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I'd like someone to give me one way Faith is a stereotypical depiction of an Asian woman.

Most anime's are racist..they over-exaggerate their own people's features,at times make asians looks white,and they keep the black people out,the brown people are cool,but there aren't many black anime characters.There is no diversity.And when they do put a black character in they over-exaggerate his\her features with the huge pink or red lips and wide eyes.Only in the modern age might you find one or two balck characters that don't look absolutely ridiculous.

GlareMaverick11987 said:

"Most anime's are racist..they over-exaggerate their own people's features,at times make asians looks white,and they keep the black people out,the brown people are cool,but there aren't many black anime characters.There is no diversity.And when they do put a black character in they over-exaggerate his\her features with the huge pink or red lips and wide eyes.Only in the modern age might you find one or two balck characters that don't look absolutely ridiculous."

true
when i used to watch animes
in japANESE
it confused me
cause it looked like white ppl
speaking japanese

Little_Sparrow said:

"Sadly it is done so they can open it up to a larger audience for some reason market research shows that people are more willing to watch something if they can relate to the character physically and mentally. So most animes are some what um watered down for a better lack of expression."

someone explain to me why arent there more black characters in anime/manga
If more black ppl started in gain interest anime/manga
would there be more black characters?

Devilly said:

"Sigue said:

"I'd like someone to give me one way Faith is a stereotypical depiction of an Asian woman."

well the looks...........o wait already did that XD"

She looks like an asian. It isn't a stereotype if asians actually look like that.

Wow, seriously? Faith from Mirror's Edge? She's Eurasian.

Also, I've seen this argument tons of times. Anime characters are mostly based around Japanese people, except they give them really expressive eyes, obviously. They aren't meant to represent Caucasians. It's just the art style of most anime/manga.

Japan has been slowly opening it's doors to foreigners in recent years. There are obviously some stereotypes that they have about other races, which I think, explains the over exaggerated features on characters who are meant to represent a "black" person.

Lady_Nightmare said:

"Little_Sparrow said:

"Sadly it is done so they can open it up to a larger audience for some reason market research shows that people are more willing to watch something if they can relate to the character physically and mentally. So most animes are some what um watered down for a better lack of expression."

someone explain to me why arent there more black characters in anime/manga
If more black ppl started in gain interest anime/manga
would there be more black characters?"

That is the thing though...Black people are interested.I don't want to say Japanese people don't like black people because I have met Japanese people right from Japan..barely speaking english who I have become friends with so I am sure that isn't the case.I'm going to assume the reason it has nothing to do with the views of the japanese themselves but the artists.It's possible they believe black people aren't good enough to prosper in situations they depict in their manga or anime.Look at DBZ for instance..they have one extremely black guy (Mr.Popo) who did nothing for almost the whole series...they had two others during the Buu saga with the stereotypical black features.They were killed easily by Spopovich.Japanese media is true to the asian population.Very rarely do you even see a character that looks Caucasian and actually is.It's like nobody matters but them.Watch Sentai (Japanese Power Rangers),They had one season called Battle Fever J..There was a Miss America and a Battle Kenya and they were both Japanese.It's like they also don't get how unrealistic it is to live in a world where everyone is the same race.There are black,white and spanish people in Japan..but they will never acknowledge.