XPost: rec.arts.anime.misc   
   From: ryoko@gatech.rmv.this.part.edu   
      
   David Johnston  wa:   
   >On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:37:46 -0400, "Dave Baranyi"   
   > wrote:   
      
   >>The "girl next door" concept shows up in a lot of shounen anime. My gut   
   >>feel, based upon my creaky memory, was that shounen protagonists end up   
   >>choosing the Girl Next Door more often than they choose the Exotic   
   >>Competitor.   
      
   >That's an odd idea to have.  There's a whole shonen genre devoted to   
   >guys hooking up with aliens.  Note however that that I can't think of   
   >any case where a Japanese male ditches the Japanese girl to hook up   
   >with someone from a real world foreign nation in the long run.  Minmei   
   >never had a chance.   
      
   I would say that Shoujo is similar, but I can think of several cases   
   where the main chick ends up with a halfie instead of a full-japanese,   
   if that counts (usually the halfie is the illegitimate kid of some   
   American businessman who had an affair with a normal Japanese woman,   
   typically as an excuse to explain the halfie's substantial monetary   
   support and private apartment while only in highschool, heh).   
      
   Or are we talking 100% foreign? In shoujo, 100% foreign characters   
   usually end up being really annoying characters that wouldn't stand a   
   chance in 100 years, and you want nothing more than for them to just go   
   the fark away. (Michael in Marmalade Boy comes immediately to mind).   
      
   Anyway, a recent manga I read goes in a direction that I've never seen   
   before with this concept.   
      
   _Beauty is the Beast_ by Tomo Matsumoto (complete @ 5 vols)   
      
   Spoilers......   
      
   .   
   .   
   .   
   .   
   .   
   .   
   .   
   .   
   .   
   .   
   .   
   .   
   .   
   .   
   .   
   .   
   .   
   .   
   .   
   .   
   .   
   .   
   .   
   .   
   .   
   .   
   .   
   .   
   .   
      
   Despite Eimi's oblivious and odd behavior, the fairly obvious   
   male-love-interest of the series, Wanchin, is a Mexican halfie (he may   
   be a 1/8, but anyways, they play up his Mexican side a lot in the   
   series).   
      
   I don't think I've ever seen any other series have a main character be a   
   Mexican halfie, muchless one that gets the girl in the end. Actually,   
   seems like most halfies are almost always half-American (_Mars_,   
    _Paradise Kiss_, _Kaikan Phrase_, etc etc). Anything out side of that   
   seems to be pretty uncommon.   
      
   German halfies (Asuka?), Chinese halfies (_Haou Airen_?), and British   
   halfies (drawing a blank, here) seem to come in way below at second   
   place. Not sure about shounen's take on what types of halfies tend to   
   show up in manga/anime.   
      
      
   --   
   "Care must be exorcised when handring Opiticar System as it is apts to   
   be sticked by dusts and hand-fat." --Japanese Translators   
      
   "Keep your fingers off the lens." --Elton Byington, English Translator   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)