I just think characters like Halsin and Blackwall should look a little more like sumo wrestlers and a lot less like shredded, 0% body fat, dehydrated Marvel superheroes.
But maybe that's just me. 🤷♀️
(L-R: Asakoryu, Kirishima, and Tochinoshin)
Okay, so I don't go here in terms of those characters, so caveat that I dont know if there is anything about them that relates to these body types in particular. But I never pass up an opportunity to talk about sumo and got very excited to see it on my tumblr dash. I should honestly post more about sumo. Be the change you want to see etc.
Anyway. I do think it is kind of sad that this post is still using some of the more like...acceptably muscular looking sumo wrestlers. All three of these are great rikishi (well, Asakoryu henkas too much for my taste and Tochinoshin is retired) but there are so many different body types in sumo!
Take Aoiyama, another recently retired wrestler who was at one point in the third highest rank in sumo.
Or Kotozakura, currently in the second highest rank.
Or Onosato, one of two current yokozuna (the highest rank in sumo, once you are promoted to this rank you cannot be demoted.)
For more former rikishi, Akebono, a yokozuna who mostly fought in the 90's.
Or even Hakuho, generally regarded as the greatest of all time. He isn't the heaviest, but he is also not very visibly muscular.
One of the things that drew me to sumo was seeing the broad variety of bodies doing incredible things, especially bodies that are fat in less "acceptable" ways. Rolls and flab and double boobs and stretch marks and all.
It is funny a post is like "I think these people should look less shredded and more like sumo wrestlers" and then just chooses some of the most ripped wrestlers around.
Morally, all characters should look like Takakeisho (as a fighter, not Minatogawa oyakata).
