Talk:Lily/@comment-2601:647:301:48FC:797B:F444:B8:9685-20180417163951/@comment-53539-20180503202322

It may not look Japanese but its still a representation of a Japanese person as all anime is. Japanese anime and manga was greatly influenced by the works of Disney and anime/manga character purposely look the way they do to allow for high levels of expression. This included things like the big eyes.

In addition, anime and manga was originally fairly simple and almost colour coded, if you look at the likes of Sailor Moon, which still complies to the older simpleness, almost any character with blonde hair follows the "clutz blonde" trope. Its the same for their pale skin, Japanese skin can be as pale as Europeans to as dark as Arabic. The tone of the skin represents often also lifestyles, which is why outdoor-sy characters have more darker tone and more indoor-sy lifestyles are represented by paler skin. Basically, its still true today but was especially true in the pre-2000s, that you could tell instantly who a character was by their appearance. I wouldn't even look at a One Piece character and attempt to guess what its trope was pers say. Yes, Nami and sanji complied early on with tropes, but the weird and wonderful designs that come out now don't always follow tropes. This sort of has happened a lot across manga and anime since the late 90s.