In anime and manga, the non-Japanese ethnicity is often either German, " American" (usually white. In reality, however, it is unlikely for a person who is, say, half-German, half-Japanese to have blue/green eyes or blond/red hair, given that the alleles for those traits are recessive. This in itself does often lead to Mukokuseki within anime and manga works and Ambiguously Brown at the opposite end of this trope.įrequently, this trope is used as an excuse to give a character an unusual phenotype, especially in anime/manga which try to avoid the use of Anime Hair. How much an actor is allowed to speak tends to reflect more on their personal fluency. This is often an artifact of a manga-to-anime transition: a text translation can be passable, while voice actors end up totally mangling it. Assuming this character was raised overseas, it's notable the character who is Not Too Foreign will rarely speak another language on-screen even if they are supposed to be fluent. Their name will also have an obvious foreign sound to it even if it doesn't sound real. Part of this probably stems from the actual ethnic homogeneity of a country, especially in Japan where foreigners really do make up only about two percent of the population.
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