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Revealing and Concealing Identities: Cross-Dressing in Anime and Manga, Part 2

Posted in Anime, BeruBara (The Rose of Versailles), Conventions, Gender, Manga, tagged androgyny, anime, BeruBara, catamites, chūseibi, cross-dressing, cultural relativism, Dream Girls, femininities, Gender, gender fluidity, gender performance, gender play, gender roles, Ikeda Riyoko, Japanese literature, Japanese society, Japanese theater, kabuki, manga, masculinities, musumeyaku, onnagata, Oscar Francois de Jarjeyes, otokoyaku, samurai, seigeki, Takarazuka Revue, Tenjō Utena, The Rose of Versailles, The Tale of the Heike on 2014/05/23| 8 Comments »

Part Two: The Theatre

How can she be a girl if I love her so much?: A novel by Rosalie Lamorlière.
(Joyce Farmer discovers Ingrid Bergman’s Joan of Arc in No Straight Lines, p. 25.)

In this section, my co-author and I explore cross-dressing in the theatre, specifically all-male kabuki and all-female Takarazuka Revue, how these productions queer our views of the gender binary, and how the main character of The Rose of Versailles disrupts tropes about women cross-dressing as men. Part 1 here.

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Ôoku: Tanjô: Episode 10 (Finale)

Posted in Ôoku, Gender, Manga, tagged alternate history, Arikoto, Aso Yumi, Ôoku: Tanjô, female sexuality, Gender, gender expression, genderswap, Gyokuei, Iemitsu, J-drama, Kasuga, Masakatsu, Matsudaira, Ooku: The Inner Chambers, Oooku, Sakai Masato, samurai, shipping, Tabe Mikako, Tanaka Koki, Yoshinaga Fumi, Ōoku on 2014/02/14| 3 Comments »

Happy Valentine’s Day! I hope you enjoy the final tragic episode of Ôoku: Tanjô, a.k.a. a preponderance of nope. This recap contains (major) spoilers for the drama and the manga. Episode 9 recap here; manga analysis here; Ôoku category (film, manga, and drama) here.

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Aired Dec. 14, 2012 on TBS.

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Ôoku: Tanjô: Episode 9

Finally reunited with my manga and it feels so good!

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Aired Dec. 7, 2012, on TBS.

This recap contains spoilers for the drama and the manga. Episode 8 recap here; manga analysis here; Ôoku category (film, manga, and drama) here.

In this episode of Things I Started Recapping a Year Ago Ôoku:

After Iemitsu gives her speech about being the Shogun and a woman, her audience bows. When they raise their heads again, the camera pans around the room to show not just Terutsuna smiling at her, but many of the other young heirs who appear to be girls dressed as boys.

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Ôoku: Tanjô: Episode 8

Aired Nov. 30, 2012, on TBS.

This recap contains spoilers for the drama and the manga. Episode 7 recap here; manga analysis here; Ôoku category (film, manga, and drama) here. I am probably never going to recap a show episode-by-episode again…. お待たせしました！

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Ôoku: Tanjô, Ep. 7

Posted in Ôoku, Culture, Gender, Manga, tagged alternate history, Arikoto, Aso Yumi, Ôoku: Tanjô, female sexuality, Gender, gender expression, genderswap, Gyokuei, Iemitsu, J-drama, Kasuga, Masakatsu, Matsudaira, Ooku: The Inner Chambers, Oooku, Sakai Masato, samurai, shipping, Tabe Mikako, Tanaka Koki, Yoshinaga Fumi, Ōoku on 2013/05/04| 3 Comments »

First of all, a bit of (old?) news from the entertainment world: Kanno Miho, who played Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi in the film Ôoku: Eien, and Sakai Masato, who played Arikoto in the drama and Emonosuke in the film, registered their marriage on 2 April. おめでとうございます！May your work in excellent gender-based dramas lead to you happiness. (Sources: Oricon, Tokyo Hive)