Besides western beauty standards, having paler skin in general has been a class signifier that you were rich enough that you did not have to work out in the fields. Also in-part why parasols were popular.
Yes. Field hands would work out in the sun all day while rich assholes would sit inside. This tended to mean that poor people had darker skin than nobles. In other cultures you see similar manifestations of this. For example, some places consider having long fingernails to be a status symbol because working in agriculture tended to result in people's nails getting broken or naturally filed down if they were too long.
I never got that one; I always thought it was so fucking stupid. She just has regular ass hands.
And blue blood as well, no? On pale person you can see their blue veins.
Yeah, sometimes the "anime is racist" trope goes so far that it becomes inadvertently a bit racist.
I once had a conversation with someone who insisted that anime characters are white because they have big eyes and pale skin. I pointed out the implication that Asian people can't have big eyes or pale skin and he all but got out his proverbial calipers.
Also, if the character with yellow hair and green eyes has to be white, then what the fuck is the explanation for the character with neon green hair and red eyes?
being pale is a status symbol over there. its very easy to get brown as an asian person if you dont avoid the sun regularly. its a similar thing to how europe operated for a long time, but a bit more extreme
Portugal, spain, italy, greece, etc all tend to be pretty warm in select areas
"mhh are there any hot countries in europe..." "yes the ones in the stereotypically hot cardinal direction" "ah how could i have forgotten"
BREAKING: People like to make stories about themselves and their own cultures/nations/groups.
It is not just racism or beauty standard although those are some factors. Anime borrows a lot from manga and traditionaly drawn manga is very time consuming to make and draw darker tones. Indeed they invented screen tones as a shortcut because fuck doing all that repetitive work manualy that probably wouldn't even look "good".
In general texturing in black and white is realy tough.
I should also note that colored manga is also quite rare specialy before the digital age. And even digital isn't a complete standard yet many artists still use traditional pen+paper method.
From a Japanese perspective this is diversity; traditionally it's a very homogeneous place where Western blood was not an asset, even today "hafu" kids can be bullied for it. It's also factual: most Japanese have whiter skin than so-called White people.
Props to Joseph Joestar, whose first action on screen was to beat the shit out of some racist cops
Then he fell of by teaming up woth nazis abd billionaires till the day he died.
Plus, the guys is litterally called MOHAMMED ABDUL. Cmon how do you get more cliché
It is actuallt a super common name in some places though. I thought it was kinda a good choice
Main characters have colorful hair to make them stand out. It could be blue or pink or whatever. That's just to avoid literally every character in the entire series all having black hair
Has there ever been a black character in an anime that didn't look insanely racist?
Pretty much everyone from Carol&Tuesday. Don’t watch/read an awful lot of anime/manga though, so there might be more.
Cool! Was legitimately curious. Yeah that art style looks good too.
It’s alright, albeit incredibly naive and lacking direction in the second half.
This always bugged me tbh. Slight off topic but the one exception are like magical beings thinking about FMA and the homunculus since they got a healing factor making a tan impossible I think.
I'm drawing a blank on the japanese character tbh. Do you mean Ling? For some reason I thought this country was analogous to china but then again I don't know much.
Thinking about one anime in the desert with a genie. Never really seen it but being in the desert would give people a tan no?
It follows whatever logic the author wants or believes. Or in this case maybe unconscious beliefs on how things should be. But maybe I'm thinking to much about this.
You ever see an americna movie and in it everyone is tall and attractive?
