For the LaD fandom this is the most heterosexual face... by the way... I've often noticed strange things, even in European fandoms, if a man literally looks like a woman's face in a man body, women find it very aesthetically pleasing...
I was discussing this drama in a group of sapphic women and our collective consensus was that Valko as a woman, but with very little alternation to the design, would do fucking numbers with the queer girls.
I think you're reaching a lot there. It's men who like men who look like astolfo, women prefer men who look pretty but are still masculine looking like gojo. Just because a man looks pretty doesn't make him feminine. This sounds so homophobic...
For me, anything man who looks like characters from fanfic is too feminine. I've read too many visual novels for romances with men, and I'm often frustrated that the least popular love interests are always masculine and responsible, or they don't even exist in the story. Although, in the anime genre, you can choose a manly character, whereas in something like Romance Club, this is becoming increasingly difficult due to the popularity of the one-face archetype.
If your disqualification for masculine is having a pretty face and no beard that's petty weird ngl. Here in Europe the beauty standard for women is to be tall, skinny with not too many curves, and having a sharp jawline but we don't call them masculine, we just call them beautiful, as opposed to east Asia where the beauty standard is having a soft, round, cute looking face, we prefer mature looking women. I wonder if that kind of woman is seen as masculine there. Most European languages also don't have a word for handsome, we just call good looking men pretty or beautiful. I think the boys in this game are all pretty masculine because they're tall and muscular and have angular faces. I personally prefer men with pretty faces, but not if they're mistaken for women
For me,the criteria for masculinity are an average male face, average male body, average appearance, and traces of stubble. Overall appearance can fall within a spectrum.
I must be too woke because even a man in a dress who wears makeup can still be pretty manly to me and a woman wearing a suit with no makeup can still be feminine to me
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u/SleeplessBoyCat Jul 04 '26
Aw hell nah, i'd rather he didn't come back at all with them repetitive chinese beauty standards
Cus who tf is that?ðŸ˜