Is there a historical explanation for why feminine men are so common in Japanese media, especially in anime/manga?
Is there a historical explanation for why feminine men are so common in Japanese media, especially in anime/manga?
Owen Robinson
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Landon Jones
This might be hard for you to understand but anime and manga aren't real, they're what we call "fiction."
Jose Parker
The japs were faggots like the greeks
Lucas Diaz
I should feel stupid for trying to get an intelligent answer from Any Forums but I'm mostly just disappointed
Daniel Russell
As you should. It's retarded to not expect shitposting
Josiah Diaz
Japanese men are just more feminine in general.
I blame tofu.
Leo Richardson
It just so happened that beautiful man is a synonym to a femboy because in a middle ages it was associated with nobles. Nowadays in asia femboyancy = attractiveness in eyes of jap females. To proof it just take a look at any modern asian boysband
Aaron Torres
yeah you're right
anyways 99fags are retarded for thinking Kurapika is a woman when the 99 anime constantly goes out of it's way to remind you that Kurapika is a man, and on top of this it's delusional to think Togashi would ever make Kurapika a woman when he is a massive fudanshi who loves feminine males and crossdressing
Asher Perez
Wtf is this uncanny human lookin monkey fuck?
Did 99 really?
Kevin Jenkins
I love 99 but it had a lot of really retarded shit in it
Cameron Reed
ask retarded question get retarded answer you dumb coon
Charles Evans
It sells better and just plain looks and feels better.
Dylan Sanders
Why do you need one? Women in general find a little bit of fuckboy androgyny hot and women around the time of HxH were actually being paid attention to as driving forces behind Shonen manga fandom (instead of just Gundam 0079).
Also, thanks to romanticized warrior homoeroticism (and Yukio Mishima being a prancing la-la homo man) what Westerners consider macho the Japanese consider gay.
Ryan Scott
>Why do you need one?
Curiosity.
Logan Thomas
Samurais had pages or catamites, young boys they'd fuck. Young men were often always the ones who played women in plays since women were not allowed to act because they were already prostitutes anyway
Jayden Davis
Damn, look at that SOUL. Shows you how ugly homosexuals like Hisoka really were. Can't believe they got rid of this in the 2nd anime.
Alexander Bailey
kys you insufferable faggot
>To proof it just take a look at any modern asian boysband
That's because their target audience is teenage girls and womanchildren
Gabriel Moore
>he's never even heard of literary criticism
Lol what kind of dumb yokels post on this site?
Robert Brooks
t. beaner
Christian Foster
my husband............
Brody Fisher
Signing your posts is against global rule 13.
Jeremiah Hill
based, Kurapika is the quintessential bishounen
Henry Anderson
There are tons of articles about the origins of bishonen, look up bjorn andresen
Isaiah Reed
He is perfect and I love him. I wouldn't change a thing about him. Except I'd like him to value his own life more
Robert Brown
I know about Andresen but I feel the history of bishounen goes much deeper than this
Ian Parker
Cooper Clark
>bjorn andresen
That guy doesn't look anywhere near as female in the film as he does in these few promotional photographs so you fags should stop posting him.
Samuel Smith
They're common in other media too. Beautiful men have been loved since time itself, their presence in anime is not unusual.
Reasons:
>Women love them
>Some men like them
>They make for interesting character designs
>They make for interesting characters interactions
>It's much better suited for 3d than 2d
Nathan Bell
There is no historical explanation in particular I can think of, just a general one*
Leo Thompson
look up the history of the bishounen archetype, as well as onnagata, and nanshoku. it predates Genji Monogatari, the world's first novel
>Genji pulled the boy down beside him ... Genji, for his part, or so one is informed, found the boy more attractive than his chilly sister
Brody Morales
Because your ango brain has been brainwashed into calling everything that is beautiful “feminine” because you live in a place where all males are ugly and feel attacked in their masculinity by taking care of their appearance in any way.
Lincoln Howard
I love him too and I could probably write an essay on his character arc ITT if I wasn't drunk
Christopher Rivera
gross
Ethan Roberts
I will kill you for calling my husband gross.
Daniel Jackson
I'm pretty sure macho worship is popular where you're from, paco
Matthew Phillips
it's one of those aesthetics that only works in 2D, and works quite well at that
Dominic Perez
That's too bad, I'd actually enjoy reading that.