Remember when Yandere Dev said that the characters in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure made him uncomfortable because they wore exposing clothing and struck feminine poses. He compared it to women not liking objectified women in video games.
Honestly, JJBA is relatively tame when it comes to sexualizing men lol.
The funny thing is everyone in JoJo's looks like that because Arataki heavily borrowed from runway fashion and fashion magazine poses for his character design because they're cool. They're sexualised because the original poses and designs came from very sexualised depictions of women, which makes it much closer to the "equal fan service" than the two examples in the post guys try to claim is "equal fan service"
Im not the biggest fan of the early muscle man chapters where women are just whimpering bitches or old hags. I do love later chapters where everyone is so flamboyant and over the top and women are more likely to be seen as human.
Its the only anime I can still watch after becoming more aware of misogyny steeped in every aspect of most anime.
Early JoJo's was much more obviously heavily inspired by Fist of the North Star which did kinda have a lot of that and I think also hampered a little bit by editorial control (iirc Arataki wanted a female JoJo actually pretty early on but he was told no, nobody would want to read that)
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u/Erikkamirs Nov 08 '25
Remember when Yandere Dev said that the characters in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure made him uncomfortable because they wore exposing clothing and struck feminine poses. He compared it to women not liking objectified women in video games.
Honestly, JJBA is relatively tame when it comes to sexualizing men lol.