Why do the Japanese make so many cartoons about westerners?

Why do the Japanese make so many cartoons about westerners?
Why don't they ever have actual Japanese characters? Is it Stockholm syndrome after ww2?

Pick related, a popular anime character that is clearly not Japanese.

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Edward is cute and King Bradley is based.

The vast majority of anime is about Japanese characters, it's just relatively common for shows that blow up in the west to star European characters. As to why there are European characters in some anime, Europe/America are and continue to be the media giants of today. On top of that, Japan has been heavily influenced by western culture, perhaps more so then any other Asian state. When you are occupied by Americans for over a decade, that tends to happen. That there should be more European characters in their shows then say, Chinese media, is hardly surprising.

That said, there is this weird fixation the Japanese have with Germany, which I can only guess is a result of the brief, 5 year pseudo-alliance with Germany. Still, Japanese leadership was distrustful of the Germans the whole time, so I find it incredibly strange that the Germans are so lionized today. It's possible that the more martial tradition of Germany and Prussia appeals to Japan, themselves a martial nation, that historically was usually ruled by military dictatorships. It's also possible popular admiration of Germany goes back longer than I know, the Japanese constitution was heavily inspired by the German Empire's constitution.

>Why don't they ever have actual Japanese characters?
Is this a joke?

>heres 1 popular anime character thats not japanese
>why are japanese obsessed with western characters?

Also, imagine caring about race in anime

I don't think I've ever seen a post that indicated someone was new and didn't watch anime at all than this post

He's from a fantasy world in which neither Japan nor the West exists. Westerners also write stories like this.

I literally typed 'anime character' and this was the first one to pop up.

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>Pick related

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i think u should kill urself

The West is the best, fuck the rest
(Japan is part of western civilization)

pure shit
Fuck off, he's ugly and crap.

I can't name a single modern school anime that's not set in Japan. Fantasy versions of a country don't count.

Except the FMA movie confirmed that everyone was Russian and the Ishvalans were Gypsies.

It's like saying LotR is set in europe. It kinda is but it's still a fantasy world.

The FMA movie is only canon to the 03 version, not the manga

FMA is trash for dubfaggots
glad that pedophile piece of shit got fired from industry, hope he goes to jail

>I find it incredibly strange that the Germans are so lionized today
I think they just like the blond hair blue/green eyes. Americans, Italians, English, etc. are all represented with blonde hair after all. Maybe because their society shuns individuality, fiction gives them a chance to be flashy.

>caring about dubs for any reason whatsoever

Kys pleb. You’re ugly and stupid.

Maybe because he is a popular character?You absolute dumb fuck

Seething this hard huh faggot?

What's that got to do with it? Maybe he's popular because he looks so western.

>Why don't they ever have actual Japanese characters?

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Yes, of course. I'm sure that's the reason. At least try to not reveal what you are so fast.

gee, it's as if movies like Star Wars, Terminator, Robocop, Blade Runner and Commando are popular in japan

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This is somehow the most retarded thread on Yea Forums

They are ugly

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>defends shitma
>calls other a faggot

anyone who ever likes that piece of crap series is into dubs, you can't prove me otherwise.

You have to be joking newfag. Literally lurk more watch more anime/manga etc etc

t. angry autistic neckbeard

>says Satan
too bad for you I'm staying on this world

It's true we have huge Inferiority complex to you

Another mutt obsessed with blonde hair?

great rebuttal, you sure showed me! go and watch this piece of crap instead of being on 4channel

what, did you get bored of it? Haha, no wonder.

character design is shit
plot is shit
names are shit

everything about FMA is pure crap

I've watched shitloads on anime and read shitloads of manga. They draw a western character and give them black hair and low confidence. Ta da, every anime character. For example, look at lelouch, a British character. Does he look different? No, he looks like every other anime character. Then look at black people in anime, completely different. Indians, completely different. Every other non western nationality is drawn noticably differently.

Well FMA is way better than 4channel, so.

Too bad for you your soul will depart to hell after you die.

Based

hahaha no fuck off dubfaggot

Imagine thinking an anime got popular because a character from a made up country is blonde

Nope, I never tarnished my soul with Shit Metal Alcheshit, so I'm pure.

Yes, that is obviously what I think...

Practice some reading compression and rejoin us when you can correctly follow a train of discussion.

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Hahaha yes you fucking weeb.

No but you tarnished your soul with other shit and cancerous deeds. You’re not pure, far from it.

>popular characters come from popular anime
>"maybe he's popular because he looks so western"
The only "western" look is his hair color
Unless you mean his yellow eyes
Which exist within fictional worlds

Ed and Al are half-fantasy persian.

Yep they all look Japanese to me.

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Wow you were right, blonde hair is the game changer.

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How didn't I see it before!

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Nope, I never did. Everything I consume is perfect. That's why I never touched that faggotry series from OP's pic

>confirms my point that FMAshitters are dubwatchers

WOOOW, big surprise. You totally got me there.

Based Monica Rial destroying this piece of shit of FMA MC's "voice actor"

You're forgetting that he's 15-16
Why do /pol/tards make it so obvious what they're here for?

Literally no similarity right?

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"hey, aren't you a bit too little for your age, Ed?"
"Don't call me small!!"
haha so funny xD

this is what nu/a/ defends
cringe as fuck

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Arrogance and lying, these two are sins user. You will burn in hell forever and there’s nothing in your worthless life you can do about except begging and sucking.

>doesn't watch overrated by dubfaggots trash
>worthless live

LMAOO

I'm already glad I lived the day to see Vic Magnana get fired from the industry.

I don’t care about dubs (most of them) or Vic.
Yes I watched FMA both in sub and dub. Nothing wrong with that and if so, then you are just a autistic weeb.

lmfao watched it in dub
confirmed there's not a single english speaking FMAfag who never touched that.

Only proves my point. Fuck vicshit, he deserves to sit in jail

>Doesn't touch on the fact the eye shape is rounder unlike the west
>Doesn't touch in the fact that western people have larger noses, even if thinner
Ever noticed how all good cosplay is Japanese?

FMA movie is not even canon

Anime characters have neoteny features and the least neoteny race is Caucasian

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3d is disgusting no matter the race to be honest

That's why anime is so gosh darn cute

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Sub first dub second, you retard.
It’s time to take your medication user.

>dub second
Implying I'd touch anything with that faggot Shit Magnagna with a ten foot pole.

Implying I'd watch dubs at all. Absoluste state of FMAtards.

I never said you did watch dub, paranoid sperg. It’s true what they say about Yea Forums. It’s full of retards autists and weebs. Truly the cancer board of 4channel.

Kys retard, you definitely got raped by Vic

>westerners
>blonde
LOL

I feel bad for this user giving a genuine, correct response to a bait thread that devolved into feces-flinging.

Is Yea Forums being raided? What's with the sheer amount of troll OPs since yesterday?

very mutt post

>Kys retard, you definitely got raped by Vic
i bet he's a kickVic fag and Sean Shemale bitch