colors for good and evil

[jistanidiot]

In European cultures, white is usually used to represent good and black represents evil. Just look at some old cowboy serials where the bad guy wears the black hat and the good guy wears the white one (and neither ever has his hat fly off).
Is this different in Japan?
I'm asking as Ichi's color seems to be black... as is Zangetsu.
Ichi's hollow is white which I assume he is b/c white is the opposite of black. So Ichi is good, and Ichi's hollow is evil obviously their colors have to be opposite. But which one I'd assume would be white is black.
Of course hollows might not be actually evil, although all the ones we've seen have behaved like they are evil.

[Hollow_Man_ct]

i heard this from somebody before but i'm not sure that this is right, but white colour seems to resemble death and bad fortune,so maybe black is living and luck???

[Naeko]

In Japan white is the color of death and black is color of mourn...if I knew well...

[cetamora]

:S well Then They should use Like red and.. blue maybe ^^ wait a minute :O isn't it just H-I that has black.. Ichigo did have blue (thinkin back on on the Byakuya battle), um well well :P

[Shinji]

In European cultures, white is usually used to represent good and black represents evil. Just look at some old cowboy serials where the bad guy wears the black hat and the good guy wears the white one (and neither ever has his hat fly off).
Is this different in Japan?
I'm asking as Ichi's color seems to be black... as is Zangetsu.
Ichi's hollow is white which I assume he is b/c white is the opposite of black. So Ichi is good, and Ichi's hollow is evil obviously their colors have to be opposite. But which one I'd assume would be white is black.
Of course hollows might not be actually evil, although all the ones we've seen have behaved like they are evil.

Maybe it's that way, Ichigo is evil and Hichigo is good. We'll have to wait and see.

[choujiwong]

In most asian culture, white symbolizes death...coz usually when someone dies, we wear white..not black..
So, I guess the white ichigo is evil...

[Kyouka Suigetsu]

I think white's good & evil alignment in the show has to do with the nature of hollows and the very name of the anime. You could say that the monsters born from fallen human souls have been "bleached" of their humanity. Man, I'm good.

[Hollow_Man_ct]

definetly you have a nice point there suigetsu,

Maybe it's that way, Ichigo is evil and Hichigo is good. We'll have to wait and see.

if ichigo was the evil one, we wouldn't have been having an anime nor manga with the leading character ichigo.

[sto67]

lol suigetsu with the literature analysis haha
but yes, most asian countries use white as the colour of death and thats a fact.

[Hotaru]

yeah... but ichigo's is trimmed with red... and thats meant to mean?? thats when his hollow form is fighting btw

[Sorian]

White is the color of death in japan

if ichigo was the evil one, we wouldn't have been having an anime nor manga with the leading character ichigo.

No one has ever done that before. If someone made an anime where you followed the main chracter and then he turned out to be the bad guy, that would be epic.

[Zanga]

Could it have somethiing to do with poeple 'claiming' to see a white light before they die? Or white tunnel...something like that.

[MazdaRxEight]

White is the color of death in japan
No one has ever done that before. If someone made an anime where you followed the main chracter and then he turned out to be the bad guy, that would be epic.

that would be an epic twist :headbang: