Dadbods. Body positivity. The rise of plus-size models. 2015 was a good year for embracing your body, just the way it is.
Riding the wave is new Japanese magazine Mr. Babe – a magazine written ‘by chubby men, for chubby men’.
The first issue hit the stands in October with Jack Black on the cover. It sold more than 25,000 copies.
Mr. Babe’s editor is Norihito Kurashina, a self-professed chubby (or in Japanese, pocchari) man on a mission to speak to a demographic previously ignored by the Japanese media and fashion industries.