Like I'm watching Apothecary Diaries, and Jinshi is constantly described as beautiful, but he honestly just has an awkwardly feminine design, and I absolutely don't get it, not that I'm the target audience as a straight man, but this whole discussion confuses me to no end... Also I wonder what popular character trope do men take for granted that women find weird? |
| "Are bishounen characters actually popular among women?" Yes. |
| I guess they are more into Haikyuu and similar shows |
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| Jinshi isn't just a bishounen, he is a very feminine guy that even otherwise straight men in the show want to bed. He wouldn't be the archetypal example of a character that is popular with a female audience (although I'm sure he has his fans) Here are more archetypical bishounen from media marketed to and consumed by mostly women (and some non-straight men [although even they don't really play these from my experience lol]).     |
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| Jinshi is very masculine in the way he speak and act and |
| Yes x1000. Jinshi was made by a woman btw. The top 2 guys in female series are pretty boys and pretty shotas |
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Reply to Auron
Jinshi isn't just a bishounen, he is a very feminine guy that even otherwise straight men in the show want to bed. He wouldn't be the archetypal example of a character that is popular with a female audience (although I'm sure he has his fans)
Here are more archetypical bishounen from media marketed to and consumed by mostly women (and some non-straight men [although even they don't really play these from my experience lol]).
Here are more archetypical bishounen from media marketed to and consumed by mostly women (and some non-straight men [although even they don't really play these from my experience lol]).
| @Auron Hakuoki is one of those Visual Novels that I wanted to read for a long time, but never found an opportunity to do so because there is always something else I want/need to do. |
| If they weren't, then there'd be much less of them. Nothing against bishounen, but Jinshi is a cringelord. |
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| Yup, they are really popular. Personally I always liked more feminine men in anime and real-life more. [And not every bishounen is feminine mind you, I will just focus on it, as you brought it up] I noticed my attraction to them while I was watching my 1st anime Fairy Tail and when Midnight came onto the screen... well I was done for haha |
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| Though bishounen is ok for me, many recent characters (Jinshi excluded) in shows for female seem male staffs in Japanese host clubs. [ref] host club issue |
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@Auron Hakuoki is one of those Visual Novels that I wanted to read for a long time, but never found an opportunity to do so because there is always something else I want/need to do.
Shizuna said: Hakuoki is one of those Visual Novels that I wanted to read for a long time, but never found an opportunity to do so because there is always something else I want/need to do I see, it's my first Otome VN and pretty decent as far as the standard goes if you ever get around to it ๐ Not that I've seen many because I also have the same issue, haha.. |
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| Another person who has never looked at the top 50 list. It's definitely changed in the past few months... there are way more females there now than I've ever seen before. But I've seen it where 48 out of the 50 were male, and the majority of them still appear to be bishounen. |
| "Are bishounen characters actually popular among women?" A hundred percent shure. Since I’m in my late 20s, I tend to prefer bishounen material from familiar, older shows. But don’t get me wrong, it’s not only about feminine boys. There are plenty of female characters who resemble boys and fit into this category as well. For example, Sailor Uranus looked very manly in her first appearance, but later on they usually drew her very female, just a girl wearing a guy’s school uniform.   And then there’s Rei from Oniisama e…—a beauty.   Of course, finding attractive male characters has never been difficult, even nowadays. We have characters like Yuki and Luka from The Betrayal Knows My Name and Jinshi from The Apothecary Diaries, to name just a few. |
| Well, female gaze is much different than male gaze in terms of looks. I have noticed that the majority of women tend to prefer feminine and pretty boys, usually depicated as slim but toned whereas men often worship the hypermasculine and muscular figures like Iskandar from Fate or the Dragonball characters, Guts, Roronoa Zoro, etc. |
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