E. Honda is cool

They look like funny fat dudes to the average person but in Japan they are absolute chaddest of the chads.
I follow some hot goth japanese girl on twitter and she's obsessed with sumo

>>11886943 (OP)
He was one of my favorites as a kid. I loved when you could start moving with the HHS and I would just advance on my opponents with it. The scrubs at the arcade couldn’t do anything about it. He was my main in IV too.

>>11886943 (OP)
>Edmond Honda
What's the lore behind his name? Is he half-british like Anri Okita?

>>11886943 (OP)
A fucking king as long as you're not fighting a dude with a fireball.

>>11886943 (OP)
>Elmo Honda
Wtf

>>11886948

I think Americans just hate Sumo wrestling and dont understand the appeal at all since "fat men" are viewed as the lowest of the low the same way nerdy glasses guys are seen as losers meanwhile in japan the "handsome successful guy" is the nerdy smart guy with glasses that goes to the top japanese universities.

>>11886943 (OP)
said no one with good taste ever.

>>11887047
What’s your idea of good taste then, faggot?

>>11887048
a character that doesnt look and act like a fat retard.

>>11887041
Yes although it's worth noting shoujo mangas depict these "nerdy guys" with 1,90 meters and broad shoulders, handsome faces with strong jawlines etc

>>11887063
Women don't even realize they're doing it.
And if you asked them "Can you become tall by working out?" They'd pause, mulling that over for the first time, and eventually answer "No" only because they realize no one asks that sort of question if the answer is yes.

>>11887041
You never heard of the NFL before? Americans love athletic fat dudes

>>11886948

irl, the mawashi doesnt help because its tight and kinda shoves the gut up and out and makes them look fatter, but its acting more like an overtight weight belt. Yes, some are fat, but the most competitive ones if you get a good look at them in street clothes, they are beasts.

>>11887041
>>11887063
These are two different ideas of a nerd. It just so happens, glasses in the US have been used as the ultimate symbol of the nerd, but there's a difference between being well educated and a nerd. If Guyver 2 was an American character, he'd be a blonde yuppie

The usual Japanese cliche you're talking about is the equivalent of the blonde yuppie guy who went to yale in the US, usually a chad and usually also a dick, Japan hates real nerds aka Otaku way more than the US, though both pick fun at the same archetype....in the US it's just that they always have glasses while Japan has no such stereotype of poor eyesight signalling meekness

>>11887053
You're being silly. E. Honda looks like a retard, as do all fat people, but he acts like an expert fighter, same as most other characters in this game.