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    Quote Originally Posted by Kleenex3 View Post
    Anime is like a different world. There are no race in an anime world..
    Wrong. Most anime is written and drawn from a japanese point of view.
    This means that, 9 times out of ten, the location is in japan, or the cast is japanese, hence the japanese names.
    This is not suprising since japan only has a 1% immigrant population, and very few of them ever travel out of japan. Their knowlegde about other nationalities are limited.

    However, if you look at more adult themed animes like darker than black, there are black people in it.
    Beck, also has a black guy in it.
    Samurai champloo has a gay dutch guy in it.

    Unless stated otherwise in the anime/manga, you can almost always naturally assume that the entire cast is meant to be japanese, regardless of eyecolour or haircolour.

    Naruto, is a shounen manga revolving around ninjas, based of japanese folklore. That there are no(or few, if there are any) black guy in it, goes without saying.

    If someone were ever to create an anime based on the zulu tribe from africa, there probably wouldn't be any japanese characters in it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by hian View Post
    Unless stated otherwise in the anime/manga, you can almost always naturally assume that the entire cast is meant to be japanese, regardless of eyecolour or haircolour..
    That's what I never understood. If anime is supposed to be all Japanese people, why do barely any main characters in anime's have brown eyes (squinty, more or less) and black hair? <.<

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    Quote Originally Posted by Athias View Post
    That's what I never understood. If anime is supposed to be all Japanese people, why do barely any main characters in anime's have brown eyes (squinty, more or less) and black hair? <.<
    Because they're usually magical, or dyed their hair and wore colored contacts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Athias View Post
    That's what I never understood. If anime is supposed to be all Japanese people, why do barely any main characters in anime's have brown eyes (squinty, more or less) and black hair? <.<
    Actually, many anime artists try to differentiate the eyes of characters that are ment to be of other nationalities.

    They ussually portray Japanese eyes with a slight box-like approach while (for example) American (or caucasion in general) eyes would have a more round shape.

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    Side note: That picture posted from Black Lagoon, funnily enough, most of the characters in it are supposed to represent many nations other than Japan. Apparently, you figure out near the end of the second season that all of the characters involved with the Black Lagoon transport company are supposed to be speacking English. (This becomes obvious when suddenly the gy is translating from Japanese to .. Japanese? That and some of the characters start curseing in English (a very bad dialect))

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