Do Avatar people look Asian to you?
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Do Avatar people look Asian to you?
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not really,no
not quite. they look like white people like most animated characters tend to
More or less yea.
Well the Fire and Earth nation people do.
The water tribe is meant to look like Native Americans dressed like Eskimos.
Mainly it's the fashion though. For good reason they didn't make the characters look like racist caricatures.
Water tribe are whiter imo
yeah
The fire nation definitely
The earth nation is kind of a mix
Water tribes are 1000% Eskimos
I know we see some air nomads in like flashbacks and stuff, but I do not remember what they looked like, Aang looks white to me though.
They're in anime style so they don't need to.
I mean I can believe the high class Fire Nation was based on Jomon admixture.
they lean way more to yayoi soft bois
No
Original series do.
Yes.
Its really the eyes
No. They’re made to look more attractive, ie. more white, than the real deal. For instance, here’s your irl Katara.
Then you have Kai who is the equivalent of a Avatar BBC BVLL
That's not fair, I'm sure there are cute eskimos. Pic is a Native American from the mainland but they're essentially the same race so just imagine this lady in Water Tribe clothes
Mainland tribes are so interbred with Europeans that they diverge significantly from their ancestors appearance wise. Look up actual purebred Eskimos and see for yourself. They don’t look like the Water Tribes in anything but skin tone.
I'm not saying the Water Tribes are perfect representations of real life eskimos, but they're also cartoons, most cartoon people are drawn to look cuter than real people anyway.
Also I have to reiterate that it's not fair to paint with such a broad brush and act like they all must be ugly. We're talking about a group of people and even among the same 'race' there will be quite a lot of diversity in appearance, it's not like they're dogs where dogs of the same breed will look very similar outside of small variations.
Eskimo is a slur. Don't use it.
Go be a homosexual somewhere else, Black person.
Are Inuits based? they seem like a pretty alright group of people
They only meat they eat is the meat they kill. Pretty based.
They look like rape
The original series yea, Korra? Not a chance
Anime characters tend to look like white europeans, but everyone is so autistic about race that every live action adaptation of an anime must have an asian cast , even though they can't even act.
>Anime characters tend to look like white europeans, but everyone is so autistic about race that every live action adaptation of an anime must have an asian cast , even though they can't even act.
No, anime characters do NOT look European, stop projecting onto stylized stateless characters.
>Pale white skin
>Colorful eyes
>Colorful hair
>Thin noses and lips
>Epicanthic folds
Cope harder. There’s literally only one race of people with corresponding features and it ain’t no Asians.
Is Sasuke whiteu?
>Is [x] white?
Look at his fricking skin tone, homie. If he were any whiter he’d be bleached.
You're not answering my question clearly.
Yes, Sasuke is visibly white. He has white skin, very pale white skin for that matter.
Sasuke has tanned skin, especially when comparing it to other character's like Hinata who have pale skin.
>”Tanned”
Skin tone is only one of many features that makes someone white.
Sasuke unironically looks asian compared to a majority of the other Leaf Ninjas.
I mean fricking look at Naruto and Ino.
Kishimoto has drawn Naruto and Sasuke in a more realistic style and he sees them as asian. Even Naruto, with his blonde hair and blue eyes looks like a Japanese delinquent.
woah, you mean to tell me a japanese artist made the characters he set in a fantasy world based on mythological Japan be asian? No way. It's almost like this "anime characters are drawn white" is a fricking moronic meme parroted by mentally ill autists on the internet.
Ino looks more Asian in the manga than in the anime, at least in her adult form.
She's so cute.
Central Asians look like that
Central Asians are mutts. Every ethnic group in Eurasia has mixed in that region. Of course you're gonna get some that look Euro.
>epicanthic folds
>a feature avatar faces generally don't account for at all
It's interesting how many people are so stupid they can't figure out they're looking at simplified figures and the brain is projecting onto them like it does with every other simplified "human face" it runs into. We see white people unless a character is drawn like a ching chong stereotype because that's our default setting.
An epicanthic fold in animation literally is just a line separating the eyelid from the skin above it, which as everyone knows is both more aesthetically pleasing and not a native feature of the Asian phenotype. All the main characters visibly have one.
>Ty lee ugly
>azula looks like every other FOB you'd find on a state school campus
>Mai looks like my gf
please destroy this image
Some do, Earth nation mostly and Fire nation leaning that way, Air nation are white, Water tribes are white with a tan.
yes
the most obvious thing to do is cast mixed people. kinda like what the one piece live action is doing but unfortunately the vocal minority morons on both sides will have a problem with that
Fence sitting doesn't make you enlightened.
there is no fence sitting to be had. the vocal minority have no real presence out of the fringes of the internet and their incel-like behavior gives normal people means to not take them seriously.
casting mixed people is objectively the most logical thing to do in regards to the cultural aesthetic of its source
Avatar's people are inspired by real life minority/ethnic groups, so it's probably the smarter (and only idea) to go with. Hence why the Avatar movie caught flack for unironic whitewashing and horrendous Casting
This but less angry at people online
The whitewashing accusations always felt overblown. The film wasn't wahitewashed with the exception of Katara and Sokka due to exec meddling. The film was miscast.
The whitewashing happened because a rich suit forced his daughter into the production and they had to cast a white actor for Sokka in response to that. While still keeping the rest of the water tribe was asian which was jarring.
The fire nation were also race-bended into being indian and middle eastern which people tend to ignore and focus on Katara and Sokka.
The kid playing Aang and Yue were also mixed race and looked asian.
If anything the film still had a majority non white cast with the exception of Sokka and Katara.
No, the most obvious answer is to stop making live action adaptations.
The thing about anime characters (and cartoons in general) is that every race is able to see themselves in the characters. To someone who is asian, avatar characters look asian. To someone who is white, avatar characters look white. By its nature faces in animation can't really convey the subtlety of racial characteristics as we know them without making a character look old or like a complete caricature. Skin color is really the only strong racial signifier in animation and even that is pretty shifty, especially in a show like avatar where their concept of race doesn't really align with ours. This is why you see people of all races identifying with characters in a way that they don't typically do with live action.
That's the beauty of animation to me, race really matters a lot less.
As a kid I remember being surprised about the backlash the movie got for casting white actors. I never really considered anyone in the show to be, like, a particular race or anything. Now that I'm older, I can see some characters definitely look more Asian, like Pakku, Long Feng, and the cabbage merchant, and some water tribe members looking pretty indigenous, like Bato and Hama.
I like this, it steps away from making ridiculous caricatures in an effort to look like a particular race. Animation just ain't about that.
I remember there was some promotional pic were Aang looked more Asian than he does in the show
Kinda? sorta? There's very subtle hints to it but aang looks white and his son looks more asian
Tenzin? He looks just like JK Simmons.
Aang himself is based on DiMartino.
The model sheets look more ethnic
More than in 90% of anime
they used to
this is how Aangs people used to look like in the original show
eh, looks like an amalgamation to me. could be either white or asian, its the style deciding
In anime, when they want to make a character look white, it's pretty obvious.
East Asians also don't draw obvious epicanthal folds or anything on a character unless they're some average goon, or person on the street.
another example are the Marine Admirals from One Piece. A typical race obsessed westerner would code one as black, Italian, and then maybe Jap/anglo hard ass for Akainu, but they're based on Japanese actors.
Top left looks like Adam Sandler.
I don't frequent these /misc/tourist racebait threads, so I can't tell if it's a regular kind of bait or someone painfully deluded, but these characters look precisely nothing like the Jap actors below. Their facial features are much sharper and less neotenic, i.e. caucasoid, and their skin is literally pink and whites of their eyes too visible.
The guy on the left especially looks nothing like the actor he's supposedly based on, he looks like a bastard baby of Adam Sandler and Jean Reno.
>In anime, when they want to make a character look white, it's pretty obvious.
Yeah, especially if said white person is just for comic relief. They'll give them bright blonde hair, a HUGE nose, and large brow ridges.
They look like generic American mutts
Never watched Korra but Avatar all of them looked asian except for that one fire general. Anyone who's says they were white is an obvious self-inserter.
No. They're a bunch of white and brown people whose parents all were otakus and named them with Asian names.
Truly a multiculti society!
>Do Avatar people look Asian to you?
Aang and his clan are meant to be Uyghurs. Uyghurs are Asian
>Do Avatar people look Asian to you?
Yes for the most part. Just give all of the characters brown eyes by default and you're set.
>fictional world based on medieval Europe
>WE NEED DIVERSITY IN THIS CAST. ITS A FICTIONAL WORLD ITS NOT REAL YOU BIGOTS, THEREFORE ITS RIGHT TO HAVE IT LOOK LIKE MODERN NEW YORK
>fictional world with vague Asian style
>ALL THE CHARACTERS MUST BE PLAYED BY ASIANS, I DONT CARE THAT ITS FICTIONAL
Why are leftists like this
It's kinda funny that I saw articles, videos and others describe Shyamalan's adaptation as replacing the diverse cast with "generic white kids". Um, doesn't that make it more diverse? There are even random blacks sprinkled in. Ain't that what they want?
Toph and Katara
Western art is so much better at drawing Asians while still maintaining a stylized look.
I think a lot of the characters do look Asian, but not all of them do. Suki looks like a white girl to me, for instance. I know people like to say that anime characters look white but many of them still look Asian to me because they reflect Japanese beauty standards. It is one of the ways you can tell apart Korean artwork from Japanese artwork, even if the art styles are similar they reflect different, subtle preferences in what they think looks attractive and trendy. Anime also stylizes certain features even if they aren't immediately apparent, like how Japanese people have flatter midfaces. A good example is Chi, from Chobits. White women cosplaying as her just look wrong, she only looks good as portrayed by an Asian person.