Originally Posted by
Kyono
The reason why the main characters usually have blonde hair is probably because it's something that stands out to the Japanese. I don't know this with any great certainty, it's just something I saw on a site once a long time ago, but as someone already mentioned, Dark hair and eyes are a physical trait of pretty much every Asian person. Therefore, i'm guessing for their heroes, to stand out and be defined as someone who is not just an average person, they give them the blonde hair and green eyes to point this out, for example when the Saiyan's transform in Dragon Ball Z, they get golden hair and green eyes. It was something along those lines, anyway. I know there is some sort of fixation with blonde hair over there, with Gaijin girls or whatever they're called with the bleaching and dying.
Anyway, I see nothing wrong with the casts of these games, these are just the people that inhabit this certain world. How exactly do you propose to get a latino character for instance into a game and then portray them as latino without coming across as stereotyped and cliche? I don't see why it matters what colour or creed a character in a game is, or why they should have members of all races if it doesn't apply to it. If you were making a film/game set in the arctic, you wouldn't stick an african elephant into the film/game just to represent Africa/Elephants.
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