>On Sep 16, 2:30 pm, Doug Jacobs shell.rawbw.com> wrote:

>> In rec.arts.anime.misc Lee Ratner gmail.com> wrote:
>>

>>>     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.  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.