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Can't speak from the perspective of someone who likes kemoshos over kemololies, since I like all cute kemos, and most kemos are cute in one way or another.
But I feel like kemoshota acts sort of like a counterpart to kemobara. In a sense that there are at least no less baras than kemoshos once you actually bother to look for them, but someone who likes kemoshotas would be a lot less interested in bara compared to people who like lolies also liking adult ladies, so I feel like kemololi just has a greater tendency to get mixed in with general mesukemos.
>A. A lot of mainstream media tend to have “animal boy” characters more than “animal girl” characters
Not sure about that, I feel like traditionally whenever there is a token kemo-character in an anime or a JRPG, it's usually a girl.
>B. Despite kemoshota dominating kemono spaces, in mainstream, people either label it as “cub but anime”, normies not knowing what kemono or kemoshota is, but use the term kemomimi, and kemololis like Zhao gaining presence in anime spaces as “the furry loli”.
I'm pretty sure saying "furry loli" or especially "cub" decreases your chances of even knowing words like kemomimi by 80%.
It also seems like most people who do differentiate between kemololi and the rest of mesukemos are baraag westerners, who specifically like anime for lolies (not to make it sound like I'm throwing shade on them or anything).
>1. Asian artists managed to perfect a hybrid of animal and boy. Most cartoon artists make it too animalistic; others make it too human, and it comes across as uncanny. Meanwhile, Japan balanced the animal and boy aspects so perfectly that they blend well.
I feel like japs are just better at picking the cutest aspects of both animals and humans. As well as anime humans just being cuter overall. I do like a lot of the more "beastly" kemonos.
>2. The media tends to treat boys and girls differently.
Yeah, kinda. I personally like specific ages/genders in the context of a character as a whole. Like, for example, I like lolibabaas, but not shotajijis, and I also love Britz for how polite, loyal and stoic he is and Maltie for how he's also loyal and stoic, but also naive and sincere/pure-hearted, but those are more traditionally manly traits that wouldn't normally fit as well on a girl.
>3. People like animals and see them as cute. People also tend to treat some boys as “haha, cute, boys being boys”. So when you have a kemoshota who embodies both, that cuteness level goes to the max!
True, and also, since animal people don't exist, you can project the best features of both worlds onto them. Like, I've never been attracted to men, but with anime-dog-men, you can replace the ugly man-face with a cute animal mug, make the eyes big and pretty, add cute whiskers, replace the male body odour with smell of brushed fur, add cute tail, etc, etc, and suddenly they look pretty cute.
>And the moment the kemo boy starts to act sexually or out of the norm, you basically have the epitome of crack. Your mind basically goes, “he’s so young, behaving so sexually, but he’s so cute and fluffy!”
This too, though I usually like girls being lewd and boys being uptight and conscious about lewd and romantic stuff. Unless a shy girl and a slutty boy come together as a set.
Damn, this talk has gotten me horny for some high-impact group cuddling with kemopeople of differing demographics.