{"id":838,"date":"2004-02-12T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-12T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2004\/02\/12\/ask-john-why-do-american-girls-in-anime-always-have-large-breasts\/"},"modified":"2004-02-12T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-12T14:00:00","slug":"ask-john-why-do-american-girls-in-anime-always-have-large-breasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ask-john-why-do-american-girls-in-anime-always-have-large-breasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask John: Why do American Girls in Anime Always Have Large Breasts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><br \/>\nI was wondering, in anime it seems they make American girls have huge breats, while Japanese girls have medium sized. Is there a reason behind this?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Answer:<\/strong><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s generally a reflection of reality. Most Asian women genetically have small or medium sized breasts.  There are exceptions, but generally Asian women aren&#8217;t thought of as having large chests.  Western, and especially American women tend to cover a broader range of bra sizes than Asian women. So Japanese culture, and especially anime, frequently tend to play up the familiar joke that &#8220;everything is bigger in America.&#8221; In fact, the stereotype is even put in so many words in the fourth episode of the Azumanga Daioh anime series when Kasuga &#8220;Osaka&#8221; Ayumu categorizes Sakaki&#8217;s large chest as &#8220;American&#8221; and Tomo&#8217;s small breasts as &#8220;Japanese.&#8221; The visual difference in breast size between Japanese girls and foreign girls in anime is frequently just a simple, lighthearted way of immediately distinguishing which character or characters are supposed to be foreigners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: I was wondering, in anime it seems they make American girls have huge breats, while Japanese girls have medium sized. Is there a reason behind this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-john"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}