Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-112.207.82.60-20140309021854/@comment-25577599-20150415204908

Tortoiseshel wrote: I can understand being hesitant to draw Leon as anything other than the blond, blue-eyed white man since that's what most people are used to. But come on, they're made for soul music, soul is a black music style. And if you are aware of all of this and still outright refuse to draw them as black, you might be a little bit racist.

Also am I the only one who thinks the Vocaloid fandom might have a bit of a whitewashing problem? Like compare Bruno and Clara's very brown skin of their original art, to now. And they're just getting lighter and lighter with each updated art. Clara's hair isn't even black anymore and Bruno's practically blond. Technically, they aren't even white. While LEON has blonde hair and blue eyes, and pale skin, he's like Len in that he's still based off of anime's definition of a Japanese person. Like how they have pink-haired and green-eyed girls and boys with pale skin, but they're still Japanese? SO, if we're being completely honest, they're actually based off of Japanese style of what anime people are perceived to look like. ;-D