Altenate Worlds?

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Altenate Worlds?

Post by Cobweb »

I've noticed before in anime that characters tend to appear almost Caucasian - very light skinned, at least. In the World the darkest-toned person we meet is (correct me here if I'm wrong) Mimiru. But everyone is still identifiably "white." We never see anything that could be considered another race, unless you count the cat NPCs. I don't.
Apparently the World comes in different languages, including Swahili. In another thread we also discussed how the World runs off of regional servers. Does this mean that players in Africa would be able to choose from among different skins than players in Japan? That *would* make sense - I could see people getting very offended otherwise. But the theme of the World is Celtic/Medieval Europe. The majority was white back then, and changing that would look awkward. Perhaps other servers have other themes?

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Post by Elk »

You don't see many people with dark-dark skin tones because they only show the Japanese server.
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Post by CRtwenty »

You usually don't see dark skinned people at ALL in Anime...
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Post by Xebexz »

lol, watch your title next time.

I agree with both of the above posts. ^^
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Post by Invisible Egg! »

This topic was brought up a while back.

It really doesn't make sense, when a real MMORPG like Phantasy Star Online has black/african character skins. Certainly The World wants to have international appeal, so the lack of black characters is a huge mistake.

... unless there are no black people in the future, CC needs to make some additions to their game.
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Post by Jerec »

Simply put.. black people are rare in Japan, so they're pretty much nonexistant in the life of an average Nippon-jin.
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Post by Cobweb »

I understand that. But in .hack we only see the *Japanese* version of the World. In the official timeline it says that the World comes in several different languages. Since Swahili isn't spoken widely in Japan, that leads me to believe that there there must be an African-based version that varies *widely* from the one we all know and love.
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Post by Robby-san »

It is my beleif that all the people are there, just you cant hear their voices. In Phantasy Star Online a lot of the things you can say is translated into english. Ex: when your in the Japanese server someone can say "Hello" and it is translated. It may be the same way with "The World." Mimiru, Bear, Tsukasa, ect. may just stay in the Japanese populated servers. There might just be different skin color capeabilities, but we simply never see them.
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Post by Xebexz »

I doubt that. They go to many route towns, which probably are for everyone to visist, not just for Japan, and you never see anything like that, however I could be entirely wrong.
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Post by Pipian »

Well, we know that there are different located servers (Though it's not exactly canon, the Udeden anime alludes to this fact: See Aura saying "JP" when the hacker comes to visit Rena. Can anyone find an analogous part int he manga?)...
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Post by Hiro »

CRtwenty wrote:You usually don't see dark skinned people at ALL in Anime...
Nope,only like Indians.Guess they don't like dark skinned people in their animes,lol.
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Post by FireDraconian »

Not true, there are several dark-skinned people in DB and DBZ. ;)
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Post by Xebexz »

And don't forget the aliens!

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Post by Dark770 »

lol its not a alien its a namek........even though its the same thing.Oh yea and they do have it in dbz gt (couldnt think of anything els).
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Post by Invisible Egg! »

Well there are no Nameks in The World, so let's not mention them again. DBZ was brought up for the sake of arguing that black people ARE depicted in anime, but do to the way it depicts them, I think it's a poor example.
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