Personally, I think this game is intentionally catering to pedos just because it's made by japanese people and their society is rife with that shit.
I have no reason to not think they had questionable motivations when pitching the character and her design because of the behavior of their race as a whole, even if the game's actual content is relatively benign
You know how Indians have Izzat and it forms a strong backbone of how they approach things?
A less significant but still influential component of Jap culture is their idealisation of "
Moe" i.e. cute things.
Hello Kitty, wide-eyed anime art style, etc. Things designed in such a way to provoke that response.
Their "large eyes"="cute" art approach is potentially part of the reason why they make use of Western settings so frequently since white people have wide-eyes compared to their own (though that's just a theory). I wouldn't say the way Japs design Western women is particularly accurate face-wise, since there is an emphasis on "cute". When you see white characters in Jap media (games mostly), the big eyes = cute is a factor to keep in mind.
Example: Jill Valentine
The eyes are
huge relative to her face compared to the more grounded design approach in the RE3 remake.
Though this has lead to something of an open secret with the Japs and their own culture's relationship with "moe."
I'll avoid making this another
kink-thread discussion but the Japs are aware that pairing "cute" characters alongside "sexually attractive ones" can, over time, reinforce someone's brain to equate the two. This is similar to how someone who overindulges on pornography can reinforce their brain into becoming sexually aroused by both female and male bodies. The sight of "cute" things releases dopamine in much the same way when you see something sexually stimulating, and because these are the same chemicals being released there are people who can essentially gaslight themselves into believing their feelings towards one or the other are the same. The "euphoria boners" described by crossdressers as being a sign of their transgenderism is a more or less identical phenomena. In this instance, a Jap seeing an overly cute display being performed alongside or by an overly sexually designed character will have him equate the two. Then when the "cute" display is performed by a non-sexual character, and the same response is triggered, the Jap
could from this point on associate cute with sexual.
(Jap could also apply to anime watchers in general).
Like I stressed in the kink-thread, it's not universal. Some people could have enough sense to not link the two. I can find a dog cute, but it doesn't mean I want to fuck it. (See: some Furries)
This could mean, conscious of this phenomena, Pragmata's character was designed with this in mind i.e. trying to titillate both a "cute" and "arousing" response with her design. Emphasis on the word "
could". It's possible they designed her to
not overtly appease pedos, and the current elements of her design which might—make-up, crying emoji on Twitch, etc—act as a sort of compromise with them. But it'd be because of the phenomena I mentioned before where the pedos
will use "censorship" as a reason to decry the game and get right-wingers/culture war warriors (Grummz, Asmondgold, etc) to lambast it. It's also wholly possible that the pedos have so effectively integrated one of their dogwhistles into the culture war discourse that the crying emoji is
genuinely viewed with complete innocence by some people, as unlikely as it may seem.
It is extremely easy for pedos to camouflage themselves in such in Jap culture because of their reverence of "cute". One just has to be aware of how few these people truly number. I'd equate them (pedos) to trannies. (
inb4 "What's the difference?" 
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