The Powerful Women of Trigun
Trigun is difficult to fit into a genre, so it’s fitting that the women in this singular series can’t be neatly categorized either.
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Beyond Yuri!!! On ICE: The themes and motifs of Yamamoto Sayo
Yuri!!! On ICE might’ve been one of the best things about 2016. It engaged viewers, offered one of the most positive portrayals of a queer relationship I’ve ever seen in anime, and—most importantly—offered me a chance to talk about Yamamoto Sayo, a director whose works have until now struggled to gain attention despite their high quality.
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She and Her Cat and Her Story
She and Her Cat -everything flows- is a refreshing take on the traditional female coming-of-age tale, avoiding the typical focus on cishet romance to instead focus on relationships between women.
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Rivalry, Romance and the Nodame Standard
The Nodame Standard is the romantic version of a great shounen rivalry: two characters who love each other pushing each other to achieve their goals.
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BBK/BRNK and the Art of a Feminist-Friendly Premiere
BBK/BRNK is not my favourite anime of the year. It’s not even in my top five. But as far as I’m concerned it has the strongest premiere of any brand new series this year. Let’s look at why.
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Noa’s Imposter Syndrome in Patlabor
If most giant robot anime are based on masculine stereotypes, Patlabor is based on a feminine one.
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Body-swaps beyond ecchi punchlines in Your Name.
I was expecting Your Name to be a fluffy, gender-bending rom-com, and I got that. What I wasn’t expecting, though, were the progressive and fantastical twists that breathed new life into the exhausted body-swapping subgenre.
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Roundtable: Trash characters
What makes a trash character? What’s the connection between trash characters and other anime archetypes, like moe or chuunibyou? How are male and female trash characters portrayed differently?
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“So That I Could Be Myself”: Gender performance in Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju and Yuri!!! on ICE
While they take place in very different settings, Rakugo Shinju and Yuri on Ice both challenge cultural expectations about how men should or shouldn’t act, and show why it’s important to cast aside restrictive gender roles and play to our own strengths.
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Could the Tokyo 2020 Olympics lead to more women’s sports anime?
In recent years, women’s sports anime hasn’t been able to grasp the same popularity it did during the intense shoujo showdowns of the ’60s, leaving female-driven sports anime lacking in quantity.
