| For the same reason the average harem/Isekai protagonist is an average looking Kirito clone, easy relatability for the intended audience. |
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| Anime and hentai have rotted your brains. |
| Shoujo is made for women, and Japanese women are mostly pretty flat. (Also simpler to draw) |
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| It's an easier self insert character. It's easier for someone with large breasts to relate to someone with small breasts than the other way around, especially in the romantic context of most male targeted media claiming that guys only like big boobs. Showing an MC with small boobs falling in love is more empowering and gives more hope to a female audience. Breast size is also something that isn't easy to change and with shoujo tending to show girls who are able to take control and make things go the way they want it's better to give them a handicap than to design them in a way that's unachievable for some audience members. If girls were instead given the notion that all men lust for small breasts and view large breasts as bad then it might be the other way around, that we'd see more shoujo anime about girls who feel self conscious about their large breasts, but that isn't the case. |
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| Flat chests and AA cup sizes do appear to make up the vast majority of breast sizes in female MCs in popular shoujo romance anime. I'm pretty sure it's no coincidence though, and here are two reasons as to why I believe that's the case: - Self-insert and relatability reasons. Since pre-adolescent and adolescent girls are the general target audience for shoujo, and their bodies are still in a developing phase, they'll likely just find it hard to relate to a female main protagonist with a small waist and big boobs. A character with a flat chest or has an AA cup size would generally be much easier to relate to for the average girl. - I'm guessing that most shoujo romance anime focus on the romance elements and chemistry rather than the physical attractiveness of the girl characters. If there is an emphasis on physical attractiveness in a shoujo series, it would usually just be on the guy characters instead. |
| Because most of the female audience are straight and don't want to shlick to that. |
SpunkertNov 26, 2024 4:23 AM
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