This week: the toxic history of the “rising sun” flag, BL artists arrested in China, and the “closeted homophobe trope.
This week: how fanservice undermines the female characters’ story beats in SSSS.Gridman, overworked animators sending an alleged cry for help in the credits, and taking down the harmful claim by quack doctor Blanchard that anime “makes” people trans.
This week: survivor’s guilt in Orange, what makes Cardcaptor Sakura an enduring series, and the first uterus transplant to be performed in Japan.
This week: suffragist Komako Kimura, the author who codified Class-S in the 1920s, and the NEOKawaii movement.
This week: a workshop on being a good ally in fandom, a tribute to J-Pop artist Amuro Namie, and female applicants suing Tokyo Medical University over the school’s exclusionary practices.
This week: female Japanese novelists whose work you can read in English, the cross-cultural manga Satoko and Nada, and the issue of sexual harassment in Hisone & Masotan.
This week: living as a disabled person in Japan, high death rates for Vietnamese immigrant workers and students, and a retrospective on .hack//sign.
This week: a rebuttal to the choice to name an event for third- and fourth-generation immigrants “Gaijin Day,” a round-up of our fall premieres, and the ways Abe’s promise for “womenomics” have failed to help working women.
This week: Miss Sherlock, a documentary about Black expats living in Japan, and a lack of opportunities for working mothers in Japan.
This week: pastors failing to see the irony in asking to have books removed from a banned books display, time loops as part of coming-of-age stories, and an interview with the dev and actors of Mystic Messenger.
