When I went through the family album and saw a photo of my 6' 4" great-grandfather picking up my 5-foot great-grandma for a cutesy-romantic photo, I suddenly understood where I get my thing for tall guys lol
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IDK maybe I’ll get in trouble for asking this, but why are people in a lot of manga and manhwa and such just so...tall? Like they look SO tall, proportionally. Especially the legs but also often the torsos. Super tall beans.
But conversely, people in those and surrounding countries (to the best of my knowledge and the Average Height Records I researched) aren’t usually very tall (I think the average is 5ft.6-8in.) That’s not a bad thing, it just makes the contrast even more noticeable. I remember learning how to draw people and realizing that people drawn from life are not anywhere NEAR as tall as I thought they were based on various comic styles.
And now my brain is off on a sociological tangent, like. Is it BECAUSE people aren’t especially tall that they draw tall characters? Or did some artist(s) draw some really popular art and their style happened to involve drawing people with really long legs, and that became the popular norm? I’ve especially noticed it in characters designed to be hot, they are the tallest of tall bois (girls too, sometimes, but there’s a reverse trend where the female lead is really short so I guess it balances).
Anyhoo those are my sleepy brain ramblings for tonight, please feel free to chip in with your own thoughts (or knowledgeable facts if you are more in-the-know on The History Of Eastern Comics And/Or Society), thank you and goodnight.
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Cartoon with identical looking boy/girl twins that's self-aware of the fact this implies one is trans, and keeps the audience guessing as to which one it is.
The girl laments that her friends are buying bras and her chest is still flat. The boy keeps his t-shirt on the whole time at the beach. Neither of them like using public toilets. The girl always seems to be eating pickles. The boy is giving himself an injection... But it turns out he's diabetic and it's his insulin. Oh look, one of them has a trans flag pin! But so does the other one, because the cis sibling is a very enthusiastic ally.
Bonus points if the twins are aware of this and confusing people on purpose.
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Something that completely flew over my head (I am not very observant), I was rereading chapter 87: Winged Lion II to re-check some things about dungeons and I just now realized the ancient humans weren't from the current races we know.
They seem to have characteristics from several of the human races together, and some of them even seem to have fur (like demi-humans?)
It's even implied that the lifespan differences and physical differences (the two asking for muscles and using magic in the background) were due to the Demon granting wishes
I did notice this part but I didn't realize this was probably part of the source of the race differences rather than the races already being different and wishing for different things.
So at some point the human races might have been even more closely related, before a powerful being influenced their evolution.
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Look at this distinguished tall gentleman
(And oh, hey! Some doodles in color, nice!)
!!! Only platonic buddies here !!!
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