Favourite Female Characters #1 - "Sexy"
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I have never really understood the term "sexy". I simply have no definition for it. I classify girls as "cute", "not cute", and "provocative" (in media only, obviously). The first two are self explanatory, but that latter one refers to characters who opt for revealing clothing, scandalous outfits or who have, either by choice of wear, or by the author's drawings, certain body parts unnecessarily emphasized. I dislike provocative characters, or perhaps its better to put it as "I couldn't care less." Sort of like the beach scenes in so many anime I've watched. To add to this, having played many eroge, I may have been rendered even more numb to any such provocations.
When I read in many novels about "temptations", "carnal desire" and simply being "alluring", I have no mental image to go off of. I base myself on what I have heard, read, and been taught. Apparently, red, black and leopard are all clothing choices fit for tempting characters. Skin exposure is important, too.
At most, with me, all these characteristics manage is a dry laugh; and if it goes too far, it may provoke my prudishness, leading to embarrassment and eye-averting.
I had thought it would always be like this, but two characters have managed to give me something to go off of when thinking "alluring", "tempting" and "sexy"; without simultaneously tingling my prudishness:
Winry Rockbell from the (2003) Fullmetal Alchemist is one of them. I am typically against any sort of exposed skin and whatnot, but every time she appeared on screen she certainly did a good job at captivating me as a female (not that I'm a female, I mean she worked as one). Not exactly something that happens often with me.
I can identify no particular cause for this.
Whilst a case can be made for the other image, this one's clearly an attempt at oversexualization of a female character. Why I ever felt the least bit captivated by this is beyond me, but I certainly did.
This is Suzune Kagami from Denpa Kyoushi. It should be noted the only version I like is the manga version; her anime self is down there with all the other stereotypical females.
Again, I can identify no cause for this, but with a sample of two characters I can try establishing similarities:
- Belly slightly exposed.
- Bare arms.
- Closed eye (merely coincidental image choice).
- Long hair.
And that's about it.
That's all for this list, because as I said, I'm not often captivated, and even when I am, it's certainly not due to a character's sexiness.
In a trivial note, neither of these two series (Fullmetal Alchemist or Denpa Kyoushi) were finished by me. I didn't complete either in their entirety.
For this post, I am merely basing myself on physical looks. In my next post about favourite female characters I will elaborate on a subject I am more familiar with, providing examples and minding the characters' personality. It is rather shameful to start a series of posts on such a superficial post, but it was also the most peculiar and shortest.
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