Here's the thing. The great thing about anime is that it's ambiguous. The features of the characters are an intentional mix of all features. It's intended to be ambiguous. That is completely its point.
Sure! Because whenever a thirty-something Japanese lady sits down to draw manga, she does so thinking all the while, "I hope my characters are racially ambiguous, so as to better appeal to ethnically non-Japanese readers!" That is your average thirty-something Japanese lady's top priority.
Her annual overseas royalties checks add up to the equivalent of $40 USD. Her interest in foreign countries can be summarized as a fondness for Yon-sama, French food, and sexy manga representations of characters from The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. She's a little nervous about the Brazilians in the apartment complex down the road. Nonetheless, we can be confident that she designs her characters with her non-Japanese audience firmly in mind. The animators who will adapt the manga later with no changes to the character designs will do so because they respect this and share her concerns.
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Sure! Because whenever a thirty-something Japanese lady sits down to draw manga, she does so thinking all the while, "I hope my characters are racially ambiguous, so as to better appeal to ethnically non-Japanese readers!" That is your average thirty-something Japanese lady's top priority.
Her annual overseas royalties checks add up to the equivalent of $40 USD. Her interest in foreign countries can be summarized as a fondness for Yon-sama, French food, and sexy manga representations of characters from The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. She's a little nervous about the Brazilians in the apartment complex down the road. Nonetheless, we can be confident that she designs her characters with her non-Japanese audience firmly in mind. The animators who will adapt the manga later with no changes to the character designs will do so because they respect this and share her concerns.