Kaguya-Hime
countaile submitted:
Can we talk about how the legendary Kaguya-Hime (a beautiful lunar princess from Japanese folklore) was transformed into this abomination?
I’m not really sure how those garments even work, let alone how she’s supposed to swing that mallet around – I mean c’mon, it’s a beat’em’up game, not a dating sim… Or is it?
Since I can already hear the furious typing of people rushing to assure us that we can’t judge this because it’s Japanese and things are magically different over there, let me just point out this studio not only put their games on Steam for international market, but they started marketing games to the USA and their biggest title on Steam is…. “Mahjong Pretty Girls Battle”
Oddly the game site seems to make a big deal about her bunnies having to play games with her and protect her, but makes no mention of who glues that outfit to her every morning. The bunnies, incidentally… look far more intimidating that the Princess herself:
– wincenworks
Kaguya-Hime
countaile submitted:
Can we talk about how the legendary Kaguya-Hime (a beautiful lunar princess from Japanese folklore) was transformed into this abomination?
I’m not really sure how those garments even work, let alone how she’s supposed to swing that mallet around – I mean c’mon, it’s a beat’em’up game, not a dating sim… Or is it?
Since I can already hear the furious typing of people rushing to assure us that we can’t judge this because it’s Japanese and things are magically different over there, let me just point out this studio not only put their games on Steam for international market, but they started marketing games to the USA and their biggest title on Steam is…. “Mahjong Pretty Girls Battle”
Oddly the game site seems to make a big deal about her bunnies having to play games with her and protect her, but makes no mention of who glues that outfit to her every morning. The bunnies, incidentally… look far more intimidating that the Princess herself:
– wincenworks
inkformyblood submitted:
So a friend pointed this out to me in a comic book shop the other day cause she knows I like to play Bikini Amour Battle Damage Bingo. Didn’t think to write down the name however ^^; and also couldn’t look inside the comic because it was sealed.
The title is “Conan Red Sonja” (preview on Google Books) and while one could make the argument that Conan is also wearing impractical attire for fighting battles, I feel that the book maintains a kind of double standard in the presentation of the two characters.
Specifically that Red Sonja regularly gets to be slightly more active, as an excuse to pose her oddly and to try to balance out that she’s posing for the titillation of the audience while Conan is… being Conan.
– wincenworks
ladygekko submitted:
Why does that elf have shoulder pads on her upper arms? And how does that ring work? Can you imagine how ridiculously difficult this outfit would be to put on?
Source: IPhone game called Wakfu Raiders. It’s actually quite well drawn, if you don’t count that most female characters are shrink-wrapped into their clothes.
The panda characters’ clothing actually looks really good, and the movement in the drawing has lots of energy!
Oh Wakfu… you rascally franchise who’s supposed to be trying to market itself to people twelve years and older… please stop creeping me out and please hire new marketing people. More of this:
Less this:
Like seriously, it’s obvious that you guys are using design templates. Please just use the ones with less creepy sexualization of female characters.
– wincenworks
