In the Void

Like when there was a graphic novel of Dragonriders of Pern, and they made F'nor blond? (She had to wait until well into the eighties to make it clear that in the massive mixing that followed Pern's colonization, franking, all those recessive characteristics, like blond hair and blue eyes and pale skin became rare. F'nor himself, she repeatedly described as "brown" even, when she worried that people might think she was referring to Canth, going to the point of describing his personal skin as brown...

Don't know why the illustrations you're talking about are anime-style. That doesn't make any sense.