Tag: feminism
Posted in Anime Reviews
B Gata H Kei: the Fifteen Year Old Virgin
Is virginity a character flaw? Traditionally in Japan young girls were assumed to be maidens, to the point where the terms were at times used…
Posted in Anime Reviews
Aika Zero: Yielding to Victory
What defines Aika Zero? The fact that it deliberately imitates fetish porn? The fact that the overarching target for the first story arc is a…
Posted in Manga Reviews
Shitsurakuen: A Tired Argument
Shitsurakuen is metafiction. However, rather than metafiction that cleverly employs existing genre tropes to make an argument, it is metafiction that simply arrives back at…
A Brave New Divergence
I have seen the future, and it is fantastic. Multicolored hair! Massive oppai¹! Quantum everything! Cool robots! Just ignore the bizarre displays of objectum sexual²…
On Kannagi and Virginity
For those of you who missed it, there was a big to-do at the close of 2008 over the fact that Nagi of Kannagi might…