Why are japanese game characters wielding giant swords so bone skinny?

You missed the point pretty hard, japanese beauty standards for men are different, and the concept of a "pretty man" is preferred, but in the west men can't be beautiful or they're gay so you have a big cultural disconnect

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No, it's simply not the answer you want to hear.

>Every character in western games are giant walls of muscle
>Even if they have 1 Str

Here's your JRPG protagonist, bro.

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The Japanese think super-muscular dudes are hardcore gays

Considering Dragon Age games exist, they aren't wrong

There is nothing gay about Leon faggot.

I think Kiryu and Majima are chadder than all western protagonists.
Fuck you.

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is this a joke?

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Cloud hadn't eaten for four years during his stay inside Hojo's test tube. If anything, he should look skinnier.

Japs are weak faggots. That's why all their anime protags are wimpy crybaby bitches

Martial artists don't tend to be muscle heads.

Westerner obsession over massive muscles is in all honestly low key gay.

True strength lies within.

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My arms are even thinner than left pic

because they are all half-demons

user you should know well by now that nobody here considers the following of any line of reason

>western "men" like to see muscular men in their games
that's a tad gay

>he likes to see men in video games
faggot

>Martial artists don't tend to be muscle heads.
Yeah, the shit ones. There's a reason why skinny kung fu guys don't make it in the ufc.

it's more to do with the fact that comics are also made for children, yet the heroes featured are still muscular.
it didn't make any sense.
in truth, it's because japan likes skinny twinks

Less male fragility, gymrats are beyond help.

You can make "lean" looking characters with muscle user.
Nips did it in late-80s/early-90s all the time.

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I dont think thats good if your a dude, I'm basically at the edge of malnourishment and the left is pretty much what my arm is

because it's a fantasy game, and they don't need to stare at man meat constantly to feel calm like westerners.

Meanwhile, the modern western protagonist is a soiboi with fake muscles who gets whipped by women. Doom Slayer is an outlier. Chris Redfield or Kazuma Kiryu would mog the average modern Western vidya protagonist.

Because the right is disgusting.

Muscles and bone should be seen as little as possible through skin.

this. twinks are where it's at.

>Kazuma Kiryu
virgin

I'm not underweight. I'm 5'10 and 170 pounds. I just have really skinny arms.

Ironic, since UFC is like the second most gay thing you can see other than actual gay porn.

Watch Box instead, a real gentleman sport.

>Chris Redfield
To be fair, he went from left to right in 4 games.

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>valuing strength is gay
stop projecting your obsession with fags

funny you say this because Chris only got muscley to appeal to the west lol. look at how he was designed before RE blew up retard

A martial artist will overpower a super muscular guy user, that is real strength.

The thing is with nu Western characters, they don't even try to give a character an aesthetic. They're all just tumblr abominacions

yeah because two sweaty fat dudes hugging each other every 30 seconds isn't gay at all

You made me :T irl not gonna lie. I think you just made the most ignorant comment on v.

they are demigods

>but bruh, look at how much I can bench

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>Thinking anyone could see anything through the mess of pixels that was RE1.
OK retard

>Yeah, the shit ones.
There's no such thing as an ideal body type in combat sports.

ftfy

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that is technique, not strength. even then, there are limits. some 5'5 120 twink is never taking down a 6'4 240 mass of muscle

im a girl and
this looks indefinitely better than, say the OP's right arm. it looks gross.

They've been making Chris leaner with each appearance after RE5.

most protagonists would ideally look like sprinters or gymnasts, not super heavyweight lifters

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this is pixelated to you?

actually true

What Final Fantasy character had both muscly arms and wielded big ass weapons? Only one I can recall is Gladio from FF15 but that's it.

>some 5'5 120 twink is never taking down a 6'4 240 mass of muscle
Muscles won't cover the weak spots user, one hit in any of those and the big guy will be on his knees.

>i'm sure to beat him with my superior speed

But that happens

This is peak of performance, agreed by everyone who's smart.

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>this thread
>again
It's a fucking cultural thing. Not taking a particular side, but the West views muscular men as the ideal, the badass, the super serious. In Japan it's the opposite. Big hulking steroid users are seen as flamboyantly gay or just narcissistic because all they care about is gaining, to the exclusion of everything else.

In Japan, the the slightly effeminate but very skilled, mysterious swordsman/grappler/mage, or whatever fucking fiction you're partaking in, is viewed as the macho, the badass, the super serious, etc

'memba Jecht?

Auron, i guess

I'm assuming you're referring to Cloud, in which case I would respond because he's enhanced with the cells of a space monster, and the planet's lifeforce.

sauce?

He died of a heart attack

If that "mass of muscle" is a bodybuilder, then yeah, 5'5" 120 twink has all the energy the fucking mong bodybuilder doesn't.

The punchline here is no bodybuilder is going to risk a fucking fight because getting injured fucks up prog and they want that prog more than anything in the world.

Now, if it's a wrestler or an actual fighter, then you are absolutely correct in that some 5'5" twink ain't gonna do a fucking thing unless they manage a successful sucker punch to the chin.

Mass of muscle types can't even tie their own shoes. The bodybuilding types are going for form over function. Competition lifters tend to be a bit pudgy on top of their muscle but can still move like a real person. Martial Arts tend to go for more of a lean muscle structure emphasizing momentary bursts. They all have their ups and downs.

>here's your resident evil 1 bro

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>low key
not this shit again

That's one swole ten year old.

A lot of Yas Forums guys do

He's a wide receiver in the NFL. His mouth guard is a binky.

Not that user, but it's not exactly the muscle that gives the big man the advantage. If the big man were 240lbs of fat, he'd still have an advantage over the little guy because of the weight difference. A 240lb sumo wrestler can crush a 120lb normie with about as much ease as a 240lb strongman. A better comparison would be a heavyweight fighter versus a heavyweight body builder.

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Not entirely true.
240 pounds + some semblance of training sure.
But people don't realize just how people without training are. Even """street fighters""" are complete garbage at fights. A good fighter can beat 99% of the people at any gym regardless of weight class. Its not
>h-hayai so fast! I can't hit him!
but when you take 3 seconds to land a punch, any trained fighter will just arm bar you into the ground and kick your face in.

That said, its not something someone would want to do, but assuming they're at a professional fighting level, or at least high tier amateur, I'd give it to the twink 9 time out of 10..

>get ripped in just 4 games!!
>how? click here to find out

S cells, son.

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Unironically yes, humans are fragile, the human that strikes first will be the one that wins the fight.

Honestly though, how many FF characters actually wield giant fucking swords outside of Cloud, Gladio, Jetch and maybe Auron?

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>eastern "men" like to see soft skinned pretty boys in their games
that's extremely gay

/thread
most of the power of punches comes from your core anyway, not your arms. Though weight on your arms does help to some extent

Pretty much

>slightly effeminate
HA GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY
youtube.com/watch?v=yUmQWyrPMco

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I just like normal physiques, like leon from re2.

I meant in appearance, not personality or mannerisms

Haha imagine having more than a one finger bicep gap, embarrasing

Peak performance.

That's just because they're androgynous bug people

boys that look feminine. that makes it straight as can be.

>men who like to see femenine things are gay
flawless argument right there m8

rip zyzz
we all gonna make it brah

To be fair, in mannerisms too. At least by western standards.
Its not really feminine, but Japs look down on people who'd cause a fuss. A man who can casually defuse a situation is cooler than a man who just forcefully defuses it. While in the west its "cooler" to fight your way through.

No. He died of Cerebral Edema. His brain swole.

Because anime fans are weeb incels with no muscle mass. Look at Cloud - an 85 lb weakling who couldn't lift himself out of bed yet yields a 200 lbs sword like it's a nerf bat.

There's a reason real fighting sports have weighclasses, morons

fuck working out, just buy a gun.

Because they're all equally trained fighters so any advantage becomes much more significant?

This has not been true for decades.
Grape fruit armed Chris was from a nip game.

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>the only reason to exercise is for self defense
someone was bullied in high school huh tubby

gl hitting anything with your shaky arms

Twinks and Roidmonkies are tryhards
Strongfat Protags are the best

wasn't he proven to be a phony?

so weighing more has an advantage thanks for agreeing

What would Cloud look like if he had some muscle on him? Ever since I was a kid, I always found Cloud's weapon retarded due to how skinny he was and how big his weapon is.

actual twink cope post noodle arms

Because swords are actually DEX weapons. Especially 2 handed longswords, they require less strength than most other melee weapons and far less than bows.
It seems counter-intuitive but swords aren't as heavy as you'd think and a lot of the weight is near the hilt, making it much easier to swing than something like a mace or warhammer. Even truly fucking huge ones like Zweihanders(known to be more than 2m long) only weigh around 2.5-3 kg.

Additionally, as cutting weapons strength is never that much of a factor. Cutting power comes from good technique and edge alignment and you're transferring it through your whole body. A swordsman's biggest focus in terms of muscles should be in the torso, not in the arms.

liking women is for faggots. what do you even talk about? knitting? pfft.

Western musclebound appeal came from the bodybuilder fad in 80s media thanks to those like Hulk Hogan and Arnold Schwarzenegger. That appeal died off around the turn of the century as those guys got old, and the modern ideal are built like soldiers with more efficient forms - jacked, lean, ripped.

Japan pretty much had that appreciation since the beginning. Women take it to the extreme of wanting the slim pretty boy, but guys like heroes who are jacked without being some bara gay boy who hangs out in the gym and gets compliments from dudes all day.

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Pretty much, well, they are ALL trained but not equally.

To an extent, and not an insurpassable one.

Even the heavyweight classes still weigh less than your average american.
A heavyweight fighter only weighs 200 pounds. Your average male in America weighs around 190.

Depends on the story.

>Japan pretty much had that appreciation since the beginning.

not really. it was a fad there in the 80s as well.

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His shoulders would be fucking massive. That’s about it though

You forgot to mention that right also belongs to a tranny

No, but you have to be strong enough to actually have an effect on that weak spot

>weighs less
>says it weighs more