Talk:Megurine Luka/@comment-36940029-20190113151827/@comment-53539-20190114004132

This is old news, if you read far enough bac you'll find the same comments elsewhere.

This is known as "Anime weights" and the entire cast of CFM CV series Vocaloids has this issue. The weights are 40 years out of date but are often used in Japanese culture. A similar thing can happen even in America. How often do you see fat people in American TV? Yet America has some of the highest weight issues at 40% obese or overweight. IF a town has a population of 40% black, there will be just the ethnic character on the cast who is black. Never does this ever reflect reality.

However healthier weights can be favoured at times because you can't have a tough NCIS character who is too thin. ITs is more pushed unless your going for the whole "Size 10" size waist in western media as a result. ITs because we've began to shame certain eating disorders like anorexia as much as obesity. A lot of Japanese people though originally had poor diets so they were underweight. The same thing though happened even here in the west though things improved much sooner. Its far from perfect though, because now we've got access to too much food. >_<

Big Al and Sonika do have average weights, but this is because their creators wanted to be more "healthy" modern weights. But its much rarer in Japan, I think because their more "aware" of the external appearance and put a lot more pressure on girls to look a certain way. But that doesn't mean things are perfect in the west again... Barbie changed her shape (the doll) to match better measurements because the company who owns her gave in to the way she "body shames" kids supposedly. Funny... As a kid I never was bothered by her proportions. Its a doll, I had an imagination, I forced her to ride My Little Ponies. Never once occurred to me that her body was physically incorrect... Too busy rounding up the unicorns on the ranch. >_<