Why anime characters don't look Japanese

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OMFG... It all makes sense now.

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LOL That's an interesting theory, but here's the real reason why anime looks the way it does:

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That's Osamu Tezuka btw, nicknamed the "Godfather of Manga." He's the dude who created Astroboy, Metropolis, Jungle Emperor (renamed Kimba the White Lion in the west), Blackjack and Dororo.

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Tezuka cited Walt Disney as a huge influence on him as an artist, which is why his art looks a lot like the early Disney animated films from the 30's to 50's. And because Tezuka would influence a whole generation of manga and anime artists in his wake, hence the look most anime has now even to today.
 
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O-N-E said:
>Older anime

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That's not older anime. He's talking 80s, 90s golds.

Hell I've been watching City Hunter lately and it's great, straight up mocks tf out of the alphabet people at times. It literally is just an 80s action movie in serial anime form.

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You had so much good shit like Patlabor, Macross, Akira, Lupin the Third, Fist of the North Star, Vampire Hunter D, Wicked City, Ghost in the Shell, the list goes on and on.
 
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Dacon said:
That's not older anime. He's talking 80s, 90s golds.

Hell I've been watching City Hunter lately and it's great, straight up mocks tf out of the alphabet people at times. It literally is just an 80s action movie in serial anime form.

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You had so much good shit like Patlabor, Macross, Akira, Lupin the Third, Fist of the North Star, Vampire Hunter D, Wicked City, Ghost in the Shell, the list goes on and on.
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City Hunter would give the woke feminists a collective heart attack with how the hero is a enormous pervert to offset how badass he is. Still a fun series though.
 
GreyHorace said:
City Hunter would give the woke feminists a collective heart attack with how the hero is a enormous pervert to offset how badass he is. Still a fun series though.
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They wouldnt get past the surface level, anyone who watched the series knows the pervert shit is just an act.
 
Dacon said:
They wouldnt get past the surface level, anyone who watched the series knows the pervert shit is just an act.
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It's not all an act though. Delving into Ryo Saeba's past reveals that he was exposed to an experimental drug that gave him enhanced reflexes and physical attributes. Which explains why he's such a crack shot and a badass hand to hand combantant. The flipside though is that the drug's side effects give him an uncontrollable libido. Ryo literally can't help himself. Lol
 
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It's not all an act though. Delving into Ryo Saeba's past reveals that he was exposed to an experimental drug that gave him enhanced reflexes and physical attributes. Which explains why he's such a crack shot and a badass hand to hand combantant. The flipside though is that the drug's side effects give him an uncontrollable libido. Ryo literally can't help himself. Lol
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I haven't seen all of the anime, but I don't remember anything like that from the manga.
 
Dacon said:
I haven't seen all of the anime, but I don't remember anything like that from the manga.
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One of the last few volumes of the manga dealt with Ryo's background. He was orphaned in an unnamed South American country after the plane that carried him and his dead parents crashed there. Since he was just a kid trapped in a jungle, Ryo was forced to fend for himself, until a group of guerillas found him and enlisted him as a child soldier. One of the guerillas became Ryo's adopted father and trained him, and subsequently exposed him to that drug I mentioned earlier as part of an experiment to create super soldiers. Ryo would go on to wipe out an whole platoon of elite commandos by himself, and would nearly die from the drug's withdrawal effects. He got better though and would leave his war torn life in South America for Japan, where he becomes a sweeper for hire.

You're right that Ryo's goofy pervert persona is largely an act. It's an act to hide that he's suicidaly depressed from all the PTSD he developed because of his wartime experiences. He would have shot himself long ago if not for all his friends and family (especially Kaori).
 
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One of the last few volumes of the manga dealt with Ryo's background. He was orphaned in an unnamed South American country after the plane that carried him and his dead parents crashed there. Since he was just a kid trapped in a jungle, Ryo was forced to fend for himself, until a group of guerillas found him and enlisted him as a child soldier. One of the guerillas became Ryo's adopted father and trained him, and subsequently exposed him to that drug I mentioned earlier as part of an experiment to create super soldiers. Ryo would go on to wipe out an whole platoon of elite commandos by himself, and would nearly die from the drug's withdrawal effects. He got better though and would leave his war torn life in South America for Japan, where he becomes a sweeper for hire.

You're right that Ryo's goofy pervert persona is largely an act. It's an act to hide that he's suicidaly depressed from all the PTSD he developed because of his wartime experiences. He would have shot himself long ago if not for all his friends and family (especially Kaori).
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Yeah I remember that, the drug was angel dust. I dont remember anything being experimental.
 
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