AniFem Spherical-Up
Anime Feminist’s Favourite Movies of 2023
We’re taking a run at some new protection this 12 months.
2024 Winter Three-Episode Test-In
Lot of exhibits taking surprising pivots this season.
Chatty AF 200: Revolutionary Woman Utena Watchalong – Half 1
We have a good time 200 episodes by having mega Utena fan Vrai to speak Cy and Chiaki via their very first viewing of the sequence.
What’s your favourite magical woman sequence?
There are all the time new titles to find, which is nice.
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WHEELS & ROSES: TV Pilot (Kickstarter)
Fundraiser for a magical woman curler derby pilot.
WHEELS & ROSES is a Sailor Moon meets Curler Derby YA animated coming-of-age sequence. The story facilities on our protagonist Sahara, and her Magical Curler Derby crew WHEELS & ROSES! Set in a world of magic, we comply with Sahara (protagonist), Danielle, Nina, Kai, and Bree, as they study what it means to develop as a crew, and overcome all odds to change into the champions.
All through the sequence, we’ll see how every of our characters learns methods to construct significant relationships and discover who they’re as people. Whereas many of the present will happen in arenas the place bouts (AKA video games) will likely be held, we’d additionally like to point out our characters’ lives, to get a greater sense of their completely different lived experiences. This present is unapologetically queer! Unapologetically smooth! In addition to unapologetically robust– ’trigger duh, curler derby!
Let’s simply say this story was created by the ability of magical women and sports activities anime!!
Our final aim is to make a completely animated 22-minute pilot episode.
Relying on what monetary aim we hit although, we might find yourself creating both a trailer, or an animated brief movie, heck or perhaps a graphic novel! The extra we fundraise, the extra animation we will make! I hope you’ll be part of this journey to convey this story to life.
24/7 Magical Maiden Mimi (Kickstarter)
Fundraiser for the most recent ebook by ROADQUEEN creator Mira Ong Chua.
Lonely, unpopular center schooler Milo has a secret: he’s truly Magical Maiden Mimi, the plucky heroine that protects the town from the cuddly-yet-vicious aliens that threaten the peace!
When a magical slip-up leaks his id to the general public, Milo finds himself with the celebrity and admiration he’s all the time dreamed of…
…However embracing his new recognition would possibly push him away from the issues that matter essentially the most.
24/7 Magical Maiden Mimi is a lighthearted fantasy story that includes an LGBTQ+ forged about friendship, presentation, and the ability of pursuing your truest self! It’s applicable for basic audiences.
IGN Is Forming A Union (Aftermath, Gita Jackson)
Layoffs have swept games-related industries for the previous couple of years.
“We want truthful and aggressive pay for all, together with those that are requested to stay and work in among the costliest cities in the US; reasonably priced medical health insurance; and higher range, fairness, and inclusion throughout the board,” the Guild wrote of their mission assertion. “We want safety in opposition to layoffs amid a busy media panorama, ensures of cheap compensation when these layoffs can’t be prevented, in addition to protections in opposition to generative AI and related applied sciences.”
Max Scoville, a senior video producer and host who has labored at IGN for 9 years, wrote in a press launch that whereas he’s immensely happy with the work he and his colleagues have performed, it’s time for the corporate to evolve.
“IGN is already an business chief in leisure media,” Scoville wrote, “however it’s essential that we guarantee it additionally continues to be a bastion for the human beings who give it a voice.”
Why ‘Godzilla’ is the Most Potent Metaphor in Media (Black Nerd Issues, Frantz Jerome)
The newest movies within the context of the franchise’s political themes.
Designed as a prequel to the 1954 debut, Minus One explores a lot: Authorities unreliability, anti-war sentiment, the character of trauma, a staggering quantity of the human expertise. It posits a extra daring and sinister indictment: that Japan’s use of Kamikaze pilots was a main catalyst for the US use of atomic weapons in opposition to them. Simply so we’re clear, the Godzilla IP was used to scrutinize its personal nation of origin. At that, to inquire as as to if Japan dedicated a struggle crime in opposition to its personal individuals!
Minus One goes so onerous within the paint it don’t even make sense. Author/Director Takashi Yamazaki initially thought to make use of his entry into the Godzilla pantheon to speak concerning the latest governmental response to COVID-19 however thought it will be too much like Shin Godzilla. Shifting it away from trendy instances and into instant post-war Japan gave the film a lot room to showcase the similarities between how the world powers dealt with atomic fallout and a world pandemic. The ending of this one is one other piece of brilliance that leaves you scratching your head after which scouring the Web for solutions. An indicator of a number of Godzilla initiatives is that the ending feels prefer it isn’t an ending in any respect. By no means within the hopes to eke out a sequel, however to permit the characters, penalties, and context to sit down within the minds and hearts of audiences.
Persona 3 Reload Owes Its Queer Characters Extra Than Erasure (Inverse, Robin Bea)
The remake removes the transphobic seaside scene in each variations, not simply the localization.
As Kotaku first reported and others who’ve performed the sport verify, Persona 3 Reload truly eliminates the transphobic joke completely (Yay!) by making the character in query now not trans (Boo!). Within the new launch, the lady is a conspiracy theorist making an attempt to promote them particular sunscreen, and the boys react with the identical dismay they did within the authentic.
Technically, this is a step up. Each as a trans girl and an individual with a conscience, I’m glad to a minimum of see a transphobic joke not being repeated, however the best way Atlus made its course correction nonetheless leaves me feeling terrible. By itself, there’s nothing objectionable concerning the new scene. However onceyou know that it’s simply portray over a transphobic joke, the change feels woefully insufficient.
If the one approach Persona 3 Reload can keep away from being transphobic is by eradicating trans individuals completely, it’s suggesting that the trans girl was the issue, not the transphobes.
That is probably not the message Atlus is explicitly making an attempt to ship, however it’s the one which loads of individuals will obtain. Once I see Atlus erasing an individual like me reasonably than simply portraying a trans girl with dignity, it says to me that the one approach mainstream tradition can keep away from transphobia is to do away with all of the pesky trans individuals elevating the difficulty.
Academics on go away for psychological sickness in Japan hit report excessive (The Mainichi)
The information additionally consists of data on lecturers punished for corporal and sexual assault.
The variety of lecturers who took go away as a consequence of psychological sickness had fluctuated at round 5,000 in recent times, however it surged by greater than 1,300 in two years since fiscal 2020, which noticed the beginning of the unfold of the novel coronavirus.
Training specialists stated the rise was partly as a consequence of an elevated workload attributable to the pandemic reminiscent of the necessity to take an infection prevention measures, however in addition they cited a rising pattern in complaints from college students’ mother and father.
A scarcity of faculty lecturers has been a major problem in Japan with younger individuals avoiding getting into a career seen as having a heavy workload, the specialists stated, whereas additionally noting that extra lecturers are taking go away as a consequence of sickness or childbirth.
The web goes in quest of blame after the demise of Hinako Ashihara (The Japan Occasions, Thu-Huong Ha)
Ashihara misplaced her life to suicide after deleting a publish essential of an adaptation of her work.
What was basically an business insider skirmish grew into an all-out social media uproar. Some customers sided with Aizawa, criticizing the sudden unexplained adjustments within the plot and saying Ashihara was being too demanding as a creator and may settle for that supply materials wanted to be modified for a mainstream TV viewers. Elsewhere, Aizawa was vilified as a gensaku kurrashā, or “authentic work crusher,” a time period for producers and writers who destroy works within the technique of adaptation, and followers sided with Ashihara for being poorly handled as a creator. The subject trended for a number of days on X.
Ashihara deleted a few of her tweets, leaving up solely the “check” publish and her apology publish from round 1 p.m. on Sunday, the day she was reported lacking. Within the wake of her demise, which was reported on Monday, social media customers are doubling down on naming and shaming, in what feels strongly harking back to the weeks following the suicide of “Terrace Home” star Hana Kimura.
A tweet calling the scriptwriter a assassin has been preferred 8,100 instances on the time of writing. One other tweet naming a producer who the poster stated was as equally accountable as Aizawa as an “authentic work crusher” has 20,000 likes, whereas nonetheless one other with 13,000 likes accuses Nippon TV of not supporting Ashihara and saying its assertion on her demise was insufficient.
Critics appear mainly involved with whether or not Ashihara’s work as an artist was revered and what the function of a scriptwriter is to start with. What nobody appears to be saying (or perhaps the algorithms simply aren’t displaying) is what accountability belongs to the remainder of us: To the customers, for his or her nameless pile-ons and trigger-happy responses, the media business, for including gas to the hearth, or the platform algorithms, for the best way they encourage careless clicking and increase sentiments strongly divided by feelings.
Maternity, child emergency provides missing in Japan municipalities (The Mainichi)
The examine encompassed all 1,741 municipalities in Japan.
Some 61.1 p.c have been discovered to not have any girls in catastrophe prevention and disaster administration departments, in line with the examine.
Round 14,000 individuals have lived in evacuation facilities for over a month since a 7.6-magnitude earthquake hit the Noto Peninsula on the Sea of Japan coast. Whereas they’ve been receiving aid provides, it’s not identified if they’ve been in a position to acquire obligatory objects when wanted.
The examine confirmed that 82.5 p.c stocked sanitary napkins, however solely 11.9 p.c had underwear for ladies. Some 6.4 p.c saved private alarm units or whistles.
Whereas 72.5 p.c stockpiled child method, solely 14.3 p.c had child meals wanted for weaning infants round six months outdated. The examine additionally discovered 66.9 p.c carried diapers, however solely 26.1 p.c had child wipes.
‘Who’re you?’ Japan enterprise foyer pushes gov’t to permit spouses to maintain authentic surnames (The Mainchi, Yuki Machino)
Presently, Japanese married {couples} should each undertake one accomplice’s surname.
Keidanren has collected a slew of tales concerning the bother attributable to the only surname requirement, together with, “Having to alter the final title is ruining my profession as the educational papers I’ve written beneath my maiden title will not be being acknowledged,” and “In some circumstances, my enterprise title has not been accepted when signing contracts.”
One girl who had been utilizing her authentic title whereas working at a world firm stated her international boss didn’t acknowledge the title proven on her earnings statements and different paperwork. “With a Japanese boss, it will’ve been easy to clarify, ‘That’s my husband’s final title,’ however since different nations have a separate title system, it takes longer for international bosses to know. I needed to get issues confirmed a number of instances. It was tiring.”
Points are additionally arising at small- and medium-sized companies which can be struggling to safe staff to inherit the businesses. In a 2021 survey by a company that promotes girls’s succession of companies, 60% of feminine enterprise house owners stated that they had been inconvenienced or deprived as a consequence of a final title change. Some respondents stated that shedding the founding household title of the corporate had led to lowered “model energy” and misplaced credibility inside and out of doors their firm. Some had even been requested, “Who’re you?” by shoppers and banks.
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It’s particularly improbable to see older titles like Saint Tail and Minky Momo make their approach over.
