I've seen many plebs complain about anime characters always looking "white" (blond hair, blue eyes, pale skin) and how Japanese blatantly worship Europeans. I frankly don't buy this theory, because I've seen more authentic cosplays by Asians, whereas Caucasian cosplays look like some LARP at a weeb convention.

I always thought that anime characters are their own race, but nevertheless, how does one differentiate whether a character is white or Asian as the author intended, assuming there is no confirmation from such (eg. AOT's plot point of ethnicity and differentiating Mikasa from the rest of Shiganshina as an anomaly, or the weird stereotypically American character that is more American than regular Americans)? Just giving western settings, aesthetics, name, or lifestyle doesn't seem enough.

>western settings, aesthetics, name
Literally just this

>>280481370
sometimes i feel even that is not enough
i feel like they still envision these characters as japanese iwith bleached hair and in a western setting

>>280481340 (OP)
Retard

>>280481340 (OP)
>I've seen many plebs complain about anime characters always looking "white" (blond hair, blue eyes, pale skin) and how Japanese blatantly worship Europeans.
Anime character design is an imitation of Disney cartoons from the first half of the 20th century either directly or indirectly through prior anime.
>I always thought that anime characters are their own race, but nevertheless, how does one differentiate whether a character is white or Asian as the author intended, assuming there is no confirmation from such (eg. AOT's plot point of ethnicity and differentiating Mikasa from the rest of Shiganshina as an anomaly, or the weird stereotypically American character that is more American than regular Americans)? Just giving western settings, aesthetics, name, or lifestyle doesn't seem enough.
If it's an anime set on Earth I just assume they are either Japanese, unless there is something like character name, architecture, food or religion that is more commonly associated with another place .

>>280481340 (OP)
Uh, well. If she's a transfer student from a foreign country and in that case she'll be blonde 100% of the time- she isn't Japanese.

>>280481340 (OP)
When a manga/anime depicts a white person, you will know.

>>280481340 (OP)
The word you're looking for is ‘mukokuseki’.

This definitely seems like worship of Europeans to me, I wouldn't have even been able to tell this was made by a Japanese person if I didn't have prior information on the series. Redditniggers are right yet again.

>>280483683
it's hard to distinguish facial features between characters in anime so they emphasize hair and eye colors instead
simple as
same reason for so many anime having so many crazy hair styles and outfits

Anime is European influenced

>>280481340 (OP)
They don't act or look japanese. Sorry that your brain has been poisoned by twitter buzzwords and that you lack the ability to notice.

>>280483760
It's funny that you thought he was serious. You have a brain disease seek help.

>>280481340 (OP)
it's pretty simple
all characters are japanese unless otherwise specified, regardless of any skin color or physical features.

>>280481340 (OP)
Generally speaking, all characters are Japanese unless it's obvious otherwise
Fairy Tail and Gochiusa characters are Japanese despite the European aesthetic of the setting

>>280481340 (OP)
Easy. Japs look nothing like their anime. Very few go out of their way to imitate what they actually look like.

>>280481340 (OP)
It is because the main differences between Caucasians and Asians aren't apparent in deformed styles (as the main differences that distinct the two is skeletal and pretty nuanced). Other than that, hair and eye variety is nullified by fantasy colors. The skin difference from Asians having a slightly thicker fat layer that tints their skin is also harder to depict. Maybe you could say that Asian characters shouldn't have lines above their eyes. But most East Asians actually have a variety of Monolid that looks a lot like Caucasian eyes, especially the Japanese with their Jomon ancestry. If you look into any of their art tutorials and resources, you'll actually realize they base their characters off their own anatomy. If you've seen enough, you'll realize that a lot of less deformed anime characters are actually proportionally similar to Japanese and not gaijin. They'll even put effort in on gaijin characters sometimes to make them look more so. Shinobu is a good example, I swear they give her an accurate bigger nose in some scenes. They also may make westerners more pink sometimes (representing how our skin color is more affected by our red muscle layer than yellow fat layer).

>>280481340 (OP)
murricans are blue eyed, blond, and obnoxiously loud
russians are tall, have snow white hair and always fall under the kuudere archetype
niggers are an oddity since they are depicted from the jap perspective. meaning, they are somehow well-mannered unlike the real ghetto trash

>>280485516
Yeah man it's almost like they look and act like anime characters.

>>280481340 (OP)
They are indistinguishable in most manga.

Some of them draw white people with blonde hair unlike black haired asians.

Other distintict features are bigger noses and chins.

>>280481340 (OP)
Asian girl cosplays are more autenthic if you only look at the face, and the girl is superhot. If there's a whole silhouette visible and the cosplayer is vaguely in shape and the outfit is not complete trash, the European ones will look more authentic, at least on thumbnails. That's why Japanese girls cheat by wearing shoes with thick soles and high heels for outfits that originally didn't have any, wearing clothes that obfuscate their real figure, and cropping out their legs. They will also wear borderline stage makeup like circle lenses, and edit the shit out of their pictures, but that's par for the course with cosplay in general I guess.