You see, whether you can draw like this or not, being able to think up this kind of design, it depends on whether or not you can say to yourself, “Oh, yeah, girls like this exist in real life.” If you don’t spend time watching real people, you can’t do this, because you’ve never seen it.
Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves. Almost all Japanese animation is produced with hardly any basis taken from observing real people, you know. It’s produced by humans who can’t stand looking at other humans. And that’s why the industry is full of otaku!
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To take things even further I think that the objectification, flanderization, comodification and "othering "of female characters in anime has resulted in it almost exclusively catering incels and otaku that see women (and disturbingly, underage girls) as dolls to fetishise.
Which is frustrating because there is good anime out there that isn't like this, but I can't really say I'm an anime fan without people thinking I'm into moe crap or otakus gatekeeping me because I don't like their moe crap.
I just wanna talk about how cool Full Metal Alchemist is...
why do americans stan bullshit though? most of the stuff i watch with women/teen girls from japan is pretty positive and wholesome and has them doing cool stuff with three dimensional characters.
but it's totally not odd that none of that content gets play in the states when you realize westerners don't like positive depictions of women or we'd have more in the domestic canon instead of so many hyper-masculine outings where they get treated like objects.
even very good films like linda linda linda never have much exposure in the west. everybody is watching niche tentacle anime tho. feels like total projection.
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