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Is this anime character black?
- Thread starter vestan
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Definitely not white, that's for sure. Her name is Yoruichi so she's probably mixed, right?
For reference, Chad
(according to the wiki) is Mexican and Japanese.
For reference, Chad
(according to the wiki) is Mexican and Japanese.
Yoruichi is black, though this reminds me Kubo has bad treatment with his like 3 black characters.
That series is just racist.
That series is just racist.
Yeah. A surprising amount of people in the previous threads didn't see it though.
Ambiguously Brown
I guess she could be black, but really nothing in the original manga really hinted at it.
I guess she could be black, but really nothing in the original manga really hinted at it.
I always assumed that skin tone was mostly used for darker skinned or heavily tanned asian characters.
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She has straight hair, light green eyes, a thin nose and thin lips.
Hope that answers your question.
Hope that answers your question.
Depends on your definition of black. I grew up in the Middle East and didn't think of her as black in an American sense at the time. I don't think there's a right or wrong answer.
There are people considered black who have many of those features.
It's either lazy artstyle or they're basing it off of mixed-race/non-african American black woman, but whatever the reason it seems clearly intended by the author to be black.
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I think its just supposed to be "dark skinned", not necessarily any specific race other than probably still japanese.
Seeing as so many US anime fans think nearly every anime character is white because reasons, I see no reason why she can't be black.
Whew there's a lot to unpack here lol.
Whew there's a lot to unpack here lol.
She's human, right? I only really watched first arcs of Bleach. I guess if she's black then Naruto, a blonde haired blue-eyed character with fair skin could be white. Then you have the question of what features determine your race in anime when they really just use whatever features they want but everyone has a Japanese name and their background isn't questioned.
I was going to write "many (or all)" before I got lazy, so sure. Especially mixed people.
She's empowering representation for darkskinned women regardless of her race, ethnicity, what language her name is in, how thin her lips and nose are (wtf?) and her eye color
Trying to approximate her race is stupid.
Trying to approximate her race is stupid.
Is your only exposure to black people Dragon Ball or something?
Nope, it's an Asian person.
People always think Japanese people are white/pale but really, there are different shades to being Japanese that are not always known because in Japan lighter skinned people are always picked to be models. Anecdotally, I've met many Japanese people with that skin tone.
People always think Japanese people are white/pale but really, there are different shades to being Japanese that are not always known because in Japan lighter skinned people are always picked to be models. Anecdotally, I've met many Japanese people with that skin tone.
Definitely not white, that's for sure. Her name is Yoruichi so she's probably mixed, right?
For reference, Chad
(according to the wiki) is Mexican and Japanese.
Anime makers and japan in general have this weird xenophobic approach to inclusion, almost never are characters just [foreign race], they're always half japanese, Asuka en evangelion was half japanese, hell, even in MHA All Might, the most american hero to ever american in america, american enough to make Captain America Salute with pride, is half japanese.
Bleach has some really cool looking black anime characters across the board not just limited to Yoruichi. That they have anime characteristics(outlandish colored hair/eyes) doesn't take away from the fact the author intentionally made these characters dark skinned, not tanned for a reason with accents and names that are distinctively from those backgrounds.
She does look black if we are considering the skin tone. I am not sure though as I never watched this anime.
I consider her black just to not think about it too hard because skin color is anime is so hard define what someone is.
Lots of white seeming characters being actually Japanese and such.
Lots of white seeming characters being actually Japanese and such.
Yep. And nobody questions why white people can have red eyes sometimes (hence why I'm avatar quoting and I know why Wesker has red eyes lol). Who cares? It's stylized. There are plenty of "white" characters who have wacky eye colors and hair colors+styles, and nobody bats an eye.
It reminds me of how there are certain characters in One Piece that are modeled after famous Japanese actors, but some people interpreted them as being black due to being darker skinned.
This is very common in games as well, which I always found funny in Metal Gear Solid.
Cant believe that clip is the actual dub lmfao.
Yeah I noticed this, I guess this is how they justify them living in Japan with the other cast members?
I wonder why anime and Manga, that is made in Japan for Japan (99% of the time), their creators make characters that are Japanese or half Japanese. It is truly a mistery