23+ Are Anime Characters White Images. Blonde hair and large, blue eyes? That anime character has to be white, right?
That's a matter of perspective. Anime characters have any color of hair (white, black, blue, pink), which is also not typical of any one race. Japanese characters are depicted as having neutral.
They have small noses and pale skin usually.
This happens because we're so used to consuming media that centers whiteness that unless we're told that a character is a person of color, we default to whiteness. Because to them white is the default human as a counter example, an animated movie in which eastern traits were desired was the tale of the white serpent. Why are anime characters white? I find that the obviously oriental characters in anime are usually supposed to be chinese.