My girlfriend keeps saying the redesigns of Team Aqua from ORAS are black. I keep telling her they're tanned Japanese because they live in Hoenn which is based on Kyushu and mostly work outdoors. What's this board's opinion? Did Team Aqua get race-swapped or are they tanned Japanese? She's saying historically most Japanese people in anime have brown eyes and black hair and foreign characters usually have blue eyes and that nu-Team Aqua is designed to look foreign. She also says that despite the game being developed in Japan and that Hoenn is based on a part of Japan, that the races in the region don't need to reflect real life Japan and because Hoenn is fictionalized that the races can vary within the region.