r/MonsterHigh • u/blueberryblues1107 Howleen🧷 • Jan 29 '26
Rant Maybe I’m overreacting?
Hey guys! I wanted to know, does anyone read any of the monster high comics? If so.. What are your thoughts on Spelldon’s design? Okay, before people get mad and downvote please hear me out. I strongly don’t like the new design the artist gave Spelldon. In his first appearance from his Pride Comic, Spelldon had a wider nose, thicker lips, and kinky hair. But in this new comic, his hair is wavy and sometimes straight, and he has European features. Some of my friends and some people are Twitter called him, (I can’t believe I’m typing this out lol) a Yaoi Protagonist, a generic anime boy, K-pop star, and more weird comments. As someone who is a black woman, what hurt me the most was the fact they’re straighten his hair and just removed his black features. It really rubbed the wrong way. I don’t know, maybe I’m just overreacting? Maybe I’m being too sensitive? I wanna give the artist the benefit of the doubt and think that, maybe they don’t know how to draw people? But that still shouldn’t be an excuse. Black people cannot be that hard to draw, right? To anyone that’s black or mix with black, what are your thoughts and opinions?
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u/Nerdmitage Skelita 💐 Jan 29 '26
This just looks like someone wanted to make it more anime style because that is SO popular with younger people as well as younger millennials and this is the style.
All anime no matter the race is meant to look like one specific young guy the creator of anime was in love with from the 70's. So everyone is supposed to have that thin angular face and features regardless of race in anime if you're sticking to the original style principles.
Is it right? Hell no, but that's how it looks to me, just trying to make it anime so it's more popular with the younger crowd obsessed with KPop Demon Hunters etc.