Quote Originally Posted by Kazhar View Post
While this is probably true, japanese artists also codified an entire genre of hyper-masculine art. (mostly geared towards gay men) So it's not entirely black and white.

Yeah, true. I'm BL enjoyer and occasional bara enjoyer [-- mainly because western interwebs puts it all in the same basket like: "oh, it got males loving and sexing males? gay, it's all just gay!"].

I just guess the design choices come to and from marketability. You want to give the posterpeople of the big media thing a good looking face -- buuut not too unique. Hurts the mass market appeal.

WEST vs JP

I have no good suggestions to this problem, since I don't really feel at all that something would be horribly wrong in current state of things.
My formative years were saturated with JP media so I am not too shy to admit that I prefer the JP beauty standards more than not when it comes to video games and animations and nerdy things generally.