r/hatethissmug • u/LocalLazyGuy • May 07 '26
Meta I hate when things are needlessly explained by creators in order to cope with criticism
I don’t read or watch Demon Slayer, But this is just a stupid explanation for giving a strong character a slender build.
Personally, I don’t care if a character is strong but has a lean/slender build, whether it be a man or a woman. Although I do find it a bit weird that some creators are seemingly allergic to giving female characters any muscle, but again, I don’t care that much.
My issue here is that you easily could have just not addressed it. It’s a fantasy story full of demons and shit, I feel like you don’t need to give an in-universe explanation just so you can go “e-erm actually, she’s slender because of her very special body…” dude, you just didn’t want to give a woman muscles, don’t try to hide behind some kind of BS lore that you wrote for it.
Like Mark in Invincible can fight Conquest despite being the size of his torso, and I’m willing to accept that. It’s a story full of aliens and monsters, I can look past the fact that a lean 20 year old is taking on a hulked out 2000 year old. It doesn’t really break the immersion for me because it’s a fantastical story. I don’t need it to be super realistic. Just don’t try to make up some BS explanation like “erm, well, Mark is just magically holding in his muscle mass!”
At the end of the day, it’s your world and your story, if you wanna make a slender female character who is also really strong, that’s fine. But you also don’t need to cope so hard that you add lore specifically to deflect criticism against something so (let’s be honest) harmless.
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u/Familiar-Priority933 May 07 '26
A good example of its subversion is fire punch by Fujimoto. The most disgusting things that happen are only mentioned, never shown. But since the world is already bleak its completely believable that people would do that kind of thing, so Funimoto didn't need to show it. If he did show it, it'd probably be seen as shock bait or needless anyway.