noagenda said:
You should know there is a distinct reason why anime and game characters from Japan don't look Japanese - it's intentional. But what is being misunderstood, is it's not an attempt to create "white" characters, but rather ethnic-less characters. It's called "mukokuseki" - which means "stateless". It is an attempt to create stories that are outside of established real ethnicities in the world so that it appeals to more people.
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I understand, most people in real life don't have multicolored hair. But what I'm talking about are characters who ARE Asian, not characters who look like Asians. Using anime as an example (how about To Love Ru), a character named Rito Yuki or Haruna Sairenji would be clearly Japanese from their names, despite having non-realistically depicted hair color. On the other hand, a character named Lala Satalin Deviluke is clearly non-Japnanese (for that matter, non-human, but that's besides the point I think).
Also, I was going to edit this part into my original response, but since this is newer I'll post here instead. After posting, I realized that Permalite was talking about the presence of Asians in the game industry. And I agree, Asians have a rather large presence in the game industry, but what I was originally talking about in my first post was that putting Asian characters into Western media is often neglected since Asians make up a really small portion of Western community, smaller than Blacks or Latinos. If the video from Microsoft was to be released in Asian territories, there would probably be Asians in the video
