Gender and Gender Relations in Manga and Anime

Comics and animation are products of Japanese culture like invitations and opening. Despite technological progress, Japan succeeded in retaining most of its historical features, in addition to its unstoppable impact on the West. The treatment of gender and gender relations in Japan has reached many turning points in the past millennium, and comics and animation reflect these changes. Still, the core of culture is some basic belief that is still difficult to change.

It is not only animation and manga that lack expression by gender, but Japanese culture often provides an independent view on gender performance and provides interesting explanation to popular animation and cartoon stories. For example, the heroine of the popular Angry high school boarding club spends most of the animation at a full boy club. Unusually, she refused to go back to a secure homosexual field for a series of girls that Ouran imitated. In fact, Ouran is one of the rare cases of cartoon characters, but if it is not gender identity it is at least a gender contradictory figure.

There is a full type of animation and cartoon called "Harlem" animation. In other words, the plot is concentrated in the harem of sex, and everyone is competing with the attention of people (usually heterosexual). In most cases, these animations are focused on women's groups, attracting men's attention. They want to accomplish it, but they can still bring entertainment and pleasure to people who do not see charming people living in crazy ladies' houses. Tenchi Muyo is an important harem animation. It is divided into many derivatives and OVA, but each can be accessed without reference to other products. The original series is still the best and has a vibrant character including space pirates, princesses of aliens, and women of crazy scientists.

Anime clearly distinguishes girls, boys, and young men and women's sex and market benefits. Since cartoons separate gender roles, dramatic animated story lines in gender tend to be stories when a character fills up a large gap between two males and females. A typical example is a manga "Ranma 1/2" based on Rumiko Takahashi's manga book, and one of the boys was a girl who was previously immersed in the Chinese magic pool where cold water had hit me. Became. The extremes of the two gender are clearly explained in this article (Levi, McHarry & Pagliassotti 2008).