Message-ID: <37CEE19C.4AE1@hawaii.edu> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 10:44:13 -1000 From: "B.P. Suverkropp" To: megami@ML.usagi.org Subject: Re: dark-skinned beauties Reply-To: megami@ML.usagi.org X-ML-archive: http://www.win.ne.jp/~doi/ML/ Precedence: bulk > From: schobronics@gmx.net > > >Yuris wrote: > >> To my knowledge, only dark-skinned heroine (lead female) in > >> Japanese animation to have massive popularity was Nadia (Secret of Blue > >> Waters). I'm not even aware of another series that featured dark skinned > >> character as the lead female role. > >There is mihoshi from Tenchi Muyo. She isn't really a main character but > >quite popular amongst fans of the series. I'm quite sure there are more... > > > For lead heroine : Rally Vicent of Gunsmith Cats, and the lead heroine > of V Gundam (her name escape me at the moment). > > For secondary characters : Claudia of Macross, Soretta Orihime of > Sakura Taisen 2, Himemiya Anji of Utena, Nana of the original Gundam, > etc. > > -- > 'CuSO4' Yung > cuso4@cuso4.com > chyung@hknet.com I never noticed that Rally Vincent or Soletta Orihime were dark-skinned. I don't know much about Rally, but Soletta is italian/japanese, which should give her a skin color that would not stand out in any way in Japan, where ST takes place. Now, Nadia really looks dark. By the way, dark-skinned leads in westeren comics used to be extremely rare too, although it's getting a bit better these days. -- Bas P. Suverkropp email: bastiaan@hawaii.edu