Are anime characters meant to be white?

So why are Anime characters White? Anime Characters are an abstracted illustration of reality, so their looks are idealized. In Japan light or white skin is seen as beautiful, so most Anime characters are drawn with white skin. But that does not mean, that they are not Japanese.

Do anime characters have race?

Results showed that, although the race of more than half of the anime characters was originally designed to be Asian and only a small fraction were intended to be Caucasian, many were perceived as Caucasian by the largely Caucasian raters.