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The fact that the most Yamato Nadeshiko-like character isn't even a full-blooded Japanese was probably intentional. KS likes to turn tropes on its head like that.

Guest Poster wrote:The fact that the most Yamato Nadeshiko-like character isn't even a full-blooded Japanese was probably intentional. KS likes to turn tropes on its head like that.

Yup! One of the many reasons we love it.

Also, I wonder if it would be genetically possible for a real-life half-Japanese, half-Scottish person to have blonde hair at all, or anything approaching it.

Assuming the parents are one full-blooded Scot and one full-blooded Jap, no. As a result, neither Lilly nor Akira could be blonde. But muh anime hair, so meh. However, if two half-Japanese-half-Scottish people, both of which carried the blonde gene, were to have a child, there would be a 1 in 4 chance of the child being a half-and-half blonde.

I'm really not putting much thought into hair colors when there's two girls with dark-purple hair, a girl with blue hair and a girly boy with green hair running around in the same story. It's pretty funny that story-wise, it's mentioned that Lilly and Akira look foreign and are quite different in appearance from most other people around them while visually there are much more exotic hair colors around. (Misha's artificial pink notwithstanding)

Guest Poster wrote:I'm really not putting much thought into hair colors when there's two girls with dark-purple hair, a girl with blue hair and a girly boy with green hair running around in the same story. It's pretty funny that story-wise, it's mentioned that Lilly and Akira look foreign and are quite different in appearance from most other people around them while visually there are much more exotic hair colors around. (Misha's artificial pink notwithstanding)

Hold up there, are we attempting to explain the various strange and slightly implausible (sometimes incredibly so) hairstyles of Japanese anime?

your argument is invlaid

While KS has its share of anime tropes, many are played with and most are portrayed in a relatively realistic light. People in Yamaku don't face-fault when something surprises them, they don't get nosebleeds when they see something exciting, don't smash each other into orbit when someone does something stupid. The weird hair colors are one of the only things giving off a clear anime vibe and even the most outragous example (Misha) is constantly noted as being a special case rather than the norm.

Guest Poster wrote: People in Yamaku don't face-fault when something surprises them,

Well, not much anyway.

pandaphil wrote:

Guest Poster wrote: People in Yamaku don't face-fault when something surprises them,

Well, not much anyway.

Oh really?



Emi and Shizune beg to differ

Oh Cthulhu, that topic. Hehe.

I've firmly resolved to never mention the hair color of anime characters in my fanfics unless it's black or blonde. I just don't want to have to deal with this.

Markus Ramikin wrote:Oh Cthulhu, that topic. Hehe.

I've firmly resolved to never mention the hair color of anime characters in my fanfics unless it's black or blonde. I just don't want to have to deal with this.

Note to self: Picture all of Markus's characters with rainbow afros unless specifically told otherwise.

Oddball wrote:

Markus Ramikin wrote:Oh Cthulhu, that topic. Hehe.

I've firmly resolved to never mention the hair color of anime characters in my fanfics unless it's black or blonde. I just don't want to have to deal with this.

Note to self: Picture all of Markus's characters with rainbow afros unless specifically told otherwise.

PFFFT!

Hah! Didn't mean to set off the Great Anime Hair Debate! Ironically, I only thought about it because blonde is a plausible hair color. Shizune's blue hair and Hanako's purple hair don't make me wonder at all…

Atario wrote:Hah! Didn't mean to set off the Great Anime Hair Debate! Ironically, I only thought about it because blonde is a plausible hair color. Shizune's blue hair and Hanako's purple hair don't make me wonder at all…

Well, red hair is a genetic mutation, so, one could make the argument for other hair colors being so as well.

Or we're all just over thinking a genre convention for some raisin.

Hoitash wrote:

Atario wrote:Hah! Didn't mean to set off the Great Anime Hair Debate! Ironically, I only thought about it because blonde is a plausible hair color. Shizune's blue hair and Hanako's purple hair don't make me wonder at all…

Well, red hair is a genetic mutation, so, one could make the argument for other hair colors being so as well.

Or we're all just over thinking a genre convention for some raisin.

Actually, Shizune and Hanako's hair colors do make sense. In certain light some people with black hair look like they have blue or purple hair (one of my friends is one of these people, low/bright light his hair starts to look blueish). And before someone mentions it, the eye colors of all the girls also work. It's possible (though rare) for someone to have purple eyes (they're actually a variant of blue eyes)

Markus Ramikin wrote:Oh Cthulhu, that topic. Hehe.

I've firmly resolved to never mention the hair color of anime characters in my fanfics unless it's black or blonde. I just don't want to have to deal with this.

Same here. I only ever make reference to Hanako's dark hair.

Actually come to think of it, Misha is the only one who really has wtf hair.