Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-173.70.139.196-20140205003219/@comment-136.224.95.146-20140509154100

Anime tends to have most people ramge from white to tan, with rarely a few black people, (and they tend avoid making them realy dark skin for fear od accusations of racism, so they make them closer to looking tan)

You have to remember that Rwby, has an Anime like style to it and in Anime, you mostly only see skin shades that range from white to Tan. In fact many times the way that character are drawn will make characters appear to be white to western audiences, even if there Asian characters. I was in highschool before I realised that Digimon was an anime and that the setting was Japan, because the visual style with the localized audio made it impossible for me to see race In the show when I was a kid.

Most anime styles have adopted drawing caracters in such a way so that, foreign audiences won't see an other race and will likely subconsiously identify them to be the same race, connecting with them more and making anime more marketable to foregin audiences. The irony of the debate taking place in this forum is that the way most characters are drawn covers people of a colors save for those with particularly dark skin. If you don't believe me about this that see if you can remember the last time you saw an anime or manga where there was a chinease person who didn't specificly say they were chinease or dressed in a way that implied chinease (Ren's hunter outfit for example) to make possible for some to tell the difference.