Agency, gaze, prince-types, dog-beans, etc

[peachke]

1. If you like girls fighting and being totally horrible to each other in that middle school kind of way, Girls' Lives as scanlated by Lililicious is an unexpected treat. Nitpicking: it's bizarre that they're supposed to be in junior high, and moreover that they're living on their own? But it makes a lot of sense to me on an emotional level,

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[peachke]

Haha, not so much the overall looks, but I like the focus on the details like the wrist bones and knees and shoulders--there's a very physical sort of awareness of the desirability of the male body. Just to grab a random Jaryuu Dokuro page:



Also, you might be talking about bishonen-types, which, ick, ick. I emphatically dislike bishonen. Same principle, but it just goes too far for me.

(Sorry, reposted this comment because I messed up the html!)

[peachke]

They're supposed to be Japanese, at least in this particular case (which would probably also explain the lack of beards)? I think a lot of that gets lost in how stylized it is--people just assume it's another part of the convention. What's interesting about anime/manga faces in profile is that they're based on Asian profiles, as far as I can tell. The reason the line sweeps down smoothly from the brow to the nose tip in profile is because Asian noses tend to have a flat radix and flat bridge, but it's become accepted as a manga drawing convention.

Though I don't know why they have no nipples hahaha! That has always baffled me.

[peachke]

Hahahaha or yes, aliens!