#yaksini

im not dead (yet)

more persona 5x assets are coming out. more importantly, something i've noticed is a lot of people praising the redesigns (or censorships, let's be honest that's what they are in this case) despite them weakening the depiction of the demon they're meant to represent (see: dickless incubus). do you think this speaks to the common fan not caring about accuracy or design inspiration?

Yeah, the average fan is almost never favoring those qualities when weighed against broader aesthetic concerns. Any number of things might be working to induce a preference here: (uncharitably) the glossier rendering compared to Kaneko's early marker and digital work, the simple novelty of fresh assets, the fact that it's funny to gas up obviously egregious censoring etc. but in this case I assume it's related to the perceived lesser degree of sexualization in certain designs. This is incoherent when applied to Yaksini et al. but most aren't approaching these things as in conversation with a greater context and history of iconographic representation. Not that I expect this venal gacha spinoff to provoke a more serious discourse than it could possibly deserve.

plus the average fan of anything has fucking milk for brains and twitter reduces the dignity of any opinion to something infinitesimally close to zero. never read the replies to anything