![[Versus] Commentary vs. Snuff: Sex, violence, and despair in Danganronpa](https://i0.wp.com/www.animefeminist.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/8eb24f12e729e99d0ef8de77e43a8575.jpg?fit=750%2C398&ssl=1)
Throughout visual culture all over the world, sex and violence against women are constantly intermingled. The Danganronpa games, while hyper-violent stories, compartmentalize their portrayals of sex and violence, only intermingling them as a sign of deviance to give its themes greater weight. The anime-only sequel Danganronpa 3, on the other hand, makes frequent use of fanservice during brutally violent scenes, undermining its thematic elements and creating a snuff film atmosphere the games never had.
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Features
![[Perspectives] Hiding Then, Hesitating Now: Closeted sexuality and Confessions of a Mask](https://i0.wp.com/www.animefeminist.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Mask-header-e1533673727268.jpg?fit=750%2C714&ssl=1)
[Perspectives] Hiding Then, Hesitating Now: Closeted sexuality and Confessions of a Mask
Due to the cultural dangers around me and my own family’s reservations (my wonderful mother excluded), Yukio Mishima’s Confessions of a Mask was a novel that, to me, reflected the violence and anxiety that society perpetrates against LGBTQ people. Although the book was published in 1949, that violence is still enacted upon the bodies and minds of LGBTQ people today; and because Confessions of a Mask was a mostly autobiographical novel, I decided that in these pages, I might find myself.
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![[AniFemTalk] What new licenses are you excited about?](https://i1.wp.com/www.animefeminist.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/KOR.jpg?fit=300%2C224&ssl=1)
[AniFemTalk] What new licenses are you excited about?
Con season also means announcements, both of new series and classics. What’s on your radar?
![[Links] 1-7 August 2018: Banana Fish and BL, A Letter to Scanlators, and Discrimination in the LDP](https://i0.wp.com/www.animefeminist.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Screenshot-318.png?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1)
[Links] 1-7 August 2018: Banana Fish and BL, A Letter to Scanlators, and Discrimination in the LDP
This week: a breakdown of the much-cited interview where Yoshida claims Banana Fish isn’t BL, an open letter from Renta! to scanlators, and the entrenched discrimination of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party.
Podcasts
![[Podcast] Chatty AF 66: Den-noh Coil Watchalong – Episodes 14-20](https://i0.wp.com/www.animefeminist.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/1177.png?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1)
[Podcast] Chatty AF 66: Den-noh Coil Watchalong – Episodes 14-20
Part 3 of the 4-part watchalong of Den-noh Coil with Caitlin, Vrai, and Peter! They talk about the trouble with getting into two-cour shows, how digital footprints make it hard to let go of the dead, and the series’ awesome multi-generational women.
![[Podcast] Chatty AF 65: Shoujo manga (Part 2)](https://i1.wp.com/www.animefeminist.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Dczj_fZVAAEHPpm-1.jpg?fit=300%2C171&ssl=1)
[Podcast] Chatty AF 65: Shoujo manga (Part 2)
Part 2 of 2 in our super-sized Shoujo manga podcast with Caitlin and special guests Ashley and Lianne! Now that we’ve covered the basics of the demographic genre, the trio deep-dives into creators, licensing strategies, and audience understandings and expectations.
![[Review] Muhyo & Roji’s Bureau of Supernatural Investigation – Episode 1](https://i0.wp.com/www.animefeminist.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/muhyo2.jpg?fit=300%2C168&ssl=1)
![[Review] Summer 2018 three-episode check-in](https://i2.wp.com/www.animefeminist.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Asobi2.png?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1)