When Anime Treats Sexual Assault as Entertainment
One common element in series that successfully employ fanservice is consensuality. When fanservice is fun, all parties involved are enjoying themselves.
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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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How fan service can attract or repel an audience, and how to tell the difference
There’s a misconception that feminists believe any and all fan service is always bad. But in this feminist’s opinion, fan service goes wrong when it interrupts the mood of the show.
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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.
