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Jul 31, 2015 1:52 AM

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CrustyRolls said:
A massive part of the anime style is caricature, and I think that people's ridiculous body proportions are just an extension of that. But yeah, it does annoy me when there's no transition from skinny bitch to a fucking boat.


This. Animation tends to be exaggerated. Even a show with a fairly realistic style like Megas XLR has exaggerated quirks.

Funnily enough, Medabots has an overweight character who's just fat, and not in an exaggerated way. I didn't notice how rare to see characters like Sloan until you opened this thread.
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Jul 31, 2015 2:05 AM

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TheBrainintheJar said:
CrustyRolls said:
A massive part of the anime style is caricature, and I think that people's ridiculous body proportions are just an extension of that. But yeah, it does annoy me when there's no transition from skinny bitch to a fucking boat.


This. Animation tends to be exaggerated. Even a show with a fairly realistic style like Megas XLR has exaggerated quirks.

Funnily enough, Medabots has an overweight character who's just fat, and not in an exaggerated way. I didn't notice how rare to see characters like Sloan until you opened this thread.
oh yeah that dude does exist lol

I know right? Ppl don't realize this kind of thing
Jul 31, 2015 3:13 AM
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Theres been a number of fat anime characters.

Though I guess they are quite rare.
Jul 31, 2015 5:52 AM

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Fuuka Ayase from Yotsubato is a bit chubby and I like her.
Anime girls in chibi form are cute too.
Jul 31, 2015 5:56 AM
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Karadzic said:
Fat peepl is raer in animu coz the target nrket is full of fat fedra tippign neckbeards

You sure like to have your way with words. I'm almost tearing up here.
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Jul 31, 2015 6:05 AM

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Fat ppl in anime can be cute sometimes. The fat guy from steins;gate for example.

Jul 31, 2015 10:27 AM

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Cessamy said:
Fat ppl in anime can be cute sometimes. The fat guy from steins;gate for example.


He's exaggerated fat, though. That kind of proves the point. There aren't many people who are just pretty fat and that's it, like Sloan from Medabots.
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Jul 31, 2015 10:34 AM

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Milk_is_Special said:
Isn't it illegal to be to fat in Japan?


lol
Jul 31, 2015 10:47 AM

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crashinho said:
Milk_is_Special said:
Isn't it illegal to be to fat in Japan?
lol
maybe it's look funny, but it's truth. maybe not in law, but in society, yes it is. japan is very cruel place to life sometimes. read this:
http://myanimelist.net/manga/13881/


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Jul 31, 2015 1:37 PM

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I don't know, I haven't seen too many sumo wrestler, for instance, in anime. American animations have fat characters like Fat Albert and Cartman. I seen some plump anime characters on occasion. And as far as the large breasted lady, well....
Jul 31, 2015 4:43 PM

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Unyilkdr said:
crashinho said:
lol
maybe it's look funny, but it's truth. maybe not in law, but in society, yes it is. japan is very cruel place to life sometimes. read this:
http://myanimelist.net/manga/13881/

Ohh... I don't think using a manga as a depiction of Japanese society is a good idea. It generalizes too much.

This manga itself is more a depiction about a woman with low self-confidence, eating disorders, and severe body image issues. She couldn't let go of her cheating boyfriend, (while bullying can be severely damaging) she could never fight back or even talk about her mistreatment at work. She changes her body through will-power, but is she happy at the end of the story?

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Killaclown said:
A lot of them dont look human or at the very least have some kind of birth defect (like accel world MC and Andre from prison school).
Haru from Accel World does look human ( a cartoony one but still one nevertheless) . Most anime characters don't look like normal irl humans anyway.
Jul 31, 2015 4:54 PM

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As long as the character compliments the story, then I wouldn't mind having fat characters.
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DalPuri said:
Unyilkdr said:
maybe it's look funny, but it's truth. maybe not in law, but in society, yes it is. japan is very cruel place to life sometimes. read this:
http://myanimelist.net/manga/13881/
Ohh... I don't think using a manga as a depiction of Japanese society is a good idea. It generalizes too much.

This manga itself is more a depiction about a woman with low self-confidence, eating disorders, and severe body image issues. She couldn't let go of her cheating boyfriend, (while bullying can be severely damaging) she could never fight back or even talk about her mistreatment at work. She changes her body through will-power, but is she happy at the end of the story?
not really, it's more like how strict beauty standrad the japan people set and how society see her (not directly, but some of her [MC] monologue discribe that). and japan people is very discriminatic. it's normal to bully someone just because different view. there are tons of discrimination problem of japan, not only about fat. that's why you can find tons of anime/manga about discrimination, because it's normal. maybe using anime/manga are generalizing, so i use my own japanese teacher experience. he get negative view when he learn in japan just because different ways to take a bath. it's kinda sad.

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Jul 31, 2015 6:41 PM
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Not only that but most of the time they're antagonists.
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Director Kinoshita in Shirobako is overweight though perhaps as bit more than the real-life person he is modelled on, director Mizushima Seiji:



There's another overweight character in that show who sheds pounds via an unusual diet.
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ChuckBronze said:
Not only that but most of the time they're antagonists.
sadly, i have to admit this especially in fantasy and history settings.
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Aug 1, 2015 9:16 AM

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OP must be fat otherwise no one really care about fat people enough to make thread about it.

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flannan said:
Yotsuba (the cook girl) from Mahou Sensei Negima manages to be both overweight and attractive. Her body type is quite rare in anime, with most fat characters being outright wierd, like Accel World's MC.

I dunno, she doesn't strikes me as drawn as attractive character much less than her best friends Hakase, Chao Lingshen, or Kuu Fei, or even less so to the Ayaka troopers or Asuna groups which is the main focus of the show. However I got the feelings of her as trustworthy or motherly character of the class.

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Fuuka Ayase from Yotsubato is a bit chubby and I like her.
Anime girls in chibi form are cute too.

She's not chubby, it's a normal healthy female body.
She's my second most favorite character from the manga actually, if only her sister was not such a great trickster. Asagi won personality wise for me.
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Aug 1, 2015 10:36 AM

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"It's just so NTR to see fat guys getting all the babes" is the signal I'm picking up from this thread.

As for fat chicks, idk, they're probably to break the monotony of the cute babes that otakus jizz over.

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I think little girls are sexy.
Aug 1, 2015 11:31 AM

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The one from Accel World doesnt even look human. Neither does the one form prison school.
Aug 1, 2015 2:04 PM

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Unyilkdr said:
ChuckBronze said:
Not only that but most of the time they're antagonists.
sadly, i have to admit this especially in fantasy and history settings.


The Ugly Villain is such a common trope that even a social justice film like Fury Road has ugly antagonists.
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Aug 1, 2015 2:13 PM

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Fat girls are not pretty. Anime with pretty girls sells. In all seriousness though, being fat in Asia is a HUGE disgrace. If you are fat, you are worthless. Also, there's a difference between chubby, fat and obese.

PS: In the LN, Haru doesn't look like he does in the anime. He has normal height, but is still fat. In the anime, there's a hypothesis that he doesn't look that way either, it's just the way he feel he looks like.
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DmonHiro said:
Fat girls are not pretty. Anime with pretty girls sells.

In all seriousness though, being fat in Asia is a HUGE disgrace. If you are fat, you are worthless.


I have heard that sumo wrestlers are very very popular
Aug 1, 2015 2:32 PM
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I don't really mind fat people in anime.
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I don't really care if a guy in anime is fat or not unless he is noticeably portrayed as a no-life loser who lives in his mom's basement.

Fat girls on the other hand is a different story. I still don't care that much, but I always expected overly sexualized or skinnier girls because that is a main thing I see in every anime I watch.

Overall I don't care if a character is fat if they are a good or at least a decent character.
Aug 1, 2015 2:47 PM

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No kidding even the otaku's are skinny.
Aug 1, 2015 5:28 PM

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Yukino in Real Drive is fat. If an overweight woman who isn't an old landlady isn't rare enough, the fact that Shirow did the character designs should blow your mind.
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Sokah said:
Yukino in Real Drive is fat. If an overweight woman who isn't an old landlady isn't rare enough, the fact that Shirow did the character designs should blow your mind.

I prefer to use the term "voluptuous" to describe the ladies in Real Drive.
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RedTie47 said:
I don't really mind fat people in anime.


The one girl is Gin no Saji looks pretty normal even if she is a little overweight too.
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Killaclown said:
I know a lot of people find fat people unattractive in general but doesn't it seem that anime tends to go overboard with it? A lot of them dont look human or at the very least have some kind of birth defect (like accel world MC and Andre from prison school). Also one of the perks of being overweight for women tends to be a bigger breast size but in anime they are still beaten by the skinny gals.


Agree with Accel World's MC. It makes the anime uncool.. at least to me.

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Has anyone noticed this?

Yea I do and I also notice they appear in most animes anyway.

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Does anyone care?

I don't usually care because in animes I've watched, they were mainly support characters or bad guys. But being main character and being fat is something. But I will accept if he's cool and kicks ass.
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ShunKawazaki said:
RedTie47 said:
I don't really mind fat people in anime.


The one girl is Gin no Saji looks pretty normal even if she is a little overweight too.
her summer body still great thou.
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anime is apart of pop culture so it obviously reflects on the main population of japan. japanese people have lower BMIs because they are prone to diseases like diabetes so they keep their weight on the smaller side to prevent getting sick. also their diets are filled with proteins and "good carbs" so they dont need to eat as much. so there really arent that many fat japanese people.
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Kanako Mimura is an adorable marshmallow girl and has a realistic personality.


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Hoppy said:
Kanako Mimura is an adorable marshmallow girl and has a realistic personality.
marshmallow girl? Sounds sexy tasty
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I guess there are those Real drive anime girls.



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Animes actually really lack fat people. I think this is actually really disgusting that there are mostly only skinny people, because yes, fat people are attractive too. One thing to remember: fat does NOT equal big breasts. Anime characters' body are usually unrealistic and let's be honest, women as skinny as these characters with such big breasts are extremely rare. I pray for more fat characters, more fat, more fat!
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I think it's attractive.

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Coolspot said:
I guess there are those Real drive anime girls.





Is that helmet photoshopped?
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Aug 5, 2015 1:53 PM

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Bruh anime is like an escape mechanism for otakus and weebs.

U can't have fat people cuz it would make them feel sad and face reality.

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hoopla123 said:
Bruh anime is like an escape mechanism for otakus and weebs.

U can't have fat people cuz it would make them feel sad and face reality.

Stahp.
according to how many fat people tags in hentai worlds, i have to said this is the truth. just look at nisekoi and infinate stratos doujin.
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Itachizanami said:
Animes actually really lack fat people. I think this is actually really disgusting that there are mostly only skinny people, because yes, fat people are attractive too. One thing to remember: fat does NOT equal big breasts. Anime characters' body are usually unrealistic and let's be honest, women as skinny as these characters with such big breasts are extremely rare. I pray for more fat characters, more fat, more fat!
I agree, though I don't have a problem with the unrealistic shit honestly (a lot of guys dig skinny gals and big boobs, common sense to put them together), but yes they need to show some love for the big gals as well.... y not couldn't hurt, probably would be funny if anything ( or sexy for some of us lol)
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I dislike fat people in anime, no offence, but I've never watched Accel World due to the fact one of the main characters is a fat kid who is also super short..
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Laura-Senpai said:
I dislike fat people in anime, no offence, but I've never watched Accel World due to the fact one of the main characters is a fat kid who is also super short..
the MC does suck , the problem isn't that he's fat, he doesn't look human lol
And don't get me wrong I get y they don't have fat MC's (rare), but I just wish there were more side characters like Buccha from Air Gear(technically just looks fat though)
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Killaclown said:
Itachizanami said:
Animes actually really lack fat people. I think this is actually really disgusting that there are mostly only skinny people, because yes, fat people are attractive too. One thing to remember: fat does NOT equal big breasts. Anime characters' body are usually unrealistic and let's be honest, women as skinny as these characters with such big breasts are extremely rare. I pray for more fat characters, more fat, more fat!
I agree, though I don't have a problem with the unrealistic shit honestly (a lot of guys dig skinny gals and big boobs, common sense to put them together), but yes they need to show some love for the big gals as well.... y not couldn't hurt, probably would be funny if anything ( or sexy for some of us lol)

The things is, in Japan especially, overweight and obese people are a really low percentage of the population. I think they only have a 3 percent obesity percentage(BMI over 30) and a 24 percent overweight percentage(BMI over 25).
Most people in the overweight category look pretty athletic in large t-shirts, so it would be rare for people to call them fat.
So if you think about it, having many bigger characters would be pretty unrealistic to a japanese audience.
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fat people are attractive too.

The vast VAST majority does not agree with you. Japanese anime fans don't for sure. People keep mentioning Real Dive, but the girls in that weren't really fat, they were chubby at worst. Also, the show bombed hard. Japanese otaku do not like fat girls. That's why they are only seen as a joke in anime.
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Laura-Senpai said:
I dislike fat people in anime, no offence, but I've never watched Accel World due to the fact one of the main characters is a fat kid who is also super short..


Do you only watch anime with sexually attractive people?
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