(12-22-2014, 05:43 AM)ArmachiA Wrote:(12-21-2014, 04:55 PM)Artigan Wrote: Hairless bodies, gelled or fashionable hair styles, and wearing or displaying fine clothes or jewelry. The art work of the male cast is a line up for cat walk for some A&E reality show.
Did you read my post? I stated 1 of the reasons, not all of the reasons, and ultimately is their in an issue of not wanting to play a game full of Ken dolls?
Just to come into this conversation: I think this is what Clover was talking about. all those thing are considered... pretty normal in Japan and not at all a clue as to whether something or someone is feminine. Asian bodies tend to be hairless, gelled hair is normal because Asian hair is textured in such a way that makes those styles easier (jealous), fine clothes and lots of jewelry is just part of the Asian aesthetic. I mean... have you seen what yoshi P wears? He's a 40-year old man, but that's the style. It's not weird over there.
Hell, one of their big popstars, Ken Hirai, is so "manly" looking they constantly question whether or not he's full Japanese.
That guy.
(Go look up his song with Namie Amuro "Grotesque" DO IT OMG)
She's trying to say it's a different aesthetic is all.
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ArmachiA kind of nailed it here. And as an Asian, I can promise you that the males in my family could not grow chest or arm hair to save their lives. Some of them have leg hair, but not all of them. Heck - the ladies in my family have never ever had to shave their legs or arms ever. We're a pretty hairless folk. Most, if not all of the men in my family (except for the older generation) have gelled their hair in their youth (around the age of the FFXV cast). They all slowly stopped doing it as they got older and married.
A lot of stuff that would get labeled "metrosexual" (like wearing a buttload of jewelery) in the US is normal fashion in Asia. The standard 'look' for Asian guys in Asia (Asian-Americans prefer different stuff) is the slenderer body-type of the FFXV cast.
They're basically trying to reflect an ideal version of Japanese youth,
