Yeah, you're not going to find many people with yellow eyes in the real world, period, and this complexion is well within the range of African Americans.AndreRhineDavis wrote: ↑Sun Nov 24, 2019 4:41 pmThis really is a topic I know very little about, but Reni looks to me to be depicted no differently to how an average African American girl would be depicted. I'd say a large number of African Americans have around this shade of skin colour. At the end of the day though, this is Mekkan, not Earth, so there's no reason to categorize people by our ethnic standards. I mean, people like Trace and Karen have light blue and light green hair, so we can hardly expect Earth genetics and Earth-based ethnicities to apply here . But yeah, I don't recall seeing any dark-skinned humans on Mekkan so far.JayJayForce wrote: ↑Sun Nov 24, 2019 3:23 pmAs someone born and raised in Africa, I do agree that there are definite variations in skin colour etc, but Reni as she's shown is definitely on the lighter end of all of that. Though the Gold eyes just aren't possible, the hair isn't happening without special treatment or non-African blood and the face doesn't look very African either. Like I said, she just looks far more Indian or something like that than pure African to me. Dark but with definitive European or Asian heritage.vevans0009 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 24, 2019 2:35 pmOh there ARE africans/african americans that are different shades of skin color and colored eyes, BELIEVE ME. Especially in anime.JayJayForce wrote: ↑Sat Nov 23, 2019 9:51 pm I would say she's more Indian or Micronesian, something along those lines. Skin tone is pretty light for an African and the hair and eyes are completely wrong. Maybe Coloured, but again the hair feels a bit too straight for that.
Anime etc isn't very good at depicting African features most of the time tbh. They tend to just look more like a dark skinned European/Asian than someone actually from Africa. More African-American I can see due to the often large amount of European blood in them, but that's still distinct from someone with only African heritage.
(In my country, there's a major distinction between "Black" or "African" and mixed race "Coloureds" with both having distinct cultures and identities separate from each other. Barack Obama for instance wouldn't be considered "Black" in my country. So at least for me what many consider as "Black" doesn't match up to my own understanding and usage of the term)
Wonder if they invited Kei to this shindig, getting his views on his "Ace's" new form would be amusing, especially after he overheard her thinking he was cute.