Was born in 80 but the thing that woke me up the the hatred of beauty first was comic books and video games. When I noticed every female had to be unattractive and also noticed the double standard since males with rippling muscles was ok (look at the cover of any romance novel). Add to that the DEI obsession and the constant push for the trio of black/lgbt/girl power. I think part of the decline also ties into the ridiculous push to make it seem like the norm is men and women who don’t conform to traditional gender appearances
Not the dude you're responding to, but it's always been obvious to me that most anime characters look most like white people. For as much as they can look like anyone with their humongous eyes and exaggerated features.
I'm implicitly aware that most of the time they're Japanese due to the setting and that this is just a choice made for stylistic purposes. I recall an episode of Log Horizon....in season 2 maybe(?) where the main character morphs himself to show what he looks like in real life. That is the closest attempt I've seen to portraying how actual Japanese people would look in anime form.
Was born in 80 but the thing that woke me up the the hatred of beauty first was comic books and video games. When I noticed every female had to be unattractive and also noticed the double standard since males with rippling muscles was ok (look at the cover of any romance novel). Add to that the DEI obsession and the constant push for the trio of black/lgbt/girl power. I think part of the decline also ties into the ridiculous push to make it seem like the norm is men and women who don’t conform to traditional gender appearances
I’ve always seen them as either white or Japanese unless they were drawn to be black. Or darker brown skin could still be Asian.
Not the dude you're responding to, but it's always been obvious to me that most anime characters look most like white people. For as much as they can look like anyone with their humongous eyes and exaggerated features.
I'm implicitly aware that most of the time they're Japanese due to the setting and that this is just a choice made for stylistic purposes. I recall an episode of Log Horizon....in season 2 maybe(?) where the main character morphs himself to show what he looks like in real life. That is the closest attempt I've seen to portraying how actual Japanese people would look in anime form.
Thanks for the rundown. Yeah I've seen videos where Japanese people say they look Japanese but I've never really thought of the mechanism behind it.
I'd have loved if Smith trolled the fuck out of you and insisted they all look black to him.