it is true that most yuri manhua have a common artstyle, while those who have a more similar style to japanese manga are a minority. But the thing is that in jp yuri you also mostly see perfect girls, the difference is that you can find a greater variety of styles but within them the girls are still perfect. using How do We Relationship? as an example, if you see how men are drawn vs how women are drawn, you realize this, the male characters have a variety of physical and facial features, while the female characters mostly share a mold.

There is a reason why ‘ugly mc/love interest’ is a trope

So for me at least, it does not make much sense to make the distinction, since within their own mediums both use beautiful girls. But only in manhuas I find comments criticizing the use of ‘perfect girls’

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a) a subset of manhua seems so similar it fees like it could be the same artist

b) speculative: this style of manhua approaches photorealism in a way that (1) enhances the feeling of similarity and (2) verges on uncanny valley. While a lot of manga has the 'perfection' of basically being a cartoon.

Put another way, manga character "looks perfect" because there is no detail; these manhua characters visibly could have the detail but don't.

Yet another way (I'm thinking out loud): a manga character is 'unblemished' because they don't really have skin, they're just a 2D cartoon. These characters have skin, and it's perfect.

Yes!, when there is color, the characters have ‘dimension’. Several manhuas have B&W extras and the characters feel and look very different. The other is that yuri manhua and manhua in general, retains a lot of beauty aesthetics that you find in shojo meanwhile a large part of the aesthetics you find in a lot of modern japanese yuri has moved away from it and is much more influenced by a moe aesthetic