It's post time! For today's blog post, I will be talking about the problem with anime and body image. Anime is pretty notorious for having really unrealistic body standards. Of course it is, because anime is just animation; so the characters can look however the animators want. However, it's a bit more than this. There are a lot of anime series that make fun of characters for their weight, regardless of if they're male or female. The characters don't even have to actually be overweight at all. This kind of makes sense for fitness anime, but even anime series that have nothing to do with fitness will add little off-hand comments about a character's weight or appearance. It is important to note that most anime comes from Japan, which is pretty well-known for being more in shape than other places. It can still be a problem though; especially for people who may look like the characters being picked on. People are often self-conscious of how they look even when there's nothing wrong with them, and seeing a character who may be like them being picked on because of their appearance would likely make it worse. Of course the best advice is to remember that most of these little insults are meant as jokes, and they aren't meant to be serious at all. But it's also important to remember that anime and manga isn't real anyways, and the characters in the series have a different view of things than people normally do. Regardless, those are mostly just my thoughts on this topic. Nonetheless, I hope you all still enjoyed this blog post!