The series’ relentless focus on lineage, bloodlines, and its invocation of imagined western European fantasy royalty as its central characters doesn’t help this at all, something that Awakening and Fates drove to extremes with the parent/child mechanic. Heteronormativity here means emphasizing the unspoken normality of heterosexuality, setting it as a baseline from which everything else is judged by its distance. Beyond AniFemĮmblem Doesn’t Just Need Gay Characters, It Needs Queer Life (Vice, ToddĪ deep reading of both the most recent game and theįranchise’s issues with inclusion overall.īut the series has never tried to support a reading that is critical of heteronormativity. Then we like to come back and do a deep dive on recent series. The team can’t always watch everything airing, but now and
Which anime would you like to see an AniFem retrospective on? Farah discusses action series Bubblegum CrisisĪnd the strides its remake Tokyo 2040 made by focusing on the agency and Megan D spotlights the women who influenced shoujo in theġ950s and 60s, and much of whose work has been lost to time.ĭecade Apart, Miles Ahead: Lady action heroes in Bubblegum Crisis and TokyoĪysha U.
