Anime Feminist - Japanese pop culture through a feminist lens

DEVILMAN crybaby, Legacies of Queerness, and Diversifying Remakes

Feature

What do you do with a series that features sympathetic representation while also roundly killing its queer characters off, and does it make a difference that everybody is dying?

Lum Through the Years: Urusei Yatsura’s gender roles, then and now

History

While Lum herself unquestionably remains an anime icon, looking to the different ways she’s depicted in the older anime versus the new can shed some light on changing attitudes to the genre and archetype she’s so nicely embodied over time.