« PopMatters Examines Chun-Li's Design »

PopMatters.com has posted a pretty interesting article about the aesthetics of Chun-Li's character design.  Thanks to Shoryuken.com for bringing this to our attention.

Here's an excerpt:

As a result, Chun-Li’s sexuality becomes something more than an incidental quality to be admired merely because she inherently possesses an extraordinary physical trait.  Chun-Li’s thighs might be eroticized, but they represent an earned physical extraordinariness.  To admire them is to acknowledge that she has done something.  Unlike the outrageous breasts of most contemporary fighting game characters (which actually seem even more unlikely given that these women would seem to need to possess an extraordinary athleticism and muscular development to achieve the impossible physical feats that they do perform—such athleticism would seemingly reduce the possibility of such body types, not result in a proliferation of them), Chun-Li’s outrageous legs have some rational connection to the outrageous acts that she can perform.