Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

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To add onto what Lauront said, I think I remember someone saying that Yoshi or a higher up in SE thought the original au ra woman design wouldn’t sell as many fantasias and they used the low population of femroes as an example. So they turned them into short reptile teens with anime emotes. It’s apparent that there’s not as much interest for the more heavily built women in the game. Since the original concept called for a taller demon/dragon guy, I guess they didn’t decide to scale (heh) them down as well or thought that big muscle man sells better than small lizard boy.

Teens are still underage. Bolding this because you guys are all arguing the wrong point. Its not about how popular they would actually be or how much they would sell. Someone said "they [male viera] look like children and shota" in response to a desire for a cuter version of male viera. The double standard here is that there are people saying "female au ra is fine" but that we can't have a male equivalent of that. Its not about how popular it is, its about how people are saying men can't be short and cute without being childlike, or conversely that female au ra aren't childlike despite being short and cute. If short and cute on men are descriptors of age then the same should follow for women.

I'm not trying to argue on behalf of short bun boys or tall bun boys, I'll take either, but there absolutely is a double standard in place there. Either they both look like children, or they're both just short adults. Take your pick.