Of course, there will be still a demand for such kind of public, all human males generate different amount of testosterone and under different circumstances more intensely than others, some have to experience danger, violence, in order to generate a high amount of testosterone, others generate high amounts in a daily routine independently from what happens, we might be humans but we're still an animal species, we have our instincts, today we think that a woman with big boobs, wide hip, etc... are attractive, but millions of years before not the Homosapien but the Homo Erectus, it all symbolized or were good signs of good maternity, for instance, the bigger boobs, the bigger amount of milk for the upcoming generation are ensured, the wider are women's hip, the more secure or protected is the baby inside the woman, etc... days when our instincts ruled over our reason due to the lack of knowledge, today we made up abstract concepts like, women with those traits are aesthetically attractive, but it are blunt excuses in order to subconsciously pretend that we are rational beings, a disguise in order to hide our inevitable animalistic tendency.
Only because you're mentioning some of those successes, with manly traits, Jojo as an exception which is not manly at all, it does not change the fact that we're talking about a minority in an ocean of pussified males that started to drastically increase after the 2000's like a virus, Jojo is the perfect example of how distorted is the term masculine nowadays, only because we're talking about masculine characters that are well physically shaped, that pretend to act with serenity, but they look actually like queer or trans with tons of makeup and the clothing, please.
Araki is just an author who is detached from reality, a rebel in nature that is tired or frustrated that how can it be possible that a woman's body is deemed as more beautiful than a man's body.
The thing is that once more again, men and women are not equal, the attraction of men to women has a biological foundation behind, while the attraction of women to men, has a more symbolic purpose, such as well-formed musculature, is a symbol of strength and strength speaks for protection against other animals, other abusive males, a good soldier, a good constructor.
What women see in men, is a more materialistic boundary to the exterior and what men see in women is a more biologically boundary when it comes to a family, mental and physical nursing whether to adults or children.
Today, we are ashamed to accept our animalistic truths, you ask woman why she thinks that this guy looks attractive, she would answer " Yeah, his muscles make him look sexy"; "why", and what comes as next is a mental block, rationality confronting the instincts in a battle to the death, those resulting in "It's just my taste"
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The booming of franchises such as Doom 2016 & Doom Eternal, Baki, God of War, etc... it's just the reflection of current men in an existential crisis, and it's just simply so, because "it's too good to be true", a species that experienced violence for the most part of its existence, a species that had to invest incredible amounts of efforts to significantly achieve something, it's just simply in the genes, it's a thought or a spine in or subconscious, today we don't have to move our butts, we just order things by amazon, ebay, we watch movies via Netflix, we don't go to the cinema or to the stores anymore, etc... so, those booming masculine series are a simulation that calms but not totally stops that feeling of weirdness, like "what's wrong here? it's too peaceful and too good to be true".
Do you remember the movie Wall-E? my theory is that humanity can't end like that, because we would simply turn insane and start killing each other for no reason, because it's something that is extremely not compatible with our nature.
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Well, it's not only because of the art, but Western comics also have a very complex way to tell a story, the Doomsday Clock is an example, it's way above the average nivau, Japanese comics have a more superficial way to tell a story if we compare all of them with comics that are at the level of the Doomsday Clock DC series, with this, I'm not saying that all Western comics are complex, there are Japanese series that are more complex than so many Western comics, but if we take both peaks, Marvel or DC will always take the crown over eastern comics, Japanese comics to be more exact.
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