![]() ![]() There are authors that write for the opposite sex in mind. However, inside the Manga and animation industry, these boundaries don’t exist. You don’t have to look further than to see that Manga works are divided per demographic: for teen girls it’s romance, for teen boys it’s battle/friendship for young women is adult romance or Yaoi, for young men is darker themes with social-political commentary. ![]() Whether the Japanese ideal of gender roles are acquired by tradition, by social acceptance, by Western influence, by preference or by narratives in entertainment in the public eye, the views of the Yamato Nadeshiko and the manly men who fight their own battles is reinforced. The efforts in making female characters more useful in Manga and Anime (taking in consideration the demographic for each Manga) was a bump in the road that authors had to face in the early 2000s due to the fact that they wanted to attract more demographics to certain magazines before that, the works in which the women take a very passive role are endless. Misogyny/Racism in Manga and Anime Saying that this thing resembles a black person, It’s pretty racist in my opinion. If you do have problems with them, then, you must be new to the Anime community. My problem regarding Terra Formars have more to do with elements regarding the story that didn’t make sense to me than the fact that it’s racist, misogynistic or whatever label you want to give him. What I am trying to get at is that you wouldn’t call Guillermo del Toro schizophrenic-phobic because of Pan’s Labyrinth’s ending (although, in this day and age you never know). The truth is that we never know what is in an author’s heart. Whatever narrative Yu Sasuga is trying to sell may be unconscious… or it’s a conscious one and his work is a sardonic look into the minds of current Japanese society or it’s a commentary, hatred filled narrative because he believes in what he writes. ![]() We can go around condemning people, labeling them, always seeing under the surface, trying to make sense of the narrative they try to portray, but this says more about us than the author. It is purely by the author to expand the views on Terra Formars.Ī simple Google search will take you on a journey through pages upon pages, condemning Yu Sasuga, the original writer of being racist and misogynistic. This is also not a slander to political agendas. Before we continue, let me make one thing clear, that I think it’s important to understand and the reasons I will refrain my personal opinion regarding the “hidden” messages of this work.ĭisclaimer: The following opinion piece does not reflect the opinion of Otaku Netizen Reviews. We will talk briefly about the animation, then the movie as an adaptation and finally Terra Formars as a live action movie. You may not want to hear what I have to say, though. Terra Formars was written by Yu Sasuga and illustrated by Kenichi Tachibana and started its publication in 2011 I was not able to find much information about the writer or the illustration, although I was able to find a debate regarding Sasuga’s political view which we will discuss. I wasn’t acquainted to the series or the movie.Īt the time of publication, in the West, we started to see a sudden spawn of Sci-fi movies leading the theaters, from the remake of the Planet of the Apes, to Attack on the Block, through another Transformer movie, to Cowboys and Aliens, The Thing, Apollo 18, The Darkest Hour, Paul… 2011 was a feast for people with the desire to see a dystopian future caused by an alien race… in the East, Terra Formars was released. So, this is the first time I have watched any of this material. ![]() For some reason, I never got to check it out for myself, due to lack of time, energy and focus. You see, this is a series that was recommended to me a long time ago when it started to be published by Shueisha. ![]()
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