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Cannibalism, the abject, and queering the narrative in Scrumptious in Dungeon

Content material warning: physique horror Spoilers for Vol 1 – 14 of the Scrumptious in Dungeon manga and Season 1 of the anime Eat or be eaten: that is the mantra that propels the heroes of Scrumptious in Dungeon via …

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Visiting the CLAMP Exhibition in Tokyo to have fun 35 years of the legendary manga collective

From July third to September twenty third of 2024, The Nationwide Artwork Middle in Tokyo held the CLAMP Exhibition, a serious exhibition devoted to the well-known manga artist collective, showcasing round 800 authentic manuscripts in one of many largest exhibition …

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Shattering the Self: A Dialog with Shuzo Oshimi

Tony Solar Prickett And Actual emperor collaborated for this text Shuzo Oshimi’s title is one which evokes a way of worry in lots of circles. His best-known work, Flowers of evilis known for the rawness with which it portrays essentially …

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Ayaka is verliefd op Hiroko! en de giftige werkplek

Grote spoilers voor Ayaka is verliefd op Hiroko! Kantoorromans zijn een hoofdbestanddeel van romcoms, en veel yuri-series, van rustige en oprechte, langzaam brandende verhalen, zoals Donuts onder een halve maan, tot meer stomende en schandalige one-shots, zoals Ik hou zoveel …

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Hagio Moto’s Marginal and BL manga as feminist fabulation

Content material Warning: Discussions of sexual assault and gendered violence Main Spoilers for Marginal Hagio Moto—a key manga artist of the 12 months 24 group shoujo renaissance—is legendary for her comics exploring gender and sexuality (The Poe Clan, The Coronary …

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Coming of age as a queer teen in Okazaki Kyoko’s River’s Edge

Content material warning: dialogue of historic homophobia, bullying, disordered consuming Spoilers for River’s Edge On a cold winter night time, Wakakusa Haruna is led to a subject of goldenrod close to her highschool by her classmate, Yamada Ichiro. As a …

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Parade Parade and the Phallic Lady Fantasy

Content material Warning: Dialogue of sexual coercion and assault, sufferer blaming, fetishization of girls with penises; NSFW screenshots Spoilers for Parade Parade Seeking intersex or trans lesbian illustration in anime, chances are you’ll discover Parade Parade, and its opening theme …

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Classmates and discovering the humanity in clichés

Content material Warning: dialogue of grooming and pupil/instructor relationships, queerphobia Spoilers for all of Classmates In each means, Classmates is an easy highschool love story. Highschool pupil Kusakabe Hikaru attends Tofuya Quantity One Excessive Faculty, an all-boys college largely populated …

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Not Simply Roses and Sparkles: Unpacking assumptions about shoujo by way of Hagio Moto’s work

Content material warning: mentions of sexual assault and childhood sexual assault within the materials of some comics mentioned Minor spoilers for The Poe Clan, Marginal, A Merciless God Reigns, and The Coronary heart of Thomas Like lots of people, earlier …

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From Takarazuka to Terayama: The Affect of Queer Theater on Revolutionary Lady Utena

Content material Warning: Discussions of queerphobia, institutional management over girls’s our bodies, suicide, transmisogynist stereotypes, baby abuse Spoilers for many of Revolutionary Lady Utena Once I first watched Revolutionary Lady Utena, I made the error of pondering I had seen …