Quote Originally Posted by Senn View Post
So doing some thinking, the way Yoshida described male viera, "slim, elegant, and handsome", makes it sound like the males will be bishounen. I don't know what the official meaning is, but commonly, I think this term is used for handsome characters that are slender, tall, and sometimes androgynous or feminine. When Yoshi P described male viera's appearance, I think he means the "ikeman" type of look. The kind of look you see male characters have in those dating games or games aimed at girls. These types of characters are popular in japan, right? So no, I don't think viera will be buff like how some people want them to be, especially since Yoshida said they would be slim. Maybe it will have a slider to have your character toned, but most likely not buff.
It is possible to make a body with a little more meat on it that would carry several head-types well, which is something they're going to want to do--considering they'd want to cover everything from people who do want the classic bishounen to people who'd like something a bit more like this (me >>). They usually have three (or is it four? I haven't peeked in a bit) heads--the cute/young head, the Heroic Protagonist™ head, and the gruff head, which covers a fair amount of ground--meaning they don't all have to be serving Sesshoumaru looks. I've also seen bishounen/biseinen types on more muscular bodies and they can look fine, provided the body is well-designed to fit the proportions of it. (I bring up again the tragic comedy that is the elezen round head.)