AniFem Spherical-Up
The Ossan Beginner Adventurer, Educated to Demise by the Most Highly effective Social gathering, Grew to become Invincible – Episode 1
A middling however nice chill-out for the millennial viewer.
Alya Typically Hides Her Emotions in Russian – Episode 1
The leads have good chemistry; now the query is whether or not this rom-com builds on that or settles again into fan service and harem components.
TASUKETSU -Destiny of the Majority- – Episode 1
No matter you name the particular spark a demise recreation wants to drag individuals in, TASUKETSU hasn’t acquired it.
Twilight Out of Focus – Episode 1
Looks like an attractive little romantic quick movie that mixes filmic artistry with well-executed character beats.
Ramen Akaneko – Episode 1
You’re telling me a cat made this ramen?
Failure Body: I Grew to become the Strongest and Annihilated All the pieces With Low-Stage Spells – Episode 1
One other revenge energy fantasy that may possible be forgotten earlier than it’s completed airing.
Days with my Stepsister – Episode 1
It’s quiet and contemplative, however on the finish of the day the “step sibling romance” factor type of overshadows the whole lot else.
Pseudo Harem – Episode 1
It has a little bit of appeal, however the single joke is already carrying skinny.
I Parry All the pieces! – Episode 1
It may not break new floor, but it surely’s cozy and the protagonist is a pleasant change of tempo.
Senpai is an Otokonoko – Episode 1
It has coronary heart (and Gender), but it surely additionally appears to be like in critical hazard of getting a manufacturing meltdown partway by.
Dungeon Folks – Episode 1
Cozy and likable, and it’s good to see a father-daughter story that’s primarily in regards to the daughter.
High quality Assurance in One other World – Episode 1
This twist on the trendy isekai has a whole lot of coronary heart and positively deserves extra eyes on it.
Dahlia in Bloom: Crafting a Recent Begin with Magical Instruments – Episode 1
A stable premise weighed down by critical manufacturing points.
SHOSHIMIN: Methods to turn out to be Extraordinary – Episode 1
Overshoots the mark on being quiet and restrained and finally ends up with with leads that really feel robust to care about.
A No person’s Means As much as an Exploration Hero – Episodes 1-2
Leaves a whole lot of time to ask questions like, “why is the protagonist feeding these little ladies rocks?”
The Elusive Samurai – Episode 1
A visually beautiful little bit of historic fiction.
2.5 Dimensional Seduction – Episode 1
Would love dudes to comprehend it’s completely cool for ladies to love issues. So long as they like them in the very same means you do. And are sizzling.
Sakuna: Of Rice and Destroy – Episode 1
A stylistic folktale fantasy that’s appears to be like stellar even past the requirements of online game variations.
Narenare -Cheer for You!- – Episode 1
The forged is perhaps a bit massive proper out the gate, but it surely has that PA Works polish and takes cheerleading significantly as a sport.
My Deer Pal Nokotan – Episode 1
The trainwreck dealing with of the subtitles hangs over with the ability to have interaction with the present’s reference and pun-dense jokes in any respect.
A Journey By way of One other World: Elevating Children Whereas Adventuring – Episodes 1-2
This can be a double-length premiere and it nonetheless appears like nothing occurred.
Wistoria: Wand and Sword – Episode 1
A well-executed tackle the acquainted magic boarding college story.
VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral after Forgetting to Flip Off My Stream – Episode 1
If all you need is a present that revels within the distinction between fairly anime character designs and gross characterization, hey, you might need time.
No Longer Allowed in One other World – Episode 1
Please let Dazai Osamu’s ghost relaxation. He and Edgar Allan Poe are most likely commiserating over brandy within the afterlife.
MAYONAKA PUNCH – Episode 1
Failgirl YouTuber/blockhead vampire yuri, made by PA Works? Sure, please.
Chatty AF 210: 2024 Spring Season Wrap-Up
Alex, Toni, and Peter return to wrap up a season with a number of sturdy anime-original titles and stellar sequels!
What’s your favourite visible novel?
Non-romance ones. We’ll make a separate put up for these.
Past AniFem
INTERVIEW: Witch Hat Atelier’s Kamome Shirahama Muses on Her Love of Fantasy, Fairy Tales & Antiques (AniTrendz, William Moo and Melvyn Tan)
Q&A with the artist from her latest go to to Toronto.
I’ve heard the story will get a bit darker in these latter volumes. With out giving it any type of spoilers, what can readers anticipate because the story winds down?
The story does turn out to be a bit darker and a bit extra sophisticated, however on the finish of the day, it’s about Coco and the kids going through difficulties and discovering a means by one way or the other. I would like the readers to actually go into it feeling comforted that they’re going to unravel these issues with Coco and her associates, and even within the depths of despair, there’s all the time going to be a means out or an answer. I would like them to form of have that perspective as they see the story by.
Do you have got a message on your followers at TCAF and world wide?
That is one thing that readers of Witch Hat Atelier will already know or have began to note, however the concept of the manga is that magic will not be one thing you’re born with. It’s not in your blood or genes, nor should you had been born right into a household of magicians that makes you a magician. That’s not the way it works. (Magic) is one thing that anybody can study to do with pen and ink, and it’s a capability that anybody can study to harness and to hone. I would like readers to suppose, “Properly, if that is one thing that I even have a capability to do, what’s going to I do with this energy that I’ve in my arms?”
I do know the story is ready in a fantasy world, however the characters’ world is actual to them. When the characters have an actual pen and ink in entrance of them, how will they use this energy? I would like audiences to suppose (about) that as they learn my story.
Why You Don’t See New Magical Lady IPs the Means There Used to Be (It’s Not Due to Madoka) (Leaked Expertise)
Deep dive into the a number of elements which have result in the present state of the subgenre.
That’s proper: ever since its inception twenty years in the past, PreCure has by no means ended. It’s acquired a unique sub-series with a unique setting yearly, but it surely’s beneath the identical basic franchise and carries the identical ideas that Toei had been constantly utilizing of their Sailor Moon → Phantom Thief Jeanne → Ojamajo Doremi → PreCure development. It’s now thought of to be part of the “Sunday Morning Children’ Time” trio that folks of all ages will watch collectively on Sunday mornings, with the opposite two being Kamen Rider and Tremendous Sentai (and though the latter two are focused at a male demographic, it’s not unusual to listen to about younger boys watching PreCure whereas ready for the opposite exhibits and stepping into it).
So in different phrases, PreCure is now thought of to be a practical sibling to two of essentially the most traditionally and culturally related IPs in Japan. When you have got a staple magical lady sequence that’s assured to be round each Sunday, you’ll be able to see why individuals wouldn’t really feel too starved for an additional one, particularly since PreCure modifications up its idea yearly and thus has an inexpensive quantity of selection all by itself. Which suggests should you’re a brand new magical lady IP that’s too much like PreCure and also you need to enter the market in competitors — particularly on the subject of toy gross sales, an important supply of funding for a children’ sequence — you’re unlikely to face an opportunity.
In reality, it is probably not inaccurate to say that PreCure has monopolized the magical lady style as a complete; the truth that Sunday Morning Children’ Time is beginning to monopolize children’ Sunday mornings has been a problem usually introduced up amongst Japanese followers, and whilst somebody who’s an enormous PreCure fan myself, I’ve blended emotions about whether or not its imposing presence out there has led to it changing into just about the solely fashion of youngsters’ magical lady sequence you’ll ever see these days. It’s additionally most likely a think about why Nakayoshi doesn’t do this many new magical lady sequence subsequent to the nostalgia milk-fest, as a result of PreCure is a media combine in itself and thus has manga variations that run in Nakayoshi yearly.
Singer of Japanese anime ‘NANA’ eager to advertise Japan-China exchanges (The Mainichi)
Tsuchiya Anna, singing voice for Osaki Nana, held her first live performance in Beijing in June.
The anime has turn out to be more and more fashionable by way of Chinese language social media posts and lots of followers of their teenagers and 20s got here to Tsuchiya’s live performance in Beijing, based on an organizer of the music occasion.
NANA, initially a manga by Ai Yazawa, follows the story of two girls each named Nana, with certainly one of them pursuing knowledgeable music profession together with her band, and their friendship.
Tsuchiya stated that despite the fact that she can not converse Chinese language, she felt on the live performance that music transcended the language barrier and allowed the performers and viewers to benefit from the event collectively.
Jiang Yuxuan, 26, who traveled from Qingdao in Shandong Province to hitch the embassy occasion in Beijing, informed Kyodo Information she was “overjoyed to have the ability to meet with (Tsuchiya) so shut for the primary time.”
“I wish to create extra new songs and go to many locations” in China to carry dwell music performances, Tsuchiya stated.
Steam Subsequent Fest 2024 Video games to Carry on Your Radar (Blerdy Otome, Naja)
Quick demos of indie video games from quite a lot of genres.
(Boyhood’s Finish) isn’t in my normal wheelhouse, however I’m attempting to department out from visible novels… and I LOVE ‘Night time on the Galactic Railroad’. You spend the majority of the demo with Giovanni a severely bullied teen as he tries to outlive in a world that’s always in opposition to him. Struggle a evil “benevolent” AI overlord that determines your value primarily based on an unfair level system. To make ends meet, you utilize your hacking abilities to govern the world round you and clear up puzzles. I’m not the most effective at video games like this, I believe I acquired slurped by a killer Roomba 10 occasions earlier than I discovered learn how to not die. Irritating AF, however so satisfying after I figured it out. And whereas Giovanni and Campanella don’t spend a lot time on display within the demo… the chemistry is there *wink* *wink* I’m positively enjoying this when it comes out! I’m hooked!
Osaka lawsuit calls for web site information on ‘buraku’ be eliminated (The Asahi Shimbun, Issei Yamamoto)
A number of communities in different prefectures have additionally filed fits.
The plaintiffs demanded that the pinnacle of the corporate take away details about locations in Osaka Prefecture and pay 11 million yen ($68,000) in compensation.
As of the tip of June, the web site listed the names of at the very least 367 locations the place buraku, or feudal-era communities of outcast individuals, are positioned, based on the lawsuit.
Residents of these areas nonetheless face discrimination, notably in employment and marriage.
The web site additionally carries pictures and explanations in regards to the communities.
The plaintiffs stated the images, together with these of deserted autos and derelict properties, “evoke a picture that buraku are scary locations and add to discrimination.”
“Many individuals (who dwell in buraku communities) discover it troublesome to return ahead for concern of discrimination that also stays,” stated Masahito Nakai, a lawyer for the plaintiffs. “It’s the function of the judiciary to extricate them from such a scenario.”
Over 10% of individuals aged 16-29 have been groped, most frequently on trains: Japan gov’t survey (The Mainichi, Akiko Yamazaki)
13.6% of girls who responded and three.6% of males reported having been groped.
The research, geared toward understanding the precise scenario confronted by victims, acquired 2,346 legitimate responses, revealing that just about half, or 46.4%, of the respondents had been between the ages of 16 and 19 after they had been groped for the primary time, whereas 35.4% had been 15 years outdated or youthful.
Relating to latest incidents, 62.8% of victims had been groped “on the prepare” — the most typical location. Lots of them had been on their option to college (32.2%) or going residence (31.5%). There was a noticeable improve in circumstances throughout commuting hours equivalent to “from 6 to 9 a.m.” (34.5%) and “from 6 to 9 p.m.” (18.2%). Perpetrators had been of the other intercourse in 85.2% of circumstances. In 4.3% of circumstances they had been of the identical intercourse and in 10.6% their gender was unknown.
To a query permitting a number of solutions asking whether or not or not the victims contacted the police or different authorities, solely 9.9% stated they “notified the police instantly after the incident” whereas the bulk, or 80.4%, stated they “didn’t notify the police or officers of different authorities involved.” The commonest reply to a multiple-response query asking why they didn’t report the case to the police, was “I didn’t need to make an enormous deal out of it” at 41.1%.
Girls regularly rise in Japanese politics however face deep challenges (The Asahi Shimbun)
10.3% of the decrease home of parliament membership is girls, which isn’t far faraway from the 8.4% when girls had been first elected to parliament in 1946.
Assaults on Renho’s aggressive picture had been a transparent instance of gender bias in a society that expects feminine candidates to be “motherly or cute,” stated Chiyako Sato, a Mainichi Shimbun editorial author and a commentator on politics.
Due to a small feminine presence in politics, highly effective girls are likely to get extreme consideration. Their presence in Tokyo governor’s election “conveyed a optimistic message that ladies can turn out to be political leaders, however a considerable amount of the noise about them additionally mirrored Japan’s unhappy actuality,” stated Mari Miura, a Sophia College professor and professional on gender and politics.
For example, a survey of nationwide and native lawmakers in 2022 carried out by a civil group confirmed one-third of about 100 feminine respondents confronted sexual harassment throughout election campaigns or at work.
Earlier this yr, a gaffe-prone former prime minister, Taro Aso, was pressured to apologize for describing International Minister Yoko Kamikawa, a lady, as succesful however not stunning.
Girls make up about 30% of the Tokyo meeting, and their presence on the town assemblies in city areas can also be rising. On common, feminine illustration in additional than 1,740 Japanese native assemblies doubled to 14.5% in 2021 from 20 years in the past. There are rising requires extra feminine voices in politics.
However in rural areas, the place extra conventional gender roles are extra normal, 226, or 13% of the overall, had “zero girls” assemblies final yr, based on the Gender Equality Bureau of the Cupboard Workplace.
Epilepsy physician tells of brother’s pressured sterilization beneath Japan’s outdated eugenics legislation (The Mainichi, Hiroshi Endo)
The Supreme Court docket not too long ago dominated that the Japanese authorities owes damages to victims of the eugenics legislation.
In line with nationwide statistics, Miyagi Prefecture had the second-highest variety of pressured sterilizations, with 1,406. The prefecture destroyed a part of its data, leaving 900 verifiable circumstances together with 39 attributable to epilepsy, accounting for about 4%.
Soga’s brother, now hospitalized at Bethel, makes use of a wheelchair and is described as all the time smiling and gentle-natured.
“I can say I constructed Bethel for my brother,” says Soga. It’s uncommon for household to disclose circumstances of pressured sterilization, and he means that, like his brother, many individuals with epilepsy even have mental disabilities, making it troublesome for them to talk out. “Until society ensures a mechanism to talk on behalf of the victims, it’s difficult for these points to be acknowledged.”
Solely not too long ago have the sterilizations been acknowledged as a social drawback. Lawsuits for state compensation have been filed nationwide, and on July 3 the Supreme Court docket dominated that the federal government should certainly pay damages to victims. Nonetheless, Soga feels that discrimination in opposition to individuals with disabilities persists.
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both umineko or home of fata morgana. each are literacy masterpieces.— Princess Flutters (@princessflutters.bsky.social) Jul 9, 2024 at 10:52 AM
