Gonna press X to doubt on this whole sentiment as I recall Ichigo's odd hair color being used as a reason to bully him. Having weird hair colors in Japan goes pretty hard against the grain because their society has such a strong penchant for conforming. Nail that stands up gets hammered down and all that.
It's been a thing for fucking decades so ofc OP only just now heard of it and had to blog. This was one of the big points about the original Super Saiyan look. Going from black hair to bright yellow. Chi-Chi even exclaims Gohan looks like a gang member during the Cell Games saga when both Goku and Gohan have managed to attain a permanent SSJ1 state to skip the power-up.
The ultra conservatives of any culture are always against dying the hair . That doesnt mean there wasn't a "coolness" culture surronding it. Just like in the West, dying your hair didn't originally have a stigma of being a woke activist but only recently is that now a thing.
Its such a common thing that a character having blond hair is supposed to be visual storytelling to fill you in about a character's personality and backstory in a lot of works. They are either a rebel/delinquent, or a foreigner (and always at least partially Japanese because otherwise that's a big problem for them).
This doesn't always apply in series with rainbow colors present, but even then the blond specifically often will still get singled out as a big deal because of how much cultural baggage the Japs have with it.
It's really common. Persona 5 had it with Ann and her entire thing being an 'hafu', and Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai's MC had people assuming he dyed his hair despite it being a natural color.
The ultra conservatives of any culture are always against dying the hair . That doesnt mean there wasn't a "coolness" culture surronding it. Just like in the West, dying your hair didn't originally have a stigma of being a woke activist but only recently is that now a thing.
Gonna press X to doubt on this whole sentiment as I recall Ichigo's odd hair color being used as a reason to bully him. Having weird hair colors in Japan goes pretty hard against the grain because their society has such a strong penchant for conforming. Nail that stands up gets hammered down and all that.
It's been a thing for fucking decades so ofc OP only just now heard of it and had to blog. This was one of the big points about the original Super Saiyan look. Going from black hair to bright yellow. Chi-Chi even exclaims Gohan looks like a gang member during the Cell Games saga when both Goku and Gohan have managed to attain a permanent SSJ1 state to skip the power-up.
The ultra conservatives of any culture are always against dying the hair . That doesnt mean there wasn't a "coolness" culture surronding it. Just like in the West, dying your hair didn't originally have a stigma of being a woke activist but only recently is that now a thing.
Its such a common thing that a character having blond hair is supposed to be visual storytelling to fill you in about a character's personality and backstory in a lot of works. They are either a rebel/delinquent, or a foreigner (and always at least partially Japanese because otherwise that's a big problem for them).
This doesn't always apply in series with rainbow colors present, but even then the blond specifically often will still get singled out as a big deal because of how much cultural baggage the Japs have with it.
It's really common. Persona 5 had it with Ann and her entire thing being an 'hafu', and Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai's MC had people assuming he dyed his hair despite it being a natural color.
The ultra conservatives of any culture are always against dying the hair . That doesnt mean there wasn't a "coolness" culture surronding it. Just like in the West, dying your hair didn't originally have a stigma of being a woke activist but only recently is that now a thing.