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** ''[[Digimon Xros Wars]]'' features Kiriha Aonuma and Yuu Amano, who both are this without any explanation. Even more confusing, Yuu's sister Nene is decidedly not an example herself, having brown hair and a slightly darker skin tone.
** ''[[Digimon Xros Wars]]'' features Kiriha Aonuma and Yuu Amano, who both are this without any explanation. Even more confusing, Yuu's sister Nene is decidedly not an example herself, having brown hair and a slightly darker skin tone.
* There are a substantial number of Japanese characters in ''[[Area 88]],'' two of whom are at the eponymous airbase. Can you tell who they are without knowing names?
* There are a substantial number of Japanese characters in ''[[Area 88]],'' two of whom are at the eponymous airbase. Can you tell who they are without knowing names?
* ''[[Black Lagoon]]'' does relatively well. The assassin Shenhua (a.k.a. "Chinglish") actually looks Chinese. Mr. Chang is an [[Expy]] of Chow Yun-Fat as a shout out to [[John Woo]] films. Hotel Moscow do not blend visually into the Southeast Asia setting. However while the Japanese characters arguably look relatively more Japanese than everyone else, but still fall under this trope. And of course Chinese-American Revy began with [https://web.archive.org/web/20100403115608/http://www.onemanga.com/Black_Lagoon/0/03-04/ very narrow eyes] but quickly took on this trope, [[Justifying Edit|of course since "American" isn't a race god only knows what her parents looked like]].
* ''[[Black Lagoon]]'' does relatively well: The assassin Shenhua (a.k.a. "Chinglish") actually looks Chinese, Mr. Chang is visibly an [[Expy]] of Chow Yun-Fat as a shout out to [[John Woo]] films, and Hotel Moscow does not blend visually into the Southeast Asia setting. However, while the Japanese characters arguably look relatively more Japanese than everyone else, some of them still fall under this trope. ** Chinese-American Revy began with [https://web.archive.org/web/20100403115608/http://www.onemanga.com/Black_Lagoon/0/03-04/ very narrow eyes], but her design began to play this straight by the end of the first chapter; the same goes for her appearance in the anime's pilot episode.
** Revy is a particularly odd example because she went from super-asian looking to this within the first chapter. Go look her up at the beginning and end of the pilot.
* ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' has a wide variety of ethnicities and there is considerable effort to make them appear properly ethnic. Some of the terraformed planets have an architectural [[Planet of Hats]] with corresponding cultures like Morocco, Ecuador and Vienna. In fact, some fans theorize that Spike ''Spiegel'' is Jewish.
* ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' has a wide variety of ethnicities and there is considerable effort to make them appear properly ethnic. Some of the terraformed planets have an architectural [[Planet of Hats]] with corresponding cultures like Morocco, Ecuador and Vienna. In fact, some fans theorize that Spike ''Spiegel'' is Jewish.
** His hair doesn't help, but [[Word of God]] says the name was picked because it [[Rule of Cool|sounded cool]].
** His hair doesn't help, but [[Word of God]] says the name was picked because it [[Rule of Cool|sounded cool]].
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