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Guys 🥺 do you think Shonen manga in general might have a bit of a misogyny problem?
Okay so. Had this in my drafts for a while because I am thoroughly enjoying the tea in the notes. As someone who doesn’t watch/read much popular shonen it’s interesting what people have to say. (I get my dose of shonen-adjacent misogyny from video games!) Some of it was with evidence, some of it hearsay so feel free to do your own research but from what I hear here:
Kubo is not great but could be worse. Made a few dumb comments, sidelining female characters later on, but overall eh.
Oda is awful at drawing female characters, straight up suggests “drawn an X and add boobs” to start, but is halfway decent at writing women and they tend to be adults. That said in real life he is dismissive of female fans and both good friends with and supportive of a convicted pedophile.
Kishimoto is fairly standard “doesn’t know how to write women” so he just doesn’t really. They’re all quite flat and really just serve to prop up the guys. That said his artwork for them isn’t particularly sexualised.
Horikoshi has both the problems of “flat female characters without much to do” and “excessive fanservice involving teenaged girls” :\ Also apparently he’s admitted to relating most to the comedic sex pest character he wrote so that’s fun.
Akutami is moooooostly fine. Not great but fine. I saw one person comment “the bar is on the ground but at least he didn’t trip over it.”
For ones not on the list but suggested a lot:
I saw a lot of people saying the Fairy Tail and the Seven Deadly Sins authors should be here. I’d believe it.
Also a lot of people talking about the guy who wrote Soul Eater and later Fire Force, who apparently started fine but got much worse.
By FAR the most suggested were the guys who wrote Death Note and. WOW. Yeah some of the shit they wrote after. Those guys have ISSUES with women.
Also just Shonen Jump in general being criticized. Setting itself up as a “boy’s club”, generally enabling an environment where misogyny is cool and things like, uh, rehiring a convicted pedophile as soon as public outcry died down enough. Throwing him a party. Basically it just has, a LOT of problems.
And yes! It’s media aimed at teenaged boys! I get it. But I don’t think that’s really an excuse. You can have boys doing cool shit in comics without also being awful about girls. (And like, this shit isn’t exclusive to shonen. Or to Japanese media)
this is because the rights were never signed over.
microsoft made no comment, journalists refused the story because microsoft has a ton of lawyers, but this twitter thread by the ending’s orig. author blew up and now people know that you can use the minecraft ending. (also at the end you’re advised to check out this fellow’s substack)
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