Alright. Since some people in the tag are currently being very immature, I should really add in my two cents (’cause I’ve got plenty of money anyway).
The reason we critical blogs get upset about sexualized artwork of Wadanohara is that during the events of her game, despite being over one hundred years old, she is, indeed, supposed to be a child. DSP draws her with the body of a preadolescent girl, not to mention she has the characteristics of a young child, in which she’s shown to be naive and not truly understand the bad in certain people.
And, while I can only assume she is supposed to be a young adult by the events of the True End and by the time Minami is born, it’s not like she looks that much different from when she was a kid. The only differences between young!Wadda and adult!Wadda is that her braids are much longer and she’s only grown one centimeter. Yeah; only one little centimeter. Not to mention DSP has drawn adult!Wadda in her old sailor outfit seen above. An outfit from all those centuries ago, from when she was a child.
What I’m saying is that DSP has completely restricted Wadanohara to having a very short body, because to DSP, she is nothing more than a weak, loli stereotype who, instead of wising up and mustering enough power to defeat Sal and Mikotsu and re-seal the Sea of Death herself, has to rely on her love interest to go do it. We overall never truly see Wadda mature and grow up, and with that combined with DSP not bothering to give True End!Wadda a taller, more adult appearance, we keep viewing her as a child. Thus, seeing nsfw artwork of her when she’s canonly restricted to having a child’s body makes us very uncomfortable.
Also, regarding how this drama came up over a fanartist’s drawing of Wadanohara in her swimsuit…while the swimsuit itself isn’t exactly “revealing”, there is one thing in that picture that I can’t help but be peeved about.
It’s that gap between her thighs.
Now, thigh gaps are a recurring thing both in and out of pornographic or even suggestive artwork. Here, we can see a gap that’s big enough for us to see a slight butt crack, and not only is that inappropriate to see on a non-comedic picture of character who is very likely a child (as I’ve mostly seen cartoon characters’, including kids’ butts, be shown in more silly scenarios like in The Simpsons sometimes), but it’s also anatomically incorrect, especially if her legs are that close together. Even if Wadda were an adult in that picture, the gap still shouldn’t be there. The only way it would be there would be if her legs were skeletally thin.
I’m not defending the artist exactly, but this is important criticism for any artist to take in.
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