a glimmer in the eye of the American importer, because Hollywood loves blue eyed blondes. Hell, IMHO, the reason why porno actresses started shaving theis pussies was for one simple reason: A box of Clairol, a set of contacts and a handy razor increases your marketability in the eyes of the average American adult film producer (After all, gentlemen love blondes). So, why wouldn't it be the same for anime?
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Flatterer.
Actually,I stole that from this scene:
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