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[J T]

This is kind of NSFW, but I think it is a cool drawing:

[flojocabron]

JT.....tell me about your mother?

[J T]

Also just slightly NSFW, but funny:

[BoneSnapDeez]

I've been wondering about the reasoning behind this for years. Why are Japanese people white in their shows? We don't draw Americans as Africans in our shows.

TONS of anime shows feature characters with dark hair and brown irises. See Chobits and Elfen Lied, for example. People conveniently ignore these series when making the "anime characters look white!" argument.

And don't tell me the more ridiculous looking anime characters look white either. I've never seen a white girl with blue hair, pink irises, and eyeballs that consume 1/2 of her face.

Here's a pretty good take on the whole issue:
http://www.animeroot.com/2010/09/%E2%80 ... %E2%80%9D/

[Forlorn Drifter]

I've been wondering about the reasoning behind this for years. Why are Japanese people white in their shows? We don't draw Americans as Africans in our shows.

TONS of anime shows feature characters with dark hair and brown irises. See Chobits and Elfen Lied, for example. People conveniently ignore these series when making the "anime characters look white!" argument.

And don't tell me the more ridiculous looking anime characters look white either. I've never seen a white girl with blue hair, pink irises, and eyeballs that consume 1/2 of her face.

Here's a pretty good take on the whole issue:
http://www.animeroot.com/2010/09/%E2%80 ... %E2%80%9D/

Says the man with a redheaded anime girl for an avatar...

[YoshiEgg25]

Says the man with a redheaded anime girl for an avatar...

ಠ_ಠ

[BoneSnapDeez]

........... I don't get it.

[elmagicochrisg]

Many Japanese have skin just as pale and white as most White Americans.

This...

Caucasian: whiter shades of pink
Asian: whiter shades of yellow

[Forlorn Drifter]

........... I don't get it.

I found the fact that you talked about dark haired and more Japanese looking characters, while the one in your avatar looks like the redheaded life guard at Schlitterbahn...

[o.pwuaioc]

Here's a pretty good take on the whole issue:
http://www.animeroot.com/2010/09/%E2%80 ... %E2%80%9D/

The Simpsons thing is bullshit. There are clearly black, east Asian, Indian, and Hispanic characters on the show that are drawn to show this (Dr. Hibbert, Cookie Kwan, Apu, Bumblebee Man).

The issue is way too complicated to simply adopt (and butcher) the Structuralist theory of binary opposition and creating the Other (someone likely had a single film class and now they're an expert).

The real reason is that modern Japanese anime has its roots in western animation. One simply needs to compare pre-20th century Japanese artistic traditions with the rise of animation in Japan in the 60s and with early American, European, and Russian animation to see this.