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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
That goes all the way back to the '70s, when magazines and suplements for the original RPGs had paintings of sword-wielding women going into battle dressed like that.
Dragon magazine once featured a wonderful cartoon showing a woman warrior sitting in a tavern. She is wearing a chainmail bikini with several arrows stuck in the top and bottom, and saying to the guy sitting next to her "Good thing I had my armor on!"
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Wasn't Red Sonja was it?
The only thing that can be said is that the Japanese have a very strange attitude to women.
For example, take Ghost in the Shell, in it's various guises. Major Kusanagi is meant to be the field commander of an elite counter terrorism unit. But the way the character is designed, she's the series' eye candy. Looks like a supermodel in a skintight outfit, but is able to command a bunch of burly men?
I always find it highly amusing that in the first season of the "Stand Alone Complex" tv series, she starts out in what is effectively a basque, but by the end, thay actually had her wearing trousers! That's a bit unusual by anime standards!
Now, have a look at this:
http://pitroad.s232.xrea.com/soreyuke/
I feel sorry for any Japanese woman trying to build a career in the Defence Forces if they're reduced to that!
Mike.