Giant breasts anime

Anime’s large busts perpetuate these trends and point to the problems of those trends, if indirectly. Decoupling breasts from their purpose–to foster new life–, as media has done, breaks the association that has dominated human history (Domshy, 2003). In some ways, as I will discuss, anime links breasts back to their purpose.

Anime contributes to the problem of large breasts while also being a result of society’s large-breast pressure. Feedback loops perpetuate themselves. Anime still offers some breast-size diversity. Although, it does like to leverage size jokes: poking fun at small-chested characters and having girl breast fondling scenes. I have to note these bathing scenes provide examples of hadaka no tsukiai, a platonic openness and honesty that happens when clothes and social standing are pulled off (Crossley-Baxter, 2020). Anime’s largest breast sizes would most certainly cause spine degeneration. They become grotesque to my sensibilities. I’ve seen many anime fans list and rank breasts. With these and other media-boobs, it’s little surprise similar shapes and sizes were deemed “perfect” and “ideal” by women across the world.

When fans speak of anime breasts specifically, you will see them use the word oppai. The word is a transliteration of the Japanese word for breasts. Most fans use the word in reference to oversized breasts.

Anime isn’t at fault with this. Some stories do not help. But anime also recouples breasts to their purpose. Large breasts link to motherly character traits (again, not always). This reestablishes the ancient link between breasts and their life-giving purpose. Female anime characters act as a “call to adventure” for many male characters, crashing into his life and forcing a choice that leads to a new life. In this way, she acts as a life-giver. This trope applies to female protagonists in yuri stories too.

Not all men and women find larger better. A significant number of men prefer smaller busts or have no preference. Ideas of beauty change over time. Eventually, small breasts will be fashionable and deemed the ideal of beauty again. Media determines a good percentage of this preference. For better or worse, breasts will remain an important signal of resources, health, fertility, beauty, and character in real life and in fiction. Because of this, anime will, for as long as it exists, remain obsessed with boobs.