Anime & Manga Do Bishounen Look More Like Manly-Handsome-Dudes When They Get Older?

[CarlManvers2019]

Dumb Question, but this is something I wonder in-regards to Japan's love for androgynous pretty boys with slender physiques and relatively soft features.

Don't exactly remember many examples by name, but if anybody remembers D. Grey-Man's Millennium Earl(I'm pretty sure most of you catch up when ever the hiatus momentarily breaks) and Bleach's Isshin Kurosaki

They both have one thing in common. They used to be like Bishounens.

So I'm thinking, does whatever Badass-ery they have actually increase the testosterone when they get older to look more like the handsome sort of dudes?

 

[Mandemon]

You don't want pretty silver fox bishonen dudes? Why. What is wrong with you.

 

[prinCZess]

I'd presume some kind of mid-life crisis hits where they suddenly have a lightbulb click on above their head and they realize that all the people insulting them with the phrase 'pretty boy' are right. So they get a gym membership, grow out a beard like some kind of anime Riker, and that fills them out into more conventionally sexy men.

Of course, you also have the problem that getting older makes it harder to be a pretty boy with soft features at all. Eventually putting a bunch of time, money and makeup into their complexion and the prevention of wrinkles undoubtedly wears on them and they settle into natural age and a more masculine appearance.

That or it's an evolutionary thing. Draw in the female protagonist with their wily, vaguely-feminine, inoocent but still-pretty looks and then BAM, a little while later she's suddenly got a muscly, bearded, biker-boyfriend that her dad never would've approved of.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

Of course, you also have the problem that getting older makes it harder to be a pretty boy with soft features at all. Eventually putting a bunch of time, money and makeup into their complexion and the prevention of wrinkles undoubtedly wears on them and they settle into natural age and a more masculine appearance.

Can also be due to stress and depression

They're all the same person.

 

[Husky_Khan]

I better hope so, I don't think a boyish old guy is going to get far without important realities hidden by manga artists.

Which is fine of course. If they wanna treat age as just a number and not a factor in mitigating their androgynous pretty... boyisms.

 

[Deleted member]

I better hope so, I don't think a boyish old guy is going to get far without important realities hidden by manga artists.

Which is fine of course. If they wanna treat age as just a number and not a factor in mitigating their androgynous pretty... boyisms.

Prince Felix Yusupov managed quite well into his old age...

 

[Shipmaster Sane]

Dumb Question, but this is something I wonder in-regards to Japan's love for androgynous pretty boys with slender physiques and relatively soft features.

Literally a meme. You are viewing Japan through the autistic keyhole of Anime. Most Japanese girls like big manly men and hate that Yaoi centric bishie shit.