from what ive seen of the japanese footage the guys are not muscular at all and have bellys! i mean is it only an american ideal that our heroes be good looking and muscular? the american actors are always very good looking and have nice bodies.
shareI don't know about having bellies, but I think most of them just tone themselves. Most sentai actors (actually most tokusatsu actors) have a more pretty boy or a baby face feature than the muscular manly feature these days. I do remember a time when Sentai and Kamen Rider actors were manly as hell.
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My understanding is that the Japanese don't work out in general. There is a stigma to going to the gym. Having fit heroes isn't a specifically American ideal, but it just doesn't really carry over to parts of Asia.
But there has been a boom of fit Japanese males nowadays, older females as well since they have realized that they can have better bodies at their 50's. So there is a rise on female bodybuilders in Japan.
Jitta is one of the most known male athletes in Japan.
Why is there a stigma on going to the gym? What do they say about it in Japan?
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