RT-Medic-with-shotgun said:
And if normal is not good then why is the Japanese version of "normal" preferred?
Oh, great. So when I made a thread in the past and posts acting like there are differences between Eastern and Western culture, and people tell me "no, no!" and argue with me, and here you come in and say that men look muscular outside of the East. Furthermore you basically say Japanese aesthetic ideals are "not normal". There's no such thing as "normal" or "not normal" cultures.
Furthermore, I think you see this in video games, because, believe it or not, for all the Confuscian inspired in Asia, Japan included, Japan has more female fanservice in it's video games than a lot of Western ones. The reason a lot of jRPG characters are designed like that instead of Duke Nukem, is largely to appeal to the fujoshi who heavily consume such materials. They're also the reason why Raiden made a show up in Metal Gear. And in the West, the same trend follows, but there's often more fangirls of Japanese video games than Western ones, because we often don't care to their tastes. Aside from games like the Sims, of course. You see Kingdom Hearts fangirls aplenty, but you don't see Duke Nukem fangirls, no, you see Duke Nukem fanboys. There's a reason for that. Duke Nukem is what many guys want, Axel is what many girls want. If you look at Asian boybands and Western boybands, they both look almost the same. Are you going to tell me that Tokio Hotel is "Japanese culture"? David Bowie? Come on. There's also a reason that manga sells better among United States American females than superhero comics.
This is all because most women like guys, not
monsters made out of hulking muscles.
Not that Asia isn't as loaded with problems and sexism just like the West. A lot of it comes with Confucianism which states that inequality is desirable and virtuous, but I digress. If this is a Japanese thing, which it might not be, it apparently means that there's about a handful more Japanese games that appeal to women's tastes rather than the tastes of men. Women in Japan, fujoshi in particular,
request such guys. Not that Japan even caters
enough to women's tastes. But if you're saying this is a Japanese thing, you're saying that sexist ole' Japan caters more to women's tastes in video games than the United States!
I do know that in Japan, shounen comics
actually sell slightly better in Japan among women than shoujo.
All because shounen mangaka keep the female audience in mind when creating characters like the much hated Sasuke.
You could also say basically every female in Mass Effect as well. The problem is certainly more isolated to specific genres. I.e. MMOs, FPSes etc.
