OK, so. The thing where everyone in anime/manga fandom is all over the "pretty boys". I need a little clarification, in an "Is everyone seeing this the same way I am?" sort of way
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I agree with that first bit! But that's a function of the style of the art, really. I think my problem is mostly that if you gave me pictures of every character an artist drew without context behind it, I would not be able to pick out which characters are "hot" and which ones aren't; it's the context that differentiates between characters within one style of art. I think Mogi from DN is more attractive, visually, than Yukimura from PoT, but neither of them is really attractive to me as a character if I don't know anything about them. Tezuka wouldn't draw me into PoT fandom any more than Horio would, if I were just going by "hot boys". They're not hot until I've learnt how to read the artist's visual shorthand.
(SO MANY PEOPLE think Itachi is hot, though! And I can see it if we're going solely by personality, if you like that type, or by interest. But I don't really get it myself, because I can't help but see those gashes lines under the eyes as saying "BIG VISUAL FLAW". They're a symbol that I think we're supposed to interpret as "lack of sleep impairing looks" just like we're supposed to interpret a line beneath the nose as as mouth.)
(SO MANY PEOPLE think Itachi is hot, though! And I can see it if we're going solely by personality, if you like that type, or by interest. But I don't really get it myself, because I can't help but see those gashes lines under the eyes as saying "BIG VISUAL FLAW". They're a symbol that I think we're supposed to interpret as "lack of sleep impairing looks" just like we're supposed to interpret a line beneath the nose as as mouth.)
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