#battle shonen

[acquired-stardust]

Yu Yu Hakusho Super Nintendo Entertainment System 1993

[makapatag]

ultimaviolent cultivation! an action horror xianxia battle novel set in the mystic materialist world of hingsajagra.

wanjo is a college dropout jobhopper hunted down for demanding better pay.

as he is ripped apart, a sect of kungfu commie cultivators saves him...

the story of how the red gleaming saints, the vanguard party of the hingsajagran world council, came to be! and how they expunged the world of the five-armed demiurge, brought cultivation to the working class, and brought the world to feud with the intergalactic celestial empires!

16 chapters out now:

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[zetadiamond]

I let him say it cuz Kishimoto would never.

[pizzapasta23045]

Sometimes I see people saying "Oh you'll get 1 billion if you beat up an anime character and win" and like that's only hard if you exclusively watch battle shonen.

Like it's really fucking easy to find an anime character anyone could manage to beat up, just find some random slice of life manga with a normal child. Like I'll just beat up Nobita from Doraemon if he doesn't have prep he's fucked he gets beat up all the time. Sure I can beat up Xiaolan for a billion like I'll feel bad but like not that much.

Even in like, shonen, there's like always a normal nonpowered child or generally weak character to beat up. Like if I need to beat up someone from spy family I'll just beat up one of the random ass kids. It's NOT HARD to find a non powered character it's really not.

Why do people pretend this is a hard question? Why do people say shit like "yeah I think I could beat Kobeni from CSM" she has powers she's too risky just beat up the fucking chicken devil come on.

[progress-and-prog]

Average Battle Shonen Author:

[animefeminist]

Embracing darkness and exploring the female gaze in After God

Content Warning: body horror

In the male-dominated genre of shounen anime and manga, the “female gaze” is not widely popular. Yet, Eno Sumi’s new manga After God boldly steps into this space, offering us a new perspective by challenging the traditional gender roles and delivering a narrative immersed in emotional depth, trauma, and raw vulnerability. Centered around its complex female protagonist, After God invites us to witness darkness not as a trope, but as an intimate and powerful experience through the eyes of a young woman. The series not only challenges expectations of femininity but it also redefines what it means for a female character to wield strength and sensuality, all while embracing the unsettling allure of the macabre. 

In Laura Mulvey’s 1975 essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” she uses the phrase “male gaze” to refer to how cinema often depicts and frames women from a patriarchal, masculine, and presumed heterosexual viewpoint. Mulvey’s concept has become a touchstone of feminist media criticism and a useful shorthand for discussing how female characters are depicted in media, particularly how they are characterized or visually objectified for the enjoyment of a presumed male audience. Since then, many critics, academics, and filmmakers have attempted to define and discuss the counterpoint “female gaze.” The consensus on what a “female gaze” entails is still somewhat fluid, but for our purposes we can define it as a means to unpack how characters, both women and men, are depicted through the lens of a female director/creator, or in works of art made for a presumed female audience. While this concept was invented in the context of cinema, we can also apply it to the visual medium of manga and anime, and it can be a useful way to discuss the portrayals of different characters and themes relative to the assumptions made about the audience. 

Read it at Anime Feminist!

[getsuga-jay]

MAKOTO NABARI

ナバリ•マコト

[derseprinceoftbd]

You know something? I've *never* seen a gender-equal Shonen popularity poll top 10 before!