Time for a call to HR
Are you curious about the heroine work life? Great! It includes sexual harassment from your boss, constant comparison of your work to a male colleagues and excessive overtime that will hopefully kill you and let you reincarnate as a villainess in your favourite web novel. (If only!) Now don’t get me wrong- I have no problem with showcasing the reality of misogyny in the workplace and bringing to light the issues that are often covered up by the industry. So you ask, what is i
1 hour ago3 min read
The mildly average love story of a spectacularly boring heroine
The heroine archetype- How can we write an interesting main character? What makes them interesting? And why has shoujo manga been using the same character model in every new work? I think you know what I’m talking about, it’s the naïve, shy, soft-spoken female that seems to set my nerves aflame every time I come across them. I mean seriously, could they be more infuriating?! I’ve tried to understand just what makes this over-done half baked character so popular amongst mang
2 hours ago3 min read
Kiss me? Kiss me not.
Any self-respecting shoujo manga fanatic should be aware about the common trope of the dashing, playful male lead stealing the first kiss from the heroine. But despite the author's best intentions, should we really be considering this romantic? Of course not- it's an invasion of privacy thinly veiled by passion. The trope was particularly common in many East Asian works during the 1990s-2010s such as the heart warming Kodocha (Kodome no Omocha) in which the male lead (Akito)
Nov 132 min read
