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".
The eye tattoo being removed is the most boggling to me. Like everything else is standard thirsty fan art “enhancements,” but you’d think they’d find the tattoo exotic and alluring.
The people into booba anime aesthetics are extremely conservative and so uncool that they think tattoos and piercings are unsightly
I guess it does fit into that weird preference of hyper-sexual maturity in the breasts and hips department but in every other aspect they want a borderline jailbait aesthetic
When the conventionally of conventional attractiveness collapses in on itself and becomes less attractive
Mirror's Edge came out in 2009. Are they going back to find things to get mad about?
I recognize this image from many years ago. I think it came out when Mirror's Edge was still newish.
I don't understand is this actually fan art or is it just hornyshopped?
Considering her normal design, changing the eyes that way also seems p racist
And I don't understand why someone would remove the eye tatt but leave the shoulder one. If only one was to be removed, I'd expect it to be the shoulder tattoo, but maybe I just don't get it.
I kinda like both. I think the breasts are a bit much but the right one suits a prequel. She basically looks younger, like it's when she was teenage before she got the tattoo.
That says a lot about some sexualisation and "feminisation" that these people do just being about making women into adolescents though.
Still, there's a good story you could tell with a younger version of this character and how she radicalised into what she is. Dice kinda leave the politics of their world and the motivations of runners completely untouched because they're either cowards or don't know how to write it properly.
There is like a 98% chance it was someone from an anglophone country that made this.
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.
The right half is basically just this minus the bit where it's a joke.
I seem to remember an ancient Kotaku article that this image accompanied about Japanese gamers complaining that Faith from Mirror's Edge wasn't attractive enough or that Dice didn't understand what an attractive Asian face looked like or something
