Narutoverse ethnicities

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Kishimoto said in an interview with shonen that he always viewed naruto and sakura as Caucasian and sasuke as a mix between Caucasian and asian

so what do you think certain characters ethnicities are?
 

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I'm gonna say B is Turkish.

And Deidara is Muslim.
 

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I need a link to this "interview"
 

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Why does he have a view if he made the characters smh that man and his logic
 

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Wich inerveiew is this again?

no clue i was just remembering random shit i heared a while ago it was on saiyan island or soe other anime forum
 

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I don't remember any interview like that. I always figured that clans were more important than race in the Naruto verse anyways. Naruto does look caucasian though.
 

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Do you think you can try and find the interview/or post it was mentioned at?
 

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I don't have a link to said interview, but these were Kishi's words:

"KM: Naruto has blue eyes and blond hair, so any child actor in America could play him. Maybe Sasuke would be someone Japanese-American, and Sakura, someone European. I'm not all that familiar with the names of child actors. I only remember Dakota Fanning... [laughs] I love movies and know actors' faces, but not the names."
 

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Killer Bee did called Naruto a "crazy cracker".
 
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I don't have a link to said interview, but these were Kishi's words:

KM: Naruto has blue eyes and blond hair, so any child actor in America could play him. Maybe Sasuke would be someone Japanese-American, and Sakura, someone European. I'm not all that familiar with the names of child actors. I only remember Dakota Fanning... [laughs] I love movies and know actors' faces, but not the names.

yeah it was something like that
 

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ok i was looking up to try and find the interview again and found this
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look at naruto holy crap im laughing so hard.
 

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I don't have a link to said interview, but these were Kishi's words:

"KM: Naruto has blue eyes and blond hair, so any child actor in America could play him. Maybe Sasuke would be someone Japanese-American, and Sakura, someone European. I'm not all that familiar with the names of child actors. I only remember Dakota Fanning... [laughs] I love movies and know actors' faces, but not the names."

I always thought real life Sakura would be a strawberry-blonde, or a few shades lighter than a ginger. Her dad has weird darkened pink hair, though that might be age...

I think Kumo's dark-skinned people are generally supposed to be African-descended, and judging by some the cultural markers we see, Americanized as well. In fact, all of Kumo's Raikage have been dark-skinned men with rather thick lips and wide noses. The first two even have dark hair and I think the Shodai Raikage has an afro. It's good to see some representation to be honest, especially when Kumo seems to be a badass village in general, if not the most moral. Also, Karui's hot.

Killer Bee did called Naruto a "crazy cracker".

I swear that translation made my week.

Kishi said Suna's influenced by Ancient Egypt so Levant origin? I know of redhead Arabic people.
 

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ok i was looking up to try and find the interview again and found this
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look at naruto holy crap im laughing so hard.

So basically, white people are the best manga characters.
 

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Aren't they Japanese?
 

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The first two raikage are black.

I think A and Bee are because of their cornrows, and darui.
 

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Hashirama is the best example of an American Indian.
 
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