It's justified because lots of gay guys look like that...
Or they look like that because the media shows them like that?
I have many friends and trust me they do not look girly , they have good healthy bodies . Yeah few have effeminate body language but they also do not have girly features....
It's cause normally young boys are skinny... but when they grow up them body change...Well i know a lot of boys in my class that are skinny... but o look like a girl (the face) more or less 3 boys... (▰˘◡˘▰) This manga i don't think that the uke is too effeminate (cause only body and face doesn't make you effeminate)... i already see many mangas that the uke is like that but this one don't make me feel like that ^^....
Hmmm.... being skinny and being malnourished with ribs put out are two different things. In the story the uke is not effeminate but he is portrayed with girly bone structure. I guess add long hair and tadaah ! he will look like a girl while alex is boyish...
if you think that the uke looks girly with that body shape, wouldn't you be implying that girls are always skinny and small? Which would be a reprodution of the midia portrayal of women...
I said girly features not body type. I said his body looks malnourished ..Yes,... because media is portraying skinny body as a fad ( guys and girls alike) i raised my concern in my comment. Young adults being skinny in natural body development is fine. But looking malnourished with ribs out . bony fingers not good. Young adults fantasize on these stories. many of the art work fuels their lifestyle and we are aware of this fact. So i feel it is high time the authors be little more considerate and change the way they portray human body. Thats all
But why? Everybody prefers something else and I think it's wrong to force manga artitst to change their style or preferences because of that (I, as an artist myself, also prefere slim body type characters as uke but I don't like it in RL).
Art should remain art (▰˘◡˘▰)
I also wish art could remain art. but sometimes RL life and imaginations do blur... Hope i hinted enough
You're more likely to see the serratus anterior before the ribs actually. Especially in bodies with a lower fat pourcentage
Whenever I see artists drawing them, I often find comment of people saying the characters look malnourished.
So you can rest easy, these aren't the ribs
You know... everyone in real life is different. when i read this manga i remenber my friend he has 24 years and he is just like this guy... he is skinny, has short stature and has a beautiful face (better than my ¬¬)...I tease his boyfriend saying that he better take care of him cause there is many guys wooing him... best friends is like that...hahaha... so this manga is not really so far away from reality... is just that there is little people with this caracteristics!
Not to say he isn't skinny. Just think malnourished and unhealthy is pushing it
I just think that his arms is too thin... Maybe not i know many people that eat eat eat and not fattening a grass.... oh! how much i wanted to born like that so i didn't need control my weight (/TДT)/....
There are people like that in rl. My friends eats like a body builder but is really skinny.
Lol. This discussion reminds me time when I went as exchange student to US. During swimming class people started to staring at me and then some asked "is there a hunger in your country?"I was like wtf? ..they stoped after I put on like 10 kilos...but when I came back after a year my friends home wher asking me why did I got so fat :P
Anyway the point is - its not always malnutrition is the ribs are showing ;)
A bit rushed.. Again !!! anyways , the guy needs to eat.. why are his ribs jutting out. Hell why most yaoi uke have girly faces and too skinny bodies... I mean cmon , how is it justified portraying men too girl ( uke's always with long or medium length hair).