• ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    Wishes to be Asian
    Post picture of anime girl, an art style that is highly stylized but somewhat generic in terms of ethnic identity markers

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      1 day ago

      You’re right. Anime characters don’t really look too much Like any specific ethnicity most of the time. I wonder if that’s part of the appeal

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        There are some animes which have very clear and distinct racial markers. Perfect blue or Akira for example.

        Edit: But now that I think about it, I agree with you, most of them are actually very nondescript.

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        23 hours ago

        I think it’s just a byproduct of animation. The simpsons don’t necessarily look like any specific ethnicity either