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Idolmaster & My views on Unrealistic Standards of Beauty
Heattokun:
Iori Minase and Takane nearly have the same BMI too,despite their height difference.
DeviantProtagonist:
To sum up, sex sells. Regulating to anime, this is commonplace throughout the medium so it shouldn't come off as a surprise as to why sizes are inconsistent and why little-to-no word is had for it.
Barring that, there's also art style to consider; it's not necessarily reflective to real-life proportions, so this too can be misleading. What may be considered twigs could very well be our norm in other universes.
Then again, it's all subjective so I'll leave it at that.
MetalPredat0r:
That's why it doesn't bother me too much. These are fictional characters. Cartoons. I shouldn't be taking "sizes" and "proportions" seriously in a fictional universe and if I did, that would just make things complicated for me.
Virgofall:
We might have different beauty standards at play here. In some of the articles I found, women with low-normal BMIs in Japan consider themselves quite fat, and the ideal height/weight for models is... well.
MetalPredat0r:
--- Quote from: Virgofall on July 17, 2014, 06:39:19 pm ---We might have different beauty standards at play here. In some of the articles I found, women with low-normal BMIs in Japan consider themselves quite fat, and the ideal height/weight for models is... well.
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That IS another thing to take into account: cultural differences. Our definition of beauty and the perfect body is different from Japan's. Hell, it could be different in Europe, Africa, Mexico, etc. Every culture's definition of true beauty is different, hence why I personally believe achieving "true beauty" is pretty much impossible, fictional character or not.
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