#but because we've spent so long allowing male body diversity we can see multiple different male builds as “conventional” while there's still
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I do think character design diversity is important but pls let's not act like the boys in dandadan are diverse when they're all skinny white-skinned generically attractive boys with ONE exception
The point of the post wasn't even so much diversity as it was just character distinguishability. Whether you think Okarun's design is "attractive" or not he still has notably different features and a different build from Jiji, meanwhile Momo and Aira are identical aside from their hair and eyebrows.
And then there's obviously the aliens.
Where the male ones look weird in their base forms and have even weirder transformations, but the one female alien just happens to be a girl with antenna 100% of the time.
This weird need for female characters to be one specific kind of attractive all the time just gets in the way of decent character design.
#i think even the fact that people think Okarun's design is “generally attractive” shows how pervasive this is#because he's MEANT to be the dweeb ass everyman protagonist. he's mid so the mid viewer can project onto him#but because we've spent so long allowing male body diversity we can see multiple different male builds as “conventional” while there's still#only one kind of attractive available to women (and every woman must be it)#jiji is conventionally attractive but he's literally the only one. we are blinded by the fact that every girl is in love with okarun#but hes not good-looking. meanwhile momo is canonically pretty and aira is canonically pretty and vamola is canonically pretty and even#the grandma is canonically pretty#like cmon guys. please#the class president was sort of the bland one but then they put her through magical girl idol transformation and turns out she too is#canonically pretty and build identical to every other girl in the series#dandadan#asks#momo ayase#aira shiratori#jin enjoji#okarun#vamola
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