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human
ELI5: Why do most anime characters appear to be caucasian, when Japanese artists are the common creators of those characters?

I hope I don't seem to sound racist, I'm genuinely curious.
gpt
It's simply that the anime artists don't intend to portray a certain race or ethnicity. They just draw people, and Japanese readers see them as Japanese and Caucasian readers see them as Caucasian.

I think it's mostly that stereotypes are enforced in people's minds, and when people seem not to conform to those stereotypes it seems odd to us. For example, even if you weren't thinking it, your mind was probably expecting drawings of Japanese people to have super squinty eyes and jet black hair. However, the anime artists are just drawing people, and they're not trying to emphasize, bold and underline that these people are Japanese and only Japanese, never to be confused with another race, ethnicity, or nationality. Doing such a thing is insignificant and irrelevant to the anime itself, and it also severely limits the creativity of the artists' depicting of the characters.