POC representation

[Iscah]

So basically, they’ll make characters look “white” regardless of where they are from? And Japanese people see “white” features as a default human being? Like Suzaku in Code Geass having brown hair and green eyes despite being “Japanese”? That’s still kinda weird.

Yes and no. They will draw characters with what we interpret as "white features" but it's not necessarily intended that way. (And whatever the origins, at this point it's just how it works.)

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Mukokuseki

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/...-white/340084/


On a similar vein, a while back I attended a talk by a picture-book illustrator and she talked about how one of her books had gone well internationally because people would look at the simply-drawn girl and assume it was "someone like them" - she didn't look like any race in particular, but people assumed their own.