@Gojirasmom:
@DrawGray:
Seems to me like the healthiness of it and the attractiveness of it are two rather quite separate issues. And the author's fetishizing is yet another thing.
I mean, people don't complain in those terms about people thinking pale and skinny
underweight people are beautiful, when they're beautiful, even if it verges into "that's terrifying but beautiful" skinny-territory (and anyone who complains about it is most often saying "our standards of beauty lead people to such unhealthy decisions" to discourage people from thinking that sort of body is ideal—Do people need to be warned off from trying to become fat to look good, in this culture? No. No, that
really isn't necessary). And being skinny comes with just about as many health problems. "I don't see how people find it attractive because it's unhealthy" for fat people is total bullshit. If you find it personally unattractive, that's fine and your own prerogative, but please don't perpetuate the insipid BS that there's some sort of justice or
benevolence in that.
Having said all that, like I said at the top, to any extent that this particular manga is not so much an openness to different body types as much as it is fat fetishism (which I haven't read enough to know for sure), it would—as with all fetishes—be normal for it to get a little weird in the things it chooses to emphasize (just like, y'know, I've got nothing against feet and might even find some attractive but seeing emphasis of feet from foot fetish people can get weird)... That's a whole 'nother thing. Mostly not harmful or helpful, unless it becomes dehumanizing or is applied non-consensually; just, uh, distinctly not everyone's cup of tea.
And having said all that, also, this manga appears to, regardless of any waistlines, be... well, at least 50% comprised of male-wish-fulfillment ecchi trash. But that's totally outside the scope of the discussion. XD