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Author: Lee RatnerLee Ratner Date: Sep 16, 2008 16:42
On Sep 16, 2:30Â pm, Doug Jacobs shell.rawbw.com> wrote:> In rec.arts.anime.misc Lee Ratner gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Â Â Its not bad, Thor's incarnation is presented as average looking
>> and not that popular among the ladies but Thor without a hammer is
>> somehow lacking.
>
> That's still rather insulting to Thor...
Oh, I agree perfectly but Narugami-Thor could still have been a
lot worse, they could have made him extremely bishounen rather than
averagely bishounen.
> Thor should be a large imposing figure of a man, who's very shadow should
> make women swoon from its masculinity. Â Without his hammer, Thor might as
> well be missing an arm or something.
>
Yeah but I don't think the Japanese would really go for this
type, even for a non main character. Japanese women tend not to swoon
for the imposing macho man type that Thor is supposed to be. Taking
away Thor's hammer was too much though. I kind of wonder what the
Japanese would do to the other burly heroes of the West in Anime like
Heracles or Samson, who is supposed to be extremely hairy. Nothing
good probably.
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