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  • She’s Fighting for Him: Black Clover and battle shounen’s male-centrism

    Women in shounen battle anime and manga have traditionally been sidelined, even as it became more and more common to include women as fellow fighters. When the guys go in to fight the final boss, the girls stay behind to help with some B-plot battle no matter how competent they may seem. In a new era of shounen, we’ve seen some of these tired tropes be turned on their heads. However, even when series like Black Clover make some strides, they still end up repeating tired cliches.

    Featureby Alise Miller May 14, 20210 Comments

  • From Tsunade to Mereoleona: Looking for Shonen Jump’s Lady Mentors

    Although marketed toward boys, at least one third of Weekly Shonen Jump’s readers are now female. Despite this, Shonen Jump’s female characters remain over-sexualized, helpless, or useless beyond serving a role as the main character’s love interest. The manga and anime world has not yet caught up with the times by creating female characters that are both realistic and sympathetic to their real-world counterparts, and as prominent and important as their male costars. If one in three readers are female, why are female characters still relegated to the sidelines?

    Versusby Ivy Rose September 16, 20200 Comments

  • Anime Feminist’s Top Picks for 2019

    Our two-week recommendations extravaganza comes to an end with the staff’s Best of 2019 list!

    Recommendationsby Anime Feminist January 3, 20200 Comments

  • 2017 Fall Three-Episode Check-In

    We’ve decided to try a new, informal “check-in” roundtable to talk about the currently airing shows and our thoughts three episodes into the season.

    Reviewsby Anime Feminist October 25, 201710 Comments

  • Black Clover – Episode 1

    In trying to come up with a pithy way to introduce Black Clover, all I could think was “It sure is a shounen.” And yep. It sure is.

    Reviewsby Dee October 3, 20177 Comments