Japanese Looks!

[bru160]

Hello y'all!!!!!!

Today is more of a wondering thought than anything else...

I'm only guessing here, but I think I'm not the only one who thinks every time I'm reading manga/watching anime etc, etc, that the characters "never" look like japanese, right? It's the eyes, the hair color, the face, etc, etc...

And so I though to post here some of the ones

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[donhisiewen]

[bru160]

Yeah! That is the one! Well, it was from AF so the probability of you having read them was big!

I'm a total sucker for Sakaki! He is cool, He is yakuza, He is sexy, He is rich, AND HE IS SO FUCKING GOOD FOR HIS UKE!!!!!! He is the ultimate seme for me!!

[praysolace]

I love Sakaki too~ <3

It's true, manga characters rarely look Japanese, even when they're pointedly supposed to be Japanese. I wonder why that is. Maybe the mangakas consider more Western looks exotic and attractive? (I know I used to gawk at blonds all the time when I first moved to the mainland... I was like, "Teh OMGs, blonds are real, and they're not all somebody's mom!" XD)

[bru160]

Yeah, I think that is exactly what happens. In manga they seem to have such a strange view of the western part of the world o.O It is not like we kiss everybody in the mouth was a greeting, right?

Hmm, I don't normally do that because here in Brazil we are such a mix of things, so it is normal to see blonds, asian, blacks, all sorts of colors really. ˆˆ'' I normally gawk at people's eye colors, I'm a total sucker for green eyes, and here in Brazil we usually have brown or black, even though from time to time you can find blue, green and gray as well ˆˆ

[praysolace]

They... certainly do. I really don't understand why they always pick *Americans* for the overly kissy characters. I know cheek kissing is standard greeting in some parts of Europe, but try that in America and you would make people exceedingly uncomfortable. Like, really? *siiiiigh*

I rarely see green eyes, but considering how little attention I pay to eye color, that might just be me. (I got my best friend's eye color wrong after we'd known each other for years, and when I say wrong, I mean really wrong-I guessed brown, and her eyes are super super super light blue. And why did I guess brown? Because of the four of us who were tight, I couldn't believe I was the only one with brown eyes, and I had pictures of the other two for my art reference.) Anyway, in Hawaii, almost everybody is Asian or half Asian, so seeing so many blonds elicited a shock-and-awe reaction when I moved. XD What I really don't get, though, is all the itty bitty blonds who are in their twenties and about as tall as the little old Japanese ladies...