Month: December 2017

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cantankerouskaputnik submitted:

Can’t believe nobody has submitted this guy yet – meet Warrior of the Rabbit from Juuni Taisen (official design). It’s a fun currently running anime, too bad they didn’t spice things up further by adding some reasonably-dressed women. 

(Anyone looking up Juuni Taisen keep in mind that it’s a brutal battle royale-type series that should come with content warning for violence and gore)

Now THAT, unlike the monstrosity from Xenoblade Chronicles 2, is a sexy rabbit everyone was waiting for! Just an unironic male equivalent of the Playboy Bunny outfit and muscular masculine body (those thunder thighs!). 

Indeed, too bad the creators just couldn’t stop but generically sexualize female characters :-/ Because pairing up violent subject matter with objectification is such a good and creative idea, right?

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[left to right: Tiger, Monkey, Rooster, Boar]

I’m most disappointed by Monkey’s pantlessness and the shameless emphasis on Boar’s breasts. So close to decent designs, yet so far.

~Ozzie

At least one other character in the anime, the Warrior of the Rat, dons a lovely classic Battle Thong!

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He also seems to have been designed through this method.

Though he would have been better off without all that bothersome black underclothing. Truly, a missed opportunity.

-Icy

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It’s probably fair to say that women in fantasy RPGs are the industry’s most highly endangered species.

I mean, these are women who take on entire monster-infested dwarven mines wearing nothing but a bit of moulded plate metal over their chests and a chainmail g-string.

If it’s not disembowelling, it’s probably going to be some kind of really nasty infection from all that… chafing.

Armour expert calls female boob armour a “design flaw” (via bikiniarmorbattledamage)

This is still probably my favorite summary of why skimpy armor obviously makes no sense.

~Ozzie

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It’s probably fair to say that women in fantasy RPGs are the industry’s most highly endangered species.

I mean, these are women who take on entire monster-infested dwarven mines wearing nothing but a bit of moulded plate metal over their chests and a chainmail g-string.

If it’s not disembowelling, it’s probably going to be some kind of really nasty infection from all that… chafing.

Armour expert calls female boob armour a “design flaw” (via bikiniarmorbattledamage)

This is still probably my favorite summary of why skimpy armor obviously makes no sense.

~Ozzie

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ridingthewavesofstorms submitted:  

From Xenoblade Chronicles 2 the character Tsuki, sadly designed by a woman: Risa Ebata. (Source.)

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Judging by that last picture… is she related to Haydee? 

Seriously though, a couple readers let us know about problems with female designs in Xenoblade Chronicles 2, especially this character, Dahlia/Tsuki. 
And in all frankness, what i saw of her already made me legitimately fear doing any further research. 

Her feet alone make me feel like retracting all the things I said about Fran’s stupid, stupid “I totally need high heels because bunny-person” feet… things I still stand by!

I recommend filtering the experience by reading this Dorkly article, which quotes quite a few good jokes and/or comments about the game’s problems with women characters.

~Ozzie

She has rabbit high heels??

-Icy

I’ve seen a few members of a key demographic claiming the image is PhotoShopped… strangely none of them can provide an image that disproves it… just other terrible images of her in different poses.

– wincenworks

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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aleph-ozone submitted (and Icy Bingo’ed):

She doesnt really wear armor, but i wanted to show this to you anyway: Final Fantasy’s embodiment of entropy, the Cloud of Darkness. She’s supposed to be a god-level creature of destruction, who for no reason looks like a human being.

For no reason indeed! Yikesaroonie. From the wiki:

Though the Cloud of Darkness universally takes on a feminine form, it is officially considered a genderless being that merely chooses to appear as such.

(And yes, the entire wiki page uses “it” to refer to this being.) I guess an almost-naked woman dressed in unexplainable blobs of coverings is scarier than just an evil cloud or something, especially when their original appearance in Final Fantasy III looked like this:

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This was the final boss, by the by. Much scare.

-Icy 

Hey, but it’s aaall okaaay, because they are a powerful genderless being who only chooses to look like a generically sexy woman in absurdly impossible “clothing”! Their appearance doesn’t have to make sense as long as they possess magic and will to be like that. 

Yup. Makes total sense to me. Don’t look at that nosebleed I’m getting from cognitive dissonance brain strain! Just accept that this is what a sentient evil cloud of entropy would look like, okay?! *passes out*

~Ozzie