Forum - View topicNEWS: Synecdoche's Plus-Sized Elf Manga Gets TV Anime This Year
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Glordit
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2024 is off to a good start. I love how unapologetic Japan is.
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Arale Kurashiki
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There it is again lol It really should take just one look at the cover of the manga, but I recall an ANN reviewer was similarly confused and they had to read a whole volume. Like, sure, 10 years ago I wouldn't have expected people to get this stuff, but when it's become mainstream enough to get anime catering to it... |
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Blood-
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I have absolutely no idea what point you are trying to make. |
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mewpudding101
Industry Insider
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As an additional note, massage therapy for supposed weight loss is a huge industry in Japan. Very commonplace. (I personally don’t think it works, though I’ve never been)
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Arale Kurashiki
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This is not a show about losing weight. |
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Blood-
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@ Arale Kurashiki - So Seven Seas description of a manga it is distributing is incorrect?:
That would make me very happy if true because I like shows about elves. |
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Hal14
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The point is that it doesn't take fitness as seriously as shows like 'How heavy are the dumbells you lift". Comparisons to monster musume can be made but this is a much less interesing manga and I say this as someone that eventually dropped both. The set up for Plus size elf is just to make the same one/two joke(s): she fat and she eats a lot of junk food. There isn't much variety in the monster girls designs (almost all can pass for human). And the fanservice is pretty tame. I've noticed that mangaka who also draw hentai often have relatively tame "official" works. Like they are just there to promote their hentai.
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Takkun4343
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Finally, a worthy non-cyberpunk companion piece to Real Drive.
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Avec ou Nous
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Weirdly enough the title in France literally translates to "50 Shades of Fat" and they made it a 50 Shades of Grey reference for some reason (gris = grey, gras = fat). Still a silly title, but probably more accurate to how the series is executed in absurdity. Debu to Rabu to Ayamachi had a similar translation into English as well. I think "fat" is one of those words Americans try to avoid and change it for 'plus size' to be more politically correct. I guess in Japan the English title they want is "Elf Can't Be on a Diet" according to this promo image. I do wonder how many people are going to get bait-and-switched by this title change though and not be happy with what they get versus what they expected. The manga does have some genuine nice healthy eating habits and weight loss information that I hope the anime keeps in some regard. |
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MFrontier
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This could be fun.
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louis6578
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Money on the table... it's going to be licensed by HiDive.
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Farafra
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And never get dubbed. |
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Dynamo-
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People seem way to sensitive about anime content these days and I’m not sure why.
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zztop
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Someone on this Reddit thread claims the mangaka is into the chubby/pudgy look due to the mangaka's thinphobia.
https://old.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/19758po/plussized_elf_anime_announced_teaser_visual/ Apparently they got traumatised after seeing this famous photo of a malnourished child during the 1993 Sudan famine, and thus the phobia of thin people stuck since. https://new-cdn.mamamia.com.au/mamamia-pwa.appspot.com/cms_images/variations/1587x1058-355319308250.jpg |
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Arale Kurashiki
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This is part of the kink. The main character is ostensibly trying to lose weight, but that is not going to happen, because the artist would never draw that. Which is why every single cover is about her eating fries and her fat ass, which are the actual subjects of the work. It's just surprising to me this needs explaining when there are images in the article. |
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