I could not take the "most female characters aren't well written so that's why male characters are more popular" argument seriously because more often than not, they would put so much effort into male characters with white-bread personalities and give them "depth" by creating a lot of headcanons and think pieces, meanwhile I don't see them doing th...... 2 reply
I am obviously not unfamiliar with hating a character, but when I do, there will be always someone who has to say that "I just don't understand their character" and I "lack media literacy". Which is to say, I do understand their character, but that doesn't mean I have to LIKE them. I would understand their experiences, their backstory, their relati...... 1 reply
Apothecary diaries should've been a story without a romance subplot for Mao, to be honest. With my own bias opinion, I do not like Jinshi. At all. My dislike solidified for him when the cave scene happened. And I found myself utterly bored whenever there's a moment between them. To the point that I will forget that he even exists until he shows up ...... 5 reply
Mangago, duh. I find the visual storytelling of Manhwa and Manhua a bit lacking. And that is concerning since you're mostly using illustrations instead of a block of text to tell a story. You don't need some flashy visuals especially if it's unnecessary and doesn't even have the purpose of telling a story. It's just, there. And while it might look ...... reply
If the gender of a yuri pairing is a central and important factor of their dynamic (e.g., experiences of misogyny and lesbiphobia), which is often the case for so many yuri pairings anyway, it becomes distasteful to just make them both men lmao. Or people just don't like yaoi, which is absolutely fine. reply
Everytime an author decided to make the slave character an antagonist or at least potray them in a bad way, especially in contrast to the rich protagonist, it's a no go for me. This is why I'll never read Remarried Empress. I also dropped Death Is The Only Ending For The Villainess because on how they potrayed Eckles' character, especially compared to the crown prince ML who is treated favorably as the end game for the FL. What do you guys think?
A manga called "In the clear moonlight dusk" is somewhat a diversion from typical gender expression you can see on media. Yoi, a high school girl, looks extremely androgynous. To the point that if it weren't for binary division of gendered school dress codes, she would be completely mistaken for a guy and no will question it. A part that I like from this manga is that, Yoi is confident with her gender expression. For starters, she wears her hair short, she's taller than the average girl, and her voice is more lower than usual. Masculine traits that she inherited from both parents, her wardrobe consists of huge t-shirts and pants, and coupled to the fact that she can fight against wrongdoings. This is something that you wouldn't typically think of as traditional feminity. However, she desires to be seen as a normal woman attending highschool rather than a handsome, "princely" man. She disliked being called a "prince" and wants to be seen as a woman with no desire to change her appearance just to adhere to the standards of feminity and girlhood. She likes the way she dresses and looks, but not the way society views her because of this. She doesn't fit the societal standards of what girls should look like and so, they mock her for looking more like a man than a woman. She doesn't think badly of feminity either, in fact she acts like a typical high school girl, with the only difference is that she's extremely androgynous. This is a breath of fresh air for me from a character like Yoi.
A problem though is that, the manga's art style is recently leaning towards a more feminine look on Yoi. Which defeats the whole purpose of her character at all. She doesn't need to be feminine to be seen as a woman because of societal standards and yet, the vibe I got from the recent chapters is that she's becoming more feminine because of a male love interest and she's in love. Which is...kinda disappointing but expected. I stopped reading it because of that and I felt like I'm the only one who notices such a thing. Which seems pretty sad that you need to be conforming to the societal standards of gender identity to be seen as a normal person.
What is a "strong female character" for you? The most used and applied definition; female characters who can physically, and/or mentally, fight against her oppressors. Whether she would be cunning and smart, strong and athletic, or preferably, both. But I wonder, what is everyone else's own definition apart from the definition I provided?
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