They got rid of her eye tattoo, the most iconic part of her design, and replaced it with big anime eyes, bigger tits, perked up nipples (for some reason). This “feminisation” really does hit all the notes of “I know women only from anime and porn because I don’t go outside”.

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    Japan needs to hear this: bigger isn’t better. Also it looks worse she looks to me less asceticly interesting. That’s the problem with drawing everyone with hour glass figures eventually it gets bland and we are maybe 50 years past that point. Same with the male form in most art it can be more interesting to break the mold. I see this as a form of conservative art fearful of attempting to break any paradimes.

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      1 year ago

      Speaking as an older weeb who reads Korean and Chinese works as well, Japan tends to be the most varied of the 3 for male directed stuff. Chinese especially is all ridiculously curvy women with slim waists and tight clothes. For Japan, especially in the case of harems or multiple female leads (stuff like Azumanga etc) they generally have a range, and there is a lot of works aimed at women that doesn’t go down the big boob route (though usually has always perfect looking tall men in contrast).

      I’ve seen similar stuff in games too, at least the ones I play. I wish FFXIV had better butt sliders for everyone and every race, but other that than I enjoyed how you can have really subdued chests etc for characters, rather than some of the super hero bodies I saw in other games.

      Also, may I also present American superhero comic books. It’s less a Japan only thing and more a… male thing I guess? You have good examples in every country I’m sure, but if you’re only looking superficially you’ll only see the most common stuff, which often are the more generic and problematic on this front.