| Tachikoma said: Appearance Anyone who has visited Japan will tell you, generally women look 14-18 way in to their 20s, lots still look very young in to their early 30s, I'm in my early 30s and people still tell me I only look about 22. That's just the genes in play, but the telltale signs of age become even harder to spot when the character is wearing a school uniform, at which point the focus shifts from triggering minor details in the face to very generalized observations "small chest, school uniform, she must be 13-15", generally Japanese women in the highest grouping, have small chests, some remain extremely flat chested throughout their lives, combine that with the average slander body type, and the longer length of time where youthfulness is retained, with the age-masking effects of a rendered character and you end up with a character who will look deceptively younger than she actually is. |
This is something that bugs the absolute hell out of me. The other day, someone responded to a sexy Japanese game by saying that it was wrong because the characters were made to look like children. No, they're made to look like they're Japanese.
I dated a Japanese girl while she was in college. She looked like she was 15 compared to girls of European origin. She was around 5'1'' and 100 pounds. She was a woman. She had every right to that title, as much as any other woman. The suggestion that men shouldn't be attracted to someone who fits those physical patterns is, to me, insulting to women.
People need to stop and think about this stuff before they get self-righteous.
