There's this one gif floating about of a girl slamming her friends head into a classroom/corridor wall which gave me the "oh my gods" as soon as my mind could interpret what was going on. I found out in the comments it was from an Anime called "Plastic Nee-San" (later I found out it is actually called "+ Tic Elder Sister").
Anyway so I'm watching the 27 minute long video of THE WHOLE ANIME, getting on great with it as its funny, violent and random. But then comes episode 3 called "Beauty-Tic" and my eyes are graced with this absolute babe of a character.
Blonde haired, chubby and obsessed with beauty, is "Beautiful Person" (her anime name apparently). It's a shame in the Anime she only makes two appearances, because you only see this random chubby girl pop up. She absolutely becomes fabulous in the manga. You also find out her name and see that she has a younger sister.
However throughout the two episodes she is featured, the main characters laugh at her when she talks about being beautiful, she just shrugs off WHICH JUST SHOWS HOW FABULOUS SHE IS. Sorry, I just love her character. Anyway It's even worse in the manga.
There are LOADS of instances where she's made fun of:
I've watched plenty of anime that shames a bigger character, they aren't even a main character and are mostly ugly looking and put down. It's honestly a shame lots of anime/manga portray larger characters like this, and it's honestly a shame Japan are slightly behind with body positivity.
The only time I've seen an main character that is larger than most is an anime (one of my favourites because of its cuteness) was Ore Monogatari! (My Love Story!) where you see the main character, high school student Takeo fall in love with a normal girl called Yamado. I don't personally think he's fat, just HENCH (Muscles) and HENCH (tall) but others in the anime find his physical appearance beastly and "too ugly to be in a relationship" with Yamado. It doesn't take long for other characters to like Takeo though, he has such a nice personality (just gonna wait here for the next season to come out, if any).
Another instance: Food Wars. There's a secondary character, Isami. He's a large character and no one really takes notice, that is until he looses weight because it's the end of the summer. What a surprise.
There's also been another manga that has a large character, again a male character, that is ridiculed so much and it's sad to read apparently, I've not watched it.
But you can kinda see where I'm coming from. All the fat characters are really negatively seen in Japanese culture. I would like to see this change but it will take years! I know recently there's been a few plus size idol group and even a few plus size brands pop up, but Japan has a long way to go.
But for now I will have to wait and choose my cosplays accordingly.
BONUS: do you wanna se my favourite manga cap of Satomi?
SATOMI WILL PUNCH A BITCH
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I was wondering where to find a decent story with a chubby character, and I knew manga anime wasn't it, I knew all of the stories would shame the chubby character since japan absolutely despises plus size people. So I guess I'll have to look somewhere else. I noticed that ore monogatari was kind of an exception but you notice that the main character is a man, so the social pressure for him is not that severe, but if the character was a woman they would shame her in the most terrible way possible so... yeah.
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