Topic: How do you perceive Soma?

[Thomas Belmont]

Although Soma is said to be Japanese, due to in game sprites, artwork, and the fact that it just seems out of place in the Castlevania universe, does anybody else personally perceive him as being Caucasian?

[Kale]

I don't think about it..... he just looks bad ass in that pic where he looks all evil.And thats all that really matters. But now that you brought it up.... he looks Japanese... why? cuz hes anime art.

[Azmodan]

He looks like any Japanese guy on AoS's box art. >_>

[Profbeanburrito]

with a name like Cruz I'd think some sort of Spainish

[Thomas Belmont]

In Reply To #2

Yeah, but what about all the other pics where he doesn't look bad ass? And according to the game, he is Japanese.

[Mr Sven]

I thought Soma was a foreign exchange student. He looks western to me.

[Long John Silver]

In Reply To #6

It was only translated like that. They thought we couldn't handle playing as some japanese guy with super powers.

[Alexc2808]

When did it say he was Japanese?  I remember it saying he was studying abroad or something.

[Mr Sven]

In Reply To #7

You mean Soma's alter ego is Hiro Nakamura? 

[Azmodan]

When did it say he was Japanese?

In the Japanese version.

[Mobius]

Uh huh. Like that isn't what all teenage Japanese boys dream of looking like? Please, the only super power anyone looking like that in Japan at that age would possess is the ability to instantly go erect and come all over themselves when they looked in the mirror.

[Steve]

with a name like Cruz I'd think some sort of Spainish

"Cruz" is just a thematic transliteration of his Japanese surname, Kurusu (来須).

[TRON]

I registered just for this.
Well, if he's Japanese, it explains why the game intro listed Mina to be his childhood friend. Didn't any of you wonder about that?

[Profbeanburrito]

In Reply To #13

Not really, plenty of kids grow up in foreign military bases or there parents just live abroad, for business and other reasons, that could be whats up with Soma's parents

[Successor The Cruel]

^ Nah, it's just something the non-Japanese versions didn't explain, even though it didn't quite make sense.  Well, it could make sense, but being childhood friends with a girl from another country that plays a roll in the story deserves an explanation.

In conclusion:
Soma's not white.