[Links] 22-28 November 2017
Nostalgic retrospectives, sexual harassment, and possibly unscrupulous trademarks.
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Chatty AF 32: Fushigi Yugi Watchalong – Episodes 28-34 (WITH TRANSCRIPT)
Part 5 of our Fushigi Yugi watchalong with Caitlin, Dee, and Vrai! Emotions run high as the team grapples with the loss of a beloved character and the many, many problems with the story’s handling of gender and sexuality. Miaka applies for dual citizenship. Tamahome invents a stereotype. Nuriko opens up.
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Not Just A Man’s Job: How war involves (and hurts) everybody in Gundam 0080
In Gundam 0080, our protagonist watches paramedics pull a female pilot out of a wrecked Gundam surrounded by debris. He is shocked, pupils as dilated as can be. To him, this female pilot occupies a very different sphere: a domestic one. In fact, she’s his old babysitter.
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Persona 5 and the Abandoned Misfits
Persona 5 presents itself as a game about misfits and about exposing the unseen evils underlying Tokyo. Yet these misfits adhere to the same norms and assumptions as the oppressive adults the game claims to challenge.
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[Links] 15-21 November 2017
History lessons on queer comics, troll culture, and Black men’s connection to Dragon Ball Z.
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Chatty AF 31: Fall 2017 anime mid-season check-in (WITH TRANSCRIPT)
Vrai, Caitlin, and Peter check in with 18 anime of our Fall 2017 premiere digest. Listen to find out our biggest surprises, disappointments, and guilty pleasures of the season along with our top recommended sequels!
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Princess Mononoke as a Force of Nature
In Princess Mononoke, the heroine reflects a duality of potential for which women are feared and demonised: compassion balanced with a fierce courage and a raw instinct that can be honed, recklessness curbed, but never erased.
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Anime Supremacy! is the SHIROBAKO sequel you’ve been waiting for
Not quite a novel and not quite a short story collection, this book is divided into three main chapters, each following one of its female protagonists through part of a single anime season.
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[Links] 8-14 November 2017
14-year-old inventors, compensation for panel presenters, and the politics of subtitles.
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Chatty AF 30: Fushigi Yugi watchalong – Episodes 21-27 (WITH TRANSCRIPT)
Part 4 of the Fushigi Yugi watchalong with Vrai, Dee, and Caitlin! The ensemble cast shines in another strong stretch, but there’s a storm on the horizon, and we ain’t just talking about Soi’s lightning powers. Chiriko gets real. Miaka straps on her chastity belt. Tamahome has a very bad week.
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Escape from Yuri Hell: FLIP FLAPPERS’ critique of the Class S genre
In FLIP FLAPPERS Episode 5, Cocona and Papika are thrown into a world that combines Class S, a genre of sweet yuri romance, with horror. Now, what in the world could that strange combination be trying to tell us?
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My Fave is Problematic: Ranma 1/2
When I read Ranma 1/2 during my first year of high school, I fell in love with Rumiko Takahashi’s signature expressive art. ad colorful cast. Yet the older I get, the harder it is to ignore some of the most problematic aspects of the series, especially how it deals with femininity.
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[Links] 1-7 November 2017
Depressing news about the fight for gender equality, academic studies of BL, and hobby manga.
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Searching for Neurodivergent Role Models in Anime
I love many things about being a geek: reading or watching different media, researching their histories, and talking to others about it. These activities are viewed as essential to being a geek. But replace the word ‘“geek” with the word “autistic,” and suddenly all the traits that were so readily accepted get read as strange and negative.
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The challenges of a queer immigrant and the shortcomings of A Certain Marriage
A bitter-sweet story, A Certain Marriage delves into the beauty of gay relationships and the discrimination LGBT people experience. The story, however, ultimately fails to delve into the challenges queer immigrants from Japan face living in America.
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[Links] 25-31 October 2017
A good but heavy week for links. Discussion of sexual assault, harassment, and (poor handling of) mental illness.
