>>8816265Because they're heavily stylized? And it's not like they usually have distinctly white features either. They barely look like actual human.
Although even with that stylization they sometimes try to make white people different when they show up, like the English people in the K-on movie.
In this case you're clearly supposed to interpret the regular anime characters as Japanese, and any European features on the white characters are specifically to go "This guy is white, not Asian"