I’m going to try to keep this roundup on schedule k so I’m laying a little of it up
Next up, this week or next week is: Michiko e Hatchin
After that:
Nausicaa manga and movie
IFFY IN BETWEEENS: I think I’ll do shorter posts on Kamekaze Kaitou Jeanne and AngelBeats! here split pretty evenly between pros and cons.
Read or Die
http://listlessink.wordpress.com/2011/05/30/taisho-yakyuu-musume-review-growth-and-feminism-and-yuri/
definitely have to check it out. SOUNDS LIKE ALL MY FAVORITE THINGS.
Here’s how it’s gonna go down.
I’m going to do a megapost for each series. There will be a brief summary of the series basic plot and then I’m going to go through how it fares with seperate categories.
Women and Gender This category may be subdivided into characters, plot, themes and authorship. It’s going to focus on representation of women and gender roles and what the story says about it.
LGBTQ This will analyze the LBGTQ content of the work and how it’s presented if it’s presented at all, and talk about how characters identifying LGBTQ are treated
Race and Culture This will talk about how race is treated in the anime and how non-Japanese are represented. I won’t really bother caring about how Caucasians are treated if they’re present, but focus on the treatment of darker skinned characters and other nationalities. Most anime takes place in Japan and the majority of the characters tend to be Japanese, as Japan is only 1% minorities. Obviously the Japanese count as POC and therefore most manga you read will have a predominantly POC cast (I will state if this is not the case), but you can expect Japanese to be well represented in manga, so discussing that is moot. The treatment of other traditionally marginalized races and cultures is what requires looking at.
Disability This will deal with the representation of people with disability and how disability is treated within the text.
Weight This will deal with whether there is any fatphobia or fat-positive characters.
Awesome Things Any awesome things I may have missed that make the manga and/or anime feminist and worth looking into
Triggers Anything that might trigger someone in the work. I’ll try to be thorough about this, if I miss something, please tell me.
I’m going to start off with some relatively obscure stuff everyone might not know about- Michiko to Hatchin, Serei no Morbito, Princess Tutu etc. Though you can expect posts on FMA and Sailor Moon and the like naturally
List of the undeniably feminist friendly series I’m starting out with (this is only stuff I’ve completely finished). More will be added on including more iffy series and especially as I finish stuff, but these are the definites.
Sailor Moon
Revolutionary Girl Utena (anime)
Twelve Kingdoms
Fullmetal Alchemist
Madoka Magica
Nausicaa manga and movie
Miyazaki movies
Serei no Morbito
Noir
Claymore
Read or Die (anime)
Princess Tutu
Michiko to Hatchin
Stuff with strong female characters that actually seems to confront gender/race/other roles and purposefully send a feminist message:
Sailor Moon
Revolutionary Girl Utena (anime)
Twelve Kingdoms
Fullmetal Alchemist (Winry and Olivier do directly call out and challenge gender roles a couple of times. Racism is also heavily discussed)
Cardcaptor Sakura
Madoka Magica
Nausicaa (manga and movie, and other Miyazaki movies as well)
Serei no Morbito
Skip Beat!
Library Wars
Stuff with strong, central female leads:
Noir
Claymore
Michiko e Hatchin
R.O.D the TV (and the Read or Die OVA)
Ouran (though thanks to some major fuckups-mostly the beach saga- this does not meet feminist criteria despite direct challenge of gender roles)
Kamekaze Kaitou Jeanne (seriously iffy sexual assault issues tho- same as Ouran)
Summer Wars (I really liked the bait and switch where the girl who was initially treated as just a love interest turned out to be a badass needed to win the final battle)
Bamboo Blade (so far- and it does challenge gender roles a couple times so it might go in the other section eventually)
Princess Tutu
Stuff that treats women pretty decently:
Baccano!
Azumanga Daioh (female leads)
Inuyasha (so far- I’m a bit iffy, honestly I got so pissed off at how Miroku treated Sango that’s why I fell off reading. But Sango and Kagome remain awesome, I just don’t like how the boys treat them)
Edit: Oh man, Story of Saiunkoku! I’ve actually seen that, and it definitely confronts gender roles with the female lead so. I can’t place it right now though because I never finished it)
I just realized I didn’t put Princess Tutu on my feminist anime/manga list
why did someone not say something!!!
This is so I can actually do this series of posts well.
Here’s what I’ve got so far:
List
Rose of Versailles (Finished anime and manga. I really enjoyed it and there’s good stuff there, but also a lot of problematic stuff, as can be expected considering the era it was written in.)
NANA
Eden of the East (watching)
Xam`d: Lost Memories (Finished. Meets criteria.)
Pretty Cure (watching)
Simoun (Apparently this is about a world where everyone is born physically female and choose what sex they want to be when they’re 17. That sounds sort of amazing, I’m curious to see how it’s handled.) (Finished. Good anime that has a well developed cast and says a lot of interesting things about gender)
Wandering Son (I know some people were wondering about trans* chars and this is apparently all about that. I’ll have to see how it’s handled and report to you guyz) (reading)
Kino’s Journey (Finished. Meets criteria, is a good anime)
Michiko to Hatchin: Finished. Great anime about the bond between two women.)
The Girl Who Leapt Through time (Finished. Not sure it would qualify as feminist, but it was a good flick)
Romeo X Juliet (watching)
Black Lagoon (watch more of it)
Magic Knights Rayearth (anime. I’ve read the manga, it’s good!)
Skip Beat. Reading. Also hooked.
Ooku
Otougi Zoushi
Please Save My Earth
Paradise Kiss (tried first volume, wasn’t especially impressed- will try again sometime.)
N.G. Life
Bride’s Story (reading. Beautiful art)
Beast Player Erin
Taisho Yakyuu Musume
Ciel
Slayers (watching. Love it!)
Princess Jellyfish (Good, cute anime and manga. I’m now caught up with it and reading it as it comes out)
Alice 19 and other stuff by Yuu Watase
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (Finished, except for new movie. Fairly good magical girl anime with some interesting points.)
Basara (Finished. Incredibly great and feminist manga)
Gokinjo Monogatari
There’s also stuff I’m in the middle of, like Ghost in the Shell and Bamboo Blade, that is really good so far.
I know there’s a couple recs I’ve gotten here that I’ve forgotten by now…anyway, anyone have any more suggestions.
going to link this back to @adventures of comic book girl for her list, but first I need to write them all down!!!
Triggers are mentioned, but if you read this and see that I forgot a trigger please tell me!!! ETA Double Arts!!!
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