Mercanaries3 commented at 2012-07-30 22:48:47 » #1128223

How come all American girls in Anime are depicted as being blonde haired, blue eyed? Nazi much?.

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Anonymous commented at 2012-07-31 10:05:49 » #1128527

While I wouldn't call Dead or Alive an anime, for this particular fighting game franchise, they probably just used a stereotypical male and female character (Bass and Tina respectively) to represent America because it just makes it easier to identify them as such, despite it being obvious enough with their fighting outfits alone. As for other blatant stereotypes against the American people, Bass is also blond and by record, he's the tallest human character in the game compared to all the other nationalities. Tina is also one of the tallest females and they're both professional wrestlers. Bass is all about eating meat and Tina has a stubborn and arrogant personality.

There are actually quite a few "anti-American" animes out there, though, Code Geass being one example. In a simpler term, they're just pissed because all their base are belong to us.

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Anonymous commented at 2012-08-02 16:52:27 » #1130129

Every American character in fighting games created circa 90ies is blonde and/or blue eyed due to to the Japanese fascination with with such imagination and body builds.

Oh and Tina is not arrogant nor stubborn she is more of a cocky and confident type.

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Anonymous commented at 2012-10-04 08:20:46 » #1174137

Of course it's jealousy. It has nothing to do with America's standard of beauty usually being "blond and blue-eyed", which is promoted in American media.... a lot.

Hell, Captain America is supposed to represent American values, and guess what? Blond and Blue-eyed. Has never been changed.

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Anonymous commented at 2013-04-16 21:59:25 » #1303955

It's also got a lot to do with blonde hair and blue eyes being exotic by Japanese standards--those rarely if ever occur naturally in Japan. The Blonde/Blue has also been considered the stereotypical American 'ideal' for ages, because in American culture they were often used for shorthand to show a character was pure-hearted.

So it's a lot of things all coming together to where, for Japanese audiences, it's generally shorthand for 'American' to make a character blonde, blue-eyed, a little stubborn and cocky (it's a cultural thing--politeness is a big deal in Japanese culture and even polite Americans are mildly rude by those standards, because American culture favors individualism), and I'm not sure where the wearing-the-flag thing came from but that's as ingrained in Japanese pop culture as samurai and ninjas are in American pop culture.

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Jerl commented at 2013-04-16 22:20:04 » #1303969

For what it's worth, blond-hair blue-eyes isn't an American stereotype; it's an anything with European origins stereotype, and you see it a lot on characters from France, England, and Germany as well.

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