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Psychological Well being Disaster Sources and Advocacy Teams
In lieu of a Wednesday characteristic, we wished to supply a put up with sources for these on the lookout for psychological well being/disaster assist or for causes at the moment searching for donations.
Opening up the “Black Field Diaries” with Shiori Ito
Ito filed go well with towards a fellow journalist for sexual assault in 2017, sparking Japan’s personal #MeToo motion. We spoke with Ito about her current documentary, which covers her battle with Japan’s authorized system.
Chatty AF 217: 2024 Fall Mid-Season Test-In
We examine in on the 2024 Fall season’s stunning variety of magical women, pleasurable het romances, and women hitting the Sailor Moon pose!
What was your most cathartic anime-viewing expertise?
It’s the form of factor we might use proper now.
Bonus Podcast (with Transcript): LOOK BACK, Grief, and Creating Artwork
The unbelievable adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s LOOK BACK is on streaming, so we bought collectively to speak about grief, burnout, and the combination of camaraderie and rivalry in friendship between artists.
Past AniFem
This Week in Videogame Running a blog: November tenth (Essential Distance, Chris Lawrence)
Much like our put up this Wednesday, that is one other listing of organizations that would use assist defending susceptible populaces.
As a substitute, we’ve determined to make use of our visibility and attain to advertise a wide range of organizations, assist networks, advocacy teams, and reduction funds devoted offering materials sources, authorized counsel, important serivces, illustration, and different types of assist to susceptible and marginalized communities and demographics each within the US and the Center East. It’s abundantly clear that governments and politicans within the US and elsewhere are broadly detached to the wants and dignity of those teams at finest and actively hostile to their existence at worst.
We invite you to share this put up broadly and peruse these hyperlinks and make your individual knowledgeable decisions about the place finest to make donations and lend assist. Many of those hyperlinks are flat-out copied from Kaile’s web site No Escape/Fugue Plague and the remainder had been solicited from members of our Discord server. You’re very welcome to be part of the server and share another sources like this–we will at all times replace this listing and proceed to hyperlink again to it in future points.
How Witch Hat Atelier’s Manga Creator Made Magic for Everybody (Anime Information Community, Jairus Taylor and Rebecca Silverman)
A panel abstract and journalist Q&A with Shirahama.
The collection runs in a seinen publication, however there are a variety of little options like studying learn how to design your individual witch hat or video games included within the quantity releases and really feel designed for youthful readers. What made you wish to embody them, and did you envision kids as a part of your target market for the story? Or was this form of characteristic meant to encourage all readers, no matter age or gender, to develop into concerned within the story’s world? Does Witch Hat Atelier have an “meant viewers” in your eyes?
SHIRAHAMA: So in Japan, manga is normally categorized by the goal demographics of the magazines they run in. For instance, shōnen is for the youthful male viewers, josei is for the mature feminine viewers, and so forth, however seinen is form of distinctive in a way. It’s form of like a combined bag of matters. It doesn’t fairly match into a specific demographic, and it’s actually only a matter of exploring the tales. So after I bought an opportunity to write down for a seinen journal, I began considering that this manga wasn’t only for a mature male viewers, however for a wider viewers as nicely.
In that sense, seinen manga is sort of a style of all genres in Japan. As for my very own manga, I do truly think about kids across the identical age because the characters the primary target market for the story, however I additionally wish to make the story pleasurable for a broader viewers.
Schooling is a giant theme within the collection, particularly in the case of permitting kids the liberty to assume and be taught for themselves slightly than blindly listening to adults. Why do you assume that’s so necessary?
SHIRAHAMA: I believe it’s actually necessary for youngsters or individuals of any age to assume independently. When what’s thought of frequent sense appears irrational, they need to be capable of query it themselves. So educating kids to assume on their very own, and make selections primarily based on their very own considering, is actually necessary. To encourage the readers to assume in that approach, I’ve included these sorts of themes within the story to encourage individuals in actual life to use them to their lives as nicely.
We see via characters like Tartah and Custas how society can usually fail to accommodate individuals with disabilities. Was there something that made you wish to focus on that subject in your work?
SHIRAHAMA: That is additionally form of a theme that’s all through my collection, as nicely. When there’s an issue, or a tough scenario emerges, there’s one thing you possibly can at all times do with creativity. Though it’s true that the world has not been constructed to accommodate all people simply but, all people can provide you with their very own artistic methods of filling in for these difficulties. And I hope that may develop into one thing that readers of the collection would take into consideration.
If I might use magic, I’d like to make use of these powers to assist make the environment of somebody who makes use of a wheelchair barrier-free. In the event that they needed to do one thing like choose up a guide on the very best shelf, it might make it come down. These are the sorts of ways in which I want to use my magic. If I might affect even one particular person to assume on this approach, possibly every of us might assist accommodate all people.
It’s a recognition vote and open to registration by e mail tackle. Bravern successful would even be good.
Entering into this dialog, inori.-sensei simply occurred to say that the Tokyo Anime Award Greatest 100 was open for voting. She gave step-by-step directions to help her abroad followers to vote in the event that they wished to. By November 3, Watashi no Oshi ha Akuyaku Reijou. (私の推しは悪役令嬢。) had made it into the highest 20. It confronted some severe competitors, like Frieren (葬送のフリーレン) and Scrumptious in Dungeon (ダンジョン飯), however WataOshi handed each and is now sitting at a powerful #2 place behind the amazingly well-liked #1, Courageous Bang Bravern! (勇気爆発バーンブレイバーン) and in entrance of the Sanrio collaboration with boy band JO1, Jochum.
Can WataOshi push previous Bravern to win the highest place? It’s unlikely given the extremely sexualized nature of Bravern and the truth that it’s a BL mecha collection, so it has cross-genre attraction. As considered one of our esteemed Okazu Discord members, Rugose famous, “Bang Bravern has the gays and robotfuckers supporting it,” and I can’t disagree with that summation. That mentioned, Watashi no Oshi ha Akuyaku Reijou has to date made a powerful stand. Even a #2 end would possibly persuade the powers that be to develop a second season. Like all popularity-driven “finest” contests, this contest is completely susceptible to poll stuffing by utilizing a number of emails. That mentioned, it does point out the eagerness of a fandom and WataOshi followers are maintaining the stress.
Burned by mother, abused ‘younger carer’ in Tokyo engages in assist actions for related youth (The Mainichi, Eri Misono)
The now-activist was each a caregiver for his mom and subjected to abuse by kin throughout his upbringing.
On Nov. 1, when little one abuse prevention month designated by the welfare ministry started, Naoto was collaborating in a road fundraising occasion held in entrance of JR Shinjuku Station. That is a part of the actions of the “youth assist fund,” which supplies grants to organizations that assist younger individuals from socially deprived backgrounds.
This road fundraiser was the primary of its type, and was the brainchild of Naoto. His want was not solely to gather donations, but in addition to let individuals know that there are various kids who can not depend on their dad and mom and that there are adults who assist these kids.
He instructed the Mainichi Shimbun, “I wish to create a society the place individuals can attain out to anybody in want round them.”
Serving to with assist group actions
In fiscal 2022, little one steering facilities nationwide obtained 214,843 consultations concerning little one abuse. In the meantime, there are roughly 42,000 kids in social care and safety methods, of which about 23,000 dwell in kids’s houses.
In April of this 12 months, the revised Baby Welfare Act got here into impact, eradicating the age restrict of 18 years previous in precept (most 22 years previous) for supporting the independence of younger individuals rising up in kids’s houses and different such amenities.
Dissatisfaction with Supreme Court docket justices out of the blue surges (The Asahi Shimbun, Takashi Endo)
No justice has but been eliminated on account of the overview system.
The 4 justices who obtained disapproval rankings over 10 p.c had been: Chief Justice Yukihiko Imasaki at 11.46 p.c; Akira Ojima at 11 p.c; Mitsuko Miyagawa at 10.52 p.c; and Kimihiro Ishikane at 10.01 p.c.
In nationwide critiques, justices whose names are listed on the far proper aspect of the poll are inclined to obtain extra “X” marks. This time, Ojima’s title appeared in that place.
Nevertheless, Imasaki surpassed Ojima by way of disapproval, doubtless attributable to his involvement in a number of prime courtroom instances regarding the rights of sexual minorities.
In a 2023 lawsuit involving a transgender official on the economic system ministry who lives as a lady, Imasaki, as presiding justice, dominated that restrictions on the official’s entry to ladies’s restrooms had been unlawful.
In a 2024 case concerning compensation advantages for households of crime victims, he expressed opposition to together with same-sex companions as eligible recipients.
The choices in these lawsuits had been sizzling matters on social media.
This was the primary time in 15 years for a chief justice to be topic to a overview.
VIDEO: Demo of 90s shoujo-inspired visible novel MY DEAR☆LOVE.
VIDEO: A course of chat with one of many newly educated animators from the Animator Dormitory Challenge, as a part of its moral fee mannequin.
VIDEO: Girls, Oppression, and Hope in Taisho Japan: Exploring Utsuro Akuta’s VNs.
SKEET: FFXIV not too long ago tried to implement textured hair as an choice in-game, although at the moment they had been solely capable of execute a wavy choice.
I’m going to write down a message to the #ffxiv workforce on the discussion board to formally thank them.
However I drew them an image to remind them we’re cheering then on and to not overlook the individuals whom texture hair is necessary for.(Ps, used google for the Japanese textual content. God i hope its translated correctly)
— Mon 🌻 (@madqueenmomo.bsky.social) November 11, 2024 at 4:00 PM
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AniFem Neighborhood
It’s a great week to simply…course of.
as cliché as this reply could also be, Finish of Evangelion. I bear in mind ending it, 16 years previous and gender dysphoria having not too long ago began ramping up, and staring out the window, seeing the brown sky slowly turning lighter, snow falling, and simply zonking out on the sofa with a stolen bottle of pink wine
— Lettuce, Tchaikovskyite Girl (@latisserande.bsky.social) November 11, 2024 at 10:38 PM
The ultimate three episodes of Devilman Crybaby are concurrently harrowing but stunning, darkish but hopeful, and is the uncommon piece of media to make me cry a number of occasions. Even when the world ends, connection is what makes life (and demise) value it. Seize that baton, and do not let go.
— Evan Bartholomew (@evanbartholomew.bsky.social) November 12, 2024 at 9:54 PM
