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Hafu
Description
Half-caste manga characters.
Format
Both data frames have the following columns.
- Year
Integer year that the manga was made.
- Series
Name of series.
- Character
Name of character.
- Gender
Gender of character.
- Father
Nationality of character's father.
- Mother
Nationality of character's mother.
- Eyes
Character's eye colour.
- Hair
Character's hair colour.
- Notes
Notes on data collection or ambiguity.
hafu2 has these additional columns.
- FathersNationalityIsUncertain
- MothersNationalityIsUncertain
Note
The dataset was kindly provided by Gwern Branwen.
hafu2 is a lightly cleaned up version of
hafu.
Gwern's notes: The following list includes manga, light novel, anime, and video game characters (there being little point in keeping the mediums separate). It also includes characters who are not hafu themselves but a quarter-foreign inasmuch as they imply a hafu at some point. Characters are treated separately even if they are in the same work (eg. siblings). Classification is based on in-universe or out-of- universe information, since appearance can be highly misleading in anime (blue eyes may indicate heroic status, rather than being Caucasian; hair color may be chosen for contrast against other characters or signal stereotypes like red hair indicating a fiery personality), and different groups will identify the same anime character as belonging to their own race (Lu 2009), perhaps due to minimalistic drawings intended to save money or enable viewers to project themselves onto a character.
References
The dataset was compiled by Gwern Branwen gwern0@gmail.com. The original is available from http://www.gwern.net/hafu#list.