Japanese Video Game Archetypes

Post » Sun May 13, 2012 9:35 am

Yes, whether or not a people think something is weird or not is subjective, but I mean, come on, they squeeze little girls into everything, that's not just weird from a western stand point...

You do realize Japan isn't a land populated only by pedophiles and not everyone there views young girls in a sixual manner right?

Still I guess you're right :shrug: It's not like western magazines portray young women in a sixually suggestive manner right? And Britney Spears was never viewed in a sixual way by western men (especially not when she was underage right?)

And it's not like we have fashion shows that often sixually objectify young girls and even if we did we http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/tv/toddlers-tiaras right? Hate to say it but maybe westerners are just a little bit weirder than you think :tongue:
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Laura Elizabeth
 
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 11:34 am

Actually theres alot of Anime and Manga that is listed as child pormography in western countries, because even in Anime the females are very young, and more than a few people have actually been arrested for possession of Anime, that depicts young girls in it.

I know many people that have lived in Japan and even married there, and basically they have no idea what the obsessions all about, especially round eyed characters and androgynous males, i never understood the lancer character in robotech invid invasion.

But worse is the effect it has on other games, when i finished playing WOW, the armour and weapons were becoming so Japanese Anime, even Role Playing Games such as Dungeons and Dragons 3rd edition, the armour and weapons were turning into Anime styles.
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 12:06 pm

Western - http://www.gearsofwar3blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/gearsofwar42qg01.jpg

Eastern - http://ffrecipes.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/basch.jpg?w=300&h=272



I don't know about you guys, but the guy on top looks like a moronic brute and the guy on bottom looks more respectable, to me.
But the guy on the bottom only barely even looks like a guy! But that's probably just me being a baka gaijin.
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 5:47 am

But the guy on the bottom only barely even looks like a guy! But that's probably just me being a baka gaijin.
Well at least he looks human, unlike the gorilla on the first screen...
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