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Idol Singer Ruri Hijiribe is also implied to have some European ancestry, probably because vampires aren't native to Japan in this 'verse.Ai Kora: Sakurako's mother is English in order to justify her having the blue eyes which Maeda so covets.One of the three title characters in Adolf is half Japanese half German, another is the Japanese-born son of Jewish German parents who considers himself Japanese.

If, and that's a very rare if, they're black, they will probably come from the US), British, or French (relying on people to think 'He's British? Must be sophisticated and smart.' or 'He's French? How romantic!') The occasional Russian, either ex-military, mafia, or often both, will also pop up.īut Not Too Foreign often pops up as the result of creative types trying to appeal to the people of their homeland with the sense that he or she possesses a connection to their culture despite being partly foreign, and thus perfectly okay to empathize with.

In anime and manga, the non-Japanese ethnicity is often either German, ' American' (usually white. In reality, however, it is extremely unlikely for a person who is, say, half-German, half-Japanese to have blue/green eyes or blond/red hair, given that the alleles for those traits are recessive. This in itself does often lead to Mukokuseki within anime and manga works and Ambiguously Brown at the opposite end of this trope.įrequently, this trope is used as an excuse to give a character an unusual phenotype, especially in anime/manga which try to avoid the use of Anime Hair.

How much an actor is allowed to speak tends to reflect more on their personal fluency. This is often an artifact of a manga-to-anime transition: a text translation can be passable, while voice actors end up totally mangling it. Assuming this character was raised overseas, it's notable the character who is Not Too Foreign will rarely speak another language on-screen even if they are supposed to be fluent. Their name will also have an obvious foreign sound to it even if it doesn't sound real. Part of this probably stems from the actual ethnic homogeneity of a country, especially in Japan where foreigners really do make up only about two percent of the population. Ethnically one nationality, culturally a different one.Born in one country, raised in another.Mixed ancestry of different races that may not be related to the author.Half native to the author's ancestry, half foreign ancestry (the most common version).

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