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野崎 梅太郎  •  Umetarou Nozaki

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FAVOURITE JINMAO MOMENTS:

SEASON 2 EPISODE 15: ICE — Maomao agrees to listen to Jinshi (...somewhat)

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Love, Agency, and Androids: A Chobits Retrospective

Content warning: discussion of sexual objectification, infantilization, groping, fictional age-gap relationships

Spoilers for the Chobits manga and anime

Before Siri and Alexa or movies like Her, the 2000 series Chobits introduced its viewers to an alternate present where highly advanced humanoid robots, called persocoms, serve the role of personal computers and cell phones. Chobits uses its post-humanist storytelling to ask questions about the highly personal relationships that humans can develop with something that looks human or shares human qualities, but can never exactly be human. Because the persocoms are almost all built to look like young women, it also creates a space to ask questions about gender roles in relationships and how those perceived as female can be literally objectified. At times, Chobits presents a very compelling and empowering narrative around love, personal choice, and sacrifice. Yet, simultaneously, Chobits fails to reckon with the very questions it raises. 

The series is a CLAMP classic, with many of the visuals and themes we’d come to expect from the four-women team who penned and illustrated Cardcaptor Sakura and Magic Knights Rayearth. However, Chobits differs from the young-girl centered stories many expect when they think of CLAMP. Chobits has a teen male protagonist and the manga was serialized in the seinen Weekly Young Magazine. Because the target audience is adult men, the series features frank discussions about relationships, sex, and heartache. Although, this added maturity also leads to many visuals or gags based around fan service or, at times, more disturbing incidents of sexual objectification.  

Read it at Anime Feminist!

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ASOHSFDF THE COMMENTARY IS KILLING ME 

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Megumi agrees to be photographed only if he shows his Shikigami

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In this world, is the destiny of mankind controlled by some transcendental entity or law? Is it like the hand of God hovering above? At least, it is true that man has no control, even over his own will.

BERSERK (1997) dir. Naohito Takahashi

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I don't trust anyone who hasn't acknowledged their capacity for evil.

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Dungeon Meshi’s Lady Monsters

10x10cm

watercolour

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sometimes I wake up and remember what I like and show it to the internet

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So, what's this about a "family rule"?

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Just how much stamina do you have?

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Castle in the Sky dir. Hayao Miyazaki | 1986

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Dandadan Episode 11 - Okarun

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The return of the eccentric apothecary