Cute Anime Girls, Sexy Babes & Warriors
Feminism, Gender & the Depiction of Girls / Women in Anime

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Below you will find summaries of articles & websites on Anime Girls, Babes & Warriors, i.e. the history, culture and art of Japanese anime, feminism, female characters & gender roles, the body, sexual fetish, fantasy, 'lolicon' & pedophilia, sexual orientation (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual / shemale), different anime media (comic books / graphic novels, video games, animated pictures, movies, dvd videos), ethics of virtual pornography, the law & the internet.
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* The diversity of ways we can be creative with anime (good and bad).

We hope you find the following articles & websites interesting, informative and useful.
Karene Jade Howie

Gender & Fantasy in Anime Movies by Hayao Miyazaki

From the website: 'The young female protagonists of Miyazaki's scenarios are bold, confident and adventurous. The elder women are often ambiguous and seemingly victims of being women in a man's world, or railing, if not overcompensating, against this. Miyazaki's universe is often populated by domineering female characters in opposition to the girls or adolescents shown 'becoming' women (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Winds, Kiki's Delivery Service, My Neighbour Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away). In many ways, Miyazaki is chiefly interested in exploring the rites of passage of girls, a subject more frequently associated in western cinema as being the domain of male concerns. More generically Miyazaki's trajectory also charts the passage of child into adulthood, and like his famous predecessor, Tezuka-san, Miyazaki views his contemporary society through the skewing prism of emergence; the transformation from one state into the next. But for Spirited Away, Miyazaki modifies his approach:

"Until now, I made 'I wish there was such a person' leading characters. This time, however, I created a heroine who is an ordinary girl, someone with whom the audience can sympathize, someone about whom one can say, 'Yes, it's like that.' It's very important to make it plain and unexaggerated. Starting with that, it's not a story in which the characters grow up, but a story in which they draw on something already inside them, brought out by the particular circumstances .. I wanted to tell such a story in this movie. I want my young friends to live like that, and I think they, too have such a wish." (Miyazaki)

Gender & Fantasy in Anime Movies by Hayao Miyazaki
http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/issue9/broderick_review.html

Anime Popular Among North American Women

From the website: While Japan has traditionally been, and still is, a predominately patriarchal society, 'the growing strength of women in Japanese society has led to an increase of warrior-type heroines' (Beale 1997).

When DiC bought the rights to Sailor Moon in 1994, Andy Heyward, then company president, saw it as a brilliant marketing strategy. Heyward correctly noted at the time that 'there is definite advertiser demand for a show that reaches girls' (Tobenkin 1994). Two years later, the DiC version of Sailor Moon was already a top show in North America and Ledoux remarked, 'I can completely see why its popular …There’s nothing for an action-minded young girl (on North American television) and I think Sailor Moon is the answer.' (Considine 1996).

It’s not just the Japanese titles that were targeted to girls and women in Japan that are popular with North American girls and women; many of the titles aimed at Japanese males are more popular with North American females than with Japanese females. Many anime titles have strong female lead characters and themes that are considered feminine in North America.
Matt Thorn, an animator and translator, notes that 'indications are that at least 35-40 % of people buying (in North America) Oh My Goddess are women' (Considine 1996). OMG contains strong female characters and some feminine themes, but still contain lots of serious comic-book style action. Thorn finds that percentage to be 'an almost inconceivable number of women' to be buying something sold mainly (in North America) in traditionally male dominated comic book stores.

Anime Popular Among North American Women
http://www.philticknor.net/Papers/acto.htm

Animated Video Games & Female Stereotypes

An examination of female characters found commonly in animated video games.

From the website: 'In order to evaluate the roles of women in the animation video game, the following categories could be useful:
- no female characters at all;
- female characters portrayed as sex objects or prizes (based upon physical
appearance such as wearing revealing clothing or body shape, or other aspects,
including women leaving with the male winner);
- female characters as victims (based upon the women who had been kidnapped or
assaulted as part of the plot. i.e. 'rescuing the princess');
- female characters as the heroines (based upon whether or not there were female
characters who were or could be the action character and winner of the game);
- female characters in feminine roles (based upon appearance, such as wearing pink, long dresses and playing supportive roles to men).'

Animated Video Games & Female Stereotypes
http://www.feminism.ro/book_gender_post/part4/George_Popescu.pdf

Virtual Child Pornography: Eroticism of Inequality

From the website: 'The United States Supreme Court has recently ruled (2002) that virtual child pornography is protected free speech, partly on the grounds that virtual pornography does not harm actual children. This is not to say child pornography is completely harmless. Actual or virtual, it eroticizes inequality; in a sexist society it therefore contributes to the subordination of women.'

Read More: Ethics of Virtual Child Pornography: The Eroticization of Inequality

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Analyse any human emotion, no matter how far it may be removed from the sphere of sex, and you are sure to discover somewhere the primal impulse, to which life owes its perpetuation. ... The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable. ... Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It is the result of the conflict between our instincts and our culture. (Sigmund Freud)

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