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I did an article on Sailor Moon, media representation and the approaching anime for The Unititled Mag. As the about page reads: The Untitled Mag is an online publication and soon-to-be bi-yearly printed word magazine based in the United States. We believe there should be engaging, critical, and empowering content for everyone, and we mean it: we ( Read more... )

Plot: Fourteen year old Usagi Tsukino is a normal Japanese schoolgirl, though she’s clumsy, impulsive and a bit of a crybaby. Her life changes completely when she meets a talking cat called Luna, who tells her she must fight evil as Sailor Moon and find the princess who she must protect. Though reluctant at first, Usagi fights the newfound enemy, ( Read more... )

So first of all, wow, this shit can get dark. I always think it’s funny people think shoujo manga is all fluffy romance and rainbows, when even the most popular shoujo manga seems to have like, horrible abuse, people getting blinded, small children getting the shit beaten out of them and psychological drama.Shoujo can be a lot more intense than ( Read more... )

I actually met up with Maddy today, since I'm vacationing in Canada, and we had a nice chat. It made me feel sorta bad I haven't used my livejournal in forever. I still like all the people on here. I guess I just find tumblr more...convenient? But maybe I should start backing up my essay posts on here and checking my friends page. If you all haven' ( Read more... )

In regards to my...one sentence where I said the manga doesn't have the male gaze with the transformation sequences and the skirts don't tend to fly up all the way ever in the manga- I didn't mean to imply the manga never has fanservice or pictures people could find provocative. There's a couple times SM and co go transparent and barbie-naked ( Read more... )

I feel I didn't really focus enough on Sailor V in my breakdown of the Sailor Moon manga. And I really should, because not a lot of people are aware of it, due to this being the FIRST TIME EVER IT WILL BE RELEASED IN THE US, and without it, Sailor Moon wouldn't exist.

Naoko Taukeuchi did a short story about a girl with a talking cat who ( Read more... )

Sailor Moon: Analyzing Anime from a Gender perspective (or more accurately, From a Me Perspective)

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Dolls

One Piece

Pluto

Devilman

Ranma ½

Read or Die/Dream

Fullmetal Alchemist

Yotsuba

Oh! My Goddess

Battle Angel Alita

Lone Wolf and Cub
CLAMP's stuff
The rest of the stuff I haven't finished yet.

Stuff I plan to do:

Finish my book
Write Sailor Moon/Wonder Woman fic
finish sporking
write anime essays
write HP essays

DcWomenkickingAss is currently holding an event for the "Most Memorable Moments" for DC Women, since Newsarama's own event was so lacking. Each of the finalists gets a prominent fan or author to do a writeup for them. The likes of Bluefall and Phil Jiminez have already contributed with some lovely Wondy writeups, and I was asked to do the writeup ( Read more... )