![]() ![]() In the case of the 90s, it was a cultural pushback against sanitized media of previous decades. ![]() In fact, for most of the 1990s and throughout the 2000s, Americans used to have a very low tolerance towards cuteness in any media that wasn't explicitly kid-oriented, which is in stark contrast to Japan. In comparison, the American culture, while not having any animosity towards it nowadays as they did back then, often tends to associate the bright, colorful, and innocent with childhood and immaturity, and generally has more of a preference towards works that are manly and edgy, or whatever that will make them look more mature and adult (and according to their culture, that usually translates to macho manliness or the feeling to crush all oppositions). The Japanese culture, in general, is very accepting of cuteness anyplace, and will take it in stride. This has to do with Values Dissonance and, to a lesser extent, Americans Hate Tingle. Sometimes this trope goes the other way, too: an American character may be made cuter for the Japanese release. This is often done to characters who were originally intended to be cute. Maybe it's as simple as adding Angry Eyebrows, or maybe the character's model is completely redone. ![]() When a Japanese game is released Stateside, there's a tendency to make the box art, or even the character models, a little more hardcore. ![]()
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