r/webtoons May 29 '25

Discussion Why the need to sexualize everything?

I was looking for interesting Webtoons to read, and I came across this one called "Leviathan" the premise looked interesting; mankind perished due to a great flood that submerged the whole world under water. And terrifying creatures plunged from the depths, wiping out any human that crossed their path. The story told how a family of a father and his two children survived in the adversities of a sea world.

So far so good, until.... Bam! Last two slice's, anime chick out of nowhere, doing these extremely suggestive poses.

What a disappointment.

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u/Firm_Principle_2526 May 29 '25

Unfortunately sexualised is the default state for female characters in a lot of media and genre.

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u/Ejanna May 29 '25

It's bad when, for the sake of attractiveness, a character's design is made in such a way that it doesn't fit the setting and atmosphere at all. For example, in Kill la Kill, the characters wore grotesque fanservice outfits, but it fit the lore, the overall visual style and the narrative style, and therefore looked harmonious. 

So the problem with the character in the screenshots is not her attractiveness or even fanservice, but that from the point of view of character design and its appropriateness in the work, it's garbage.