They’re bad. And that’s why they’re good.
I took part in my first AniFem roundtable! This time the team talked trash characters, especially trash female characters–what defines ’em, why we love ’em, and how they can be sneakily subversive to gender norms.
Finding a place for yourself, on stage and on ice.
“It’s not a kind of rakugo I can do. The more I hear, the more uncomfortable I get… Never mind it. I have my own rakugo.”
“Trying to be the playboy isn’t me. I want to be the most beautiful woman in town, who seduces the playboy!”
This year we’ve had the pleasure of seeing a pair of top-notch anime, Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju and Yuri!!! on Ice, deal with gendered expectations in two very different spheres: 1940s Japanese rakugo and modern-day world figure skating. Along the way, both series have challenged cultural expectations about how men should or shouldn’t act, and shown why it’s important to cast aside restrictive gender roles and play to our own strengths.
Take a trip through the Interweb tubes to some shiny new locales.
I don’t normally do News posts here, but there are a couple sites that launched this week that I thought you lovely readers might be interested in. The feminists are coming for your anime (no, not really), and the light novels are coming for your bank account (well, sort of). Hit the jump for links and more!
The Josei Next Door 