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More than often female characters are described physically by their hair and the exaggeration of their body in most mediums that you look too. However, this isn’t necessarily the case with young Canary of the Japanese anime ‘Hunter x Hunter.’ Canary first showed in the anime in episode 33 of the 1999 version have being a medium height girl with red afro-textured hair and teal coloured eyes. She sports a tux and a small staff that’s rounded at one end and pointed at the other. When you first meet Canary, she is a clam, well-kept, silent apprentice that guards a gate to a mansion that houses and esteemed house of assassins. Later in the 2011 version Canary gets recoloured with dark purple/black hair and grey coloured eyes. Like most characters of colour her hair is one of those traits that are instantly recognizable and immediately different from everyone else. The underlying recognition that characters of colour will always be the characters that are different in any setting becaus...

One can say Japans’ beauty standards are deeply rooted in colorism, arguing their elements of influence are more Americanized in the way that they look rather than them looking more Japanese, simply being put; a society based on the belief of normalization eliminates accusation and ridicule, the lighter the better. “One of the tradition is to try to be the same as people around us and not out stand too much from them. Many Japanese people believe that if they follow the custom, they can live peacefully in society.” (Fujino, Miyu. “Skin Color and Beauty in Japan.) If a character, is created in a Japanese animation, with big eyes, paler skin, and no other vaguely racial identifying characteristics, that character is usually read to be American. Wow, what a westernized view on something that they had no part in. "The Japanese see anime characters as being Japanese. It is Americans who think they are white," he writes. "Why? Because to them white is the Default ...