AniFem Spherical-Up
Garments Make the Guardian: Trend and femininity within the Sailor Moon franchise
With the discharge of the Cosmos movies and Shionhara Emi’s tragic passing, it feels price taking a look at one in all many issues that make the sequence particular.
Flying with Your Spirit: Independence, self-definition, and Kiki’s Supply Service
Kiki has been a touchstone for younger ladies, artists, and anybody who’s struggled with burnout for 25 years now, and possibly for years to come back.
What visible novels are you hoping will get licensed?
The checklist of titles from earlier than the 2010s is extensive and deep.
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The Animator Dormitory Venture 2024 (Go Get Funding)
The venture gives reasonably priced housing and coaching for animators.
For 2024, we hope to:
1) fund our housing help initiatives,
2) pay for dormitory upkeep prices,
3) and start establishing new dormitories.
We’re aiming to lift about $10,000 to assist run our present dormitory.
We hope we are able to earn your help!
Right here’s a breakdown of our dormitory expenditure per yr:
1) Housing Assist for Animators — $12,000
2) Dormitory Upkeep Prices — $24,000
3) Establishing New Dormitories — $18,000Complete — $54,000
Reimagining A World-Well-known Monster: #DRCL Manga Creator Shin’ichi Sakamoto (Anime Information Community, Christopher Farris)
Sakamoto is greatest recognized for his gothic historic titles #DRCL and Harmless.
#DRCL is clearly not a direct, 1:1 adaptation of the occasions advised within the Dracula novel. How did you resolve what to maintain and alter from the supply materials? What did you’re feeling was most necessary in adapting the novel?
Sakamoto: The late nineteenth century, the interval by which the story is about, was additionally the time when capitalism developed and emerged, and requires the enlargement of rights for employees and girls started, giving delivery to values nonetheless related at the moment. Within the unique work, Mina additionally displays on the “new girl.” Lucy, the “most stunning girl;” courted by males, is preyed upon by the Depend, however Mina, who continues to maintain data together with her personal capacity and can, continues to struggle in cooperation with everybody till the tip whereas the boys who shield and struggle for Mina are additionally struggling and susceptible. I really feel it’s my mission to revive this message from Bram Stoker in our time.
#DRCL, like Harmless earlier than it, options some queer imagery and themes—the character of Luke/Lucy, specifically, crosses over many strains of gender and attraction. What’s your curiosity in exploring these concepts and themes?
Sakamoto: What I at all times take note when creating my work is to discard preconceived notions and assumptions and to painting issues as truthfully as they’re, with out taking any straightforward method out. It’s straightforward to imagine that love is born when there’s a man and a lady, however the actuality is extra difficult. There are numerous several types of folks on Earth, they usually dwell in numerous methods. I wish to proceed to carry the idea that there isn’t any such factor as a “queer” particular person.
Your method to artwork and visible storytelling is completely different in comparison with many different manga. #DRCL, for example, largely eschews written sound results. What’s your philosophy with regards to visible storytelling in manga, and is there something that has influenced your model of labor?
Sakamoto: As for not together with sound results, I wished to belief the facility of the artwork. I draw trusting that readers will replay the sound results of their brains, such because the sound of breaking glass or knocking on a door, primarily based on their very own experiences. What I’ve determined to do with the visuals is to keep away from depicting grotesque scenes as they’re. Regardless of how merciless the scene could also be, I draw it with an consciousness of magnificence. Additionally, after listening to from an Italian manga artist that he studied anatomy so as to draw manga, I attempted to attract with an consciousness of muscle mass and skeletal construction.
Houses for all: The story of Japan landlord accused of yakuza ties, and why she rents to everybody (The Mainichi, Iida Akira)
The defendant was charged for giving her tenant, a suspect in a drug investigation, forewarning a few police raid.
She mentioned she had began her actual property enterprise practically 40 years in the past. She was divorced and elevating three younger youngsters whereas working a small restaurant within the Nishi-Kawaguchi space. It was throughout Japan’s bubble financial system. Her eatery was thriving, and common clients volunteered to look at her youngsters, drop them off and decide them up for varsity and different locations.
Nevertheless, her mom developed dementia, and caring for her made it tough for the girl to maintain working the restaurant. So, she purchased a second-hand condo constructing and jumped into the true property enterprise.
Initially, she bought her tenants by way of actual property brokers, however the variety of potential renters who consulted immediately together with her elevated. They included aged folks, these launched from jail, intercourse store workers and foreigners who couldn’t afford guarantors.
“I’d been helped by many individuals, and because the saying goes, ‘Even likelihood conferences are the results of karma,’” she recalled. She would let needy folks dwell within the flats with out screening them, and infrequently she wouldn’t cost hire for the primary two months. As her popularity unfold by way of phrase of mouth, the variety of properties she managed elevated, and he or she now has near 300 tenants.
Regardless that her members of the family had been involved about her, she mentioned she would take accountability, and bought near her tenants.
Tenants related to yakuza transfer out
The girl knew that some properties she owns had been referred to as “yakuza flats” due to the difficulty some tenants brought about with close by residents. Nevertheless, she said that she didn’t give any tenant particular therapy, even when they had been near crime syndicates, and handled every renter individually.
In response to the incident this yr, she requested any gang associated tenants to depart. Just a few had been actually on this class, they usually left, saying that they’d brought about bother for “auntie landlord.”
Survey: 34% of sexual minorities have expertise in parenting (The Asahi Shimbun, Mihoko Terada)
The survey was restricted in 90% of its respondents being AFAB; regardless, the information helps to fight prejudice.
The survey confirmed that 242 of the 710 respondents have skilled or are elevating a toddler or youngsters.
A earlier survey performed in 2021 confirmed that 141 sexual minorities had skilled or had been experiencing parenting, though the consequence will not be comparable as a result of the topics of that survey had been completely different.
Amongst those that answered that they’ve expertise in nurturing, 64.8 p.c mentioned the variety of youngsters is “one,” and 30.6 p.c mentioned “two.”
As well as, 122 of 710 respondents mentioned that the respondents themselves or their companions had given delivery within the final three years after utilizing third-party sperm donors to change into pregnant.
A analysis staff headed by Akitomo Shingae, a professor at Osaka Metropolitan College, analyzed the information.
Shingae believes that elevated accessibility of knowledge has contributed to the rise in sperm donations.
“Round 2010, on-line communities began to be shaped by sexual minorities who want to have youngsters,” he mentioned.
A lot of the respondents who answered that they’ve expertise in elevating youngsters mentioned they’ve “issues or issues,” together with “an absence of authorized framework,” “social prejudice and ignorance” and “bullying of their youngsters.”
“Issues are rising however are usually not being addressed. We have to assess the precise state of affairs through the use of a nationwide census or different means,” Shingae mentioned.
29% of indigenous Ainu folks skilled discrimination: Hokkaido survey (The Mainichi, Jangrae Kim)
This was the primary yr the survey has requested about social media harassment, which over 30% of respondents reported experiencing.
Hokkaido Gov. Naomichi Suzuki expressed his disappointment on the outcomes throughout an everyday press convention on Sept. 10, saying, “It’s such a disgrace,” and revealed that the prefectural authorities this month launched its first-ever survey concentrating on Hokkaido residents on their attitudes towards the Ainu folks.
He then added, “Prejudice and discrimination by way of social media could also be going down within the absence of right understanding by folks throughout the nation. We hope that the nationwide authorities will perform a nationwide survey,” emphasizing the necessity to increase the angle survey to different elements of the nation.
The variety of Ainu folks recognized within the newest survey is 11,450. Their inhabitants has decreased by greater than half since 2006, when it was roughly 24,000. An official of the prefectural authorities’s Ainu coverage division mentioned, “The Ainu inhabitants that our municipalities are in a position to determine is on a downward development yr by yr as a result of growing older of the inhabitants and their transferring to city areas.”
The survey additionally requested respondents about their consciousness of the Act on Selling Measures to Obtain a Society by which the Pleasure of Ainu Individuals is Revered, the primary legislation in Japan to outline the Ainu folks as “indigenous folks.” The mixed share of respondents who answered they “didn’t know” or “know that the legislation was enacted, however have no idea a lot about its content material” exceeded 80%, highlighting the low degree of consciousness among the many events involved.
Mibuchi Yoshiko: How Japan’s Trailblazing Feminine Lawyer Overcame Prejudice (Unseen Japan, Alyssa Pearl Fusek)
Profile of the well-known lawyer who handed the bar in 1938, solely 5 years after it grew to become authorized for ladies to change into attorneys.
Since Japan waived all claims to damages attributable to the bombs in signing the San Francisco Peace Treaty, the plaintiffs argued the federal government additionally waived the person’s proper to hunt damages from the US. Due to this fact, Japan by proxy ought to pay damages as an alternative.
Mibuchi was one in all three chief judges who oversaw the case, which dragged on for eight and a half years. Mibuchi was notably the one choose current for all of the oral arguments. In 1963, the courtroom dominated that the bombings had been certainly illegal and fell beneath the definition of indiscriminate bombardment. Nevertheless, the plaintiffs couldn’t search damages beneath worldwide legislation.
Takakuwa Akira, one of many primary judges, remembers Mibuchi as a delicate and sort particular person. The case was, understandably, removed from easy. “It was a novel case fully completely different from the common civil fits introduced in opposition to the federal government over the atomic bombings,” he mentioned.
Within the anthology Girls Legal professionals (女性法律家; Josei Houritsuka), Mibuchi wrote, “We might have dismissed the declare for compensation no matter whether or not or not (the bombs) violated worldwide legislation, however we offered our reasoning and inspected worldwide legislation with out shirking our duties. We simply couldn’t justify the dropping of the atomic bombs.”
Coping with folks, not circumstances
From 1972, Mibuchi held presidential postings in numerous household courts, beginning with the Niigata Household Courtroom. She believed that the household courtroom “offers with folks, not circumstances,” and her work surroundings mirrored that.
Throughout her presidency on the Yokohama Household Courtroom, Mibuchi cultivated a relaxing surroundings that diluted the strictness of courtroom proceedings. She redecorated the gloomy mediation room to brighten up the ambiance. She would play smooth, soothing music within the corridors throughout lunch time. All this helped mitigate the stress for employees and households embroiled in juvenile circumstances.
Baby of stateless Afghan refugees good points Japanese nationality (The Asahi Shimbun, Kyoka Watanabe)
The request for citizenship was initially rejected, however granted upon repeal.
Within the Sept. 11 ruling, Presiding Choose Yasuhiro Hasegawa famous that the Taliban had seized management over Afghanistan by pressure in 2021.
“Though the Taliban declared the institution of a nation, it has not been formally acknowledged as a state or authorities by the worldwide neighborhood, together with Japan,” Hasegawa said.
The courtroom decided that the dad and mom, though technically Afghan residents, had been successfully stateless when their little one was born.
Due to this fact, the woman met the authorized necessities for Japanese citizenship, as stipulated within the Japanese Nationality Legislation, which grants Japanese nationality to youngsters born in Japan to stateless dad and mom.
“This determination opens the door for youngsters in related conditions to be raised in Japan,” mentioned Yasuyuki Nagai, the lawyer representing the household.
1st halal meals lunches served at elementary, junior excessive colleges in 2 east Japan cities (The Mainichi, Yasutaka Horii)
The college plans to make halal meals an everyday a part of their meals program, and to discover different meals choices as properly.
The city of Sakai’s faculty lunch middle, which gives meals to elementary and junior excessive colleges in Sakai and its neighboring city of Goka, mentioned, “We wish everybody to get pleasure from the identical faculty lunch no matter faith. We wish Japanese youngsters to be taught in regards to the dietary habits and variety of the world.”
Islamic legislation prohibits the consuming of pork, in addition to beef and hen that haven’t been processed in response to prescribed procedures. For that reason, there are 35 college students in Sakai and 4 college students in Goka who can not eat faculty lunches and must deliver their very own.
The middle ready a halal menu on Sept. 4. It consisted of squid tempura, cooked eggs with greens and different elements to accompany the rice, together with miso soup with tofu and different elements, apple juice and frozen tangerines.
On the Sakai Municipal Sakai Elementary College, 23 college students, together with foreigners, had a college lunch for the primary time. A Pakistani fourth grader, 10, mentioned with a smile, “My first faculty lunch was scrumptious. I used to be completely happy to eat with everybody else.”
VIDEO: Discussing representations of queerness in BL and Yaoi.
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金曜、治療院とトレーナーさんから本気で「休め」と念を押され、仕事止めて横になっており。
トレーナーさんハッキリ「物理的に描けなくなりますよ、もう一歩手前」
同日、歯科検診で歯茎が全部腫れてると指摘
他、まずい状況と自覚iPad、iPhone、スピーカーから離れる、刺激を与えない
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— 渡瀬悠宇/画業35周年ふしぎ遊戯原画展開催8/9~21日 (@wataseyuu_) September 15, 2024
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We’ll most likely by no means get Angelique because of the licensing charges, nevertheless it was good to offer it a bit shout-out.
