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[(Anonymous)]

Yeah I agree with you. I enjoy skinny characters if that's how they were designed. I get that people want more heavier looking women represented in media, which would be cool. But honestly, you also have to look at cultural differences too. Rikku is from a game made in japan. Japanese people and asians in general expect people to be way skinnier than they would be in a western culture. This game was built with a japanese audience in mind so. :shrug:

[(Anonymous)]

100% this. I lived in Japan for a while and trust me, Japanese women are TINY. They're very slender and not very curvy, exactly like the picture on the left. Hell, at 5'4" I was actually taller than a lot of Japanese women. Here in the US, I'm usually one of the shortest people in the room.

Rikku looks like an average Japanese girl, right down to the small boobs.

[(Anonymous)]

I'd imagine thoughts like this make it that much harder for the elusive bigger Japanese girls who are so rare that you managed to live in Japan and never see one, to never see themselves in their country's media because nobody thinks they exist.

Funny though, I also lived in Japan and actually met more than one! I wonder how that happened.

[(Anonymous)]

I met a couple, but nowhere near to the same extent that you encounter them here in the US. I met maybe three girls who would be considered "chubby" in my year there. The rest were all slender to average.

One of my American friends had trouble finding shirts in Japan because she was busty - not at all fat, just busty - and Japanese women's shirts just aren't cut for women with big boobs. I'm a C cup and I found a lot of things were tight in the chest for me. And if you have hips and/or a butt? Good luck finding pants that fit. I'm a pear shape and trying to get pants that fit and skirts that didn't end up indecently short when I put them on was hell.

[(Anonymous)]

I know what you mean. I live in Vancouver, and there are quite a few areas here where Asian people, and particularly east Asian people, make up at least half the population. Metrotown mall is possibly the city's most popular mall, and I swear at least half the customers there at any given time are Asian. Anyway, yes, going by the Asian population in Vancouver, you're description is pretty spot on, particularly among Japanese Vancouverites.

My guy friend who is Chinese thinks it's hilarious when I describe myself as "small-chested." I'm a 32C, which is certainly on the small side for a white girl, but most of his female friends are Chinese, and I think I have the biggest boobs of all his female friends.

There are so many stores here that are targeted mainly to Asian girls and they sell the cutest tops and dresses, but I've learned not to even bother going in the door, because nothing there fits my body type at all, despite the fact that I'm slim with narrow hips. I think it's that I'm too tall, too busty, and my shoulders are too broad.

It's funny to me how people in this thread seem uncomfortable with what you;re saying. It's like they feel that by making a generalization about Asian people, or Japanese people, we're in danger of dehumanizing the whole group or something. When really, my friends who are Asian would be the first to say "What the fuck?" to that assumption. We chat about our cultures and differences all the time. We enjoy comparing ourselves.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I'm a 32C too - small compared to most Westerners, but in Japan I could've been a porn star. I had to buy a couple of graphic-printed shirts I wanted in men's sizes because when I tried on the women's sizes the print was visibly stretched across my boobs even if the shirt fit everywhere else.

I'm a 2/4 on top and a 6/8 on the bottom so I'm not even remotely fat, I'm just curvy with pronounced hips. But if you put me next to any of my Japanese friends, I sure as heck look fat compared to them. Hell, just comparing my American friends to my Japanese friends... my American friends range in height from about 4'10" to 6' and in size from 0-20 or so. There's a huge range of body types there. My Japanese friends, however... only one or two of them are taller than 5'5", and I don't think any of them is bigger than a size 6 or maybe 8. Much, much less variation than among my American friends. I don't understand why some people seem to be so against the idea that different races/ethnic groups can have different average body types. It's not a bad thing, it's just the way it is.