Consensus is that there’s a market for “small girls” but not much for “small boys”… no matter which, there’s a lot of ick 🤪🤪🤪
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Consensus is that there’s a market for “small girls” but not much for “small boys”… no matter which, there’s a lot of ick 🤪🤪🤪
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As a reminder: In the actual files the small body type is called “Loli” (Which was revealed by dataminers when the game was released on PC)
The fucking comments…
I think I need to lie down for awhile…
Anime content is geared towards straight men, and in the last few years especially “Loli” content has become more normalized in mainstream anime, so companies capatilize on that. Was watching the Reincarnated as a Slime movie, and there’s a “Loli” character name Milim in that, and even though she’s 1000 years old she acts like a child even has a younger sister relationship with the MC, but they put her in Boob armour and underwear, and often sexualize her. Sad thing is there was a point in the series that through her interaction with the MC’s group they gave her proper clothing, expanded on her history, showing her Child like state is from trauma, and it almost felt like a confrontation of Anime industries disgutsing Loli obsession, but alas………..they ended putting her right back into that armour again, and i realized i was stupid for hoping otherwise. In essense those small girls aren’t designed for women to play as.
Signora shouldn’t be even listed. She isn’t playable and the devs have said they have no desire to make her playable. As for why we all know why, attractive women sell better. There are more male whales than female whales playing Genshin.
And there are pedos who automatically see the small girl body as attractive. Loli and shotacon culture is alive and well.
It’s honestly really weird because Genshin, despite having some strange outfits for medium height/taller female characters, doesn’t have women for the sole purpose of sexualising them. Hoyoverse women, in general, are fairly well written. And despite how lame the Inazuma quests were, the writing of the female characters are still tons better than what I’ve seen in a lot of other games. The child female characters aren’t even sexualised by the game. But Hoyo seems to be well aware of the fact that there’s a group in their community who enjoy female loli characters a bit too much and have no issues pandering to them. At least these people aren’t part of the mainstream. I’ve always been of the opinion that people should be free to consume whatever questionable fiction they want so long as it doesn’t cause harm to any real people. But I most definitely don’t want to actually see whatever the hell people like this are into.
yea the answer is obvious. unfortunately stuff like this (specifically having little girls and no little boys) seems to be common in asian games. can’t lie tho, running around as a goofy kid with their arms out is fun as hell, and they are all adorable
Jesus Christ the comments on that post are awful
Also omfg I forgot how hot Diluc is
Most of them never went outside it shows in the comments
Weeb’s favourite type of fantasy world: underaged girls and all characters are white
And people wonder why I don’t play Genshin…
I literally bench/never touch all my loli characters in this game because of this (except for nahida) so I completely agree with this the existence of this phenomenon and fucking hates it too. But I’m confused, the top comments are not supporting it? Not only do they acknowledge this disgusting reason, some of them seem in denial to me because they don’t want to believe it’s real if they say anything about their attitudes. Or maybe I’m naturally dismissing and filtering out stupid comments and am self selecting the ones I agree with
Companies will do anything for money, and they proved that what they’re doing makes plenty of money, so why change the formula.
I mean, fictional characters.
Don’t see why it matters this much unless they were based on actual children.
Idk I like the small characters I find them cute I don’t think they’re targeted towards pedophiles I think they just wanted to add cute characters and both men and women like cute characters
Lol and I was just commenting on how Genshin gave me the ick
Genshin is a problematic game in so many categories o/
I’m not a fan of genshin but I think they just borrowed loli and shota from Japan and the English anime community who uses it despite its unfortunate implications.Â
Loli (young girls) and shota (young boys) are creepy pedo niche porn manga genres that somehow came into mainstream parlance to describe pedobait in anime, and then any cute children. It’s definitely creepy in Japanese anime, media and talk about it, and those characters are often pedobait.Â
Chinese media wound up borrowing a lot from manga when they had a resurgence of being allowed to create media. And … I do not tend to see much pedo stuff at all in Chinese stuff. I have my problems with Chinese media but I think this is literally a case of them just taking the Japanese term and being not knowledgeable about of the context. I feel like they just copied the Japanese stuff to have cute characters. It’s also pretty normal to call everyone pretty or handsome to butter them up in China. That said I’m not as expensive a reader of Chinese stuff so maybe someone can correct me, but that’s generally what I’ve gotten
The costumes just look cute and not inappropriate.Â
Remember that China’s age of consent is 14 and it’s legal to be sexually attracted to children. That is the reason these are not only possible, but profitable. That and female-attracted paedophiles who objectify the “small body types” drink this up. BUT
I’d rather those people put time and money into games that encourage paedophilic attraction than real victims.
I’ve played both Genshin and Honkai SR, and honestly my general opinion is that the characters are just…mid.
Just seeing the Genshin characters lined up here really makes me realize how same-y the character designs tend to be – flowing coats/capes/robes, pretty color gradients, stockings, etc. Very few of them stick out to me, and it’s clear that they’re all designed to be pretty dolls to make money.
The companies aim character designs to be most appealing to their target audience. Since they expect majority players to be boys, they put more time and variations into the female character models. Costumes, cosmetics, jiggle physics, and ladder climbing animations get more attention to be as appealing to as many boys as possible.
Alternately, most game designers think women only like male bodies to come in: ripped like Jesus, or slim and sleek builds with little waists and narrow hips. Occasionally they put in a third, more androgynous frame: smaller and gender fluid.
All you have to do to see what builds will show up in coming games is to look at the trends in Asian idols. They have very regulated visual appearances, and you can see it easily after only one or two groups.
That’s why you get what you get.