.blagh!....hate foots and inches... and I am too lazy to convert it myself so ╮(￣▽￣)╭
He's mid 180. Which is around 6 feet and Shirotani is around 170cm which is around 5'6.
it's just a manga omg no need to bring up the white/asians or whatever discourse
and yes the mangaka did say that shirotani is 1,70 cm and kurose is mid 1,80cm (so 1,85 more or less) so i don't really get whats incorrent for you :/
I don't think you should equate hair color in manga or anime to race. Remember it's also an art form. If a series is set in Japan, the characters are probably Japanese unless we are specifically told they have another race.
Think about the possible connotations hair color can have in this type of art. Brown hair can be friendly and reliable. It's not as flashy as all out blonde, but it's not "everyman" either. I think maybe light brown or sometimes reddish brown hair in this context means he is a solid person who is hiding his stronger qualities.
On a side note, while it's probably not as popular with businessmen as with women, they have hair dye in Japan. I'm not saying anime blue is a popular color for men or anything--I'm just saying you can't read too much into hair.
Well all we know is that Kurose is a Tall ( A tall modafuker at that) Dark ( With a pinch of sadism oh and dont forgot that lavishly smooth dark hair of his) and Handsome ( Hot damn is he a hot sexy beast of a freaking man that he is) And Shirotani is small and compact, fits in your pocket and you can take him anywhere and everywhere you go
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lol i really like this comment XD <3
interesting. thanks for your feedback.
did I get it wrong? okay, point taken.
I know. I hesitated myself. I see beautiful traits of many races in these characters. I didn't mean to say otherwise.
maybe I just remembered the 180 part.
well I hope I didn't come across like I have some kind of bias. I like it that the artists do such a beautiful job of depicting the characters, and I do see many gorgeous traits of many races in them. My artistic eye can get a bit critical at tines I guess.
I'm sure you're right about hair color. I never thought of it that way. It's interesting how you see so much. I'm sometimes disappointed when a character's hair color doesn't match my imagination. I remember when I saw the anime of Junjou Romantica after having read the manga. Usagi (Akihito?) in the manga had always looked to me like a sort of windswept sandy blond - so cute. It was a real letdown when in the anime his hair looked to me a dull grayish brown.
Hair color threw me when I first started reading manga. When colored pictures varied, I thought, "Why does this character have different hair in this picture?" Then someone told me I was being silly about an art form where hair could be green or blue. :)
Oftentimes, as well, mangaka will make one character seem to have light colored hair in the B&W drawings, but in the colored artwork, the light colored hair will actually be a different shade of brown. In the B&W art, the lighter color is used to help differentiate between characters. Sometimes, it's just a matter of the mangaka not wanting to color in the hair. A good example of that is Doumeki in Saezuru Tori Wa Habatakani. He is drawn as though blonde in the B&W pages but in the color art, his hair is a medium brown.
me too. LOL
are just plain incorrect. Even when the author says Kurose is a 5'9" shortie, it's obvious that he's in the 5'11" to 6'1" range. Shirotani is supposedly 5'6" That might be okay if he looked asian, but he doesn't. He looks white and his body proportions, head size, and length of his limbs puts him around 5'7-5'10" range. Gintama's Gintoki was listed as being 5'9" HA! He's 6'2" or 3" obviously! He stands head and shoulders above almost everyone. So often the height & weight is off. probably because they're not used to us huge hulking white or white mixed race people. lol