Article:
Deviating Voice. Representation of Female Characters and Feminist Readings in 1990s Anime

dc.creatorIshida, Minori
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-30T11:44:59Z
dc.date.available2021-07-30T11:44:59Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractIn the 1990s, Japanese anime sophisticated both their ›visual database‹ and their ›voice database‹ for their character design. These two ›databases‹ usually cooperate in a complementary manner in order to construct characters for an audio-visual medium. In the following article, however, I am going to point out that there are always possibilities of deviation, because, fundamentally, the visual appearance and the voice of the character are created independently. This has, in fact, opened up the possibility to introduce a new style of charac-ters like Haruka Tenou, one of the most popular characters in the Sailor Moon series (1992–1997). According to Azuma Hiroki, moe (affective responses) to-ward characters had drastically altered the reception of anime in the 1990s, preparing the way for the so-called ›kyara-moe‹. Within otaku (fan) cultures, however, another kind of reception took place, which was inspired by female, queer characters, such as Haruka or her successors. Feminist audiences who experienced moe toward these characters interpreted them enthusiastically: with regard to the gender and the sexuality of the protagonists, they created their own narratives.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/16392
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/17254
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherHerbert von Halem
dc.publisher.placeKöln
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:1614-0885
dc.relation.ispartofseriesIMAGE. Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Bildwissenschaft
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttps://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
dc.subjectFeminismusde
dc.subject1990er Jahrede
dc.subjectFiktionde
dc.subjectCharakterde
dc.subjectcultureen
dc.subjectJapanen
dc.subjectAnimeen
dc.subjectMangaen
dc.subjectanimationen
dc.subjectficitonen
dc.subjectcharacteren
dc.subject1990sen
dc.subjectdatabaseen
dc.subjectGenderen
dc.subjectsexualityen
dc.subjectfeminismen
dc.subject.ddcddc:777
dc.titleDeviating Voice. Representation of Female Characters and Feminist Readings in 1990s Animeen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2021-07-30T13:51:50
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttp://www.gib.uni-tuebingen.de/image/ausgaben-3?function=fnArticle&showArticle=517
local.source.epage37
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitleSpecial Issue of Issue 29
local.source.spage22
local.source.volume15

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