While I subscribe more to the hot-blooded type of manliness (i.e. Shin Mazinger, Sengoku Basara), I wholeheartedly approve of Souten Kouro’s angle, too.
Xiahou Dun was here, Date Masamune is a loser.
It’s a lot like LOGH. TBH, I think Souten Kouro is closer to LOGH than Tytania. We have the upstart noble, Cao Cao, who seeks to overthrow the decadent imperial dynasty by amassing both political and military power. On the other side of things, we have Liu Bei, the slacker bandit lord who seeks world conquest for… we’ll see. Cao Cao and Reinhard are extremely alike, having both lost precious women in their lives to the foibles of those more powerful than them. However, I can’t really compare Liu Bei and Yang since the only real trait they share right now is extreme laziness.
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Categories: Anime
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Fat men are less common in anime than they were decades ago. When I watched anime in my childhood (most of them adaptations of western classics like Tom Sawyer), there was always a token fat guy. Voltes V had one, too. But after Gundam Wing exploded in the local anime scene, they just became rarer and rarer.
I’m guessing that it has something to do with anime being fujoshi-friendly. After all, it’s hard to imagine fangirls drooling over Ryu Jose’s round body. (Well, there’s got to be a weird fetishist for that.) Or maybe because being fat is undesirable in today’s aesthetic standards. Then again, being CLAMP-thin is just as bad, too! It’s not a big loss, I admit, but it’s a shame, since fat guys do have their own brand of manliness, as evidenced by /m/en like Musashi Tomoe.
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