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Resilience and Resistance: Reimagining marginality and company in The Apothecary Diaries

Content material warning: dialogue of violence towards intercourse employees, abuse, sexually transmitted illness, historic misogyny Spoilers for The Apothecary Diaries Season 1 The Apothecary Diaries presents a richly detailed world impressed by dynastic China, the place the social framework is …

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Opening up the “Black Field Diaries” with Ito Shiori

Content material Warning: Dialogue surrounding rape, misogyny Ito Shiori made waves in 2017 when she accused Yamaguchi Noriyuki of raping her in 2015. Following her swimsuit, the Japanese journalist additionally revealed her memoir “Black Field” detailing the difficulties in proving …

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Aiba Kyoko at Otakon 2024: Reverse Villainess Isekai, Social Points, and the Manga-Making Course of

Aiba Kyoko has been working as a manga artist for the reason that 2000s, creating a signature type that spotlights acquainted tropes and turns them on their head. Whereas greatest identified for her BL work (particularly, in English, the gorgeous …

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Redemption and Retribution: Feminine antagonists in Ultimate Fantasy XIV Stormblood

Spoilers for the Stormblood enlargement of Ultimate Fantasy XIV Have you ever heard about critically acclaimed MMORPG Ultimate Fantasy XIV with a free trial as much as stage 70 with no restrictions on playtime together with the award-winning enlargement Heavensward? …

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Present Time!: Een combine van erotica, sekspositiviteit en tv-idolen

Spoilers voor Tijd voor een present! Exhibits zoals Oshi geen Ko En De vele kanten van stemacteurradio om een deel van de duistere kant van de Japanse entertainmentindustrie bloot te leggen – ik had niet verwacht dat er een dwaze …

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Autonomy, aliens, and a examine in feminine character company with 16bit Sensation

Spoilers for 16bit Sensation: One other Layer When addressing fiction by means of the lens of feminist criticism, the thought of feminine characters’ company is a subject that steadily comes up. Company normally refers to somebody’s capacity to behave freely …

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BanG Dream! It’s MyGo!!!!! and the worth of letting feminine characters suck

Spoilers for BanG Dream! It’s MyGo!!!!! When the Summer time 2023 anime season began, I didn’t have excessive expectations for BanG Dream! It’s MyGo!!!!!. Whereas I had grown to like the BanG Dream! franchise, It’s MyGo!!!!! was centered on a …

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Unlovely Complicated: Social Justice, Misogyny, and the Beautiful Complicated Dub

I had by no means heard of Brendan “JelloApocalypse” Blaber earlier than February 11, 2024. Till that day, he was finest identified by most people for the webseries Epithet Erased, plus his “So That is Mainly…” Youtube sequence commenting on …

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Roland Kelts on Blade Runner: Black Lotus, the affect of shoujo, and 18 years of Japanamerica

In November 2006, the ebook Japanamerica began a dialog concerning the affect of Japanese media on American tradition. In it, Roland Kelts describes how Japanese popular culture is influencing Hollywood, gaming, music, sports activities, and different industries and environments, and …

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Immaturity and Impunity: Performative Masculinity in Baki the Grappler

Content material warning: dialogue of home violence, sexual assault, drug use, and poisonous masculinity Spoilers for Baki Hanma Though Baki the Grappler is over thirty years previous, the franchise has seen a worldwide resurgence due to a recent take as …