BL/Shounen ai Stories that can't draw women
I understand that the women aren't the focus and that women come in all shapes and sizes but dear god can some of these artists not draw women. Like they're will be the most jacked handsome guy, dad bod guy, twink guy etc and then the woman characters are just the guys with long hair and (maybe) boobs and if you're lucky the girl will be wearing a dress/skirt and this makes it confusing on when they're talking about a character refered to as a sister, mother or any female pronouns are used. Either the girls just look like guys or the girls look copy and pasted but with different hair or on the off chance that the artist can do both effectively. Yes I understand women can look traditionally masculine and jacked but it usually feels less intentional as a choice and more of by product of a skill issue as the artist can only draw men/jacked men.
I'm bringing this up because I'm currently reading Unromantic and I can't tell if a character is meant to be a girl unless explicitly told or she's wearing a skirt +boobs+ long hair. Another manhwa that ran into this was "Low tide in twilight" I legit had to constantly second guess myself on whether or not his cousin was a girl or not because it was made clear it was an Alpha but dear god did it take constant reassurance.
I would like to mention again there's no issue with girl characters that are more traditionally masculine being more jacked and dressing in men's fashion but it feels unintentional rather than being intentional representation of these types of women
That’s just an art style. Sometimes the base face for female characters just looks the same. This ain’t just a BL thing. For one piece most female characters have the same face and body type. Other stuff like danganronpa and fate stay night have same face syndrome. I’m not complaining tho, they draw better than I ever could lol.
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28 08,2024