
Originally Posted by
dux ducis
I wish someone would run a similar study on Asian (be it Japanese or other Oriental animation) "anime," as their fantasized characters (I'll even go out on a limb here and proclaim it to be their collective interpritation of physical beauty, from a majority perspective) are clearly Europid and anyone with some spare time and determination could mathematically prove this. Not only metrically, but skin tone, hair and eye color as well. More often will you find them with blue and green eye colors than any other among "anime" characters (I am judging this from my personal experience, maybe 10-15 different series).

Originally Posted by
dux ducis
It is my understanding that fighting characters in the Dragonball series go under a change in which they become "super humans" or something similar to that, wherein they gain extra strength etc., and thier appearance (aside from visible muscular enhancment) changes from dark haired, brown/black eyed complections to flaxen hair and light blue/turquoise eyes.
In anime, the artwork is primarily just that...art. It has taken artistic licence. The big eyes are used to better convey emotions in the characters. Although, smaller eyes are used in evil characters because it is human nature that big eyes= childlike and innocence. The haircolor is not meant to be caucasian. It is used to help better differentiate between the characters. And, they use natural as well as unnatural color for the hair. The haircolor also sometimes has a meaning. For example, someone who has a bubbly personality may have pink hair. Someone who is generally calm will have blue hair, as so on...And, as far as Dragonball Z is concerned. The characters in question are aliens from a different planet. And so it would make sense that they would have coloring that does not naturally occur in mongoloid populations.They do also sometimes depict people who are meant to be cacausian and they typically have stronger jaws, are taller, etc. See attatched examples:
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