Why Anime is for Women
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of The Waves, with the emergence of streaming more Americans are becoming fans of Japanese anime. Within that media, viewers can see wide ranges of LGBTQ+ representation and gender presentation that often isn’t found in American animation. But like American media, not all of these representations are as nuanced as they should be. Host Vic Whitley-Berry is an avid anime fan, and they sit down with journalist Princess Weekes on femme representation in Japanese anime.
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| 0:57.0 | Welcome to the waves, |
| 1:05.0 | the waves, it's late podcast about gender, feminism, and pretty guardians who fight for love and for justice. |
| 1:11.0 | Every episode you get a new pair of feminist to talk about the thing we cannot |
| 1:14.7 | get off our minds and today you've got me, Vic Whitley Berry. You might recognize my name because you |
| 1:20.7 | often hear it at the end of the show in the credits. I'm one of the |
| 1:23.9 | producers of the show and today I'm getting behind the mic to talk about |
| 1:28.0 | something very near and very dear to my heart, anime including the group of friends who helped kick off my love for the genre, |
| 1:36.0 | Sailor Moon. |
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