AniFem Spherical-Up
Porygon Was Harmless: An epileptic perspective on Pokémon’s “Electrical Soldier Porygon”
Everybody is aware of the city legends concerning the seizure-inducing banned episode of Pokemon. However the details of what occurred are stranger and extra difficult than many know.
Resilience and Resistance: Reimagining marginality and company in The Apothecary Diaries
A deep dive on how The Apothecary Diaries explores the oppression beneath a Confucian patriarchy, and the way the ladies beneath it carve out energy the place they’ll.
What’s your favourite Eighties anime?
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Reuters: Sony Is in Talks to Purchase Kadokawa (Anime Information Community, Joanna Cayanan)
This buy would give Sony a de facto monopoly over the English-language anime market. ANN’s Editor-in-Chief confirms she will likely be resistant and publicly vocal about any makes an attempt at editorial management.
Sony already has a 2% stake in Kadokawa and a stake in its subsidiary FromSoftware (Elden Ring RPG developer).
Aniplex is a subsidiary of Sony Music Leisure Japan (SMEJ). Animation studios A-1 Footage and CloverWorks are subsidiaries of Aniplex.
Sony‘s Funimation International Group accomplished its acquisition of Crunchyroll from AT&T on August 9, 2021, after the corporate first introduced the acquisition in December 2020. The acquisition worth was US$1.175 billion, and the proceeds have been paid in money at closing. Funimation‘s residence video releases are actually listed beneath Crunchyroll. Crunchyroll reached over 15 million paid subscribers to the anime streaming service as of this yr.
Sony introduced in Could that it’s going to launch an academy to develop expertise to create anime. The academy will goal to “(nurture) anime creators in international markets, primarily by Aniplex and Crunchyroll with collaboration from throughout the business.”
Multicultural illustration in Japan’s media slowly evolving (The Asahi Shimbun, Takuya Asakura)
Interview topic Grace portrayed Sowande within the live-action Eizouken adaptation.
Born and raised in Chiba Prefecture to a Ghanaian father and a Japanese mom, Grace was annoyed with the stereotypes of black people typically depicted in Japanese leisure circles.
She not often noticed ladies with pores and skin and hair like hers in Japanese manga or TV dramas. When she did, they have been often portrayed as hip-hop dancers, athletes or different typical stereotypes of black folks.
These have been the final roles she needed to play as a result of she by no means needed to assist unfold a type of prejudice that she herself had been topic to.
Grace had a glamorous facet and had labored as a business mannequin since elementary faculty, so the conformity a faculty surroundings demanded was traumatic.
Her junior highschool’s guidelines on hairstyles didn’t account for various kinds of hair and she or he was unable to evolve to laws reminiscent of having to tie her hair beneath her ears due to its quantity.
Throughout each break, she would moist her hair to maintain it in place.
Different college students with combined heritage tried to mix in by dyeing their hair darker or straightening it.
She additionally discovered it uncomfortable when different college students made harmless however insensitive remarks about her, reminiscent of, “You have to be good at dancing” or “You appear like a quick runner,” which they supposed as compliments.
She was much more damage by how TV packages centered solely on impoverished areas of Ghana, or Africa typically, and the way faculty classes showcased solely photos of conventional tribes from these areas.
The writer of “Eizouken,” Sumito Owara, 31, attended elementary and junior excessive faculties in Kanagawa Prefecture the place plenty of college students had worldwide roots.
In what seems to be one of many first situations of inclusive character design in a collection with mainstream reputation in Japan, he featured an African-Asian lady among the many fundamental characters of the manga to replicate the realities of recent Japanese society.
The Intensely Colourful Work of a Painter Obsessive about Anime (The New Yorker, Rebecca Mead)
A profile of Jadé Fadojutimi, the youngest artist to have her work entered into the Tate Museum’s assortment.
Fadojutimi’s works from that interval are expansive and glowing—speaking a way of openness that lockdown had positioned off-limits. All was not calm, nevertheless; in the summertime of 2021, Fadojutimi skilled a manic episode, and was involuntarily hospitalized. The incident is just not straightforward for her to speak about, and through our conversations she initially approached the topic after which darted away. “They need to have simply requested me why I used to be dancing on a regular basis,” she informed me at one level, with darkish humor. Being institutionalized had been terrifying: “What was stunning to me was how scary it may be to be informed that you’ve got to dwell with a great deal of folks which might be unwell, and you might be saying you aren’t unwell, and they’re additionally saying they don’t seem to be unwell—however they actually are, and you actually are.”
In 2020, even earlier than that first hospitalization, Fadojutimi had been given a analysis of bipolar dysfunction. She had lengthy suspected that she might need the situation, however the information was nonetheless painful. “I cried,” she recalled. “I at all times thought I used to be, however there have been a variety of feelings in listening to a analysis. I clearly wasn’t residing life like everybody else was. However I wasn’t residing life admiring what everybody else had.” Her follow as an artist had been about determining how her personal thoughts was ordered, and the way finest to provide expression to her emotional expertise. The general public reception of her work had given legitimacy to her state of being, regardless of the private difficulties concerned in making her work could be: the despair, the isolation, the wrestle on many days simply to get off the bed. “I’ve gotten used to being myself, and my work created this product of being that made me really feel justified in my very own, let’s say, findings,” she stated. To have a label thrust on her felt diminishing and traumatic. She was additionally conscious {that a} mental-health analysis can slim the essential understanding of an artist’s work; the radiant œuvre of the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who has spent many years residing in a Tokyo psychiatric hospital, is typically decreased to an prolonged act of “self-care.”
Mayonaka Punch: The Bloodlust and Burnout of Content material Creation (The Afictionado, Alex Henderson)
A personality research of MayoPan’s failgirl lead.
If you’d like a deep take a look at the Content material Creator ecosystem and its many terrors and flaws, this present could not do it for you, because it admittedly skims over a variety of the problems that really feel fairly entrenched within the business. Apart from Masaki bodily combating a crazed fangirl who nearly destroys the venue of a collab occasion, it doesn’t get into the type of horrifying, parasocial fandom that these platforms typically foster. Apart from the vampires protesting that they solely received a spike in followers as a result of they filmed their newest video within the tub, it doesn’t get into the ways in which girls are sometimes exploited and commodified (or inspired to commodify themselves) for views.
However with regards to the depiction of Masaki’s insecurity and burnout, and the way in which that her self-destructive tendencies grow to be intertwined with success on this fickle platform, MayoPan feels fairly spot-on. You don’t should be deep within the paint to know that “why I’m taking a break from YouTube” movies are a style unto themselves, that psychological well being points are rife throughout the area, and that the flash-in-the-pan nature of traits and matters (and the supposed consideration spans of the viewers) are encouraging a lightning-speed social media model of the “publish or perish” downside that’s at all times talked about in academia. Masaki clearly buys into this, and she or he very practically does perish—and that’s unrelated to the vampire who needs to eat her!
With out spoiling an excessive amount of concerning the (admittedly ridiculous) collection finale, I believe MayoPan does a great job preserving Masaki’s development and points on the coronary heart of the narrative, giving her one thing of a satisfying character arc whereas additionally expressing that there’s no straightforward “repair” for any of this. It’s a messy enterprise—that a lot is obvious, even with the give attention to one disastrous younger girl’s profession and with supernatural silliness thrown completely into the combination.
5 occasions extra girls in Japan modified jobs in 2023 than 10 years earlier: report (The Mainichi, Yuko Shimada)
It was beforehand assumed that 35 was the higher restrict for altering careers.
Recruit Agent, a service operated by Recruit Co., additionally discovered that the variety of circumstances during which contract and non permanent feminine staff turned full-time employees via job modifications grew 5.8 occasions over the identical interval. It stated a complete of 40% of those that modified jobs noticed their wages improve by 10% or extra.
A Recruit consultant famous that in 2013, only a few girls of their 40s have been altering jobs. Relating to the massive improve, the consultant identified that “the targets that firms are in search of are increasing in opposition to the background of a scarcity of human assets.”
About 40% of ladies of their 40s switched to jobs as administrative specialists. The corporate says many additionally grow to be IT engineers and common clerical employees. A Recruit worker commented, “So long as you’ve some type of collected expertise, you possibly can change jobs even whenever you’re older. With the human useful resource scarcity remaining unresolved, this development is prone to proceed.”
Hokkaido occasion attracts protests for denying Ainu are indigenous (The Asahi Shimbun, Kohei Uwabo)
The Ainu are legally protected as an indigenous folks as of 2019.
About 30 folks gathered outdoors a civic middle the place the Ainu no Shijitsu wo Manabu Kai (Group to review Ainu’s historic details) organized a speech and panel exhibition on Nov. 15.
The group contends the Ainu, who primarily inhabit Hokkaido, will not be an indigenous folks, not like the Aborigines in Australia and Native Individuals in the US.
It stated the Jomon folks, who’re the ancestors of Japanese, lived in Hokkaido for greater than 10,000 years from round 16,000 years in the past earlier than the Ainu folks.
Protesters demanded the organizers cease “spreading false data that distorts historical past and denies (the Ainu’s) indigeneity.”
They carried playing cards and banners that stated, “Ainu denialism constitutes hate speech” and “Anti-Ainu discrimination violates the legislation.”
The rally was organized by Counter-Racist Motion Collective North, a gaggle against hate speech.
Stim tradition: Outlining anime’s attraction to the autistic neighborhood (Worldwide Journal of Cultural Research; Megan Catherine Rose, Patrick W. Galbraith, and Georgia Thomas-Parr)
Anime fandom as a communal house for autistics.
In conceptualizing stim cultures, this text has supplied a essential intervention in autism research, a lot of which seeks to ‘remedy’ or ‘intervene’ with our bodyminds so we could seem neurotypical. Whereas some researchers contend that accounts of our personal lives could be biased or inaccurate, we argue that documenting stim cultures as a part of autistic wellbeing and neighborhood is important in our collectively reclaiming analysis about our our bodies, minds and lives. In our dialogue of visible tactility or animation stimming, layers or shifting via estranged worlds and unmasking or rising neurocultures and languages, we recognized key options of how anime works for and with the autistic. With its shifting photos, remodeling figures and slick sound design, the visible and aural aesthetics of anime operate as a device for stimming. The literature means that stimming acts as a ‘launch of any excessive emotion’ (Kapp, 2019: 1786), the place, in anime, shifting photos and moments and dramatic eventualities grow to be catalogued and re-lived by followers, who take pleasure in overwhelming impacts. Moreover, considering in layers and exploring texts from totally different angles, and taking part in with their dis/connections from the ‘actual’, is pleasurable and interesting for autistic folks. The estranged world of anime supplies a way of consolation, a lens via which we will interpret the world. Lastly, anime worlds not solely current autistic folks with protected areas to each belong and play with sociality, however the characters themselves additionally present more-than-human companionship (as emblazoned within the ‘spouse’ or ‘husband’).
Anime fandom presents an fascinating web site of ‘neuro-culture’, which acknowledges neurological distinction and challenges neurotypical socio-cultural norms. Anime fan areas facilitate and have a good time strangeness, bringing collectively autistic individuals who really feel ‘totally different’. Resonating with research of anime followers, also called ‘weeaboo’ and ‘otaku’, actions in fandom areas facilitate nuances in social connections. One of many targets of this text has been to stipulate the proof for anime attracting and being a help for autistic people organized into ‘neuroqueer microsocieties’ (Worth, 2022: 52–53). Fan cultures function outdoors the imaginary confines of neurotypical ‘norms’ and acknowledge the neurodiversity that already exists amongst anime followers. Right here we now have introduced stim cultures as a type of tentative exploration that may uncover new instructions in autistic and fan tradition analysis, inviting different students to take part shifting ahead.
VIDEO: Dialogue of the primary half of Mars.
VIDEO: How Tokyopop crashed and burned.
SKEET: Congrats to Shoujo Sunday for taking residence a Sign Award.
🧵 ✨🍨 We did it! 🍨✨ The Shoujo Sundae Podcast has struck gold on the 2024 Sign Awards, proudly profitable the Listener’s Selection Award within the Recap Class! 🏅 This marks a monumental second as we are actually the primary award-winning #shoujo podcast in the US. 💖
— Shoujo Sundae Podcast (@shoujosundae.com) November 18, 2024 at 2:07 PM
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Only a enjoyable reminder that there’s a variety of cool outdated anime on the market.
i imply…..it is glass masks and soiled pair. at all times glass masks and soiled pair
— phia (@_selphic on twitter) (@phiabean.bsky.social) November 19, 2024 at 8:49 PM
Hana Ko no Lunlun aka The Flower Youngster Lunlun (Angel). I believe the whole lot else I prefer it’s from the 70s or 90s 😳. I imply, I grew up on World Theater anime.
— flowermiko (@flowermiko.bsky.social) November 18, 2024 at 9:52 PM
The Golden Hen (1987). A really charming household movie with an exceedingly sturdy aesthetic – from the gorgeous artwork route to the extremely personable character designs of Atsuko Fukushima and Manabu Oohashi. Toshio Hirata is an extremely inventive & proficient director, although he’s sadly not well-known
— revuekino.bsky.social (@revuekino.bsky.social) November 19, 2024 at 4:41 PM
