>>44879452Xenophobic Japanese nationalists use the argument that any character that isn't blonde is actually Japanese even if the region it's inspired on isn't in Japan, just to appease their perceived sense of authority. Kind of like how some Muslims claim that people who lived pre-Mohammed actually count as Muslim if they happen to have lived by all of the same standards.
It's only fair to hold them to their own standards and take the blonde characters away from them even if they're actually supposed to be Japanese.