There are more foreign-born manga artists active in Japan than you might think. You just may not notice some of them because they take on pennames that obscure their non-Japanese origins. The artist known as Tiv, for instance, may seem like a Japanese man from the content of her work, but she’s actually a Korean-born woman.
If fanservice is gratuitous T&A that exists solely to titillate its audience, then the massage scene in WorldEnd is fanservice in its purest and most distasteful form. So how could it have done it better?
We have good news to share about podcasts, and bad news about things happening in the real world.
Amelia, Caitlin, and Peter look back on the winter 2017 season. Listen out for discussion on whether Interviews with Monster Girls counts as good representation, how ACCA changed the way we assess storytelling, and Amelia’s U-turn on Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid.
Yuri manga is an entire genre of comics about girls and women falling in love. So why is it so often overlooked by queer and feminist fans?
Josei is on the rise, Japan fails its LGBTQ students, and another exhausting week of whitewashing.
At a time when most female characters on television were barely allowed to have careers, Speed Racer‘s Trixie was an action star in her own right, a racing professional and hero on equal footing with the male characters.
Over the past few years, josei manga has had a renaissance in the West as readers rediscover older titles and publishers release new ones. It’s a glorious turn of events for josei fans like myself and others, but it also begs a few questions. Namely, why is this happening now and not sooner?
We’re six months old! Celebrate by answering questions with us and checking out our Winter 2017 recs. Also: Japanese feminist blogs, and not all fanservice is created equal.
Now we’ve reviewed all the Spring 2017 premieres, we thought we’d round up some of our favourites from shows that ended last season.
Spring premieres are finally over, and we can get down to the good, the bad, and the ugly. Meanwhile, it’s a pretty quiet week in news.
Another season of premieres watched and reviewed! There are a ton of shows this season and multiple big name sequels getting a lot of attention, so let us help you choose how to curate the rest of your viewing.
As a prequel to the classic TV anime of Osamu Tezuka manga Astro Boy, Atom the Beginning comes with the weight of more historical significance than this cartoony introduction can really hold up.
It…. it’s porn, y’all.
A boatload of premieres means a slow week for news. Your Name takes the US by storm, BL has some real bad habits, and ’90s nostalgia rears its head.
This wasn’t just good “for an LN adaptation”; it has potential to be a really solid fantasy series in general.
If you don’t like the love triangle device and aren’t taken by any of the leads at this point it may be one to hold off on until word of mouth travels later in the season.
