Re:Apple Removes New York Times Apps from iTunes Store in China
by krapp on Thursday January 05, 2017 @09:31AM
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>Couldn't such characters be, well, ethnic Japanese people who happen to have an unusual hair colour?
yes, it's a conscious design choice[0,1]. They're not "obviously Caucasian" so much as "not obviously anything."
[0]http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Mukokuseki
[1]https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Mukokuseki-rarely-appear-in-W...
Re:Apple Removes New York Times Apps from iTunes Store in China
by seanmcdirmid on Thursday January 05, 2017 @09:31AM
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Their ethnicities are often explicitly specified (Tameki has a French mother). Japan is also not that homogenous. Sometimes the ethnicities are left ambiguous, in which case it could be hair/eye coloring.
In ghost in the shell, the protagonist is a robot or cyborg, ethnicity isn't fixed.
Are they? Anime characters do not seem to be bound by typical (or even possible) hair and eye colours. Couldn't such characters be, well, ethnic Japanese people who happen to have an unusual hair colour? That seems to be the general assumption.