Japan with their culture if a person is a little "chubby" is beyond me 💀 it's like havi...

Kinda wish you wouldn't stereotype a whole country based on a manga cliche. We're not fatphobic, just health conscious for a variety of serious reasons.

I wonder about health conscious when smoking is hella rampant... And the culture of overworking...

...There's hardly any modern country that doesn't oversmoke. At least we're clean about it. Overtime is a different beast of a topic, but that doesn't make Japan not health conscious about their weight and food intake because obesity is quite actually...illegal.

Like, no one (except maybe little kids) are going to fat shame you in Japan. But weight matters a lot for not just apperances.

Outsiders looking in don't really understand, but the people who live here, live under unique circumstances. Native resources are inherently scarcer, and we can get wiped off a map from frequent natural disasters. Things are built smaller, with stricter weight limits, there's a preference for smaller things in general so as not to be wasteful, not just people...it's a whole lot of specific factors that partially result from living on an island ontop of a fault line. It doesn't seem relevant at first, but it is.

Clothing sizes come only literally in 2 sizes for the most part, and that's not because of any weight shaming, it has more to do with production cost. Everything is standardized for affordability.

...Anyway, the tldr is, yeah the artist doesn't do a good job of drawing chubby. But their views and aesthetics, or creative skills don't represent the country it was made in. Especially so since shoujo is a relatively smaller demographic.

Blanket statements are just kind of ignorant.

Especially when the size of your body here in an emergency can basically mean life or death. Hard takeaway.

Every country has their own little toxic culture puddles, Japan is no exception.
It's like saying that westerners are obsessed with big lips and the hourglass figure beauty ideal. Yea it might be wrong because not everyone may think that way but it still does reflect the general beauty trend of the last years.
It's part of your culture to be "concerned" for fat people, at at the same time you're also alienating them no matter how good you think those reasons are. I can see you're japanese because you think that the person has to align with their environment, instead of letting the environment change with the person.
AND THAT'S NOT A BAD THING. It can be both good and bad, but it's important to acknowledge both sides.

I could go on about beauty standards, how Japan was influenced by western media in many aspects when they opened up for trade back in 1850 (? somewhere there, perhaps a few years later, I don't remember) but let's not get into that. I recommend to read up on more personal accounts on how it's to be obsese in Japan and other countries, just to put it into perspective.
Sorry for ranting back at you, I'm putting my 5 cents here because I spent a long time on researching that type of stuff.

I think you've missed my point. Beauty trends will always exist and they will come and go, and they can vary even within region. I don't disagree with you that thinness is the ideal in a lot of places, but in actuality things have gotten better in the last decade here. My point is, I didn't like the fact that OP should so flippantly just label a whole country as toxic just based on a manga. That's like reading a western comic and going, "oh everybody's obsessed with violence". Do they enjoy violence? I'm sure some do. But it's such a blanket statement.

I've lived in both the East, the West, and Europe, and honestly, viewing a whole country from a vacuum space outside of it is entirely different from actually being here and experiencing it. Even without western influence, our idea of chubby versus the west was always inherently different. Being extremely obese is numerically a rarity in Japan. Our health standards aren't just solely beauty-related, it's a variety of factors, and this comic is such an extremely poor representation of that.
Sure, maybe it is fatphobic from an outsiders perspective, and some comics do perpetuate that notion, but that doesn't mean we should be judged by someone else's standards? Especially not over a cartoon which has exaggerated anatomy in the first place. (Kind of like how some readers on this site see a short adult character and call it a child. Cartoon anatomy and aesthetics don't equate to real life, and I assure you, almond women irl aren't considered fat here either unless you're hanging with the cattiest clique ever).