• SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 days ago

    In a lot of Asia, youth is seen as attractive

    Human eyeballs are generally all the same size, regardless of skull or body size.

    Youth = small

    Big eyes and small everything else therefore means cute

    Art often exaggerates or interprets

    Anime is art

    Anime is also not a new medium at all in Japanese, and now global culture, and has had a lot of time to evolve

    I’m not defending it, just explaining it, in case people don’t understand, because this is a long-standing and very common complaint/criticism