

Her dad had a pretty big nose, if we want to go there. Nothing is said on the
Wikia. And this question doesn't really matter... but I'm sure people want to
know! Was Miyazono half-Japanese? What indications are there that she was?


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Is it known whether Kaori Miyazono is half-Japanese?


There is no evidence to suggest that Kaori is half-Japanese. I discuss my
reasons for this assertion below.

  * The fan wiki for _Your Lie in April_ makes no such assertions about the ethnicity of Kaori. Were there an indication or (obvious) suggestion that Kaori is half-Japanese in official material, I would expect someone to have noted it.

  * Kaori's parentage is straightforward, and her parents have Japanese names and do not look overtly foreign.

  * We cannot extrapolate any information about ethnicity from the characters' hair colours. While Kaori had blonde hair even as a child (as seen in the OVA), so did Takeshi. Tsubaki already had brown hair (rather than black) as a child. Takeshi's sister, Nagi, is also blonde. It is difficult to imagine primary school students dyeing their hair, but it is also difficult to imagine that _all_ of these characters have significant non-Japanese heritage. It is best to chalk this up to a lack of realism in anime hair colours.

As far as I am concerned, I would thus err (at the time of writing) on the
side of assuming that Kaori is not half-Japanese. Were Kaori half-Japanese, it
would seem to be such a large character detail that it would have to be
disclosed _somewhere_.


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There is no direct answer to this question, but the fact that she has blue
eyes is what would leave me to believe she could be at least only half
Japanese. This trait is almost never found in people of Asian decent
specifically Japanese. Often times I have also noticed that in many other
Animes they make the foreigners (western/European) also have blonde hair and
blue eyes. (oc she could be dying her hair.)


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