JFL Why don't anime characters look Asian?

[I hate women]

Look at Goku, he looks like an American soccer player, not a Japanese farmer.

And don't even get me started on the waifus; you see them as anything but an Asian woman.

 

[PersonalityChad]

Goku is a monkey alien from outer space, he's not supposed to be Japanese.

I'm fairly sure Japan doesn't even exist in DBZ lore

 

[NukeGynocentrism]

Likely because it would be more boring. Asians don't wanna see more Asians.

 

[I hate women]

Goku is a monkey alien from outer space, he's not supposed to be Japanese.

I'm fairly sure Japan doesn't even exist in DBZ lore

Good point.
But even Yamcha's nigger doesn't look Japanese, and canonically he is.

 

[Dr. Autismo]

Goku is a monkey alien from outer space, he's not supposed to be Japanese.

I'm fairly sure Japan doesn't even exist in DBZ lore

It might, the earth in dbz is a fictional fantasy version of it.

I'm pretty sure china exists in dbz

Likely because it would be more boring. Asians don't wanna see more Asians.

Brutal, and that anime style of characters having big eyes was pioneered by osamu tezuka, who was inspired by Disney cartoons

 

[PersonalityChad]

I'm pretty sure china exist in dbz

I'm fairly sure it doesn't, DBZ Earth has a completely different geography compared to irl Earth.

 

[Dr. Autismo]

I'm fairly sure it doesn't, DBZ Earth has a completely different geography compared to irl Earth.

Its also ruled over a Manlet furry too, so anything goes there

 

[hikkicel]

Realistically, if anime characters all looked East Asian, it‘d be harder to differentiate them cuz almost all have dark hair, dark eyes, similar skin tone and the mongolid low T subhuman phenotype. And European facial features are the beauty standard in Japan anyways.

 

[Caichan]

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[The Notorious SLAV]

Artistic license I guess. Not every character is going to look like a racial stereotype.

Low-key I'm a bit happy only anime characters get scrutinized like this, I can't imagine how I'd react if Eastern European animation got scrutinized by foreigners to see if the characters' heads are round enough for them to be stereotypically Slavic.

And don't even get me started on the waifus; you see them as anything but an Asian woman.

Just yesterday I watched a JAV video where one of the actresses looked completely like how I'd imagine a middle-aged Makima, so I guess it's not that impossible.

Good point.
But even Yamcha's nigger doesn't look Japanese, and canonically he is.

I dunno, he kinda does look Asian to me. I can imagine some random buff Japanese dude cosplaying him pretty well just by styling his hair like that.

 

[Taboo Buster]

It might, the earth in dbz is a fictional fantasy version of it.

I'm pretty sure china exists in dbz

Brutal, and that anime style of characters having big eyes was pioneered by osamu tezuka, who was inspired by Disney cartoons

That's part of it. The other is that anime is a descendant of kabuki theater with its exaggerated expressions. The eyes are the biggest signalers of a character's emotions, so to convey where this person is coming from in the quickest way, you make the eyes highly visible and let those do the talking.
Altho, I have noticed a trend in recent times where studios are getting away from "Astro Boy" eyes toward more natural-looking faces. But this is generally reserved for the stuff you're supposed to take more seriously. The cute and funny stuff still hovers around that technique, and normally only for the female characters.

 

[I hate women]

I dunno, he kinda does look Asian to me. I can imagine some random buff Japanese dude cosplaying him pretty well just by styling his hair like that.

yamcha is 6ft

Just yesterday I watched a JAV video where one of the actresses looked completely like how I'd imagine a middle-aged Makima, so I guess it's not that impossible.

Seriously? Send a screenshot, She's probably had surgery because Asian women don't reach that level of fat; they're all thin.

 

[8CbZA-kHFu6pFgE*]

Because no one would watch anime if they all looked mongoloid

 

[I hate women]

Because no one would watch anime if they all looked mongoloid

Speaking of phenotypes, what is the average Latino phenotype?

 

[I hate women]

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brutal, and add the frame and the height

 

[Caichan]

brutal, and add the frame and the height

No wonder they have so much white worship, it’s conditioned in their cartoons. Eurocentric features are the beauty standard

 

[Excalibur]

Gooks hate how they look and worship white features.

 

[The Notorious SLAV]

yamcha is 6ft

Yeah, what I had in mind was from a thread on r/China I think, where the expat guys were talking about how strong they are compared to the people they meet there, one 6'2 guy summed it up as him being able to beat up everyone he meets on the street except the random odd guys in the subway who are either well over 6ft or have biceps the size of thighs. Those types were what I thought about when it came to cosplaying him just by styling their hair.

Seriously? Send a screenshot, She's probably had surgery because Asian women don't reach that level of fat; they're all thin.

I see, I meant more so the face, hair and general look, since in canon she's much less busty at least.

But yeah, if somebody told me that this chick is playing a 30 years older version of her:

Spoiler: SFW screenshot of NSFW

I wouldn't bat an eye at the casting.

 

[I hate women]

Siendo realistas, si todos los personajes de anime parecieran del este asiático, sería más difícil diferenciarlos, ya que casi todos tienen cabello y ojos oscuros, un tono de piel similar y el fenotipo mongólico subhumano de baja testosterona. Y, de todos modos, los rasgos faciales europeos son el estándar de belleza en Japón.

Perhaps it's just the face, because women's height, build, and body fat are different; it's not the same as in Europe.. Think about it, in anime all the waifus have big boobs and butts, but in real life Japanese women are ridiculously thin and that's the standard there.

 

[160cmbloop]

they’re drawn with european features in mind

european features are desired globally

flat faced small eyed gooks look nothing like chinese cartoons

 

[Rapistcel]

Look at Goku, he looks like an American soccer player, not a Japanese farmer.

And don't even get me started on the waifus; you see them as anything but an Asian woman.

Because chinks are white worshippers

 

[VanGobbel]

Because chinks are white worshippers

This. I mean going supersaiyan literally means transforming from normie to ascended according to the creator. black hair black eyes -> blonde hair green/blue eyes worshipping whites is so ingrained in their dna since getting conquered by whitey

 

[8CbZA-kHFu6pFgE*]

Perhaps it's just the face, because women's height, build, and body fat are different; it's not the same as in Europe.. Think about it, in anime all the waifus have big boobs and butts, but in real life Japanese women are ridiculously thin and that's the standard there.

I see big tiddies very often in anime, but for some reason their asses are almost always small or medium large at best

 

[packardD]

because beauty / beauty standards are extremely eurocentric. take nose for example : we all know all women are obsessed with having a tiny, very sharp thin nose. how do you achieve that ? well you need thin skin. and thin skin is most commonly found in western europeans, as well as baltic people. everyone is obsessed with having a high contrast face, and how do you achieve that? light eyes + light or fully black hair + stark white thin skin (fitzpatrick phototype 1) and so on. once again, found historically speaking, almost exclusively in eu region. everyone is obsessed with height, europeans (not counting meds and other semi brown people) are the tallest people in the world. Japs dont look like they show themselves in tranime cartoons or whatever they are called JFL. asians in general dont look like tranime characters. they are prone to having thick skin on their face, wide brachy cephalic faces (the antipode of stereotypical eu face morphology), short stature, meaningless beady black eyes and so on.

 

[packardD]

because beauty / beauty standards are extremely eurocentric. take nose for example : we all know all women are obsessed with having a tiny, very sharp thin nose. how do you achieve that ? well you need thin skin. and thin skin is most commonly found in western europeans, as well as baltic people. everyone is obsessed with having a high contrast face, and how do you achieve that? light eyes + light or fully black hair + stark white thin skin (fitzpatrick phototype 1) and so on. once again, found historically speaking, almost exclusively in eu region. everyone is obsessed with height, europeans (not counting meds and other semi brown people) are the tallest people in the world. Japs dont look like they show themselves in tranime cartoons or whatever they are called JFL. asians in general dont look like tranime characters. they are prone to having thick skin on their face, wide brachy cephalic faces (the antipode of stereotypical eu face morphology), short stature, meaningless beady black eyes and so on.

@wereq

 

[Sex-Starved Beast]

In part it's the art style. Mangas with more realistic art style have more asian-looking characters.

And don't even get me started on the waifus; you see them as anything but an Asian woman.

Japanese Chainsaw man women (the ones with black hair) look asian enough apart from the stylization.

 

[Sex-Starved Beast]

Goku is not supposed to be Japanese.

Same for Makima probably. He picked the worst examples.
Female japanese character from Chainsaw Man:

And the more realistic the style, the more asian they look:

All you need is Kill

I am a Hero

 

[wereq]

because beauty / beauty standards are extremely eurocentric. take nose for example : we all know all women are obsessed with having a tiny, very sharp thin nose. how do you achieve that ? well you need thin skin. and thin skin is most commonly found in western europeans, as well as baltic people. everyone is obsessed with having a high contrast face, and how do you achieve that? light eyes + light or fully black hair + stark white thin skin (fitzpatrick phototype 1) and so on. once again, found historically speaking, almost exclusively in eu region. everyone is obsessed with height, europeans (not counting meds and other semi brown people) are the tallest people in the world. Japs dont look like they show themselves in tranime cartoons or whatever they are called JFL. asians in general dont look like tranime characters. they are prone to having thick skin on their face, wide brachy cephalic faces (the antipode of stereotypical eu face morphology), short stature, meaningless beady black eyes and so on.

Typical Asian features just aren't attractive. European features are objectively the most attractive and desirable.

All anime girls look like White Stacies. NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THEM LOOKS REMOTELY ASIAN!

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incels.is

 

[I hate women]

Same for Makima probably. He picked the worst examples.
Female japanese character from Chainsaw Man:

And the more realistic the style, the more asian they look:

All you need is Kill

I am a Hero

"Yes, Makima is canonically Japanese, as the Japanese government raised and used her as a weapon since her rebirth, and her history and appearance (such as her name written in Japanese) firmly place her within the Japanese context of the Chainsaw Man storyline. Although she is a demon, her human identity and her relationship with the world develop in Japan, where she is the leader of Public Security Division 4.

Evidence of her Japanese origin:
Government Raising: She was used by the Japanese government as a weapon, devoid of emotions and created for its own purposes, an experience that profoundly shaped her.
Name: Her name, Makima (マキマ), is written in katakana, a Japanese syllabary, and while it may contain puns, it is rooted in the Japanese language.
Plot Context: She operates within the Japanese Demon Hunter organization, interacting with Japanese figures such as the Prime Minister and Kishibe. In summary, although his nature is demonic, his incarnation and main role are linked to Japan, confirming that he is a Japanese character in the Chainsaw Man universe." There are no excuses.

 

[I hate women]

Same for Makima probably. He picked the worst examples.
Female japanese character from Chainsaw Man:

And the more realistic the style, the more asian they look:

All you need is Kill

I am a Hero

Think about famous male anime characters and you'll see that many have European features and are taller than the average height in Asia.

 

[I hate women]

But these examples are few compared to the large number of anime characters who look European

 

[I hate women]

because beauty / beauty standards are extremely eurocentric. take nose for example : we all know all women are obsessed with having a tiny, very sharp thin nose. how do you achieve that ? well you need thin skin. and thin skin is most commonly found in western europeans, as well as baltic people. everyone is obsessed with having a high contrast face, and how do you achieve that? light eyes + light or fully black hair + stark white thin skin (fitzpatrick phototype 1) and so on. once again, found historically speaking, almost exclusively in eu region. everyone is obsessed with height, europeans (not counting meds and other semi brown people) are the tallest people in the world. Japs dont look like they show themselves in tranime cartoons or whatever they are called JFL. asians in general dont look like tranime characters. they are prone to having thick skin on their face, wide brachy cephalic faces (the antipode of stereotypical eu face morphology), short stature, meaningless beady black eyes and so on.

You just reminded me that my eyes and hair are black, I'm dark-skinned, my nose is big, and my skin is ugly.

 

[Sex-Starved Beast]

"Yes, Makima is canonically Japanese, as the Japanese government raised and used her as a weapon since her rebirth, and her history and appearance (such as her name written in Japanese) firmly place her within the Japanese context of the Chainsaw Man storyline. Although she is a demon, her human identity and her relationship with the world develop in Japan, where she is the leader of Public Security Division 4.

Evidence of her Japanese origin:
Government Raising: She was used by the Japanese government as a weapon, devoid of emotions and created for its own purposes, an experience that profoundly shaped her.
Name: Her name, Makima (マキマ), is written in katakana, a Japanese syllabary, and while it may contain puns, it is rooted in the Japanese language.
Plot Context: She operates within the Japanese Demon Hunter organization, interacting with Japanese figures such as the Prime Minister and Kishibe. In summary, although his nature is demonic, his incarnation and main role are linked to Japan, confirming that he is a Japanese character in the Chainsaw Man universe." There are no excuses.

I think that she canonically looks like a japanese person but with the red hair and orange eyes, that makes her look less asian along with the artstyle.

 

[Maikowski]

because accurate drawings don't look good. There's a reason why western animation looks like ass

 

[I hate women]

because accurate drawings don't look good. There's a reason why western animation looks like ass

Well thought out

 

[Kshatriya]

Good point.
But even Yamcha's nigger doesn't look Japanese, and canonically he is.

Cope

 

[8CbZA-kHFu6pFgE*]

western animation looks like ass

copium

 

[I hate women]

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Cope

It still looks American in my opinion.

 

[Cartoongooner4788]

Look at Goku, he looks like an American soccer player, not a Japanese farmer.

And don't even get me started on the waifus; you see them as anything but an Asian woman.

Osamu Tezuka who’s basically The Godfather of modern anime and manga and basically every manga artist after him was inspired by (including guys like Akira Toriyama) Tezuka himself was inspired by American cartoons like Disney and Fleischer as you can see here from this manga from 1948(see the 1930s cartoon eyes) and the characters don’t really look Asian they just look like American cartoons so Anime characters not looking Asian is a pretty long tradition.