Waifu culture - Cartoon fuckpillows and the men (and women) who love them

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Webby's Boyfriend said:
I wonder what attracts so many men to anime girls?
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A few reasons, I think:
  • Zero chance of rejection (although some imagine that they would be rejected if it was real and get depressed over that)
  • The ability to take a character and then shape them into the perfect mate via liberal use of headcanon
  • For some, the ability to have a "relationship" with girls who--if real--would be prohibitively young.
 
Webby's Boyfriend said:
Yeah but why ANIME girls? Why don't they take cartoon characters or those from novels, comicbooks and videogames?
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Because the appeal to fanservice and wish fulfillment fantasy is a lot more rampant in anime type media than anywhere else (to the point of occasional self-parody). This is the culture that spawned shit like dating sims and dakimakura, after all.
 
There are a lot of waifus from other media. Fire Emblem, DDLC, Overwatch, Vocaloid, Touhou, Nintendo characters, mobile games you name it.

The most popular waifu of them all is Hatsune Miku a hologram idol, there are 5 Miku fags on /r/waifuism's discord alone. It's interesting to me because it's eerily similar to people who obsess over real idols and mentally date them yet somehow here it's considered a healthy relationship. The section about mental health can be easily applied to waifuism as well. The only good thing about waifuism is that they're not stalking real people at least.
 
Webby's Boyfriend said:
I wonder what attracts so many men to anime girls?
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Webby's Boyfriend said:
Yeah but why ANIME girls? Why don't they take cartoon characters or those from novels, comicbooks and videogames?
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There are more Japanese waifus (who consequently have similar art styles) simply because there are more female characters in Japanese media than in the West. It's actually common for Western cartoons with an enormous female cast to be targets of waifuism, like My Little Pony, The Loud House, and DreamWorks She-Ra. There's not a lot of predominantly female Western video games to be targets of waifuism aside from Skullgirls (which even had an event called "The Waifu Wars"). Western comics have been invaded by SJWs so women wouldn't be attractive enough to be waifus.
 
Webby's Boyfriend said:
What the heck??? I am no furry, I even hate them, their fandom, their aut... er meant "art" and their "culture".
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Says the guy who
  • Has a Sonic OC as his current avatar
  • Has a username that claims he's the husband of Webby, underaged Duck character from Ducktales
  • Fully admitted to being a brony, the biggest group of closeted furfags known to man
  • And responds to accusations of furrydom with "I'm no furry. I hate furries!"
Boys, I think we just caught both a waifuist AND a furry in denial.
:story:
 
howyadoin said:
There are more Japanese waifus (who consequently have similar art styles) simply because there are more female characters in Japanese media than in the West. It's actually common for Western cartoons with an enormous female cast to be targets of waifuism, like My Little Pony, The Loud House, and DreamWorks She-Ra. There's not a lot of predominantly female Western video games to be targets of waifuism aside from Skullgirls (which even had an event called "The Waifu Wars"). Western comics have been invaded by SJWs so women wouldn't be attractive enough to be waifus.
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Waifu culture is relatively recent in Japan. Anime has always had attractive female characters, but terms like waifu, tsundere, yandere, and waifu culture are from the early to mid 2000s and were influenced by shows like Azumanga Daioh and dating sim games.

American cartoons feature many popular female characters that are essentially western waifus, and they have quite a history. Some examples are the popularity of Jessica Rabbit in the 80s and Lola Bunny, Minerva Mink, Hello Nurse, and other characters in the 90s. Disney princesses have always had tons of male fans and rule 34, especially 90s characters like Pocahontas, Esmeralda, Megara, Ariel, and Jasmine.

Comics also have given us many popular waifus like Lady Death, Emma Frost, Power Girl, etc.

There are also popular video game characters of western origin like Lara Croft and the many girls of Overwatch and League of Legends.

I do agree that Japan has popularized waifu culture and that Western comics are toning down fan service, but American and Western characters like Lara Croft, Jessica Rabbit, Lola Bunny, and others are often listed as popular first crushes and predate waifu culture. There wasn't really a western equivalent to harem or moe cartoons in the 80s-90s, but there were still popular waifus in America.
 
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Nemo said:
Waifu culture is relatively recent in Japan. Anime has always had attractive female characters, but terms like waifu, tsundere, yandere, and waifu culture are from the early to mid 2000s and were influenced by shows like Azumanga Daioh and dating sim games.

American cartoons feature many popular female characters that are essentially western waifus, and they have quite a history. Some examples are the popularity of Jessica Rabbit in the 80s and Lola Bunny, Minerva Mink, Hello Nurse, and other characters in the 90s. Disney princesses have always had tons of male fans and rule 34, especially 90s characters like Pocahontas, Esmeralda, Megara, Ariel, and Jasmine.

Comics also have given us many popular waifus like Lady Death, Emma Frost, Power Girl, etc.

There are also popular video game characters of western origin like Lara Croft and the many girls of Overwatch and League of Legends.

I do agree that Japan has popularized waifu culture and that Western comics are toning down fan service, but American and Western characters like Lara Croft, Jessica Rabbit, Lola Bunny, and others are often listed as popular first crushes and predate waifu culture. There wasn't really a western equivalent to harem or moe cartoons in the 80s-90s, but there were still popular waifus in America.
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Excuse me, but you forgot to mentioned every furry's waifu, Krystal from Star Fox, who was created by brits.
 
In the hopes of pre-emptively shutting down the derail the short answer is that nip cartoons try to pander more blatantly than any other. In what other media is the "harem" genre that's a thing that exists and expects to be taken seriously? This is something nips are uniquely suited to because every single topic that they've explored they've explored at least once in the context of cute girls doing cute thingsーto the point where it's actually become the default state in storytelling, or at least animated storytelling. This level of pervasion is―so far as I know―without peer in any other form of media. Factor in their multi-decade experience advantage and anyone greedy or mental enough to try and chase that bandwagon is going to need a rocket to catch up.
NARPASSWORD said:
Says the guy who
  • Has a Sonic OC as his current avatar
  • Has a username that claims he's the husband of Webby, underaged Duck character from Ducktales
  • Fully admitted to being a brony, the biggest group of closeted furfags known to man
  • And responds to accusations of furrydom with "I'm no furry. I hate furries!"
Boys, I think we just caught both a waifuist AND a furry in denial.
:story:
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Plagued tag inc get out while you can
 
I feel really bad for the parents of these people. Just imagine them trying so hard to get a date, finding the perfect person, marrying them, conceiving the child and having a healthy baby boy, only for them to become a shut in weeaboo that spends more time with a set of 2d pixels on a screen than with you, never bettering themselves and having either no job or a low paid job. They could have been anything, but they became a weeaboo.

Actually makes me sad just thinking about it.
 
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