Belle mangaka Xià Dá, suddenly projected to idol status after photographs of her came to the attention of online otaku, has made it clear she is unhappy that people might judge her by her looks and not the quality of her manga.
She is less than delighted with the huge fuss made over her loli looks (she is 28) – “I’d rather people not make a fuss over my looks,” she says.
As a proud and professional mangaka, she seems aghast at the prospect of becoming a mere pin-up for the onanistic attentions of otaku admirers: “My readers have been with me for 5 years. It’s got nothing to do with the fuss online.”
She is of course correct – her translated manga is now serialised in Ultra Jump, and it seems few had any idea what she looked like until very recently.
She is also said to be a complete otaku with no interest in anything apart from manga – she spends most of her time drawing manga, eats meals at her computer and reports discomfort at camera flashes thanks to her degraded eyesight.
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Oh fuck me, she's tsundere too?
Fuck.
She does very good Illustrations if you look at her art.If she said that we were fussing over her looks;Actually, I was shocked that she is 28 years old and yet she looks so young.
Xià Dá nothing personal against you and please don't take this the wrong way.
Sorry, lady, physical appearance is inescapable tyranny.
Tis elementary, dear Watson. Few women would object to being considered pretty, and this case is no exception. But the subject is a grown woman of age 29. It is understandable that she does not want to be called a "Loli" or "Cute Young Girl." Moreover, as a professional manga artist, she would rather be known for the art that she has dedicated her life to, than the superficial qualities of her appearance.
My detective work has led me to believe that Xia Da is, through her work, a relatively mature and sophisticated thinker. Such a woman would not want to be the sexual idol of perverted otaku - would you not agree?
Ok if she's so big, can someone freaking scan her work already? Sauce nao.
I guess this means no more photo shoots.
Sorry dear, but people make notice how another person looks, whether they are cute, or ugly. Be glad that your "problem" is being cute.
seeing girls like her , there is still hope <3
Ok, I can understand that she doesn't want people to be judge by her looks, but she is so freaking cute (>.<). And that is just the truth. I can say that I haven't read any of her works, I have seen some of it, and it is very good.
Being "pretty" is not the issue. She doesn't want to be called a "Loli" or "Cute Young Girl" because she's 29. She doesn't want to be known primarily for her looks because, as a manga artist, she takes her work seriously and wants to be known for her art, which she has dedicated her life to.
Don't we all want to be involved with her and at least learn more about her right now.;_;
I know she doesn't want all the focus on looks, but she's finally ensnared me and I can't help but feel like I am getting lost in her mysterious beauty.
I keep looking at her artwork, but I keep thinking of the magical, hikikomori girl in the blue lolita dress "behind the curtain" making all of it.
It's sad because no matter how much she wants to be seen for her artwork only and I want to respect that wish, I can't seem to shake this spell off my mind. I just hope after all her hard work people can love her as much as an artist too for her hard work, enough to make up for us who have been entranced by the haunting spell of her charm at this point.;_;
Oh WTF, I deleted this post. Sorry it's still here.
Bah... knowing women, they are very likely to not tell the truth in response to attention. We ALL know women loves them some attention.
Or are we seeing a female Kurt Cobain in the making? You do something that no one cared in the beginning and suddenly got famous(Xia da for her looks, Kurt Cobain for dethroning Michael Jackson's album at a time where pop ruled too much). Then you complain about the publicity you get and pressure of the so-called success.
Well.... China doesn't allow possession of firearms as easy as the US, so I don't think we'll ever see her getting overdosed and shoot herself any time soon. You don't like people falling for your looks? WEAR A MASK. A HIDEOUS ONE AT THAT.
not working -_-"
and I, as a women, didn't agree with your statement. I hate people that only looks at my face, saying they love me after they saw my photo, even when they didn't know me at all, only looking at my photo. and I'm not even THAT cute, like Xia Da. I know that there are some women that likes being the center of attention, but not all of us likes it.
I'm not convinced you can have your eyesight degraded living like that.
Then you, obviously, are not a serious artist. Believe me, drawing/painting more than 4 hours a day to hone your craft can put some serious strain in the eyes.
She sounds perfect. Marry me!!!
Don't we all want to be involved with her and at least learn more about her right now.;_;
I know she doesn't want all the focus on looks, but she's finally ensnared me and I can't help but feel like I am getting lost in her mysterious beauty.
I keep looking at her artwork, but I keep thinking of the magical, hikikomori girl in the blue lolita dress "behind the curtain" making all of it.
It's sad because no matter how much she wants to be seen for her artwork only and I want to respect that wish, I can't seem to shake this spell off my mind. I just hope after all her hard work people can love her as much as an artist too for her hard work, enough to make up for us who have been entranced by the haunting spell of her charm at this point.;_;
God help me, I didn't even make a big deal about this at first, it was just another news story on Sankaku about a semi-interesting person.
Now I think I'm slowly but surely becoming a Xià Dá otaku.;_;
I am reminded of Kiri Komori from SZS :D
I loved her too!
In reality, like any women, she just saying that because she's not interested in any of you damn dirty otakus.
Give her a real man and she'd change her mind anyday.
is she supposed to be pretty?
Just color her hair blue and we got ourselves a Konata Izumi..!
She's cute, but still a Chinese. I don't like Chinese. Despite some exceptions like her, they are still the enemies of Japan and Japanese people, even more than the Koreans. They are eager for war against Japan, and we all know that China WILL start a war in the more or less distant future.
She should leave China and move to Japan or at least to Japan-loving Taiwan. Because if she would go out in China and many people would know that she likes/loves Japan, 80%+ of Chinese People would beat the shit out of her. A Person who likes Japan is called 汉奸 in China and those people get often killed or tortured.
Wait... what? You can't be serious... What kind of world do you live in? O.O
Unfathomable is human stupidity. His post is just a reminder.
lmao
Don't worry you racist. We don't like you either. Now gtfo.
I really hope you're a troll.
I'm going te pretend Lily isn't a troll. in that case, i have 3 words: Rape of Nanking,
Thank you almighty one for all your useless fortune telling.
>even more than the Koreans
Really?
DAMN !! It's really hard to find her works
until now, I only know the titles.. (;.;)
God dream girl indeed! Fuck all those nasty big oppai bitches... I want a shy hikki cute wife.
...[begin stalker mode]
夏达~~~
but...she looks so young...
Somehow I doubt confessing to be a total otaku is likely to discourage her new fans.
It's easy to say "Well, she brought it on herself, taking such pictures!" and it's equally easy to say that "Everyone deserves privacy if they want it!" (Which I happen to agree with.)
It is obvious that she is a VERY talented artist, and I envy her in that regard. (Maybe she could teach me! :3)
But the fact of the matter is, she is also painfully cute. Totally adorable. And I don't mean that in any perverted way, more of an innocent "D'awwww!" sort of way, like I just want to give her a big hug. :3
It blows my mind that she's nearly my age.
As far as girls with a big dose of the 'magical asian youth genes' go, the 'looks 14 until she hits 35' type isn't my thing. I like the 'looks 20 until she hits 40' ones. :3 (But then, of course, I'm not a lolicon.)
@artefact where the §$%% did you get the last picture from?. This one http://img2.sankakustatic.com/wp-content/gallery/cache/68087__468x_xia-dia-005.jpg
It reminds me of a hentai manga i once read. Please tell me where you got it from. I can't find it anywhere being associated with xia da.
Wow, she looks like my brother's ex-gf its unnerving ~.~
Lol 28 yrs old... looking loli at that age sux... im 25 and i always get asked for my ID when i buy cigarettes or liqour
..ah..some asian really are younger than their age, not like american, they are younger than their appearance , some of them of course
She is young but its not so bad to age gracefully I look like a teenager and am in my mid 20's and I'm a guy.
She's so cute and her manga looks just as good! I wonder if they've been sold anywhere I can find them.
She looks amazing! But I can see why she would rather not have people worshiping her. She wants to succed trough her efforts and hardwork rathar then being remembered as shallow and bonified by her hotness
with a girlfriend or a wife like that I'll probably get arrested so - no thanks
I've seen a few female hikis as cute as her. Such a waste they have to be damn kawaii.
Xià Dá es la chica que me hace dar cuenta del por que yo no estoy equivocado al ser un lolicon.
Sinceramente, no se le puede llamar hombre a aquel que no se exite con esa preciosidad de mujer y el que no este deacuerdo conmigo, puede ir a mamarse un pene como los maricones que son.
This is all the great truth.
pinche joto te gustan los niños o ke???
osea que a ti se te para cada vez que vez a una niña?
she has the looks and the arts to match. maybe 3d > 2d in rare times
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/7876/63250468xxiadachinesema.jpg
now...you ruined the illusions of otakus.
Maybe they would start to believe 3D > 2D, damn you reality. At least they can peacefully return to worship their 2D waifus :)
She makes the perfect Aisa Himegami on that sailor fuku
Its Kona-chan~~ !!!!!
Hence why you'll never graduate to anything more than your 2D fap and tissues. Enjoy growing old never having to feel the touch of a woman, just your calloused smelly palm.
Looks fragile.
i think this is what taneshima popura would look like when she turns 28
这小姑娘画过啥？从来没见过
我以前在漫友上看到过她的名字……具体的作品忘记了
tsundere....~
So, from that article I deduce:
Staying inside the entire time leads to looking extremely cute and young.
she is too pretty some girls like me wish we looke 10-15 when we are 28
She poses for the camera in otaku-bait outfits like the sailor uniform, then gets pissed off when they make a fuss over it. What an attention whore.
Its not like if she had a blog about herself and constantly posted pictures in many different costumes.
It was one photoshoot, she looks cute in a sailor outfit.
If she really wanted attention believe me she could get it, with those cute looks she could have gotten a lot of attention by now.
Sounds kinda tsundere if you ask me.
"I...It's not like I took these cosplay pics to get your attention, baka otaku."
Because all Chinese women would use Japanese terms, totally believable...
She makes 'Manhwa' by her own wording actually, though I guess she has said on many occasions she enjoys Japanese comics, she has always implied that they are translated, so please do some research.
Manhua even I'm thinking in the wrong language :S.
What are you on about anon? She makes "Manga" and its her hobby.
if she's tsundere... O_O damn shes way too perfect.... O__O
legal tsundere loli.. this must be a dream... XD
I'm a little turned on by this.
Cute AND modest. I'm not sure this is the way to be less popular.
legal loli... sooo ftw
legal loli is real after all, i thought they only existed in 2d.
they only exist in 2d, what you saw is a picture on the internet....
another urban mystery proved true
Her artwork is amazing, and though I've been unable to obtain a copy of Dare mo Shiranai - Tsupuuyuu (volume 1?) I have to say Peony Pavillion was a spectacular work of wordcraft too; so I accept that she is an amazing mangaka, but she's also extremely cute and I would happily serve dinner to a PC for her, so I shall continue to fuss as much as I wish!
I'm having a hard time finding both, where'd you get it?
I ordered it from amazon.cn, but it was the last one in stock unfortunately, I guess you can keep checking, but I haven't seen it get re-stocked unfortunately, the international shipping is still pretty reasonable if you want to get Dare mo Siranai, I'm just too poor right now for it.
Holly crap thats one sweet looking 28 year old.
what series did she do?
Seriously, fuck your manga; you're hot.
Manga quality comes second in this case.
That's one sexy psp.
Anyone here wants to read an interview with her?
YES!
I would love to be able to keep up with her in general.;_;
She's really cute.
I can understand the detraction on both sides of the "objectification" thing here. I mean, half the time I read people decrying that something is "objectifying" it makes me rage, some take it so far it's nuts and there's no room left for heterosexuality or homosexuality in anyone. In fact I've been accused of it so frequently it makes me rage.
But I can also understand that it's kind of degrading when someone has a talent or something important about them, it seems like you less often see the women taken seriously whereas you're more likely to hear about what the guy does than what he looks like.
I don't think Xia is being unreasonable here, she just wants to be seen equally as an artist and doesn't want this whole thing to detract from her as a mangaka. Because that would kind of disrespect her and reduce her to an object in some kind of sad ways. And as another person who finds her cute, it takes away from her mysterious charm to remove her from her lovely artwork. If she just becomes some commodity on her looks, people won't treat her works as serious and look at her as the full person, the artist, the cute girl, and whatever all sides to her we could see.
yes and now
she will always be famous because of her look but not her work.
Ran Ran Ruuuuuu!!!!
I agree that her looks shouldn't degrade and detract from her notice as a mangaka. I don't agree with most people's usage of the term "objectification" a lot of times, I've even had it wrongly applied to me on a number of occasions. But it would be that and sad here if people stopped taking her less seriously as an artist just because she looks cute. In fact this blog entry has given me further push out the door to make effort to find and read some of Peony Pavilion. I'm really looking forward to it!
It's okay to find her cute and like that about her, but she's a talented artist and I want people to see that as well.
Perfection is a must.
If I see a picture, I judge by the looks.
If I read a manga, I judge by the quality of said manga.
If I meet a person, I judge by their character.
If you don't want to be judged by your looks, prevent pictures of you circulating.
You seem to be very judgmental.
I wonder about YOUR looks, quality, and character.
Whether or not the western God (or any god) exists, the Bible does occasionally have some good advice: "Judge not, that ye be not judged."
Wait, who am I kidding? This is Sancom.
I train for judgment day, wait wat?
Besides, the above statement was in fact quite insightful. I don't judge the quality of someones work by their looks and vice versa, which was the point of said comment. Neither do I judge a persons character by their looks. But I do judge. I judge you to be a silly Anon who couldn't understand me, as for instance.
Judged by your ass.
Shes real cute. Too bad she wants to waste her time like that. But at least she wants "real" fans, not people only wanting her for her looks.
I honestly don't see why she can't be judged by BOTH her looks and her manga skills.
I've seen her manga - it's phenomenal. That doesn't take away the fact that she's cute as hell.
She can actually have both.
she's cute, her manga must be awesome!
"has made it clear she is unhappy that people might >>judge her by her looks and not the quality<< of her manga."
You just did that.
because I can
unnecessary thoughts are unnecessary
I wonder if she's the type to get depressive and suicidal. Because if so, this sort of comment is what would add to that weight and lead her towards it.
On that infinitely small possibility of if she does commit suicide because of something many would quantify as trivial. Then you'd pretty much be one of those who dug one of many small cuts that eventually led her to her death.
Aw, but you don't care, after all this is just an anonymous comment to an almighty proud named user who's being an ass because he can, but forgets that it is anonymity that keeps him, or her, safe from being marked permanently as a bitch.
If people saw the manga before her, they'd go "wow this manga is great, wow the mangaka is amazingly cute". If they see HER before the manga they go "Woa this girl is cute as hell. wait...she can draw? She draws manga? She's published??? (and proceed to worship)"
No matter what, if your good looking, your looks will come into play vs your work....best thing to do is simply use it in some way to your advantage.
This is the correct line of thought.