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yep u sure r a da

Oh no, two people have the same opinion that is contrary to mine. Must be samenon.

surprise! ppl don't see pink hair and green eyes and think "must be japanese"

japanese people do

ask them what nationality sailor moon looks

spoiler: they'll say she looks japanese

which makes zero sense

not everyone in the world is white, not everyone in the world associates big eyes and yellow hair with white people

well people who naturally have blue eyes and yellow hair do

omg, those people? the ones who have yellow hair and blue eyes naturally? they're white

Maybe some of us who are WoC in the RP world would prefer seeing REAL FUCKING WOMEN OF COLOR instead of anime and manga used to represent us.

so the woc who like anime and think it represents us just fine don't count huh

nope

You count just fine. You also have every other game on DW to see those faces. I can count on one hand the WoC la characters I've seen. I want to see more. I want a game where I see faces instead of drawings.

you're not going to see it in this game

you'll be lucky to see a white woman

you're an idiot if you think the people who play la give a shit about PoC. if they did, they would already play them. people aren't going to magically give a shit about PoC characters just because anime/manga and video game characters are out of the picture. all you're going to get is a bunch of white characters, mainly men, being apped in for ooc shipping. they have too many to choose from that they don't need to strain themselves by considering to play anything else.

Or here's a novel thought. They don't want sjw's getting their knickers in a twist over appropriation and therefore avoid the issue by not stepping on that landmine.

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get thee to ij

But what other people besides white people have natural yellow hair? And bigger eyes for that matter? Not Japanese people. Is it really such a stretch to think a BLONDE AND BLUE EYED CHARACTER is white? Unless they dyed their hair and have colored contacts in.

just to point out that there are some poc's that have naturally blonde hair and/or blue/green eyes.

http://caribwall.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/solomon-island-people03-200x300.jpg

http://mixedamericanlife.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/lars_erik_hauklien-black_girl_blue_eyes.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mYeF01cTBVg/URBTRZbLXVI/AAAAAAAAMhU/_dVtZTeaHNk/s1600/African+Boy+Blue+Eyes.jpg

True but come on. It's not even close to being as common. Blonde hair and blue eyes are very much predominantly white traits and are rare in others.

oh, i completely agree. just wanted to point out that it's not like it's completely unheard of.

It's a stylistic choice to help them stand out from the rest of the cast unless we're talking something like Attack on Titan or FullMetal Alchemist where the setting is Western-inspired.

I realize that but people screaming about how we shouldn't associate a blonde haired blue eyed character with being white is a little silly. They're predominantly white traits. Now in the end anime characters have blue/purple/pink whatever hair and that's true and then there's a whole argument about the eyes/facial features that one could go into but that's a whole mess.

I think it's fair to be a little annoyed if said blond/blue-eyed character was from an anime set in Japan though. But I think the easiest indication for race in anime is usually the name or certain other visual cues anyway.

Being in Japan doesn't mean the character can't be white. They could be white raised in Japan. I don't think there's need for as much anger as people express.

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actually, the blonde characters in FMA aren't white, either. or, at least, some of them aren't (winry and hawkeye might be).

ed, al and hohenheim are technically of iranian descent, as hohenhem is from a fictionalized persia and is of the ethnicity found in that region.

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