Talk:Tooru Mutsuki/@comment-24231905-20150406103743/@comment-10733658-20150408071020

Like I said, portrayals of skin color other than "generic lighter skin tone" isn't very common in Japanese media. I don't pretend to know all the particulars of why that is in Japanese media, since applying Western cultural ideas or history to Japan isn't really accurate.

And it honestly seems like Japanese media, in general, doesn't really think about skin tone in the way the Western world does. (Gyaru fashion, doing blackface without realizing its offensive, ect.) So inclusion of a character that has brown or darker skin tone is used to denote "exotic", or "special", or a foreign character.