A so-called “anime fan” has been attracting attention on social media for “fixing” the designs of various female anime characters, serving as yet another example of people complaining about an element of the medium that has existed since its inception.
The Twitter user gained a significant amount of attention (over a million views in 3 days) after posting a screenshot of an episode of Bleach featuring Matsumoto Rangiku alongside an edited version that covers her cleavage and reduces the size of her bust:
Sexualized female character designs have been a common element of anime for decades. Despite this, a small but vocal segment of the anime community has long taken issue with such designs. Such individuals are usually Westerners that hail from the same sect that call everything sexist and offensive, even when the thing in question is not.
Critics of the redesign argue that edits like these are themselves rooted in a sexist mindset, as they imply that women with large breasts either do not exist or should not be depicted. They further point out the irony that many of the same people who condemn “body shaming” are effectively doing exactly that when they insist certain body types should be altered or covered up.
The Twitter user has several other instances of them “fixing” female characters:
Many critics were quick to mock what the unnecessary censorship, with some joking that the individual appeared to be afraid of attractive women:
faggots scared of boobs and hot women, what else is new.
Its prob some mentally ill trans freak that is jealious they can never have a body like that, it almost always is in these cases. There is one I am kinda ok with and actually feel its an improvement and thats the One piece char robin because man once piece char designs are god aweful and look inhuman.
wow att bait crap post on piece of shyt twitter, thank you for bringing this here in this article
There’s no excuse; it’s an imposition of a burqa culture, where a woman can only show her body to her husband and other women.
obvious rage bait
You say that, and you’re 100% right, but look at all these fools falling for the bait. Kudos to whoever, you did it.
So… weren’t there some platforms that were considering anime art as l♥♥i regardless of the character’s age? If this is one of them, This idiot is basically causing what could be seen as “Age-Regression”.
In short… the users of the platform could potentially report the artist for being a PDF and get them banned for “Fixing” art lol. Idk if Twitter was one of those platforms tho.