who is the most asian looking?

xxxxx · Post by **xxxxx** » Fri May 04, 2007 10:43 am

in ranma girl-type ranma has red hair and blue eyes, and this is not characteristically asian. in dragonball when goku becomes a super sayan he has this huge mane of blonde hair like some swedish dude, what is up with that? and in tsukihime shiki is obviously more atracted to arcueid the foreigner, than to hisui and kohaku who are japanese. is this supposed to make the story more interesting for the viewer, or is the author saying that the japanese are attracted or at least interested in the physical characteristics of other races?

Krisqo · Post by **Krisqo** » Fri May 04, 2007 10:55 am

If everyone looked asian in anime, wouldn't most of them look the same?

It's the art style. The Japanese are known for bright colors and whatnot so it's only natual that they would make characters with red, gold, blue, pink, ect color hair.

The same can be said for the eyes, big an round instead of narrow. It's just the art.

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Fri May 04, 2007 11:05 am

Most anime characters are Caucasian - the art represents their ideal figure.

OmniStrata · Post by **OmniStrata** » Fri May 04, 2007 12:52 pm

Who cares about race?

So long as the gender matches up and the character is hawt in the person's eyes, why bother?

I'm against ugly people. Nobody wants to watch that... Well, almost nobody. In comedic sense, then yeah, ugly can be good....

Cornwiggle · Post by **Cornwiggle** » Fri May 04, 2007 1:00 pm

OmniStrata wrote: In comedic sense, then yeah, ugly can be good....

Though I like Kuwabara's personality more than his comedic appeal.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Fri May 04, 2007 1:02 pm

Krisqo wrote:If everyone looked asian in anime, wouldn't most of them look the same?

LMAO

I actually don't think a lot of anime character designs don't have a 'race' as such. Certainly would be hard to call them 'caucasian' or something - where would you begin? There's very few anime, in general, where character designs are closely modeled after actual people.

kikai_saigono · Post by **kikai_saigono** » Fri May 04, 2007 1:03 pm

I have seen some clips in anime however where the characters have narrower eyes and a very asian look to them. They were very minor characters, only in there for a couple seconds (the main chracters were the typical anime looking) but they were still there.

OmniStrata · Post by **OmniStrata** » Fri May 04, 2007 1:04 pm

Cornwiggle wrote:
OmniStrata wrote: In comedic sense, then yeah, ugly can be good....
Though I like Kuwabara's personality more than his comedic appeal.

Our definitions of ugly are quite different.

Kuwabara is 'ok'...

I meant ugly as in 300 Movie Ephialtes style ugly...

There are unattractive characters, then there are those just too [barf] friendly to ignore... Demons and comedic spirits sometimes fall under this category...

Cornwiggle · Post by **Cornwiggle** » Fri May 04, 2007 1:07 pm

OmniStrata wrote:
Cornwiggle wrote:
OmniStrata wrote: In comedic sense, then yeah, ugly can be good....
Though I like Kuwabara's personality more than his comedic appeal.
Our definitions of ugly are quite different.

Kuwabara is 'ok'...

I meant ugly as in 300 Movie Ephialtes style ugly...

There are unattractive characters, then there are those just too [barf] friendly to ignore... Demons and comedic spirits sometimes fall under this category...

Yeah, though Kuwabara IS ugly compared to most shonen characters. :p

u_queen · Post by **u_queen** » Fri May 04, 2007 4:36 pm

On anime, most of the old people (specially males) is ugly not because it's funny, just is that they aged and get not much to look at just because the age.
(That means your lovable young character will turn ugly with the time

)

But it's not that japanese people prefer foreigners, the principal characters of most of the anime are people with the japanese characteristics -brunette, fair skin (not yellow

), they often are shorter than the secondary characters and their eyes are dark-

I.e. Yusuke, Goku, Yoh, Heero, Seiya, InuYasha (human form), Shyaoran, Tai, Kiba, Keitaro, Yuuhichi, Kyon...etc., etc.