>> Those characters deserve better treatment,
>
>I can one-up you on this.

(snip)

It wasn't a contest, and I kind of wish you hadn't. Glad I haven't seen that one, though!

>couldn't help but wonder if it was some sort of sly indictment of the
>genre, if the artist was trying to make the usual crop of people who
>would fork over money for what is, let's be honest here, a deeply
>misogynist genre of fan-product feel bad about what they'd done.

Could be. Shit, I stole the one I saw (technically), and it was entirely vanilla, and I still feel kind of bad about it. But then Rule 34 doesn't really work for me anyway unless it's still on-model and in-character, and, well, the K-On! girls whoring themselves out is just never going to tick box 2, particularly if Mio's involved. ... Although I could maybe see Mugi... that was a joke.

(She'd only do girls anyway.)

(That was also a joke.)

(Except it wasn't, because, well, Mugi.)

This went someplace strange! Much like anime fandom itself is wont to do, I suppose. It's like a reflection of the reality. So much for escapism!

>But from what I've heard, making them look their ages was
>considered and the decision to not do so came from corporate, not from
>creative.

In fairness, Mio looked like she's going to as an adult when she was 15 anyway. ... And probably so did Yui, just in the other direction. :)

(Seriously, when Yui and Ui are, say, 25 and 24? Ui's totally going to look like four years older than Yui, just because she's going to dress like a grown-up and Yui is going to dress like, well, Yui.)

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