ANIME FEMINIST - Japanese pop culture through a feminist lens

World-Building a Queer Paradise in My Next Life as a Villainess

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So, is the world of Villainess a queer utopia uniquely laid out so that Catarina’s love(s) can bloom? Or is the question of world- and story-building a little more complicated?

The Post-Apocalypse Which Enforces Gender Roles: Code Vein

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The game’s cast is gender balanced, with a roughly equal number of male and female characters, and the female ones play an important role in driving the story. While that sounds great on paper, the problem lies in the gender-essentialist ways that “importance” works out.