That's... Quite cute and tasteful, nice. It's good to see Yoshida is still able to draw women who aren't just sentient tighs lol... I love his art but he gets carried away sometimes.There's also this character:
No pants, but it isn't a belt skirt.
I've read a lot of different theories as to why this is, from their unique sitting positions to being an adaptation to walking in tight kimonos to just straight up poor health as children (as bow-leggedness is supposed to naturally correct itself as children develop). Either way, it is a very distinctly Japanese phenomenon. Even other neighboring East Asian countries don't display it as much as they do. Not terribly surprising (but still kind of annoying) that it shows up in their artwork as much as it does.
Yeah. It's definitely still meant to be "cute" when done in fiction, though, I'm pretty sure. Which is, well. Something something Rei's eyepatch.
Yeah that's the one. She has a seductive ability or some such right? Otherwise I dunno why I'd be thinking along those lines haha.
Nice, I too approve.Hah, speaking of pants... Did you all see the new characters revealed for Octopath Traveler? She's a huntress who wears, well, very snug and form-fitting clothes to say the least, and her artwork has a kind of "boobs & butt" pose.
But she has a shirt, and actual pants, and proper boots (no high heels bullshit). And she genuinely looks cool, instead of stupid. So you know what. I'll take it. Thank you, artist, for not giving her ZR and cleavage and a thong and high heels or whatever the fuck. xD
If you get sub-jobs early that would be a fun way of the game encouraging you to do the thing that gets Primrose a decent set of clothes for traveling.
There's also this character:
No pants, but it isn't a belt skirt.
Yeah, I like that design as well. She looks awesome. Octopath is looking pretty damn solid based on everything I've seen of it.Hah, speaking of pants... Did you all see the new characters revealed for Octopath Traveler? She's a huntress who wears, well, very snug and form-fitting clothes to say the least, and her artwork has a kind of "boobs & butt" pose.
But she has a shirt, and actual pants, and proper boots (no high heels bullshit). And she genuinely looks cool, instead of stupid. So you know what. I'll take it. Thank you, artist, for not giving her ZR and cleavage and a thong and high heels or whatever the fuck. xD
Gotta admit you guys make good points. Those octopath traveler characters are great. I may get a switch for it.
That is amazing lol!Big Boss would be more "confident" like this:
Remember the positions of the characters in Darling in the Franxx? Well, in today episode the reverse finally appeared. Just a matter of curiosity. haha
Yeah, I said "Belly Dancers dress like that when performing."...?
Every other anime female, especially if she's supposed to be cute, is drawn pigeon toed these days. Even the female inklings from Splatoon are pigeon toed. It's an anime epidemic of bone disease.
yea but that most old school jrpgs (they don't change their clothing at all)
I don't think it's all that recent. See the link right above your post. I dunno if it's a recent trend in anime or whatever, but.
Yeah, if I remember correctly he got his sentence cut by revealing the names of other pedophiles. Still weird to see him back in Jump when other authors got their works cancel for lesser crimes.
I'm pretty sure foot binding was just a Chinese thing that isn't done anymore, whereas the article posted earlier in the thread noted pigeon-toed is exclusively Japanese. It's likely a similar idea of what's cute, but I doubt there's a direct connection between the two.
No, it's not something that originated in Japan, I'm stating that the whole foot-fetishism thing (of which pigeon-toedness is related) is something that has a much older history and has had serious health impacts for women for a very long time, particularly in cultures that take from Chinese culture.
this was from a sub-story in Yakuza 5 (which at the time I had forgotten about) and the Yakuza series, while it is my favorite, has historically sexualized a lot of female characters, even if they were minor. But in this promo, the sexualization of the girl character was not the focal point at all, there were a few other promos like this for the game also, and I like that.
