Clearly, this is not a mass-produced, generic body. Quite the opposite in fact.

Western includes people of all shapes, colors and sizes. It’s utterly meaningless here since we are talking about phenotype.

Blue eyes are ALWAYS used in manga, cartoons, anime and animation. It’s a convention used everyone because it makes the eyes stand out. Characters of all races tend to have blue eyes. Other than that, her hair and skin color matched that of the Japanese. Her actual facial features, like most anime characters, are…

Well, Scarjo is a bad choice because she is clearly of a distinct ethnicity. If you want to go ambiguous, they should have cast someone who is mixed race.

First, style does not equal race. Most western cartoons feature animals as the main characters. Are anime characters supposed to be animals. Dumb reasoning. Second, different colored hair DOES NOT signal race. Beyond the fact that people, including Japanese, dye their hair all the time, most of these characters are…

If it’s based off Western culture(which it isn’t. The publisher is bullshitting to please white consumers) than why is it set in a fictional Japanese city?

Will she change bodies in the movie? Will she become a Hispanic man one minute and then a black women the next? Probably not, so your rebuttal is bullshit.

Their features are inhuman! There is nothing, nothing human let alone European about the shape of their eyes or the body features. Eye coloring and hair coloring have nothing to do with race in cartoons, anime or comics. In comics most characters have blue eyes,even black characters, but the color stands out so much.…

We complain precisely because we know how studios work. If race really didn’t matter than hollywood movies would be very diverse because humanity is very diverse. But they are not. Lead roles go to white actors over 90% of the time. We know the deal, hollywood is pro-white. That’s why we complain.

There is no such thing as seeing people as people. There is no such thing as a generic human.

She is purposefully not supposed to be attractive so no she wouldn’t choose a Scarjo body.

What does that matter? Why would she choose a “caucasian” body?

That theme could still be applied without white washing her! There is nothing to suggest she chose a Caucasian body. And no, most of us are not “activists”. We are regular people tired of the racist bullshit!

Batou is a Japanese word that means Horse. It just looks “European” because it has been “Anglicized”.

No, he is Japanese. He has a Japanese name and there is nothing particularly “Caucasian” about his character. And why should the two lead characters, who are Japanese, be played by white actors? It’s bullshit. All the other characters are Asian but not the two leads, in an Asian setting. It’s bullshit white washing

Batou is an in fact a Japanese name as well and it is set in the fictional Japanese named Nihama.

How do you distinguish between Japanese and White(stop saying Western when you really mean white. There are millions upon millions of non-white Westerners)in an anime? What about the character was so non-Japanese? I mean, she was located in Japan and had a Japanese name.

Oh please with the “P.C. Bullshit” crap, if race didn’t matter than why not just cast an Asian actor? It’s funny that this is always the rebuttal yet movies are still 90% white. If race/ethnicity didn’t matter so much there would be FAR more diversity in lead roles. “Race doesn’t matter” seems to always mean, “cast a…

Sure, because you like many people see the default as white.

Why would a mass-produced, generic body in Japan be Caucasian?