No black people in Naruto

[Athias]

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? <.<

[Cereal&Milk]

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.

[ncyphe]

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))