On the second day of Christmas, Granblue Fantasy gave to me… A really, really bad piece of rhetoric as an excuse for kinky bikini armor. And nothing more.
Who knew that frostbite was only a matter of insufficient commitment? I guess Sejuani never needed to exchange that arctic bikini to something more plausible… she just wasn’t committed enough!
~Ozzie
In case you thought Dahlia/Tsuki was the only problematic female character design in Xenoblade Chronicles 2… Here’s the game’s protagonist, Pyra, whose bizarre boobsocks became a meme in their own right!
Last horizontal image found on a forum where people are discussing whether or not her in-game model actually wears thong over those short shorts… Comparing it with concept art, it seems like that’s not the case, but boy does that Tracer-style deep buttcrack and shape of the belt (?) right above it make it look suspiciously a lot like thong.
The only positive surprise about that costume is how flat and wearable the heels of her shoes look! Despite which she still is constantly posed as if she was wearing heels two inch taller.
~Ozzie
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?
[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!
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
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
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