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Japanese Anime Character With Green Hair and Blue Partial Color

Creator of Sword Art Online asks fans to respond a question that's often brushed aside in the anime world, with some surprising results.

One of the most distinctive visual aspects of anime is the wide assortment of hair colors characters have. Given that Nihon is a country where the indigenous population has naturally black, or on rare occasions night brown, hair, newcomers to the medium are ofttimes shocked to see how many on-screen stars of Japanese animation take heads of pilus in vivid shades of blue, dark-green, purple, or pink.

Oddly enough, though, all those wild hair colors are also something that continuing anime fans chop-chop get desensitized to, on account of how widespread they are in Japanese grapheme design. But Reki Kawahara, light novel author and creator of the Sword Art Online anime franchise, recently started an online argue when he asked fans to in one case again call back well-nigh what's going on with anime characters' pilus.

突然ですが、ラノベやマンガやアニメやゲームに髪の毛がピンクだったり水色だったりするキャラが出てくるじゃないですか。私はあれ、そういう表現手法であって、設定としては黒髪とか茶髪とかせいぜい金髪とかで、実際に染めていたり生来その色というわけではない…という認識でいたんですが（続く）
— 川原礫;SAO24巻発売中 (@kunori) Jan 4, 2022

"This is sort of out of the blue, but you know how in calorie-free novels, manga, anime, and video games at that place are characters with hair that'southward pink or sky bluish? I've always idea those characters accept black, brown, or at most blond pilus, and are just portrayed as having unlike hair colors as a form of artistic expression, not because they've dyed their hair or that their hair is naturally that [unusual] color ."

So in Kawahara'due south mind, at to the lowest degree up until his tweet, all those anime characters don't really have bluish/pink/etc. hair within the worlds that their stories are taking identify. However, the author said he had his belief challenged recently when he was reading a manga in which i character referred to another every bit "The girl with the pink hair," implying that within that manga's world, the girl's hair really is pastel. That got Kawahara'south mind churning, as he went on to tweet "If she has naturally pinkish hair, so she's living in a parallel universe, and if she'south dying her pilus pink, she's got a punk-rocker thing going on."

After spending an entire day trying to wrap his head effectually this question, Kawahara eventually decided to ask his Twitter followers what they think, with a four-option poll, specifically asking almost characters who are supposed to be living in the real world:

こういう時こそアンケート機能を使うチャンスなのでは!?　と思ったので使ってみます！　現代日本が舞台のアニメ等に出てくる、髪の毛がピンクや水色や黄緑色のキャラクターは、
— 川原礫;SAO24巻発売中 (@kunori) January iv, 2022

The poll garnered 22,277 responses, with the final results being
● The characters' hair is naturally that color (64.6 percent of responses)
● The characters dyed their hair that color (6.nine percent)
● The characters have hair that's actually black or brown, but shown as pink/etc. for artistic purposes (25.seven percent)
● Other (3 pct)

Almost one in four respondents proverb that they interpret the characters' pilus as being actually black or brownish is pretty surprising. Sure, it's non too hard to see a deep blue or regal as a stand-in for blackness hair, since the non-black shade makes it easier to add texture and movement to paw-drawn art than with pure black. Just it's a lot harder to imagine how sky blue or pinkish are supposed to be interpretive substitutes for any naturally occurring hair color, peculiarly with Japanese characters.

As for the "other" category, ane commenter said that for him, it depends on the character in question. "If a quiet, reserved daughter has pink hair, I have that equally her natural color, but if it'due south a more energetic and extroverted character, and so I think in that location'due south a run a risk she dyed information technology."

In the end, there's no definitive, manufacture-wide answer for how anime pilus colors are supposed to be interpreted. The practice got its start in the manga industry, since Japanese comics are routinely drawn in black and white and leaving sure characters' pilus uninked, or inked in a lighter shade, was an piece of cake way to brand them stand out. Even certain manga creators haven't been particularly concerned with the exact color of their characters' hair, with Urusei Yatsura artist Rumiko Takahashi depicting series star Lum with a multifariousness of colors until graphic symbol designer Akemi Takada decided on her at present standardized greed for the anime accommodation.

So really, maybe the best thing to exercise is just to enjoy the anime aesthetic for how it looks, without worrying too much about the verbal implications of the blueprint choices, like how big contact lenses would have to be.

Source: Twitter/@kunori via Jin
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