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>>124528 My logic isn't "phailed" at all. In anime, or anything like it, people are designed around a central idea. I mean, Terry Bogard is American because he's blond, blue eyed, wears denim and a cap.
With Naruto and Ichigo, their hair colour is explained as being an oddity - but if it wasn't pointed out then it'd be because they're American (I wouldn't even say "western", because they usually are from the US).
Yoruichi is far, far too dark to be tanned. Basically, if they had a blond woman who wore glasses, drunk tea and was driven around in a limo, she'd be English, even if she had a Japanese name... Anime really is that cliche. If she was black she'd inevitably do capoeira or something very similar, like all black women in fighting games, and all black guys that aren't boxers.
Chad obviously is Mexican, as well. The Japanese name thing is probably because Kubo Tite has set it up so all the shinigami and human allies have Japanese names with very specific meanings (ex. Chad's last name means "peaceful tiger" or something very similar) where he's given the hollow-related things Spanish names. Menos Grande, Huerco Mondo, the Espada... Even volume names like Conquistadores. There's a big thing of foreign names vs Japanese names.
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