Talk:Genma Todoroki/@comment-26239744-20140516163411/@comment-11372432-20140518013815

There are many different shades of skin color in Japanese people. Those with darker skin colors tend to be from coastal areas, particularly islands along with the Osaka area and tend to be looked down upon by those with lighter skin as being "country bumpkins." There is internal racism in all countries.

If you are talking about him muscle-wise, he is likely in ninth grade, so it's possible he is mature enough physically to have those muscles and he could work out a lot off screen. Japanese people can have muscles as well, it's just there are few jobs in the country that require them and culturally there isn't a lot of pressure to have them.

Also, this is anime, so regular logic doesn't apply. I still wonder how certain guys can be so good looking and thin despite being anti-social otakus, which is a popular thing to do in animes nowadays.