I should clarify that I don't think it's because it's because Japan is amazingly progressive about gender. (After all, this is the game where he gets groped by :biden-troll: who exclaims "You're... a man?!)
It's just that Japanese character designers can go "I think the dudes can and should be pretty too"
Hey, at least that means it's not just Japanese women who are hit with the "Christmas Cake" stigma this time around.
(IDK if that's just an overblown myth to begin with though)
I assume it exists, much in the same way any Western misogynist memes about women exist, that is in the minds of shitheads.
Japanese culture seems very conscious about age in general though. Not conforming to certain social expectations will net you tons of derision
Yeah, makes sense.
I get conscious about that since I see Westerners throwing stones from glass houses when they try to single out le barbaric Asiatics for being uniquely "backwards" (not just Chyna). Not to say Japanese culture doesn't have its own particular hang-ups.