Author Topic: Western female Blonde anime archtype.  (Read 531 times)

Offline Osmo

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Western female Blonde anime archtype.
« on: December 08, 2013, 02:10:14 PM »
So after reading a few manga and anime, I've realized a common character archetype popping up and it goes something like this;

Female Blonde, western, american, horny, ecchi, super outgoing, provides guidance and wisdom to main characters on topics such as sex/relationships, never really has a relationship herself, always grabbing peoples breasts or private parts, basicaly there are always playing the role as a catalyst which forwards the main plot/ character development.

Now when I see this archtype again and again it makes me giggle at the perceptions these asian writers have about western women, like on the surface the women are outgoing sexual but deep down they are alot more mature and wiser. Also the parralells to asian women who are frigid or demure or something.
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Re: Western female Blonde anime archtype.
« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2013, 02:53:15 AM »
You can pin an archetype in anime to any hair colour, including unnatural ones like pink and purple...
For one thing, Tiff is not on any level what I would call a typical American.  She's not what I would consider a typical person.  I don't know any other genius geneticist anime-fan martial artist marksman model-level beauties, do you?

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Re: Western female Blonde anime archtype.
« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2013, 03:13:23 AM »
I thought Tina Foster from Ai Yori Aoshi was the prototypical western blond. Add what we think of as blond jokes of her character, to what you posted Osmo. 
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Re: Western female Blonde anime archtype.
« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2013, 02:26:14 PM »
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Yes shes one of the examples I was thinking about.

You can pin an archetype in anime to any hair colour, including unnatural ones like pink and purple...

The ones I am talikng about are blonde and are actually from the states or from the UK
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Re: Western female Blonde anime archtype.
« Reply #4 on: December 09, 2013, 03:31:23 PM »
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Yes shes one of the examples I was thinking about.

You can pin an archetype in anime to any hair colour, including unnatural ones like pink and purple...

The ones I am talikng about are blonde and are actually from the states or from the UK

The blonde from Infinite Stratos is a great example. Soft voice, polite, regal aura and arrogance in the beginning. and from the UK.
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Re: Western female Blonde anime archtype.
« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2013, 04:17:42 PM »
^

Yes shes one of the examples I was thinking about.

You can pin an archetype in anime to any hair colour, including unnatural ones like pink and purple...

The ones I am talikng about are blonde and are actually from the states or from the UK

The blonde from Infinite Stratos is a great example. Soft voice, polite, regal aura and arrogance in the beginning. and from the UK.
Charl is also blonde... sorta...

Offline AceHigh

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Re: Western female Blonde anime archtype.
« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2013, 05:29:19 PM »
Girls und Panzer!

You have sophisticated blonde British girls driving Churchill tanks while drinking freaking tea all the time!

Oh and you have loud, brash American chicks driving Shermans... and warmongering Russians that threaten everyone on a snowy and cold arena.
For one thing, Tiff is not on any level what I would call a typical American.  She's not what I would consider a typical person.  I don't know any other genius geneticist anime-fan martial artist marksman model-level beauties, do you?

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Re: Western female Blonde anime archtype.
« Reply #7 on: December 15, 2013, 01:31:33 AM »
American blondes are almost 100% portrayed as almost slutty happy go lucky molesters obsessed with wearing really revealing clothes. European bondes ten to be more like high class ladys, and all russian women are assasins from some weird sounding ex URSS country.

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Re: Western female Blonde anime archtype.
« Reply #8 on: December 15, 2013, 06:00:54 AM »
This isn't an archetype if you've only got one concrete example, and technically Tina's Japanese.

Most blondes are just mukokuseki in action. There aren't huge numbers of American characters I could point to in general, and most are just gaijin stereotypes of foreignness. 
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Re: Western female Blonde anime archtype.
« Reply #9 on: December 15, 2013, 06:54:44 AM »
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In many respects, Tina is one of the more deeply developed — and somewhat tragic — characters of the show, despite her ditzy behavior. Being an American, and yet having been raised in Japan, she's constantly haunted by the fact that she can never truly fit in either country. When she left Japan to attend high school in America, she explained that she was unable to fit in there because she was culturally Japanese. But she also realizes that she can never truly fit in Japan either, because of her appearance. Tina wishes that she'd been born Japanese, so that perhaps she'd have a better chance at winning Kaoru's heart.

mukokuseki-seems to be a uniquely Japanese problem. Because in America, one is either categorized by race visually, or by sound. Because there is somebody's relative in America from anywhere in the world, Americans look the stateless look Nikkoru used. So when quantification for race is called for, and visually it is not necessarily apparent, one tells by how funny they talk. Of course this means that Californians and southerners and New Yorkers are all different races. lol Actually wouldn't that be tribalism?
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Re: Western female Blonde anime archtype.
« Reply #10 on: December 15, 2013, 08:38:37 AM »
I welcome all blonde females from any anime series. They can be anything even if they are what you people call them. BLONDES R US! ... Lame..


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