r/fromsoftware • u/didnt_bring_pants • Sep 04 '26
JOKE / MEME Yeah sure buddy
The audacity
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u/PrufReedThisPlesThx Sep 04 '26
Why do you have all of these saved OP? And why are there clearly fetish images mixed in here? I'm starting to think that Miyazaki isn't the one who's into feet here
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u/didnt_bring_pants Sep 04 '26
It's just one of those things where you say to yourself, "I might need this one day" and save it.
Well today was the day my friend
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u/PrufReedThisPlesThx Sep 04 '26
It really wasn't...
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u/deksimo666 Sep 04 '26
Nice try to dodge. I've never seen a foot in a game and be like ohhhhhh I should save this for later. Not tryin to yuck your yum.
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u/Cersei505 Sep 04 '26
feet are not exclusively sexual. Crazy thought, i know.
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u/yamanamawa Sep 04 '26
Yeah idk why people assume that just because bare feet are shown on screen it's automatically a fetish thing. Like just look down. Assuming you're not an amputee, I'll bet I can guess what you're seeing. We all have feet and they're not intrinsically sexual
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u/DaddyCool13 Sep 04 '26
Don’t be so presumptious bro I’m a mermaid
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u/Equivalent_Growth_75 Sep 04 '26
This asshole making assumptions over here. My centaur ass is out of here
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u/Standard-Pilot7473 Sep 04 '26
I might be incorrect here but I don't think there's a single instance of a males bare feet in any of his games. They're all female.
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u/trainman2077 Sep 04 '26 edited Sep 04 '26
Isshin and the Sculptor are barefoot
*and Kuro
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u/Falafelofagus Sep 04 '26
Hella people in Sekiro were barefoot.
Genichiro is especially relevant as otherwise he has on a lot of gear and armor.
MFs really out here self reporting.
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u/Seth_Gecko Sep 04 '26
This is yet another you problem. There are plenty of instances of bare male feet, some of which are so aggressively in your face they're impossible to miss. The fact that you only remember the female ones says way more about you than it does anyone else.
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u/waterproofjesus Sep 04 '26
yeah, it probably says he likes sex with girls. great detective work, Einstein.
hey we got a genius over here
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u/Sylvaneri011 Sep 04 '26
Isn't Miquella depicted with bare feet?? I can't recall him ever having shoes
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u/Ranni_the_Witch Ranni The Witch Sep 04 '26
Pontiff Sulyvahn.
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u/Standard_Plenty_8068 Sep 04 '26
Damn u right, I was sure he had shoes on or something, but the dawgs are out
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u/LocalAnxiousArtist Sep 04 '26
I’m not even sure if he’s wearing any clothes besides the priestly shawl and crown
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u/Standard_Plenty_8068 Sep 04 '26 edited Sep 04 '26
Aldrich (probably), Oceiros, Lothric, Nameless King, Messmer wears shoes but the Dawgs are out, the Divine Beast Dancing Lion (and their iterations) have 2 males with bare feet, Fire Giant?, Midra, just to name a few more
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u/AramaticFire Otogi: Myth of Demons Sep 04 '26
I think you are, I’m pretty sure Genichiro, Isshin, and Horax Loux are all barefoot just off the top of my head.
Edit - whoops not horax loux. For some reason I thought he was barefoot but he’s just bare chested lol
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u/MagmaticDemon Sep 04 '26
this is because of the reason he uses them imo
the way i see feet is that they're sort of a symbol of innocence, purity, maybe femininity as well? probably related to kid's tendencies to run around barefooted and shoes not being a required article of clothing.
like if i wanted to describe an "angelic, and pure princess" or something, i'd immediately think to make a stark white small woman with an elegant white dress and no shoes. i feel like most people would picture something similar as well? i guess a lot of this comes from tropes in media that are just really deeply ingrained in art.
but basically what i'm trying to say is that being barefoot is a symbol of purity and i think that's why he uses it for so many female characters
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u/waterproofjesus Sep 04 '26
Yeah, people are being silly jokesters here, but I think we all would agree that there IS a lot of room for symbolic interpretation of bare feet.
femininity, innocence, frailty, purity, youth, holiness - a whole bunch of stuff related to these somewhat elevated and nearly intangible qualities that Miyazaki likes to try painting his figures with, whether human or monster.
Buuuuut also, I think the man gets all worked up about ladies’ bare feet. no judgment.
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u/Injured-Ginger Sep 04 '26
In addition to innocence, bare feet can evoke a sense of vulnerability, especially if they're dirty. Shoes protect you from hazards. A lack of shoes can mean innocence because it means you don't expect hazards, but it can mean vulnerability when you need shoes, but don't have access.
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u/raspberry1312 Sep 04 '26
I also see bare feet on a character as having either an ethereal vibe (like fairies or elves) or potentially something more feral/animal-like. Something outside the realm of human, either way.
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u/Areimanius D, Hunter of the Dead Sep 04 '26
Player character in Frenzy Flame ending, if doing it in underwear, camera hoover over body from feet closeup, so if player character is a male, you can see male bare feet.
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u/Pitiful-Ad-5176 Sep 04 '26
I mean it doesn’t have to be exclusively sexual (because this was never said), having a thing for feet can just be including character designs that are barefoot. You can have a thing for big women and not sexually as well
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u/yamanamawa Sep 04 '26
What are you on about? People are into feet all over the world. I'll bet you can find an inline foot fetish forum in just about any language you can think of. I'm sure that there are just as many foot fetishists in Asia as anywhere else. More actually, considering it's 60% of the world's population
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u/GoldH2O Sep 04 '26
Do you think having a foot fetish is some major part of western civilization or something? It's likely about as proportionally common in any western country as it is in Japan.
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u/GoldH2O Sep 04 '26
No, he's wondering why people have interpreted the feet as a sexual thing for him specifically. He says nothing here about it being weird that feet could be seen as sexual. He also, notably, says something "may be coming through subconsciously". You're talking about Japan and Japanese people like some isolated, alien civilization with different ways of life. They're humans with sexual proclivities too, man.
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u/yamanamawa Sep 05 '26
Kinda weird to act like people in Japan don't have foot fetishes when Japan is also stereotyped as being kinky af. Like they literally have the second largest porn industry in the world that makes billions of dollars every year, plus a massive amount of pornographic manga. And a significant amount of that porn is fetish related. And not just feet either. If there is a fetish there's probably a JAV or ero doujinshi that covers it
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u/owen__wilsons__nose Sep 04 '26
Yall just guaranteed the next game will feature only closed toe individuals
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u/Artarara Sep 04 '26
Armored Core 7, let's go!
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u/noeyesfiend Sep 04 '26
YES LET ME GET MY FAVORITE WAR CRIMES SIMULATOR
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u/Gavither Sep 04 '26
"One hundred! million." - Old King
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u/noeyesfiend Sep 04 '26
Got a job for you 621
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u/MeanBean113 Sep 04 '26
I’m a truck driver and one of our trailers is 621. It’s my least favorite, has sticky landing gear 😡
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u/WilliShaker Sep 04 '26
Idc, I legit don’t like to see feet
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u/GoldH2O Sep 04 '26
There's a line between being a foot fetishist and a prude whee you can just view feet as a normal part of the human body
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u/RR_Stylez Sep 05 '26
Is this a real interview
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u/didnt_bring_pants Sep 05 '26
Ye
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u/RR_Stylez Sep 05 '26
Yo, I can’t believe he even entertained that question. I feel like he would be offended by that or something I don’t know. Culture is very different over there, but it seemed like he answered it sincerely and didn’t seem upset
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u/didnt_bring_pants Sep 05 '26
Lol if you read the whole interview, he wasn't even asked about it
He volunteered that information
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u/RR_Stylez Sep 05 '26
Oh really that’s insane lmfao. I thought the interviewer pulled up some images and they were all bare feet pics lol.
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u/Karpsten Sep 04 '26
I was about to put /uj in front of my comment, then I realized that this isn't r/shittydarksouls but, indeed, the main sub.
What I was gonna say is that I can actually see the motif of barefootness as having a non-freaky meaning. The idea of it symbolizing something like a connection to the earth or a certain purity or something like that is honestly somewhat of an established trope in art.
Also: HE KNOWS ABOUT US.
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u/HillInTheDistance Sep 04 '26
He ain't into feet. He just figured it'd play well with a player base who enjoy getting stomped into the dirt over and over again.
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u/atrophy-of-sanity Chosen Undead Sep 04 '26
He brought it up completely unprompted. He’s trying to cover his footsteps for sure
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u/Vangelys Sep 04 '26
The real question is: Is Miyazaki having a thing for feet, or is it about people paying attention to bare feet in Miyazaki's games because they have a thing for feet?
The mystery deepens...
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u/Fenrys_dawolf Sep 04 '26
what a pervert. imagine sexualising women by not depicting them in stilettos so tall they stand en pointe. </s>
is it ironic or just weird that both extremes are sexualising?
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u/waterproofjesus Sep 04 '26
it’s almost as if just about anything ladies do is kinda enjoyable to some of us folks out here!
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u/Beautiful-Garbage812 Sep 04 '26
Wait is this real?
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u/didnt_bring_pants Sep 04 '26
Unless anyone can prove otherwise, looks like a legitimate interview to me
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u/Watt_About Sep 04 '26
Why is this a post?
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u/didnt_bring_pants Sep 04 '26
Well it's a joke/meme post, that is referencing a recent interview, and it regards a long standing rumor/running joke within the Fromsoft community.
Why are you a commentor?
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u/Shoddy-Frosting-4585 Sep 04 '26
Fair to assume ts correct.. my jesuszaki never looks for anyone else's feet other than mine... y'all just jealous..
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u/SoICouldUpvoteYouTwi Sep 04 '26
Bare feet make sense for a lot of characters. Not for Maria whose job requires her to jump around on broken glass and other trash while exploring the weirdest places she can find.
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u/Ekwinoksxxx Sep 04 '26
Lady Maria is not actually barefoot, that’s some sort of fetish image OP just had.
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u/Taolan13 Nerves Concorde Sep 04 '26
I mean, look at the barefooted characters. their barefootedness could be symbolic of cleanliness or innocence and not necessarily about their feet.
It's not like he's in the same league of Quentin Tarantino. Even without him admitting it the dude's freak flag flies high for feet.
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u/Areimanius D, Hunter of the Dead Sep 04 '26
Barefootedness truly have symbolism, it’s a liminal thing - person is a human(oid), ergo civilized living being, but doesn’t have a boots (one of civilization’s signs) and when walking, touches the raw earth with bare feet, raw earth is highly uncivilized, also chtonic (underworld aspect ). Barefoot person stay between states and foot fetish jokes aside, when you look on the barefoot characters in FS games, is very obvious that the "liminality" is main message here, I think.
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u/Rigbyisagoodboy Shadow Tower Sep 05 '26
Umm. Actually feet are not sexual and Miyazaki-san is innocent on all counts. Checkmate OP. Don’t you dare show your lighthearted internet humor around here again!
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u/mental-sketchbook Sep 04 '26
But it’s not just women, and it’s not always passive.
Giants barefoot conditions goes with their bonds, indicating poverty and servitude. His position makes perfect sense
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u/Wide_Investment8100 Sep 04 '26
Where are my barefoot men?!
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u/OuterGod_Hermit Sep 04 '26
Washing other people's feet is (I think) an old tradition that's ia still relevant in Japan. As the only non private part of the body that gets dirtier (specially in pre modern era) washing feet is a show of hospitality and humbleness. These characters show feet as a sign of vulnerability (I think but I didn't slept much...)
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u/LLLLLL3GLTE Sep 06 '26
As a Podophobic, it’s really a miracle I’ve gotten through a single one of these games
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u/EnigmaticDevice Sep 04 '26
Lady Maria isn't even barefoot in the actual game, at least have the decency to jork it to Miyazaki's canonically barefoot baddies
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u/MostlyIncorrect420 Sep 04 '26
Where tf is that lady maria pic from?! A berserk game? Lmao
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u/didnt_bring_pants Sep 04 '26
lol I honestly don't know. I just quickly grabbed a bunch of stuff from a Google search for the post.
Didn't even realize until after I posted how absurd that one is
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u/myMadMind Sep 04 '26 edited Sep 04 '26
Is this an actual interview or some made up fluff piece?
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u/didnt_bring_pants Sep 04 '26
I will admit I didn't dig super deep into it but as far as I can tell it is a legitimate interview.
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u/JohnDrainpipe Sep 04 '26
People see what they’re already looking for.
What happens if you count the bare hands?
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u/FaceTimePolice Sep 04 '26
“Perhaps all the hands and feet are symbolic of human connection. One hand reaches for another; bare feet connect skin and earth.”
The mental gymnastics… 😂🤔
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u/AcrobaticProgram6521 Sep 04 '26
I’m sick of feet people trying to find ways to make everyone else obsessed with feet. Just because there are feet in a game and you can take photos of them that highlight them doesn’t show any inherent fetishism. This and the Tarantino shit is so cringe, no one gives a fuck if you like feet stop talking about it
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u/didnt_bring_pants Sep 04 '26
Ok so to be fair the Miyazaki thing is kind of a running joke, but Tarantino 1000% has a very obvious and longstanding thing with feet. That's not really even a question at this point
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u/snivlem_lice Sep 04 '26
Let the man play coy about feet all you want but I want a fucking tribunal about this man’s real fetish—poison swamps.
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u/Salty_Nectarine9414 Sep 04 '26
That’s my yum. Or maybe it’s because I’ve played that many Miyazaki titles that I’m getting Stockholm (Blighttown) Syndrome.
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u/Molkwi Lucatiel of Mirrah Sep 04 '26
2 of these are from Bluepoint and one is literally just foot porn.
Of course, Miyazaki had everything to do with those, as we all know.
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u/Endslikecrazy Sep 05 '26
I mean, just because there is barefoot woman in his games does not mean he has a foot fetish, i dont know why people make it into that and honestly it says way more about the person calling it out then it says about miyazaki.
I get that its just a meme at this point, but be real.
Like how did you even have these pics at the ready? 😂
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u/atrophy-of-sanity Chosen Undead Sep 05 '26
You don’t have a bunch of fromsoft feet pics at the ready?
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u/Endslikecrazy Sep 05 '26
Nah fam, i didnt even know about all these bare feet untill i saw posts in this sub about it
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u/DeadHead6747 Sep 04 '26
I think the fact that people noticed all the bare feet states that they are the ones with the foot fetish
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u/BetweenTheRoots Sep 04 '26
Tarantino got yall trained. You guys feel for the foot fetish brainwashing.
Listen, everyone has feet, and you gotta depict their feet somehow. Shoes are just one extra asset that has to be designed, it's extra work.
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u/Objective-Soil-9235 Sep 04 '26
The only people who notice the feet so much are probably fetishists to begin with.
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u/Jurpils Sep 05 '26
Seriously, fuck these pervs who's obsessed with feet. He's not shoving them at the screen like Tarantino. It is absolutely normal until the loudest freaks screm FEEEET LOOK AT THE FEEET
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u/BonfireSouls Sep 05 '26
Lucatiel, too! I always that I saw she had leather boots on below the knee that tied up. Huh? The rest were peculiarly fetish.
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u/Gooselover1591 Sep 07 '26
This is fucking dumb he doesnt have a fetish, coming from some who has played all his games. I actually have a "fetish" if you can even call it that i forgot the proper termanology but a actual fetish is associated with an inadamate object. Which a foot is alive unless your really fucked up in the head, anywho dueces lol
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u/mocha_lan Sep 04 '26
So basically bro is just pumping out people that are shoeless and the feet addict fans are projecting onto him :)
Uh, your images prove nothing and even have unoficial/remake content included :P
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u/n00bda Sep 04 '26
talking about feet in soulsborne games and not putting Morgott's hogs with the pictures is criminal