>>58781070The way Sapphire's ass gets highlighted by the artist himself means she's actually supposed to be an ass girl in manga canon. It's hard to ignore even as a casual onlooker because in many panels her cheeks were literally airbrushed until they were shining.
>>58770495Meanwhile most other parts of the franchise usually avoid such blatant sexual references or just hide them more. Even with anime May's boobs, it was probably just a joke snuck in by some animators to make them look relatively big by a few pixels, something only coomers or autists pick up on when staring at still frames for longer than the intended 1/24th of a second they were meant to be viewed at. Even then her boobs just get nerfed later by other animators, so it's not consistent. And this is just about anime May's boobs. If her boobs aren't even consistent, why would anyone besides delusional coomers bother discussing her ass, which never stands out at all no matter how many screencaps people post of it, whether from the main series or the movies?
The original art for RSE game May is a different case, as her huge legs, wide hips and thin waist give her the most stylistically exaggerated proportions of any official May out there. One of her thighs are the same width as her waist which is insane. She has massive biker legs which fits her theme (biker fashion, Hoenn's bikes), but as for what this says about her ass, I'm not sure yet. But it's easy to assume all the biking, if it bulked up her legs that much, must have also bulked up her glutes. If we just want to write off her crazy proportions as Sugimori's fetish though, then we would also have to disregard the art style differences of all other versions of May.
