Anime characters: Caucasian or Japanese?

Are anime characters Caucasian or Japanese? It may seem like a pointless, even a silly question yet some people have gone to extremes to try and prove either answer is wrong.
This question has caused no end of arguments and fighting so hopefully this video will clear up some common reasons people think anime looks more Asian than Caucasian (and why they are wrong) and hopefully make people realize why this is a useless question that is impossible to answer.

So this is partially a response video and partially a rebuttal to several reasons why people think anime was 'designed' for the Japanese face.

Enjoy!

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• anime
• characters
• caucasian
• japanese
• white
• cosplay
• stereotypes
• asian
• eyes
• slant
• caucasianization
• westernization

[SuperTekuteku]

@TipsyArmadillo

If you guys question Japanese anime creators, a correct answer will be obtained simply.

Our Japanese anime creators don't think about the face of the foreigners. So Japanese anime characters, the white is not the model.

First of all, anime is the world of the fantasy, it's not related to reality.

[SuperTekuteku]

@TipsyArmadillo It's strange that white people is particular about the color of the anime. You guys may have the attachment about the color.

But it's wrong that you bring the sense of a race into the Japanese anime. That's enough.

[songokukingdomhearts]

Any race has it's beautiful people, whether it is white, Asian, African, Etc.

Nobody looks like an Anime Character really unless they Cosplay as one. And in Japan there's a big population of old people, this is because Japan has the healthiest and most educated overall population, the population growth rate is only 1.3 kid(s) per family there. Also, plastic surgery isn't used as much in Japan as in Korea.

[MarieRossiya]

this is the best video about "caucasian/asian anime?"

[xShadowDarkX]

black or whatever else non-asian you wouldn't want someone japanese or other than specified racially portraying that character or a race you identify with poorly and disrespectfully..i've seen alot of cartoons and in almost any cartoon you can spot racial profiling, stereotypes, and down right racism whether it be anime or not..the japanese have portrayed other races as loud, arrogant, out of shape..where as many american cartoons portray asian cultures as squinty-eyed, inaudible, and yes..short

[xShadowDarkX]

the characters as japanese or various other asian ethnicities. the same can be said for shows like hetalia, black butler, gundam 00, hellsing, and myuzaki's howl's moving castle where the characters are caucasian or many various other ethnicities outside of asia. I think depending on what show your watching should tell you whether or not you can or should cosplay.. we all have the freedom to cosplay but some of it is bad and kind of insensitive.. after all i'm pretty sure if you were white or

[xShadowDarkX]

i like the last point about no race distinction in anime.. but i believe that only holds up to a certain point... for animes like full metal alchemist, gurren lagann, eureka 7, one peice and dragon ball z that are very ambiguous racially that statement is especially true... you can't really say such and so character is asian or caucasian. but such shows as durarara, paranoia agent, myuzaki's spirited away and elfen leid, the lines are clearly drawn by both name and cultural boundaries that note

[Essy366]

Anime is not intended to directly reflect reality. The style in which the characters are drawn is simply that of the Japanese, and is not meant to establish cultural boundaries or bias. What seems "caucasian" to you may be interpreted as "Japanese" to its creators, for the drawing style is what appeals most to their audiences. It is pointless to debate the characters' ethnicity, since their appearances (unnaturally colored hair, ridiculously large busts) lean more toward "fantasy" than "real".

[justplainly]

WAHT THE FUK , FUK U AMERICAN AND WHITE ASS. stop copied us !!!

[SuperTekuteku]

There was a cartoonist in Japan hundreds of years ago. The influence that an American animation gave in Japan is not big.

Japanese anime characters, the white is not the model. But, in the case of the plot that a white people appears in a story, creators think about a white.

You can't enjoy yourself, if the three-dimensional race problem is carried into the two-dimensional world.

Cut it off, will you?