>>8816108NTA and you're right, but the characters are literally meant to be white (for the most part), no? You can't say "The characters in most anime (who are Japanese) are meant to look white, look at this anime (where the characters actually are white) for an example"
>>8815877 is just incorrect. The characters in most anime are intended to be (and are, by the JP audience) seen as Japanese. It's just in the west where people see them as white, because in the absence of any obvious racial characteristics like dark skin white is the default instead of asian. At most you can say anime was ultimately inspired by early western animation, but at that point we might as well go "Well it goes back to Tezuka who was inspired by Donald Duck more than any human characters, so none of them are anything"
