I would say at most Neferpitou is Nyanbinary

@kingofpigs6630

6 ай бұрын

This hurt to read, well done

@seijin4426

6 ай бұрын

Please, no more politics that promote perversion.

@Nevermind445

6 ай бұрын

@@seijin4426?? What? XD

@fulana_de_tal

6 ай бұрын

​@@seijin4426 i agree, we shall free this world of the owo-talk that burdens our eyes and tarnishes our souls /j

@SuperDuperHappyTime

6 ай бұрын

@@seijin4426 That's the joke.

Orochimaru's "non-binary" identity comes solely from the fact that he wears other people like meat suits.

@justacuteonigiri

6 ай бұрын

the delusions of people are immensely increasing

@aurtosebaelheim5942

6 ай бұрын

Sure, but their outlook on doing so is what makes them non-binary or agender. There are plenty of people who can shapeshift in Naruto but are cis despite this. Ultimately, these are characters, they have no internality so we can never truly know what their gender is, only what it reads as. Orichimaru doesn't read to me as "Orochimaru the man in a woman's body sometimes", they read to me as "Orochimaru the snake piñata in whatever body is convenient at the time". The fact that someone who views Orochimaru as a parent (I don't know the context, I haven't seen Boruto) doesn't know what binary gender to view them as is pretty telling. So is Orochimaru's answer of "eh, who cares, gender doesn't matter" when asked (which has me leaning towards agender over non-binary).

@tatarsauce6314

6 ай бұрын

@@justacuteonigiri???

@laisphinto6372

6 ай бұрын

When IT comes to Parasites Like trills or goa ulds or shapeshifters IT is so different from human conception the Terms make No Sense ,for These creatures bodies are Like clothes so WE really cannot pinpoint a Made Up human Attraction Label when they dont even have a conception of human Attraction

@radmax

6 ай бұрын

Oh, so that’s not valid? Just say you hate orochi-gender people and leave. 😒🐍

I would love to see a Female Villain who's not a seductive Femme Fatale. I think the Russian Mafia Blonde Lady from Black Lagoon is the villain that is not a femme fatale.

@benapeh854

6 ай бұрын

While Makima from Chainsaw man does share attributes with your typical femme fatale, it does work really well in her favour- With the sheer authority she commands.

@YumLemmingKebabs

6 ай бұрын

There's one in I'm The Villainess So I'm Taming The Final Boss. No its nit the protagonist. Also in the manga Observation Log of My Fiancee Who Calls Herself The Villainess... Though due to the nature of that story's OP protagonist she isn't a huge threat. That Time I Reincarnated As A Slime has one though all shes done so far is almost kill the OP protagonist and them basically nothing else... And given the nature of the show she'll almost definitely become a hero eventually. Log Horizon is interesting because it looks like its going to have a femme fatale villain but then mostly subverts it and a very different villainess takes her place.

@YumLemmingKebabs

6 ай бұрын

Oh yeah... Also Mobile Suit Gundam The Witch From Mercury

@Whatthewhat927

6 ай бұрын

What about azula from atla?

@Darth_Bateman

6 ай бұрын

Ersebet Bathory from Castlevania Nocturne is the closest thing you have to that, but her lines about men make me cringe. Like, imagine taking a drink from a woman's bloodstream like a drunken hedonist and chiding a man for being unable to control his sex drive. But like. . . .She seems a bit. . . .Early? Like the heroes have a hard time with Drolta, Ersabet Bathory shouldn't have been here for 3 seasons. Now that she's here and unable to be stopped, Alucard has to show up and save the ratings.

I think Medusa from Soul Eater is a pretty neat villain because she kinda just vibes and does whatever she wants whenever. Has the girlboss mentality which I respect.

@joxiejoxie6457

6 ай бұрын

souleater is MAD underrated. Heavy on medusa

@outerspacegaming7754

6 ай бұрын

THANK YOU I WAS JUST BOUTA SAY THIS

@orangeslash1667

6 ай бұрын

@@joxiejoxie6457 The problem is that you have to read the manga in order to get the end of Medusa's arc.

@joxiejoxie6457

6 ай бұрын

@@orangeslash1667 unfortunately, that is true

@kenkong007

6 ай бұрын

I'm currently reading the perfect edition of Soul Eater and I wasn't convinced when I read the first volume, but ever since Medusa appeared I've been hooked.

6:15 Wait... Except Sailor Moon is literally a show where the main male lead is portrayed as entirely useless. _There's a whole meme about it snd everything."_ **"My Job is done here"** **"But you didn't do anything"** Exists for a reason!

@KajiRider1997

6 ай бұрын

This.

@lucyl4603

6 ай бұрын

I liked how he was “around” in manga, it’s nice to have someone to do minuscule tasks of catching / shielding you. Also loved his lament about mentioned uselessness

@murakamiyoko681

6 ай бұрын

He was never truly useless, though. The 90’s anime destroyed his character, but even then he did distract the villains long enough for Sailor Moon to do her final attack. In the (canon) manga (and Sailor Moon Crystal) it’s shown that he repeatedly gives Usagi power through his Golden Crystal, which is both his Sailor Crystal and Star Seed, just like the Silver Crystal is Usagi’s. He has his own powers, his own soldiers, his own kingdom that’s watched over by his priest (Helios) and maenads, and is just as important as the Sailor Guardians by the end of the series, which is part of why Galaxia killed him first. I’m sorry if I sounded mean or anything! It wasn’t my intention! I just gotta defend my boy. 😂 He’s such a humble sweetheart in the manga!

@aliesterus1.023

6 ай бұрын

@@murakamiyoko681 He is then, at the very least, less of a physical participant in the action and plays more of a supportive role, which, especially for that time, was very different for gender dynamics compared to what this video is trying to claim.

@missrebel634

6 ай бұрын

He literally jumps in to save Sailor moon from an attack she could've fought back against, makes a speech, let's Sailor moon defeat the monster, and dips.

How the fuck Sailor Galaxia is not even on that list?! She is so ruthless, cruel, imposing and strong! And unlike other villianesses in Sailor Moon like Queen Beryl and Queen Neherenia, she is not a fairy tale evil witch trope, but a modern tyranical warrior, and even more important: unlike those others, Galaxia recieves the emphaty and compassion of Usagi, even after she has done terrible things

@laisphinto6372

6 ай бұрын

Most of These people are new Kids that overfocus on shonen than cry about Lack of strong women in anime that specifically Focus on men

@murmelente

6 ай бұрын

I was also suprised that she didn't mention Galaxia, she is the final villain in Sailor Moon after all (if you ignore the timeline and just count by volumes/episodes )

@aquaabouttogetfunky

6 ай бұрын

@@laisphinto6372yeah basically

@lucyl4603

6 ай бұрын

Idk, having only read the manga, the real villains are the father-daughter duo

@rockmangurlx4973

6 ай бұрын

Mistress Nine literally stole the body of a little girl and lived inside her like a parasite for years, not caring if it would eventually kill her. In fact, she was probably counting on it.

I’m sure there’s gonna be a million comments regarding this, but I think Makima from Chainsaw Man is single-handedly the best female villain in anime, at least in my opinion. People do oversexualize her in the community, but if you look at her design, she’s calm, cold and calculated. Literally shrouded in mystery the whole series and it isn’t until she drops the guise and shows her true colors, after manipulating the cast and leading on people close to her via emotion or desires. It’s a massive breath of fresh air, and it’s great seeing her animated after reading the manga since day one.❤

@syedarizvi7290

6 ай бұрын

I was honestly so surprised by people who said "yup I knew she was the villain all along". Like how?? Because for me, I actually thought she was a good person, she was always there for Denji and was so kind to him. But when things started to get worse and worse, I *still* didn't realise fully... but when it hit me, the same way it hit Denji, I cried so much. But at the same time I was so moved by the writing. The writing in CSM is unbelievable and unparalleled. My favourite character is Asa

@drakesacrum8445

6 ай бұрын

@@syedarizvi7290 In my case it was pretty obvious because she comes off as manipulative and emotionless. Maybe not that she is the villain but it was evident that she was evil or hiding a lot of things. Once you get in your head that someone is manipulative every kind action gets re-contextualized even if you're wrong. In this case I wasn't.

@mysteriousman5121

6 ай бұрын

Nope, she Sucks too

@HellVirus0919

6 ай бұрын

Makima makes my blood boil and that shows how good fujimoto wrote her

@syedarizvi7290

6 ай бұрын

@@drakesacrum8445 you've got a good eye

Calling muzan a good villain is a crime against good writing 😨

@natalimoina

6 ай бұрын

Fat L

@tweettweetyweety

6 ай бұрын

LOLLL

@rockargen9591

6 ай бұрын

well, he is a good "villain" in the sense that he does despicable things, he just isnt written very well in terms of his origin.

@natalimoina

6 ай бұрын

@@rockargen9591 🙄

@Destroyer120296

6 ай бұрын

He may not be well written or hve a particulary interesting backstory but he is a good villian IMO in that he is a constant threat or in the "shadows" from episode 7 He is evil, desipicable and the root cause behind most bad things ithat happend to the MC and main cast HE does his job well enough

Some comments already pointed out how Makima is a great female villain, but i think what truly makes her not adhere to the sexist tropes the video pointed out is an entirely different character power. Power is gross, boyish, violent, power hungry as non-traditionally feminine as one could be, and she is a heroine who is loved and cared for by both our protagonist and us fans. The show doesn't idolize femininity and traditional gender roles, and through showing us a rough unfeminine Character being one of the heroes, it completely avoids any of the these bad stereotypes. Because in the end Makima does fit the femme fatale role, but the series never points finger at her feminine side as a bad thing, in fact, by the end she is completely devoid of any humanity or feminine traits and is shown as a completely Eldritch Horror. And this isn't even talking about Asa in part 2 who also doesn't fit any of the classic heroine tropes and is never demonized because of it. In fact she is celebrated for being her weird and unconventional self, which is kinda the point of Chainsaw Man, the weirdos and societal rejects uniting together against the big forces of government and religion. Read Chainsaw Man, it's good

@josephdavis9234

6 ай бұрын

All right. You've convinced me.

@maracabo1176

6 ай бұрын

@@josephdavis9234 hope you enjoy reading it. The start might look problematic or generic but it's mainly setting things up for the twists in the middle and ending

@wmaiz0anococo345

6 ай бұрын

Ain't reading all that.

@maracabo1176

6 ай бұрын

@@wmaiz0anococo345 cool

@user-sonosada

6 ай бұрын

>problematic >sexist Well, too bad that japan people don't care about your shizo feminist (Male hating) ideology.

I contest the pure and passive labels on Usagi. She is an underdog throughout the story leading up to a final confrontation where every support she's leaned on to that point is now gone. Alone, she must find the confidence to beat the big bad. Usagi is written as a weakling who becomes strong. This is constantly reinforced by the comparison of Usagi to her friends. Being smart = Mercury Confidence and talent = Mars Prepared for a fight/not putting up with people's bs = Jupiter Grace, beauty, and even having the experience of being a superhero first = Venus Sailor Moon looks up to all these qualities and even physically looks up to these girls. It's no coincidence that she is the shortest one. And that's just good writing.

@imthebossmermaid3648

6 ай бұрын

I feel like the critique on the Sailor Moon villains sort of leads into shaming Usagi and feels like it's portraying softness and innocence as a bad thing. Sailor Moon made waves because it showed femininity as strong and a force to be reckoned with back when that wasn't common at all so it makes me so sad to see people accuse it of feeding into gender roles. Not saying it doesn't at all(such as that fatphobia episode and all the girls being stick-thin), but yk.

@imthebossmermaid3648

6 ай бұрын

@@hehashivemind6111 Agreed 100% It's one thing to say "women are encouraged to be passive and delicate and virginal and punished harshly for venturing outside of that tiny box". But this just feels like it's saying "women being cute innocent and girlish is a bad thing that makes you weak, only by being dark and seductive can you truly free yourself from the shackles of the patriarchy." and worse yet, accusing THE iconic Sailor Moon as reinforcing the former. Ridiculous.

@AC-dk4fp

6 ай бұрын

She's citing an essay from 2014 that overly relies on boilerplate feminist Freudian analyis from the mid to late 20th century. Its horrendously out of date but that's what happens when you want to cite peer reviewed material in a niche area of literary/cultural studies. To be honest its better to not bother if that's the level of stuff you get. The full essay is passable when it isn't lazily applying out of the box critical lenses but quoting that specific section ruins what little nuance the original paper had. @@hehashivemind6111

@judgement7164

6 ай бұрын

​@@imthebossmermaid3648No, she is just saying how Usagi's supposedly pasiveness us shown as a good thing in the series, while the villainess' lack of it is portrayed in a negative way and later punished.

@imthebossmermaid3648

6 ай бұрын

@@judgement7164 Except Usagi is not passive. That's my point.

Anime and manga that focuses on physical conflict are generally targeted at boys and men. There is a LOT of anime and manga targeted at girls and women, but they generally have less physical conflict, so there are far fewer blatant female badasses in those medias. A lot of the female villains are along the lines of the high school bi*** or Cinderella's step mother, and so require much more screen time to stand out in a series that may or may not get much attention in general.

@laisphinto6372

6 ай бұрын

They are still great especially the ones with the perfect laughed ohohohoho

@uanime1

6 ай бұрын

Also women tend to write female villains but rarely write anime/manga that focuses on physical conflict.

@CursedShinobiClown

6 ай бұрын

@@uanime1 Ironically women write some of the best battle manga it seems if Full Metal and D Gray Man are anything to go by or Demon Slayers financial success

@daeith1233

6 ай бұрын

It's not women, like they may be 2 or 3 but at the end of the day it's mostly men who write those​, so some of the best female vilain were alors written by men@@CursedShinobiClown

@willrmmerhunter

6 ай бұрын

​@@daeith1233Yeah, sorry to burst your bubble but most men cant write female charas even if their life depended on it.

There's a lot of crazy sexist bullshit going on with Yuno from Future Diary but being a "henchwoman" to the "antagonist" is NOT one of them. She is basically the final antagonist. The whole point was that she was manipulating Yuki the whole time. She's a really bad example to throw in there, and it really undermines an otherwise fair argument.

@TooBasedToLive

6 ай бұрын

You invalidates your point the second you mentioned sexism

@lottavuorinen

6 ай бұрын

@@TooBasedToLive Care to elaborate?

@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051

6 ай бұрын

@@TooBasedToLive You can't reply can you?

@TooBasedToLive

6 ай бұрын

@@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051 nah just don't feel like it

@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051

6 ай бұрын

@@TooBasedToLive Yap, you have no argument.

I think one problem that a lot of villainesses also face is that fights involving female characters tend to be a lot more "limited". You can tell that a lot of authors just aren't comfortable showing women get hurt and thus their fights are often a lot more magic focused with them getting hit by magical attacks that don't inflict any open wounds on them. Even worse when they go so far to show damage on female characters in the form of clothing damage in which case the female character tanking the damage doesn't feel impressive, just sexualized. So its far rarer that a female character stands out for their endurance than a male one and since characters often end up fighting enemies of their same gender this affects villainesses too, because in their fights the author ends up doing this for both characters.

@olaf-chan-728

6 ай бұрын

lol so fr they like at max will gasp blood thats it

@Poglavnit_Pferdefuhrer

6 ай бұрын

I really love PreCure for going against the grain like that. *Those little gals can throw hands!!!* Also Punie Tanaka from Dai Mahou Touge to a much more terrifying degree! .... She's also the only magical girl I know of _toting a blicky_ specifically a Tokarev TT-33, what the hell even. So much for the monologue and lengthy called attack animation! 😂

@Destroyer120296

6 ай бұрын

Appreciate gege in jjk lol he does not hold back

@zanitzeuken

6 ай бұрын

A good example of this is in CyberPunk:EdgeRunners, all the females die off screen or in a cloud. Meanwhile males have their heads vaporized, gut shot, arms knocked off, cut in half... I think manga like Berserk is considered so edgy, because it went there. All the "hot takes" are always about the murdering and violation of female characters. The fact that Guts is also victim and is depicted hardly gets brought up (not that I want it too), but Berserk went places people "aren't allowed to", yet experienced by humanity all the time. She brings up "mysogyny" and in a way she may be right, but not for the reasons she seems to think.

@MrEvldreamr

6 ай бұрын

Videl from dragonball z got the shit kicked out of her man… so did uraraka. And mitsuri got dismembered…. And if we include claymore and attack on titan and jujutsu kaisen…. I mean i get what you’re saying but come on… youre ignoring a shitton of females who fought and died brutally like the males. But i guess in magical girl franchises they dont “die brutally” except they kinda do.

Respectfully, I don't think sailor moon's villainess Queen Beryl is evil because she's sexy or adult. I think she's evil because she's got long fingernails like claws, her red hair roars like a fire every time she yells, her skin looks blue-green most of the time, and she constantly wants to fight and always has an angry face. Contrast with the protagonist Serenity, whose hair does not rise up in flames, who does not have claws, who has normal skin tones, and whose aggression in the series shows more "firm determination" in her eyes as opposed to gleeful bloodlust. She's the good guy (girl) who fight for a sense of duty, while Beryl is the bad guy because she wants to keep fighting for no clear good reason.

@heavennunya809

6 ай бұрын

Well, that's not entirely true. Beryl fights to steal energy, with the ultimate goal to steal the silver crystal, according to the anime. In the manga, she is corrupted by the TRUE villain, Queen Metallia, who wormed her way into Beryl's psyche through Beryl's jealousy as she was in love with prince Endymion, who was in love with Serenity. Queen Metallia wants the energy and the crystal for her kingdom, Beryl just wants to get revenge and also brainwash Endymion into loving her. tbh, I find the evaluation in the video to be a bit.... disingenuous. Beryl was bad and faced the consequences she did for her actions, she EARNED her punishment. The imagery of "sexiness" is to make her look older, as a common trope in any show for young anyone is "kids vs Adults". The bad guy is to look older, the good guys look younger. It's to appeal to younger people's rebellion to authority. The more adult clothes, the make-up, the sharper eyes, it's to make her look more grown, not necessarily sexier. Beryl didn't face consequences for being ambitious, authoritative, or hell even jealous. She faced consequences because she did terrible things.

@abdurrehmannasir5963

6 ай бұрын

@@heavennunya809 I agree, anime in general has a lot of problems, real problems but people sometimes overlook the genuine reason for a bad person getting punished (because they did terrible things....duhh) and just focus on their other personalities and aspects of their character traits to produce a correlation between said character's punishment and sexism, racism and so on. It really undermines even genuinely good arguments and makes the person talking about them feel disingenuinous and a bit of a agenda-panderer tbh.

@TooBasedToLive

6 ай бұрын

Talk about surface level analysis.

@antoniolewis1016

6 ай бұрын

@@TooBasedToLive it's important to look at the surface too!

@TooBasedToLive

6 ай бұрын

@@antoniolewis1016 too bad you can't look past it.

Esdeath is just using the prime Minister for her own ends.That being said she could do a lot better then having a crush on the main protagonist.

@daeith1233

6 ай бұрын

No hate but she did alors better than having a crush on Tatsumi, in the anime she was litteraly so dangerous but maybe you need the manga to realize, I personnality remember a lot more from Esdeath than her crush

@mrmeteor64

6 ай бұрын

@@daeith1233 that was my point anyway she didn’t need him.

@wingzero-0014

6 ай бұрын

Esdeath wanted to find love and was very specific about it wanting to be the dominant partner it didn't hinder her character at all only added another dimension to it other than being a sadist who believes in "Dawrism" taught by her dad and caring for her allies in her own way

@QWERTY-gp8fd

6 ай бұрын

speaking of guy in girl body . orochimaru is exactly that.@@will_of_europa

@Ozzieapologist

4 ай бұрын

I think the author realized it too, which is why her attraction to Tatsumi only stays relevant for a couple chapters or so, before being luckily put aside.

Just wanted to pint out that those were technically Jonathan’s abs.

@meandmadarastwogiantballsa5638

6 ай бұрын

justice for jonathan, report dio's plagiarized build!

@oimate6357

5 ай бұрын

Dio wears them better

@microwave8931

2 ай бұрын

Jonathan > Dio

@meloneatingwolf1882

Ай бұрын

@@oimate6357Jonathan became sexy in the pursuit of self discipline and betterment so he could protect the people he loved, particularly from Dio. Dio took that sexiness and used it to seduce women and a priest, and to wear a tank top which did nothing to hide it.

Id say Toga's crush on Deku is more supposed to be something she has in common with Uraraka. Im not sure if you are caught up to the manga, but her crush on Uraraka is *way* more important to their actual arcs.

@zemox2534

6 ай бұрын

She obviously did not pay close enough attention because if she did, she would fucking understand that the conflict between Ochako and Toga is more complex if you dig deep enough.

@wickedarctiinae4132

6 ай бұрын

​@@zemox2534You could write the complexity and depth here if you want.

@EddyA-sw5ox

6 ай бұрын

@@zemox2534 So Himiko having a crush on Ochako is going to excuse her being a yandere, having to be naked for her Quirk to work, and the fact that she's the only prominent female villain in My Hero. Also, there are some LGBT-phobic themes at play with Himiko (the villain who stalks and sexually harasses the heteronormative heroes) being bisexual. And while Ochako does "reciprocate" those feelings in their final arc, that doesn't actually confirm that Ochako is bisexual herself.

@blacksmoke6292

6 ай бұрын

​@@EddyA-sw5oxI'm confused. How is it LGBT phobic for a bi-chick to be a villain and do villain things. Also her yandere-ness comes from the fact that she was born with a quirk that involves drinking blood, so she expresses her love by drinking the people she likes blood but became a villain because she was treated as abnormal by society. What's wrong with that?

@EddyA-sw5ox

6 ай бұрын

@@blacksmoke6292 It's problematic when she's the most prominent LGBT character in the series or the easiest to identify. And while we do have some LGBT heroes, (Thirteen being nonbinary and Tiger as trans), they're only side characters and have little involvement in the plot. Compared to Himiko who's a major villain and a teenage girl. It also doesn't help that none of the main hero teens, the one the story focuses on, are canonically LGBT. Most audiences will see the difference between how the "heteronormative" girls act towards their respective crushes and compare that to how the bisexual Himiko reacts to her crushes. If the Hero girls were confirmed as LGBT in some ways, then this wouldn't be a problem so the bisexual Himiko wouldn't be the only one. And for me personally, I'm just not fond of the fact that the only prominent girl villain in the series is a yandere. I don't enjoy that trope and it's disappointing that Himiko embodies that trope. Plus there are other ways you could have kept Himiko's love of blood and being outcasted by society without turning her into a hormonally stressed out teen who gets "flustered" whenever her crushes are present. Plus, have we seen any of the other male villains get flustered or excited when they see their crush? Why is it only the girl who gets this treatment? But again, like the top example, if there were other major girl villains with other archetypes or motives then this wouldn't be a major problem.

kill la kill's Ragyo will literally always be my favourite anime villain im also considering it a crime not to include her in top favourite anime villain lists

@thevioletbee5879

6 ай бұрын

I think she’s a little too evil. Like yeah I hate her, but I hate her so much I don’t even like seeing her because all of her screentime is spent making me deeply uncomfortable.

@noahhager1187

6 ай бұрын

she's awful, but a little cartoonish for me, like what she did was despicable but like eh I guess.

@BeatrixJagusah

5 ай бұрын

True

@afr-yw6bk

5 ай бұрын

Nui is quite fun aswell!

@DoomLeigion8086

5 ай бұрын

No that's for Disney listed anime is mostly for men there is a bigger male audience in anime than women

There are so many female villains that are some of my favorites. Besides Makima, Esdeath, and Medusa , the following are some of my favorites that are also in-charge: Ryoko Naruse, Ragyo Kiryuin, Balalaika, Altair (Re:Creators), Junko Enoshima, Maestro Delphine (the first villain I actually hated and rooted against), the culprit of The Perfect Insider (I'm not giving the name to avoid spoilers), the culprit of Higurashi (technically works for an organization, but is really only using them to pursue her own goals), and Administrator (SAO). So many powerful, cool, intimidating, women-in-charge villains. Many of these are in my top 10 villain list.

@HellVirus0919

6 ай бұрын

Medusa? Which one? Kid Icarus? Percy Jackson?

@Mialikesthings

6 ай бұрын

⁠@@HellVirus0919Percy Jacksons one is rather an obstacle rather than a villain.

@tiffany-chan1235

6 ай бұрын

@@HellVirus0919 Soul Eater Also Haman Kahn is probably my favourite female anime villain to be honest

@HazZzel-

6 ай бұрын

Junko is so cool, and same with Makima. I don't like them as people, but I'm loving them as characters

@kyoyaootori1104

6 ай бұрын

@HellVirus0919 as @tiffany-chan1235 thought, I was referring to the Medusa in Soul Eater, since this is a video about female villains in anime. Soul Eater is great if you haven't watched it. Medusa is such an amazingly fun character.

Well that was the wildest and most off the mark Sailor Moon analysis I've ever seen. I don't know in what world Usgai would be considered "passive." Queen Serenity's (both Princess Serenity's mom and future Usagi) dresses are just as tight as Queen Beryl's, Princess Serenity & Usagi's dresses tend to be more flowy because she's a 14 year old girl. And that's just the anime. Naoko Takeuchi had no problem putting the main girls in those tight fitting long dresses that were popular in the 90s. Also feels weird to imply that any of those dresses were chosen to make characters sexy when they were just fashionable dresses at the time (Beryl's dress was literally based off of a fashion run-way dress, as were many of the fancy dresses on the show). Sailor Moon has characters that defied the gender norms of the time (Makoto, Haruka, the Starlights). And it definitely doesn't try to frame the girls as being pure and innocent, the girls are shown as being flawed human beings. I mean, they fight each other over boys all the time, which isn't feminist, but it's also not equating outspoken interest in boys and sex as being evil. Hell, Usagi and Mamoru even do the do in the manga. The series hasn't aged entirely well, but I don't think this is an angle that makes sense. Maybe if you had picked Chibiusa/The Black Lady, who I can definitely see being interpreted as becoming an uncomfortable femme fatale contrasted against Usagi (boy did THAT age poorly), but I'm not seeing the Beryl vs Serenity thing at all. Femme Fatale villains are a huge issue in anime, however targeting Sailor Moon, which has some of the most interesting villainess's in action anime (Galaxia...honestly all the villains in season 5 who are forced to be villains, Queen Nehelenia, the Outer Senshi in season 3) fees like an odd take.

@olaf-chan-728

6 ай бұрын

yeahh it is more of a kid vs adult type of thing

@TheDreamingDays

6 ай бұрын

All of the character interpretations in this video were extremely surface-level.

@PastelHime

5 ай бұрын

OH MY GOD YESS!!! AND THE AMAZON QUARTET WERE LITERAL CUTE KIDS Y'ALL 😭

i think the saylor moon case is more of a "kid vs adult" type of thing where the adult woman is show as lust and old and grumpy ans usagi is seen as happy and cherful

@peachesandcream22

6 ай бұрын

I would critisize that. There are many times when older men creep over young girls, who are virgins (because it's easier to manipulate them), but at the same time sexualise them and demonise older women who aren't virgins. In shounens, you can see that all these Madonnas have big boobs, thighs, butts, but they're so infantilised and then sexualised it becomes so creepy.

@user-qw5sw6yw7t

6 ай бұрын

Everything she says is some kind of shit. When the evil, power-hungry woman from Sailor Moon loses for her evil and greed, it is bad and pandering to gender roles, although the same thing happens to the evil, power-hungry villain from JoJo, who is literally burned alive. What does gender roles have to do with it if in absolutely all stories greed and evil lose to innocence and goodness. She's just stupid

@Kale-as-in-kaleidoscope

5 ай бұрын

THIS - Also cuteness culture being a form of rebellion in japan plays a role into it

"Serenity is a role model. She's the ideal heroine and ideal girl." But Usagi herself is not the ideal role model. That's the point of the story. From the book "Anime Explosion!" (Patrick Drazen, 2003): "Usagi is hardly a role model: perennially late to school, too lazy to study and subsequently always in trouble for bad grades, constantly snacking and arguing with her little brother. In anime's long and rich tradition of 'magical girl' heroines, Usagi would definitely seem to be an unlikely candidate." "True to the tradition, she's told to say a few magic words, which transform her into... a superpowered klutzy crybaby. All of Usagi's flaws stay with her, but somehow she saves the day." "Usagi can't help having been the Moon Princess in a previous life, and now that she's stuck with it, she has to find the courage to do what needs to be done. This is a more realistic object lesson for the audience anyway -- very few of us will inherit superpowers, but all of us find ourselves in predicaments that we're not entirely sure we can get out of." When you say, "You may be thinking: well, Sailor Moon's an older show, modern anime doesn't do that anymore." Anime is cultural product of a specific time and place. The cultural values are necessary to understand the context. You say that's the tropes and conventions are problems, but I don't see any problem with them. Cliches aren't necessarily bad, either. Sailor Moon is a Shojo anime, but My Hero Academia is a Shonen anime. Shonen anime is predominantly centered around the male hero. I don't agree with always re-interpreting things thru new "present-day" lenses. You're doing a disservice to the culture and context of the story. "Non-binary" isn't applicable for older anime gender expression or expectations. Gender-bending didn't stop someone from being their initial sex. The original Orochimaru from Naruto is male. He utilized shapeshifting, but never stopped being his initial self despite the forms he took. Boruto is another story, with different cultural values. Revoluntionary Girl Utena: Utena clearly states she's a girl. She even flips thru the school rule book saying there's no rule against a girl wearing that outfit. But even then, the red shorts Utena wears are never seen on any of the male characters. Cowboy Bebop's Ed clearly states she's a girl in the Cowboy Bebop movie after being misgendered by a trans person (indeterminate whether the person was a transvestite or transsexual). It was always fine to have fictional males and females with all variety of personalities. Not sure when people became confused about that.

@RabbitShirak

5 ай бұрын

Bravo.

@Thollis1987

3 ай бұрын

Excellent work

The thing is, villains and villainesses are often written with romantic tropes in mind because that's what many female viewers historically tend to find appealing. But if you look past the romantic tropes you'll see that most of these female villains are just embodying general bad moral states that could apply to either gender. Toga is misguided and weaponizes a sense of victimhood in order to make excuses for herself to commit crimes, which she has a compulsion to do because of her quirk. However she is a much more complex character than you're giving her credit for here, as she ends up taking that theme in the direction of being more of an allegory for mental illness and how people with very antisocial conditions such as psychopathy may struggle to fit into a society that isn't built for them, and asks the question about whether or not society can even accommodate such people, who can help them, etc. I also wouldn't say Ururaka is the epitome of femininity either, it's established very early on that she is goal-oriented and motivated bluntly by her desire to make money for her family, which isn't usually something a 'feminine' woman is supposed to admit to out loud.

@imthebossmermaid3648

6 ай бұрын

That doesn't make her less feminine.

My favorite villain of all time... Micheal Jackson

@RabbitShirak

5 ай бұрын

Hee hee!

We need an anime where a seductress main character sends a girly villainess to the shadow realm.

@axe-tq2wn

6 ай бұрын

Yes

@chxrrmie

6 ай бұрын

Bayonetta and the angels basically lol

@Bluedragon-iz3oo

6 ай бұрын

There are manga that has a concept similar to this, except the girly villainess is actually a seductress. Turns out that seducing people to manipulate them is not an heroic trait.

@AC-dk4fp

6 ай бұрын

Its called Oku-sama wa Majou Shojo and it sucks. Okay the villainess doesn't get sent to the shadow realm and the real main character is the dorky male love interest and is why it sucks but it fits the description. There's also Re: Cutie Honey but the girly villainess is just one of the lower ranked henchmen. She does get obliterated though and the show doesn't completely suck even if its late Gainax proto-Trigger style is an acquired taste.

@desubysnusnu

6 ай бұрын

​@@chxrrmie I was gonna say that. Since Jubileus is described as having a personality of a bubbly teenage girl 😂

Is this reading of Sailor Moon a joke? Because it's absolutely ignorant of the plot and what went into designing the characters. Beryl obsessed over a man, didn't respect his choice, blamed the other woman, and tried to manipulate him later instead of moving on. Queen Beryl never once used her sexuality in the plot. Ever. Having credentials clearly doesn't mean that that article writer knew what she was talking about.

@plaguedoctor6623

6 ай бұрын

I’ve never personally watched sailor moon but I thought that reading was off too considering calling a manga written by a woman sexist sounded a bit strange!

@ETPlayground

6 ай бұрын

@@plaguedoctor6623 it's absurd and insulting. Acting like her credentials give her this goddess tier opinion but not taking the media seriously enough to actually read the source material. Sailor Moon is passive, she doesn't want to fight. She's like Wonder Woman, only without enjoying the battle for peace. She's more than willing and capable of throwing down on a multiversal scale, but apparently it's sexist to have her just want to be an ordinary girl who falls in love and gets married with a simple life. Which on the end she doesn't actually get, because she becomes a global queen and it's literally canon that she never grows into liking it but does it anyway. The hypocrisy required to condemn Sailor Moon while also jumping on the "girlhood entertainment doesn't deserve the respect of doing my homework" bandwagon actually drives me up the wall. Between this, Fate the Winx Saga, and Black Widow now actually using her comic book weapons properly until a posthumous story I almost start to lose hope in save the world media. Sorry for the rant, a bit on the passionate side.

@plaguedoctor6623

6 ай бұрын

@@ETPlayground no need to apologize! I enjoyed it, and I can’t thank you enough for informing me! I love hearing people who know a whole lot more than I do agree with me!

I think Tanya the Evil is a great villainess without triggering any kind of tropes you mentioned; she is not giving any fanservice nor she is not a side character, she is the boss. Ah, of course she was a man in the beginning so nevermind.

@chuckwood3426

6 ай бұрын

She is also not the antagonist of the series. She is at worst the Villain-protagonist. At best an anti-hero.

@PetitTasdeBoue

6 ай бұрын

She's not a villlain... an anti hero maybe but clearly not a villain. Spoilers She literally try to stop a world war but she's too young and don't have enough power

@tweettweetyweety

6 ай бұрын

?????

@Algorithm_God_Cult

6 ай бұрын

She is neither a villain (villain-protagonist) nor an anti-heroine She is morally ambiguous and a Lawful-Neutral psychopath (not Lawful-Evil, don't get me started on that)

@orangeslash1667

6 ай бұрын

@@Algorithm_God_Cult What abound Medusa from Soul Eater???

I luv Makima. She feels eerie, yet never comes off as a male that was gender-swapped. She's seductive when she needs to be and scary when she needs to be. Also, considering how many villaness anime they produce, you would expect one to be good and diabolical. Yes ... I would simp for makima😊

@tiredtranslator485

6 ай бұрын

What do you mean by "isn't a male that was gender-swapped"? Shouldn't good female characters, including villains, just happen to be female? The reason why a lot of female characters are written poorly is because authors overfocus on the gender, leading to sexualisation or plot-points adhering to gender roles. I get that you can have a good female character who has a conflict or plot point regarding or because of her gender (blue eye samurai is a good example). But it doesn't have to be, right?

@TawnyGryn

6 ай бұрын

@tiredtranslator485 There's a trend where qualities associated with masculinity are prioritised in women xcters so as to show that they're capable too (I don't find this appealing) what I seek from both genders is entirely different... femininity has its own charm and strength U seem to prefer when gender is not a factor, and sometimes I like that, but mostly I like my xcters to feel like the gender they were assigned (men feel like men and women feel like women)

@2KREDK

6 ай бұрын

@@TawnyGrynI get what you’re saying and I won’t disagree, but what do you mean by “men feeling like men” and “women feeling like women”? What makes a female character feel female? What quality’s does she have that make her female? What are considered feminine quality’s? And vice versa

@TawnyGryn

6 ай бұрын

@2KREDK well... men being more masculine and women being more feminine... eng is my 5th language, and this is the best elaboration I can give beyond what was already stated

@2KREDK

6 ай бұрын

@@TawnyGryn wow that totally answers my question 😭 whatever cool u know that many languages though

toga has never used sex appeal that is fan service for the viewer and she much deeper then some one note character. we already got her backstory, likes, dislikes, feelings for people "romance" or friendship she also has a thing for ururaka. no konan isn't a villian her goal is to make a better world but going about it wrong. we even have her give naruto flowers after her friend died because she knew what they were doing was wrong but it had to be done. that's why later she tries but fails to stop obito from getting the rinnegan.

@salmaterserah5137

3 ай бұрын

I'm sorry, but Konan is very much a villain. An antagonist/villain doesn't stop being one just because their motive seems noble. It's true after the Pain arc ended, she is no longer a villain. But before that? 100% still one, and not a very well-utilized one unfortunately.

Alright, I usually don't comment on videos but the Toga section REALLY felt off. but also BIG SPOILERS FOR MHA UP TO SEASON 6 First off, she doesn't need to be naked to use her power, she needs to be naked to copy the outfit of the person she's transforming into (how does this work I have no idea); if she uses her quirk while already wearing clothes, she will just take the physical appearance but her clothing will remain intact. Now, onto the actual problem I had with that bit; most of the analysis is just VERY superficial, like it actually hurts a bit. > Although Toga does have a crush for Deku (and the story reason of why she initially fell for him is quite stupid), she never tries to claim Deku as her boyfriend, she isn't interested in fighting for him; and even if she was, it grows to become an actual sense of admiration rather than a plain crush, and for reasons that make sense as well! Her weird actions and faces around Deku are still weird though, can't deny that. > Another thing is that Toga isn't Ochako's archnemesis at all, but rather a one sided rivalry, but I will admit she does act as Ochako's opposite. Toga never sees Ochako as a threat or competition, in fact Toga loves and admires Ochako as much as much as Deku and sees her as an equal. She only becomes Ochako's nemesis until season 6, after Ochako tells her a very fair point about how she deserves to get punishement, but from Toga's perspective it's something like "If achieving your freedom requires others to get hurt, then maybe you should just keep suffering". > And that also takes me to another point; Toga's arc very much dives into how people like her are always treated as less in the society. Even before she was a villain, actually when she was a literal child, people treated her like a freak because of urges she couldn't control, and even when she DID try to act normal, everyone around her would continue to belittle her and blame her for things that never happened. She was born in a society that didn't accept her and also couldn't bother to support her or give her the help she very clearly needed (something that applies to everyone else in the League). Toga's literal main reason is the creation of a new world where she can be herself without being judged. The series, as flawed as it is, does aknowledge that what she's doing is wrong and that her backstory is no justification, it also makes it clear that it could have been prevented, and that it's not okay to discriminate people over things they can't control and instead society should help them and support them to become better (particularly because Toga did want to get better at first). > Now to finish up, a small detail; Toga never looks for atention, she literally doesn't give a shit about anyone but her (and also the League of Villains after they become essentially a family), her way of living is essentially "I live my life my own way, whatever happens outside of it doesn't matter", which is why it's particularly sad when she seems actually hurt by Twice's death.

@AraumC

4 ай бұрын

This man understands MHA in a way not enough do.

@donotgotthis

3 ай бұрын

Yes! Thank you, her selection for this point didn't feel right to me either. This video's topic is definitely a conversation worth having but using Toga as an example didn't really work here.

I think in order to create better female villains two characters need to be used as a base model. Integra Hellsing (from hellsing) and Balalaika (from black lagoon). while not villains, they do operate on a morally ambiguous front and are incredibly intimidating and charismatic characters that can own a scene without having sexual or erotic as one of their primary features. Both of them could EASILY be put at the front of a evil-world dominating organization without changing too much about them.

@aclown1286

5 ай бұрын

integra is a girlboss, I love her so much, rarely I see someone talking about her, but yeah, she's amazingly well done

You lost me at the beginning with saying that Usagi is passive and cute when her stories is literally that of an underdog, a young girl who slowly comes into herself and grows constantly. Plus your analyzes on Uraraka and Toga is so shallow. You just looked at the surface and didn’t even bothered to understand the characters dynamic.

@YuruCampSupermacy

4 ай бұрын

You have watched my hero academia? Lol what a loser

Japan is super conservative, which makes it hard to tell stories with different nuanced kinds of characters. Avatar last airbender has so many female characters, good, evil, feminine, masculine, each so different and complex. You don't get that in japanese media, if you do it's very rare

@Skye2993

6 ай бұрын

Actually you do get that, you have to look at different genre’s don’t just stay in Shonen or the mainstream, I’ve seen masculine women, of course feminine women, tomboyish women, female characters that are A-holes in Anime, you just gotta try outside the box and watch an Anime you might think you wouldn’t like but wind up surprising you

@laisphinto6372

6 ай бұрын

Japan produced way more gay and lesbian content before the West ever jumped on that Bandwagon ,you cannot seriously Look at Anime content yes this IS clearly super conserative hell the West conseratives crusaded and some still do against Anime for the longest time without success

@warrenbradford2597

6 ай бұрын

“Japan is super conservative l”? Strange, Anime America says the U.S. is the conservative nation as we have puritan tradition that has made everyone here have double standards against male sexual fanservice. Japan, according to her, “is more marture when comes to sex than our ever conservative nation ever will”.

@allandm

6 ай бұрын

@@warrenbradford2597 it's true that there's more niche anime with fanservice for girls and gay people, but that's because animation is bigger in Japan and it's more free as in it's not considered a kids only thing as much. As a nation, Japanese are very conservative compared to three uk or the us.

@narudayo5053

6 ай бұрын

What nonsense are you saying ? The society mean nothing to creativity. Ok, Avatar, one show, from america, give other examples (and you will notice how few they are from America) Japan have more that 10,000 anime currently, so to say that most of them are conservative and rarely have nuance characters is just plain stupid. The easy way to actually see interesting plot is to not watch mainstream anime (which is easy to do) to begin with. Not all anime are shonen/harem stuff. Many are heavy story oriented. Litteraly most things made by Kyoani to begin with. Anime that are adapted from light novels or manga that are not translated yet overseas. Out of the bat I can list you: - Natsume Yuujinchou - Hourou Musuko - Nana - Paradise kiss - Princess jellyfish - Hell girl - XXX Holic - Paranoia agent - Eureka Seven - Psycho pass - Utena Revolutionary girl - Serial experiments lain - Toradora - Angel beats - Hyouka - Psycho pass - Anohana - Kids on the slope - Tsuritama etc Complaining about the lack of nuance and well made characters while not even looking for the said interesting show is just plain lazy. Japanese studio pump out tones of anime, not just series but also hour long OVA or short films. It's easy to find if you are really looking for it (synopsis and tags exists for a reason for god's sake)

That’s why I love Makima so much. Yes the femme fatale trope is a trope so ridiculously overused in fiction that it became boring for a lot of people, but she’s an example of the femme fatale done right and that you can still create a complex female character even with that old fashioned trope. I just love how cruel, evil minded and merciless she is, how strategic, cunning and manipulative she is. She’s like a feminine version of Yohan, Aizen or Light and I find it so cool that she manages to stand out and have so much power and influence and agency just by herself. I feel like Chainsaw Man’s female cast is overall is the fresh air that anime and even Japan as a very traditional and conservative society needed so much.

The video went from "We lack good female villains" to "Japan is sexist"

@-bloom-9267

6 ай бұрын

Well she did prove that it was true tho

@orangeslash1667

6 ай бұрын

@@-bloom-9267 What about Medusa from Soul Eater???

@-bloom-9267

6 ай бұрын

​@@orangeslash1667 idk who that is

@hisokamorow6709

6 ай бұрын

@@-bloom-9267 You can "prove" anything if you take standards of one culture, contrast them on another and then only present data that could back up your point. Regardless, the title of the video had little to nothing to do with female villains, but with female characterization in anime/by the japanese culture.

@orangeslash1667

6 ай бұрын

@@-bloom-9267 The villain in the iconic anime/ manga series Soul Eater. Who is also a female villain.

Balalaika from Black Lagoon is a great female villain. Powerful, dominant in every situation, respected by her men, feared by her enemies. Intelligent and competent. And while she is attractive, none of her positive or negative qualities relate to that fact. I am surprised she didn't make the list.

@tesnacloud

6 ай бұрын

I agree with everything except calling her a villain. She is a character in a morally bleak show who almost never opposes the protagonists, in fact she is usually on their side, and is generally more morally acceptable than the other characters of the show. Revy is closer to being a villain than Balalaika, at least to me.

@edi9892

6 ай бұрын

And I loved her scenes, such as the one in the editing room... It's so relatable seeing her doing a mind-numbing task, yet she didn't delegate the task, which speaks of her character... The other scene was when she went to Japan and threw Rock on the car hood...

@orangeslash1667

5 ай бұрын

@@tesnacloud What abound Medusa from Soul Eater???

@tesnacloud

5 ай бұрын

@@orangeslash1667 It has been years since I watched Soul Eater, I would need a refresher on Medusa. I know she was easily the most devious villain of the series and the awful mother of Crona, but other details escape me.

@orangeslash1667

5 ай бұрын

@@tesnacloud The series takes inspiration from both Harry Potter and Tim Burton films. However the tone leans more into Tim Burton with the humor. However there is one downside. One the anime stops being faithful to the manga at ep 35, because the manga wasn't finished at the time.

To be fair, Sailor Moon only has this problem in the first season on the heroes' side, and it becomes blurry after season 3 on the villains' side. Sailor Moon has an almost all-female cast, and I applaud it for its representation of diverse female/queer heroes. Be that gay, nonbinary (Haruka, the Starlights), anti-stereotypical (Jupiter being the physically strongest, but also most girlish) and ambitious (Venus wantig to be an idol, Haruka being a racer, Pluto being a scientist...). In season 3, all villains are henchmen to Pharaoh 90, and I'd call the Pharaoh an ancient alien. Mimet has ambition, and is also supported by Venus at some point. Mistress9 is tragic and devastatingly strong. Nehelenia is obsessed with beauty and ruling the Moon Kingdom, and she is absolutely ruthless in her hatred of the Moon Queen. Still Moon goes beyond everything to heal her. And then there is Galaxia, a tragic villainess who is, again, absolutely devastating and successful. But as someone said before, the most women problems in anime exist in the shonen genre. Which is disappointing, but then again, shojo also has its good share of problems when it comes to male characters. It is just that shonen, right now, is the more widespread genre compared to shojo.

@heavennunya809

6 ай бұрын

I think most people have issues writing the opposite sex in a away that is satisfactory to those of that sex. Like you said, it's simply that Shonen, focused on a male demographic, is what is more popular rn.

A good female villain who avoids a lot of stereotypes is Dante from the first Fullmetal Alchemist anime. I know a lot of people dislike the character (in part because their arrival is where the show starts to really diverge from the manga), but I think they're a great love-to-hate baddie who works really well with the themes the anime was dealing with. And they're an example of a female villain who's in charge of the villainous organization, isn't driven by or reliant on sexuality (there is that bit about wanting "to be loved by the son of Hohenheim", but that's clearly a side project for Dante), and manages to be utterly despicable while also probably being the most soft-spoken, well-mannered woman in the series.

@eamonndeane587

6 ай бұрын

Dante is one of the main reasons prefer FMA 2003 to Brotherhood.

I mean there’s Ragyo Kiryuin from Kill La Kill who was a pretty good antagonist imo. Woman was a straight menace in that show man.

I'm really sad you threw out so many of the details about Toga, like what's been revealed about how she was raised and the way she ties into the themes of the story as a whole. A lot of it is from parts of the manga that haven't been adapted yet, but some of it's made it into the anime as well. Personally, in the long perspective of everything the story's shown of her up to this point, I find her the single most compelling character in the whole cast. She's this tormented person who's constantly punished for loving others too much, loving them in a way that's not deemed socially acceptable, and the series highlights the kind of fractures that form in a person's identity when they're not allowed to love or be loved. I think Horikoshi did a great job in turning her into more than just a stock yandere villainness, and I wish you'd unpacked some of that.

@milliondoller06

6 ай бұрын

because these people don't pay attention or understand the media they are critiquing

@zanitzeuken

6 ай бұрын

@@milliondoller06 Or have a political point to make and this is just a vehicle for that point. Afterall, the author of the video's solution to the problem is to put more women into the production process.

@LewdNoodz

6 ай бұрын

I mean it's not wrong to want more women media to write but it doesn't really solve the core problem of people just writing characters better, which isn't easy, writing it hard, but it would be nice for more perspective. @@zanitzeuken

@zanitzeuken

6 ай бұрын

@@LewdNoodz Remember, we're talking about why female villians are bad. If you're going to forgo artistic, creative, introspective, or literary solutions and go straight to political ones, you're going to end up making corporate training videos. Not good anime.

@LewdNoodz

6 ай бұрын

@@zanitzeuken @zanitzeuken What? I don't understand your point or what corporate training has to do with anything. Do you think women are... all those things you listed.

Did you even watch Sailor Moon? Your entire assessment is waaaay off mark

This is probably because a lot of the most popular anime are shounen (for young men) so the comparision is unfair, it's like asking why anime for teenage girls has mostly teenage girl protagonist.

@olaf-chan-728

6 ай бұрын

most female villains of MLP break the norms, and marvel and DC hot villains arent treated the same way, they actually fight and get hurt

@Kitsune-kun663

6 ай бұрын

It's so fucking obvious that I can't fathom how someone can't see that.

@TsukaiHikushi

6 ай бұрын

but marvel female sucks along with dc women as now they act like men unless you mean the old comic female then yea @@olaf-chan-728

@2BAMaster9

5 ай бұрын

@@Kitsune-kun663They don’t see it because they want everything to be a social problem

@aarondx3764

5 ай бұрын

​@@2BAMaster9That's not a good enough excuse....

Kagura from Inuyasha is one of my favorite female villains, like you can tell a woman wrote that show. She dosnt have agency being an incarnation of Naraku, but that is part of what makes her character complex. She desperately craves to break free from her control and despises her lack of agency. She has motivation in every thing that she does and not because she is controlled by a man, because she is constantly driven to not let anyone else control her.

I know I've grown up since the 80's on the old femme fatale trope, but over the years I've come to admire the more stoic type of female characters that tend to take on roles that males do, characters like: Sarah Connor (Terminator) Ellen Ripley (Alien) Motoko Kusanagi (Ghost in the Shell) Sylia Stingray (Bubblegum Crisis) Balalaika (Black Lagoon) Integra Hellsing (Hellsing) Zorin Blitz (Hellsing)

@anitamihholap5926

6 ай бұрын

Ellen Ripley was written as a man at first, then just changed into a woman with nothing else changed. That's actually a solid approach.

@laisphinto6372

6 ай бұрын

Meh they are predictable mostly boring

@Rosabella.Thorne7

6 ай бұрын

RITA VRATASKI from Live, Die, Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow ‼️

@Love-Sensibility

6 ай бұрын

​@@laisphinto6372i hate to agree but you're not wrong I guess. I used to dislike femme fatales but I've grown to like them

@dirge7459

6 ай бұрын

@@laisphinto6372 Better than stereotypical fan service bs that's been peddled the past 100yrs, which is even more predictable, so really we've no where else to go beyond this split.

Esdeath is one hell of a villain. She might be one of my favourite. She's just unapologetically evil and cruel

@darkfool2000

4 ай бұрын

She's also literally insane. You can tell from how she talks about her father and his death. She has no endgame.

The Sailor Moon analogy completely missed the point. Princess Serenity did not rule the Moon Kingdom, her MOTHER Queen Serenity did. Sailor Moon later rules Earth in a future timeline as Neo-Queen Serenity. Both roles only show the Serenity queens as mothers to young princesses and trying but failing to take down rebel uprisings supposedly motivated only by unrequited loves. Any other factors are not discussed, or even what their reigns are like for the citizens.

Did you just commit Bi-erasure with Toga? She also has a crush on Ochako and a stronger connection to her than to Deku. Izuku bearly thinks about her while Uraraka thinks a lot about her. If Himiko was her bi awakening it would have been plausible.

@jennyxu6800

6 ай бұрын

but does that make it better or does it just make Toga a [SPOILER] "bury your gays" trope?

@EddyA-sw5ox

6 ай бұрын

It still doesn't excuse the fact that she's still a yandere and how her main motivation revolves around love for the protagonists. That and the unnecessary fanservice involving her Quirk.

@sakurahirawa

6 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠@@EddyA-sw5ox what do you mean unnecessary fanservice? It makes sense that she doesn’t wear clothes, since she mimics people using their blood (and her own body). If she has clothes on she probably can’t transform, since they would get in the way (and most likely be all goopy when she de-transforms)

@katharsis101-

6 ай бұрын

​@@EddyA-sw5oxtbf the "love" motivation is actually pretty well done and integrated within both her character and how mha's world building works in general, with her wishing for the validation that love brings because it means acceptance for someone like her, who has been rejected and forced to repress her quirk ever since it manifested.

@EddyA-sw5ox

6 ай бұрын

@@sakurahirawa It still feels gross since she's not the only mha girl who needs to show skin/be naked in order to get their Quirk to work for them. There are tons of creative ways Horikoshi could have written out her transformation while keeping her from exposing her body and keeping her vampirism in mind. It also sucks since he could have done it if she was a boy character. Which he did with Lemillion.

I don't get where you get the "passiv" about Bunny. The same girl who jumped into certain death to catch Chibiusa.

@RabbitShirak

5 ай бұрын

Also the same girl who almost every night fights monsters and villains. What's passive about that?

I think the one character I would defend is Kagura from Inuyasha: She's a henchwoman, yes, but the whole point of her existence is that Naraku literally created her to be a blind follower, a walking weapon he can utilize when it's convinient. Her arc is all about finding her agency and use that agency to become her own independent person, and it's done surprisingly well.

It is not just villains - it in general has a female character problem. Female characters on the non-villain side are mostly portrayeed as less story relevant/ skilled in the main skills of the anime than males...or are killed off fast/early. This is especially true to shounen, isekai whereas other genres have more shows with better female writing. This includes even newer anime. Not including the constnt seualisation, pervert charcter trope of males. As much as I like anime it is very sexist if you look a bit deeper.

My issue with this review is when you say double entandes because I can't understand if you are being serious or making a joke. I can't tell if its legit criticism or just ick complaints. But the main reason why there is a lack of female villains is for them to either be redeemable or for you to want them to suffer immeasurably, which goes against culture wanting to see women harmed. Edit: You start making the video less about villainy and more about misogyny. I think you miss the point in those controlling positions. Often when men control women, the women are serving as part of their agancy. They do it willingly. But often, men follow women without it, being enslaved by her femininity. That's just attraction. Not everything is meant to be a message.

@remo27

5 ай бұрын

The fact that women , even in the most 'patriarchal' (most weren't even really 'patriarchal' let alone an andrarchy like feminists are really talking about ) societies in existence have some power and agency is roundly denied by ridiculous sophists like this video creator. I bet she got a degree (prob undergraduate) in "Gender Studies" or "Critical Theory" and thinks she has the keys to reality.

Beatrice Horseman in my opinion is very interesting character. She is from adult cartoon Bojack Horseman. I can't say she is a villain or just a character who do bad things for her son who is a main protagonist, but damn, I like how writers make her interesting from my perspective. Her story is sad and tragic and I am not trying to justify her actions, but if you see her life, you will understand why she do bad things. She abused her son and make his life miserable. I still don't know she hate him or not, but she never show love to him because she make a promise to her mother (who has a lobotomy because she was broken of her son death and want to be fixed) who said to her that she should never love anyone as much how she loved her brother. And she didn't love anyone in her life. She has a husband, but they don't have feelings for each other and even when he cheated, they still live together and make things worse and worse for each other and for son. She don't care about others feelings, mean and always know what you did wrong in her eyes and says it to your face. So why I like this character? She has her personality that can be real in our world. And I mean that she is a terrible person, but she written so well, that I can believe that people like her can be in real life. In media, we often see that mothers are good and of course we have antagonist among them. But it's rare to see such cold hearted women who still can't recover from past and from trauma. And maybe she deserves how she ended, but her life always was not so good from beginning.

8:01 the criticism that female villains are uniquely poorly written because they're being put into boxes of either over or underperformong in their femininity is only valid if we can prove that it's not the same with most male villains. However, excluding the top spots, most male villans kinda do the same as far as I can tell. They "overperform" in masculinity, meaning they embody masculinity in a negative/toxic way. I'll have to look into this further but this is my immediate gut reaction. If we extend the argument, beyond villans and to female characters as a whole as is the case with uraraka as a walking idealised feminine trope I have no choice but to notice that deku and bakugo etc are just their male counterpart, idealised masculine tropes. Again, this is (for now) just a surface observation, but worth looking into I think. Is it really sexism against women, or is it just adherence to traditional gender expectations for both men and women.

@Abyzz_Knight

6 ай бұрын

It kind of hurts your point when you have to ignore the top spots Also Deku definitely isn't idealized masculinity. Like some people constantly complain about how much he cries and I'd say a portion of those complaints are because crying doesn't fit into idealized masculinity. He's an example that although male characters are also restricted in how they're written because of gender roles, it's not as rigid as it is with female characters.

@Cube-xm6vt

6 ай бұрын

I really don't see how deku and bakugo would be idealised masculinity, especially bakugo. Also I haven't seem many male villains who overexaggerate masculinity. In fact many male villains are somewhat effemminate and sometimes gay coded. Even if they are traditionally masculine, it usually isn't the focus, or even the central part of their character, while female villains tend to focus a lot on their femininity, such as femme fatales, where their sexual appeal is the whole point, and are easily some of the most common female villains (and I've never heard of masc fatales), or sometis they have a lot of focus on their love life, such as them only being evil because they are in a toxic relationship, or redeeming themselves because they are in love with the protagonist (these tropes are more common with male antagonists, but still not as much as female ones). There is also a severe lack of female "pure evil" villains: female villains get redeemed much more often (this might be because they're usually relegated to being side villains rather than main ones).

@imthebossmermaid3648

6 ай бұрын

It feels like femininity is seen as a bad thing in women no matter how we express it!

@Disappointed_Philosoraptor

6 ай бұрын

@@Cube-xm6vt the deku and bakugo thing, bakugo us ridiculously popular with female viewers, so he definitely got something. If I had to pinpoint it, strength, agression, egocentrism, brutishness, ambition, a desire for power, fame, dominating others, he is blunt, bold, rugged. as part of his personal character development journey he/we discover he also has a "softspot" for those he cares for, just in his own aggressive, brutish way. its a very common male archetype. Deku is a Shonen protagonist going through a hero's journey, it doesn't get more stereotype than that. As is standard In hero journeys in the beginning he is still lacking in most practical aspects of masculinity. he is weak, powerless, naive and easily swayed by his emotions. however, his ambition and courage are already there, and lay the groundwork for his growth. a classic story about the journey from boy to manhood and the subsequent growth into stereotypical masculinity. How does he grow? Fighting, struggle, competition. all stereotypes of masculinity. He embodies/grows into strength, courage, independence, leadership, assertiveness, competitiveness, less naive, less emotional, more self sufficient and less reliant on others. he protects and provides. "but he still cried in very emotional moments in the last season" yes, just like uraraka shows courage snd determination in that same scene. I'll take a look at the villains another day.

@Disappointed_Philosoraptor

6 ай бұрын

@@imthebossmermaid3648 indeed, and part of that is the current cultural narrative that woman ought to be just like men in behavior and personality, as if femininity isnt equally important and valid. I do notice this a lot with videos like this one, which criticize the depiction of traditional feminine archetypes as if every fictional woman ought to be super masculine, implying every IRL woman ought to be a strong willed, independent, dominant and aggressive etc. Yes, uraraka is a stereotypically feminine archetype, but why is that bad now? If it's about her shallow writing compated to the main guys, that's a valid point, but then again, this only means the author is not good at writing feminine archetypes with sufficient depth, which is common with men which lack the lived experience in that department.

Personally, I feel Japanese writers don't like violence against women - for the most part anyway - something I noticed is that if a story even has a female villain, they to not be seen in combat too much, unless they are the one kicking ass, or are fighting another female. And their defeat usually is pretty quick, off screen, more tame than their male cohorts, or they change sides. This obviously isn't ALL female villains, and hell, this isn't event something I only noticed with anime, this is entirely a trend that also happens in western media! But going back to Japan, Dragon Ball doesn't really feature any female villains, Mai is the first and is really just a comedic villain along with her allies. Android 18 (who appears MUCH later than Mai) is introduced kicking Vegeta's ass, and doesn't even lose any fights, she's just taken out instantly by Cell. One Piece also follows this trend... kinda, it has more female villains but they tend to either be defeated by the female members of the crew, by other villains, or in rare instances by Zoro and Usopp - the big exceptions being when they are notably ugly such as Alvita and Big Mom, again a trend that appears here in America, some classics being Snow White's evil queen only facing physical consequences when she turns ugly, and Maleficent only being harmed when she turns into a giant dragon. They don't look pretty anymore so it's okay to hurt them (at least, that's how I think the writers view it, even if it's subconscious) Also, idk about your read on Queen Beryl, it's like saying Dio is Araki's way to tell young boys not to be strong charismatic leaders, with high self esteem and a fit body - that you should instead be like Jotaro, a delinquent who insults his mom, beats people, doesn't socialize much, and solves most of his problems with punching! Yeah that's not entirely Jotaro's character, more like a very surface level look that only emphasizes his negative traits, but they are still part of him and I doubt Araki wants his readers to emulate his characters like this, or look at all his villains and refuse to be anything like them at all. Dio looks down on humans and is a general asshole, Queen Beryl wants to control everything - yeah she emphasizes negative feminine traits, but in terms of her age and independence, that easily can be traced to her being the big bad. A mature person with experience and commanding an army is more threating than some 16 year old who wants the hero's boyfriend and is dependent on everyone around her to do anything.

Why is this video titled ‘Anime Has A Villainess Problem’ if you don’t talk about the many different demographics of anime? I was disappointed to see there was no mention of josei or seinen anime villains 😔

Can you think of any notable villains in Western films? in comics? in literature? If anything, anime and manga tend to have more female villains and treat them as villains than the average.

@MrEvldreamr

6 ай бұрын

Yeah i think she had some bad takes as well. America DESPITE its gender equality has poorly crafted female characters. Japan DESPITE its gender inequality has way more females who are way better written

@nightwolfnordberg9476

6 ай бұрын

The only one i can think of is azula from avatar the last airbender (it is not a anime)

@peppermintzi

6 ай бұрын

⁠@@MrEvldreamrthat’s a major oversimplification. neither countries have any real gender equality and it still shows within media, via the presence and aspects of their female characters (let alone specifically villains).

@remo27

5 ай бұрын

@@peppermintzi If you look at pretty much every law and policy in the United States that concerns men and women, girls and boys they all pretty much favor females over males and female desires over male desires. I agree, that's not equality. But here I bet you were going to go on a rant about how hard society is set up against women, weren't you?

@MrEvldreamr

5 ай бұрын

@mintzyish no. Japanese women live in an actual patriarchy. I've lived in Japan, trust me the culture is extremely isolating, lonely, and sexist. (Also racist) America is LEAGUES above Japan when it comes to social inequality. So much so, it isn't even up for debate. I actually believe anime exists as escapist fantasy because Japanese people hate their lives so much.

Your Queen Beryl example, along with the source you based it upon, is highly erroneous. The key innovation Sailor Moon offered was that it was a TEAM of magical girl heroines, evocative of Super Sentai. The various members of that team, even in the first season, displayed at times jealous, selfish or ambitious personalit traits. Usagi herself did even. And passive is an adjective you could *maybe* ascribe to Sailor Mercury, but then again she was the one studying the hardest and went 1v1 with an evil Tuxedo Mask to save the boy she liked. Sailor Moon herself was rarely ever passive. The final showdown with Beryl happens at the Dark Kingdom's HQ because Usagi took the initiative to go there to rescue her BF and stop Beryl. Was Princess Serenity a passive ruler compared to Beryl? Yes, because Serenity wasnt ruling anyone in the first place. THe clue is in their titles. QUEEN Beryl and PRINCESS Serenity. Finally the sexual element to Beryl. In the manga Beryl is killed, not by Sailor Moon, but Sailor Venus. Venus, in her own manga made pre-Sailor Moon WAS played up as, frankly, horny. Naoko even drew a shower scene with her exposed breasts and put forward the idea she was a reincarnation of Aphrodite. After the Dark Kingdom arc Venus was at times also portrayed as very horny in both the manga and anime. So, the most 'sexual' of the main 5 was the one to kill the villain in the manga. In latter seasons and manga arcs, we get Sailor Uranus who has many of the traits Beryl has but is obviously not a villain. This includes jealousy and being obviously more of a sexual entity than the younger heroines. Finally, in the anime, Usagi is the one frequently pushing for her and her boyfriend to make out and the manga implies they have possibly already had sex. The last chapter.depicts them in bed together before getting married and Naoko Takeuchi in an art book even drew Usagi bare breasted in lingerie. It was HEAVILY conveying that a female character doesnt need to be a chaste virgin to be powerful or pure of heart.

I agree with most of the points here, but while trying to think of good female villains I think I stumbled upon a compounding factor. I think the public perception of 'villain' is innately tied to male-coded tropes and a lot of female villains get treated differently by the shows they're in and just slip under the radar because of this. Haruko from FLCL is, I'd like to think, pretty unambiguously a villain of the show. The show is popular and highly regarded. She's a well-written character. So why isn't she on the list? Would you think of her if someone told you to list villains? Her style of villainy just doesn't resonate with the word 'villain' so much, there's a degree of flamboyance implied by it that she just doesn't possess. Then we have all the villains-as-victims and redeemed/ambiguous villains who I'd hesitate to even put on a list of 'villains' and the examples of this I can immediately think of are mostly female: Moeka from Steins;Gate, Satsuki from Kill La Kill, Hitei Hime from Katanagatari, Balalaika and Roberta from Black Lagoon, etc. I'm sure someone more intelligent than me could spend hours picking the reasons for this apart. In closing: There are a lot of good female villains in anime, but not many that fit traditional villainous tropes and that kinda' sucks. It also sucks that non-traditional villains, particularly female villains, don't enter into discussions of villains so often for various complex reasons downstream of sexism.

@austincde

6 ай бұрын

I would say Haruko is certainly an antagonist, but then as I remember how power hungry and selfish she was maybe villain is better fit 😂

@ravenwilder4099

6 ай бұрын

Eh, Haruko's a villain in the same way Daffy Duck is a villain - when you make everything ridiculous enough, good and evil start to lose meaning.

@Marveryn

6 ай бұрын

one issue with female villain is the one that are popular tend to be redeem at some point. So just when you start to really get into one of these ladies they are now part of the good guy team. I am looking at you nico robin. Some of the older villain that no is going to remember cause most people on here are too young such as Queen Rafflesia. or Baron Ashura who took gender bend to a whole new level. While these villainess would had been popular back in the 70's they had long been forgotten in the public mind.

@orangeslash1667

6 ай бұрын

@@ravenwilder4099 What abound Medusa from Soul Eater???

@remo27

5 ай бұрын

You think anime is bad have you ever watched female villains in western media? 99 percent plus are given excuses like you say (Some Man Made Them Do It Usually Because Of Abuse) or are misguided in some way. This is because western media is infected with the Women Are Angels or At Least Always Better Than Men moral pedestal that modern victim feminism demands even though the trope was a major one of the 19th century Victorian Era. Look at how far we've come! One the reasons I like anime and manga so much is that they are far more willing to admit the existence of female evil and of the various types that exist, but they also just have better and more in depth female characters in general.

Umineko (the visual novel, not the anime) has *fantastic* female villains. I mean it's female characters overall are really well written (a lot of the story focuses on them over the male characters, and shows the various ways in which they struggle under the patriarchy). Yes, some of them do fit... Somewhat into the femme fatal category (ish, in her actions, but not in her character design). She's also portrayed as considerably more capable than her husband. Make of that what you want. XD Then we have the two witches who are super cutsey and femme (in an innocent way) but also utterly evil and messed up (with, again, some complexity and nuance). It really does subvert many of the typical tropes and I love it so much.

@Yggdrasilincarnate

5 ай бұрын

Yesss came here to say exactly that ❤

What you said about Sailor Moon is part of the problem I have with the 90’s anime. The writers and directors took a lot of liberties with Naoko’s work. In the (canon) manga and Sailor Moon Crystal, Queen Beryl, or rather Princess Beryl, was an earthen princess, who was just as innocent as Serenity. She loved Endymion first, which is why she hated Serenity, when she realized that the two were in love. Princess Beryl’s hatred is what led her to awaken the ancient evil that is Queen Metalia. When she was reborn, she did it again. She deserves every bit of punishment that comes to her. The Queen Beryl from the manga (and Sailor Moon Crystal), and the one from the 90’s anime are completely different people.

@AC-dk4fp

6 ай бұрын

They didn't take liberties, they were parralel productions with the anime being a weekly series and the manga being in a monthly magazine. Only four chapters of the manga were published when the anime's first episode aired and production starts way before that. The original anime is not a true adaptation as it was comissioned based off the prototype series Sailor V which was then put on hiatus as Naoko was told to re-tool it into a team series. This video is citing a confusingly written essay from 2014 by Dr Kathryn Hemmann not the speaker's own opinion. Its okay as a standard freudian-feminist reading of season 1's narrative but makes no sense by the time Neo-Queen Serenity is introduced and falls flat if you look at the broader sexuality of the manga where you have to be sequential art iliterate to believe Usagi is still a virgin by the end of the second arc.

@murakamiyoko681

6 ай бұрын

@@AC-dk4fp I understand that. There still wasn’t enough consultation with Naoko, though. She’s stated that she doesn’t like the 90’s anime adaptation, because of all of the changes made without her consent. That’s all I was trying to say, as far as my qualms with it go. Also, I personally think that sexuality takes a backseat in the manga. It’s shown twice that Usagi and Mamoru slept together, for sure, so I’m not arguing against you. I feel that Usagi’s power and the point of Sailor Moon isn’t really linked with her “innocence” anyway; but rather her pure heart and the love within it. Whether that love be platonic, romantic, or unconditional.

@AC-dk4fp

6 ай бұрын

Intimate sexuality takes a back seat because it was published in a regular shoujo magazine but there's also an aesthetic sexuality that's pretty pervasive even in Usagi's platonic relationships (more obvious in Crystal but some of those scenes are in the manga and open to biromantic readings there). Magical girl series are coming of age stories (as are most Japanese TV and comics aimed at pre-teens and early teens), it would contradict the genre completely to make them about innocence. Some series do have innocense derived powers that have to be symbolically given up at the end but Sailor Moon is the complete opposite of that type. Sailor Moon is pretty simply a good vs evil story and trying to interpret it as anything else like 'innocense vs maturity' doesn't work. Its also very milleniarian (in more than just the name of the crystal mcguffin) so the whole 'villains represent change heroes represent the status quo' element of many super hero stories just doesn't apply. Naoko has said contradictory things and different times and is unlikely to have static opinions. There's an author's note in the original English release of the Manga where she talks about having deliberately written Sailor Mars' introduction differently between versions so unless that's just wrong then not all the anime changes were outside of her control. She also claims to have written some lyrics for the anime music but that's all before she distanced herself from the production due to work load. I also prefer the manga I'm just not an auteur theory fan so I can't criticise a work for being collaborative and not reflecting a single creative voice. @@murakamiyoko681

I mean, the Queen Beryl thing might fit with the aesthetics, but Usagi is very openly sexual in the manga (with some implications here and there in the original anime, since there were some censors about outright saying Usagi openly had sex and liked it). But, yeah, there's a LOT of scenes where Usagi wakes up in Mamoru's bed in the manga that implies she stayed the night and they had sex. Sex isn't something dirty in Sailor Moon, it's something beautiful when it's done with someone you love. It isn't a "sex is evil" trope so much as "treating people as things is evil" trope in regards to Beryl. Though I suppose the aesthetics made for an easy shorthand for the tropes you mentioned. In that sense, Sailor Moon is a lot more progressive than people give it credit for.

I think my fave lady villain is Priscilla in Claymore. She doesn’t have any motives per se as much as her existing is a colossal threat to… everyone. But she has to be one of my fave.

"villainesses are same sexist stereotypes because they are aggressive and ambitious" male villains aren't aggressive and ambitious?

"Hmm, the stocks" got a long chuckle out of me

In my opinion the best villainess in anime is Priscilla from Claymore. Also I would like to make one small correction. While Esdeath is technically on the government's payroll, she isn't really subservient and only works under their banner because it is the place where she can guarantee her love for combat to be satiated. The adaptation kind of simplifies Esdeath's character but she is much more complex in the source material.

Also, I just watched your 'analysis' on Sailor Moon. It's horrible. Tell me you're an idiot who doesn't watch Sailor Moon completely, without telling me you're idiot. Naoko, Sailor Moon's creator, LOVED fashion She has created the Sailor Warriors to only wear sailor uniforms. The villains/villainesses are ALL dressed in high-fashion clothes that express their fierceness, domineering temperament, and ambition. She highlights Beryl's jealousy that burns her and the person she's supposedly love, Beryl is consumed by hatred just because the prince she liked didn't like her back. May I remind you, SERENITY was the heiress of a literal queendom, generations of moon's throne are inherited to daughters, Every ruling queen is destined to only give birth to daughters (as shown with Usagi having only Chibiusa as her heiress in the future and Kousagi, the second daughter, in parallel timeline), tell me how is this the conventional 'stick to traditional gender norms!' when she absolutely comes from a matrilineal family??? She's flawed, she shows her emotions, she shows her jealousy, she was FOURTEEN when she died in her first life as a princess, she was SIXTEEN when all her friends died in front of her. It was, rather, Mamoru who took on the supportive role of always paving ways for Sailor Moon to advance. Beryl is also FEMININE!!! Uranus doesn't stick to traditional gender norms! She's a pacifist not passive, those words are fcking different. Passive comes from the word "Passivum" which means 'To suffer" in greek. Pacifist is from Pacifism which comes from "Pacific" which means "Peace-making". Usagi is not passive, when problems come, she works hard to go, and even endangers herself, to solve it. She's a pacifist, which means she is not willing to kill. Most of her enemies are 'cleansed' because they're entirely consumed with evil, those who are not entirely consumed with evil will survive and reform themselves. She's the light of hope, she's a leader, she's the 'goddess' and worshipped as so in Crystal Tokyo timeline

@user-yg8kq6sd5h

3 ай бұрын

my dear, you have to be less emotional about a japanese cartoon. you can criticize these statements without being crazy aggressive about it also, just because particular points justified by the plot, it doesn't make them less true or worthy of critic. these are fictional people living in fictional worlds

Just discovered your channel, I love your essays! Very informative and wildly entertaining to boot. I don’t watch a whole lot of anime, but I’m just interested in your essays and examinations of cultural tropes. Fantastic work!

what a great video! i hope you have the opportunity to make many more in the future

1:46 As much as I love Azula, why is she on here? Do people still not know that Avatar's not an anime or...

@Selene_the_Wolf

6 ай бұрын

Yes

Disclaimer: The following villainess I'm about to say is not from an anime, but rather, a game where it has anime style. Despite her terrible writing, I could say Raiden Shogun from Genshin Impact is a pretty neat villainess. No, I'm not talking about Raiden Ei (she's from the good side), I'm talking about the puppet, Raiden Shogun. She's the corrupt leader of her own country/region named Inazuma (which is based on Japan). That takes off the list of being a henchwoman. Despite the fact she pulls out the Musou No Hitachi (a blade which Ei's twin sister, Raiden Makoto, once possessed) from between her breasts, it doesn't show any seductress vibes. Raiden Shogun is strict, powerful, and corrupt. That takes off the list of being a seductress. So, not only Raiden Shogun is the leader of her own country/region, she's more of the powerful and strict personality rather than the seductive type. Yes, having a seductive villainess is good since it helps the viewers feel more emotions which aren't the main emotion you must feel while watching. But ngl, it's a little too much. That makes Raiden Shogun a pretty good villainess. Though, despite my acknowledgements to her, she has terrible writing. You can read the Genshin Impact lore if you want to (I don't wanna write it all). But, let's be fair, Raiden Shogun is unique for a villainess.

Togas faces made me think of a unstable addict, a blood addict. Not once did I think it was seductive or a "porn face". If you the first thing you think of when you see her making a insane face of a sociopath is a "porn face", I think that says more about you as a person than the character.

@LewdNoodz

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, I thought that was weird too once I thought about it. Like I don't think anyone but the creator saw that face as a 'porn face' nor would I call toga seductive, obsessive yes but not seductive.

@Helpmefindthewilltolive

6 ай бұрын

Well that's good for you, but that doesn't take away from the suggestive undertones of her 'ahegao' faces. Toga gets sexualized all the time throughout the mha community, drawings, and in cosplays - and most of the time regardless of the cosplay or art, she's usually making that suggestive face. It's the most notable part of her character. As someone who had the unfortunate experience of ecchi anime - 'ahegao' is the mark of an ecchi/hntai anime. There's no way the Author was creating this scene without a suggestive intention, Especially since the author is japanese. To further prove my point, if you search up what an ahegao face is and compare it to 7:31 there is next to no difference. It is a porn face. If the Author wanted to Express a character who is crazed or bloodlusted, there are other ways. I wouldn't say it's a far stretch that the author did this deliberately. He created momo's costume, he created mineta, and he did that one scene with the girls in the spa scene naked The drawings didn't draw themselves, someone had to have drawn this deliberately.

@LewdNoodz

6 ай бұрын

@Helpmefindthewilltolive I just can't see it as a porn face, amd of course the community will sexualize here communities do it to all characters I just think the face used isn't a 'porn face' it looks deranged unless that turns someone on

@GlaDos321

6 ай бұрын

@@Helpmefindthewilltolive All art is subjective. Any kind of opinion you form from it is a reflection of yourself. To break down your points. You say that Toga is sexualized by the community. Thats a bad take, all characters are sexualized. The internet sexualizes literally everything. Thats just a aspect of humanity that we have to live with. Assuming that the author is somehow copying some kind of sex meme that you happen to know of while most other people dont and then assuming that it must be because they are japanese is a reflection of your own experiences with ecchi and also creepy in how you autmatically assume something of someone due to their nationality. As for me and most people, when I see mineta I see a very immature child thats doing things he doesnt understand. A joke at boys going through puberty, Momos costume shows alot of skin, but so does Kirishima. As both need to show skin for their powers. You could the say the same for wetern characters like batman and spider man who wear skintight costumes and have constant shots of their legs spread open as they soar through the air. If you sexualize these things, thats all you. You chose to sexualize them. The bath scenes didnt have the characters doing anything sexual or implicating anything sexual. Japan is a nation where people take baths. Whether or not you think it is sexual is something you should reflect about yourself.

@Helpmefindthewilltolive

6 ай бұрын

@@GlaDos321 *"All art is subjective. Any kind of opinion you form from it is a reflection of yourself. To break down your points. You say that Toga is sexualized by the community. Thats a bad take, all characters are sexualized. The internet sexualizes literally everything. Thats just a aspect of humanity that we have to live with."* yes, its true every character is sexualized - but you fail to realize the majority of people who cosplay it/draw it, draw it with the same notable suggestive facial expression she wears. because it's a crucial part of her character, for all the wrong reasons. *"Assuming that the author is somehow copying some kind of sex meme that you happen to know of while most other people dont and then assuming that it must be because they are japanese is a reflection of your own experiences with ecchi and also creepy in how you autmatically assume something of someone due to their nationality."* ahegao culture is EXTREMELY popular, the reason toga even has this face is because of how popular the genre is. there is absolutely 0 way the creator has 0 idea what ahegao is when it's one of the most popular anime tropes of all time. anyone who has barely any contact in the anime community knows what an ahegao face is, i highly doubt a very popular and established manga creator who is also japanese has 0 idea what it is. and I say "japanese" because ahegao is a japanese term and japan is where it's originated from, I say this as a mangaka myself. *"As for me and most people, when I see mineta I see a very immature child thats doing things he doesnt understand."* mineta is not a real person, he is a perverted character created deliberately by a manga creator to create fan-service and creep on the female characters, comedic relief. him lying to the girls to wear cheerleader outfits, trying to peep into the girls room, trying to see the girls in bathing suits, trying to peep into the spa house, is not "immature child" things. its creepy - even creepier when you realize this was written by an adult male *"Momos costume shows alot of skin, but so does Kirishima. As both need to show skin for their powers. "* momo, again, is a fictional character created by an adult man. her entire costume and power was entirely planned, thought out, ask yourself why out of every character design and power, that the adult author decided such a strange one that requires you to show soo much skin? and then the comedic relief? the fanservice we get in the USJ arc attack, the boob shots when her and todoroki fought vs aizawa, and the upskirts we get of her?] she can use her quirk anywhere on her body, why not on just her back or her stomach? or better yet, WHY NOT A ZIPPER IN THE FRONT? why does it have to be this way? there are endless options. "they need it for their quirk" is bullshit. and about kirishima, yes, he is shirtless - but him being shirtless isn't fanservice itself, its about wither or not it's suggestive. kirishima has been shirtless, but not in a way that was sexualized or to sensationalize it. now, after my explanation: which is more probable, the author creating this character and making her a skimpy outfit for the sake of her quirk, or the author creating her character with the intent for fanservice/comedic relief? i think we know which one it is. *"You could the say the same for wetern characters like batman and spider man who wear skintight costumes and have constant shots of their legs spread open as they soar through the air. If you sexualize these things, thats all you. You chose to sexualize them."* this is incredibly absurd, I'm not that familiar with western comics because im not from the west - but it depends on context and the intent. if batman and supermen are on screen and are presented with an animation scene from just the back area, with no zooming in on the butt. there is no sexual subtext but if batman gets his shirt and pants ripped off and he's butt naked flashing the camera at a suggestive angle, yes, that is sexual and fanservice - which is fine because they are adults. it all depends on how it's presented. *" The bath scenes didnt have the characters doing anything sexual or implicating anything sexual. Japan is a nation where people take baths. Whether or not you think it is sexual is something you should reflect about yourself.""* in the bath scene, kota - a 6 year old boy, stops mineta from peaking over the girls spa house. in doing so, the girls thank him when he turns around, it shows a scene of mina, who is naked with her boobs blocked from the camera with only her own hand holding a thumbs up. along with various other naked women. kota, with a blushed face, falls down the boys side with a red face. the scene even plays a suggestive song and voice effect in the back. you cannot tell me with a clear face that it has no sexual subtext when an audible, suggestive "wow" sound effect plays while the camera pans to the very clearly naked teenage girls. especially when the guys side doesn't get the same treatment. this just seems like alot of justification on your end by not wanting to accept the reality that MHA has fanservice, and lots of it. I suggest taking a moment to eliminate biases and try to look deeply into these "nonsexual" scenes, and then evaluate the probability that the author didn't have any perverse intent. you'll realize majority of them do, and they make no attempt at hiding it. sorry for any bad English, not my first.

love these video essays, please make more

Liking the content so far btw; you're probably one of the few brave ones that are willing to talk about some issues in the genre that no one is addressing since the more generic anime are doing horrible rip-offs of the ones that started the whole chain. The issue with a lot of this is that 'femme fatales' are just plain and simple villains like that of Dracula. A villain isn't defined by constraints like gender and the like, they are defined in their actions and personalities. In fact, 'femme fatale' didn't just simply mean to be 'female villain' as modern day premises would lead you to believe. It used to just mean a 'dangerous woman', which in the eyes of the past was women with jobs. But society today doesn't wanna acknowledge stuff like female villains, because they mistakenly think fiction to be real, which is the depressing part of things today. Put a female villain out there; and you'll get people trying to say you're sexist, the audience gets overtly violent/sex-crazed about her, or all in-between. If you recall the video you made before this, you would note that technically the princess in that video doesn't fit the bill of Femme Fatale. Yes, she uses seduction, but she is not at all dangerous since her attempts are thwarted every single time and is a coward using others(gee, where have we heard these kind of villains?), and the only time she 'won' was when she pulled off her biggest lie in the show. There's plenty of female villains out there, they're just not noticed well enough to be seen as one. Yuno Gasai is personally my best example of what makes a good 'female' villain as it'd be despite her role as a protagonist initially. Take a simple motivation, go to extreme ends to achieve it. That's the nature of every bad person in both fiction and history. 3:56 I wouldn't say it was so much for girls, and moreover the entirety of the west. Remember: Anime existed before Sailor Moon. 5:07 This is where I'd say this gets rather sexist here, as much as it pains me to say. Defining altruism and aggression as feminine and masculine respectively is just plain wrong. Yes, men were the main aggressors back then, but that's also because by and large women were erased from history. There's nothing girlish or masculine to be found in being a pure asshole, it's just the behavior that gets people walking away from you. Also, little weird that you're making a comparison between a 'male shonen' as it'd be when the other of it is a 'female shonen'. 7:33 Friendly reminder that Deku is 14-16 years old, and that teenagers in general range from edgy, creepy, and irrevocably horny. If you have a problem not recognizing that you could've easily been any of these three, kindly look in the mirror. 9:44 Again, I wouldn't say Yuno is a Henchwoman. Considering that Yuno does nearly all the killing, has the most villain-ish backstory, and that Yuki is just some poor schmuck that was caught up in a death game, I would say that Yuno IS the villain. She perpetuates the death game in the show because she refuses to let go, thus making a never-ending cycle of violence and attempts at basically trying to force Yuki to die with her. Ironically making this the case where this 'feminine' trait of her is actually the evil part of her here. I think you're on the right track in regards to what should be done, as yes, Japan is largely at fault for pretty much how their anime is set up overall. Companies like Illusion Games do exist over there, and they made a literal sex sims. But it's not even just Japan, it's straight up just a global inability to just ignore differences between men and women when it comes to prospects of morality and ethics.

Why the fuck is anime so afraid of secondary education? Why is it always High school just put them in damn college

@aspebb

5 ай бұрын

You mean university 🤓

@portanrayken3814

5 ай бұрын

same for games i played a ton and got pretty tired of this trope

@GameofDthrones-pq9ys

3 ай бұрын

Because the demographic is for the school that's why it got "high school drama" You people just use strawman after the strawman arguements

The minute you started dishing on Ochako my respect for this dropped considerably. ‘Mind numbingly boring’? Sounds like you haven’t seen the most recent moments of her character arc.

Nah you are wrong about Toga. First off, she uncontrollably abnormal due to her quirk/upbringing. She is linked to Uraraka because they both like Deku (Toga also liking Uraraka in the same way). Their interactions further dive into Toga's character. Many of the weird things she does, feels normal to her. However, she isn't oblivious to how society sees her, and wishes her life didn't have to be the way it is. She was my favorite character/villain in MHA before Shigaraki's awakening.

@imthebossmermaid3648

6 ай бұрын

I agree. Although I do feel like she fits some of these traits, reducing her to just these traits, even though she also has many of the "cute" traits of Uraraka, feels rather like a surface level approach. Fundamentally Himiko is a sad and traumatized little girl who was turned evil from a tragic upbringing. And I would hardly describe her as "jealous" either. She might want to be Uraraka, but it's not because she hates herself. It's because becoming the people she loves is how she shows her love.

What's your myanimelist? By your examples I don't think you have enough experience to criticize the entire media.

@viviangarcia5696

6 ай бұрын

They seem to be part of the newer crop of anime fans from the last 3 years. Quarantine really help expand the anime viewer count since then. Its more mainstream, unfortunately

@augustuslunasol10thapostle

3 ай бұрын

@@viviangarcia5696 what kind of rock do you live under? Lmao anime has always been mainstream since 2010 it got more popular yes but again still mainstream for a decade and a half at this point

One of my favorite villainesses is Francesca Prelati from the Fate franchise. In the series she has held an overwhelming role in manipating and controlling outcomes, even when she doesnt appear directly such as in Fate/Zero. Her appearance in Fate/Strange Fake even twists the femme fatale trope into a pretzel, making her initially appear as no more than a simple seductress before it is revealed that she has been the one causing all the chaos throughout the franchise.

In regards to My Hero, it's also questionable that Himiko is the only prominent female villain in all of the My Hero series. And while we do get more female villains, none of them are given proper depth or agency. You have La Brava who looks like a child and follows along with Gentle's schemes because she loves him, Curious who's the only woman in ReDestro's inner circle and is immediately killed in her Arc Debut (mind you none of the men in the Inner circle are killed), and Lady Nagant who's set up as a great tragic villain and contributes to hero society's corruption but she's easily dealt with in her Arc Debut and becomes a good guy again. I'm mainly counting the villains shown in the main series. I know there are some other female villains in the movies but I doubt any of them have the same level of influence as Himiko or the male villains they supported. Also, one last thing. Anyone find it questionable that the one woman of power in the My Hero universe is Madame President who supposedly represents how corrupt and flawed the hero system is? And while the male participants of the system (Endeavor, Hawks etc.) are shown to have outgrown their toxic beliefs or are victims of the system, Madame President isn't and is killed off without expanding on her character.

@magicwitch4559

6 ай бұрын

Completely agree with you! You forgot Magne who is a trans woman but she died unfortunately

@malaizze

6 ай бұрын

I am cheering on the slow beginning of the BNHA criticism renaissance. My predictions are coming to pass. Within less than a decade the people who grew up with the series will be old enough to recognize that it’s politics are really questionable and it’s really just anime copaganda that makes some passes at trying to deconstruct the genre but fails to recognize the systemic issues in the broad strokes of its storytelling. I have never felt more vindicated

@nionlietz2488

5 ай бұрын

Lady Nagant??

@EddyA-sw5ox

5 ай бұрын

@@nionlietz2488 You seem confused. Can you elaborate your concerns please?

@nionlietz2488

5 ай бұрын

@@EddyA-sw5ox my bad, but to say its a woman who represents how corrupt a system be is not sexism its how systems work. In real life although most in positions of power are men, there are women who still reap benefits from the system. This argument falls apart as well when it was a man, before who led the hero commission.

I don't get the critique against Queen Beryl. Sailor Moon is a show for little girls, not adult women. It teaches them that being kind and virtuous is good while being power-hungry and evil is bad. It drives the point home by making the princess a symbol of all those qualities. This is not "bad gender stereotypes", it's basic morality. No one ever tells Usagi to go back to the kitchen, every Sailor warrior is very much a person of her own, driven by different goals and values. If you don't relate to Usagi's dream of being a princess, maybe you would relate more to Ami, or Rei, or Makoto. And if you don't find this kind of stuff stimulating anymore, it's because you're an adult woman who simply grew out of these stories, and you should be reading different manga. Read seinen or josei manga, where the characters are all adults, and they deal with adult problems in adult ways.

Charlotte Linlin aka Big Mom is my favorite female villain. She did not fit any of the stereotypes and was an absolute power house. She was the only one of the Emperors to actually have an empire across various islands and she had the most sophisticated communication network among them.

God, this has been my BIGGEST gripe with anime for a long time. As a girl who mainly consumed shounen and seinen anime/manga, seeing actual complex female characters, and, every once in a blue moon, female villains, felt like such a rarity. To the point where it genuinely felt like such a breath of fresh air when I watched Re:Zero for the first time, I fell in love with its cast (Both female AND male), and decided to read the novel and oh boy did I get the treat of the century. *Spoilers for Re:Zero ahead* Elsa, Capella, Sirius, Satella, Echidna and the rest of the witches (even though they're technically not villains) and ESPECIALLY Pandora, are such beautifully written characters that I would not be able to fully describe it with words only in a comment. Each and every one of them is so unique and complex, having different motivations, traits and goals, as well as values and flaws. Obviously I cannot talk about villains without talking about Pandora. She had such a terrifying and memorable first entrance, it mesmerized and gobsmacked me in the face. She literally just showed up out of NOWHERE, plans this whole attack on the Elior forest, gets absolutely KILLED multiple times and just casually bends CAUSALITY to make it so she never died, shuts Regulus up, and straight up kicks him out of the group chat by making it so he never accompanied her in the first place, restoring Betelgeuse's arm before making him go insane, killing Fortuna, and traumatizing Emilia in the process. All the while holding such a gentle and dignified expression, speaking so soothingly and innocently, as though she did nothing wrong and her actions were completely justifiable, while her masterpiece of a theme plays in the background. Like, it absolutely shocked and terrified me to witness such power. I don't think anything can top that villain introduction for me.

@laisphinto6372

6 ай бұрын

Your First Problem is that you want female representation in a Genre mainly focused on Males.

@goldenrose4864

6 ай бұрын

@@laisphinto6372 I don't want representation, I just want well-written female characters that aren't constantly objectified by fan-service. Like I said, there are some really great female characters in manga, like chainsaw man and jujutsu kaisen, so it's not impossible, it's just unfortunately a rarity to see

@zemox2534

6 ай бұрын

If you actually looked more deeply you will find plenty of well written female characters. Gintama has loads of female heroines, each one with their own distinct personality and complexity. Kill la kill has 2 imposing female villains and 2 complex heroines, FMA has a great number of strong women who can be vulnerable and Vinland saga S2 introduced the world to one of the most tragic female figures on anime. Your problem is you focus too much on surface level derails instead of looking more deeply into the subject you are complaining about. Anime has all these strong women you want but you are too blinded to actually go and fuckong look for them! You and the analyst uo here should do your fuckjng research before you complain again!

@glennashia1421

6 ай бұрын

​@@goldenrose4864 I would recommend you Black Lagoon

@machian76

6 ай бұрын

I love Re Zero because of its characters and their dynamic that makes up the story of Re Zero. It has many well written character and possibly the most complex MC I've seen in any form of media. Female villains in Re Zero are unhinged, insane and Majestic, they don't follow typical stereotypes and the author is really good at his job.

Here are a few good female villains that aren't femme fatales: Touko Aozaki from the upcoming Mahoyo anime (She has appeared in other anime but not as a villain, this will be the first and she is amazing) Homura Akemi from Madoka Magica Altair from Re:Creators Ragyou Kiryuuin from Kill la Kill

@jahrusalem3658

6 ай бұрын

Not to mention Medusa Gorgon from Soul Eater, who just vibes and performs horrible crimes against humanity.

@somerandomuser5155

6 ай бұрын

Finé and saint Germain

@randomdemonluna6805

6 ай бұрын

Why Why is homura considered a villianess????

@kageyame

6 ай бұрын

@@randomdemonluna6805 did you watch the second movie?

@randomdemonluna6805

6 ай бұрын

@@kageyamei sure did, but what do you mean a 14 year old girl who's only ever known her only friend getting killed in front of her is a villain????

There's a villainess that gets often overlooked, Haman Karn from mobile suit gundam zeta and ZZ.

@ryanbauscher212

3 ай бұрын

thank you! She's such an interesting character! Cima from Stardust Memory also comes into mind. They are both great villains who aren't fem fetals, and are incredibly interesting!

The reason why there are so few popular female villains isn't just because the female villains are all femme fatales, but also because of the fact that only femme fatales can become popular. At the end of the day, femme fatales are still pretty much the only type of a female villain that is perceived as threatening enough to be taken seriously enough as a villain. Their beauty and manipulative nature appeals to the male audience especially because femme fatales are pretty much their biggest weakness in many ways, both in term of appeal and also as a perceived threat, since they know that they would probably fall victim to those women as well.

Haman Karn leader of Axis Zeon later rebranded as Neo Zeon from mobile suit gundam Zeta and more particularly Double Zeta is the best Femme Fatale character/antagonist in Gundam/mecha anime should be mentioned more she's awesome

the editing in the intro is so on point I'm crying 🤣😂 Markeplier preach😭

The frogs hold immense thankfulness for your citations of litass sources.

I’d recommend Haman Karn from Mobile Suit ZZ Gundam, complete leader of a kinda Neo-Facist space army Neo-Zeon. Feminine but not sexualized. Though not all of the female characters are really treated the best.

@ink1018

5 ай бұрын

I like haman too

My favorite female villain in Anime is absolutely Lady Eboshi from Princess Mononoke She is apathetic to the natural order and happily will destroy the forest and all the spirits and animals within to further her goal. However kn the flip side she genuinely cares for her people especially the women who she saved from brothels and lepers who she actually treated with respect and humility when everyone else would cast them out. She's horribly selfish in some ways and selfless in others and at the end of it all she willingly recognizes her wrongs and wishes to begin Iron Town again but not make the same mistakes she did before.

I saw someone else mention it but i think a standout woman villain is balalaika from black lagoon. She probably hits one of my top villains in media just because of how well she is done. A battle scarred middle aged soviet airborne captain who fought in afghanistan who's men have followed her into the criminal underworld of respect and loyalty, operating with brutal millitaristic efficiency. I dont really remember her being a very sexuallized character though its been a long time since I have seen it. She is just a really solid villain and an intimidating force done well. Especially within the later arc in japan as well as the vampire twins plot line.

Liked two of your videos so far. You earned a sub, keep up the good work!

Ok so thoughts on Isabella from TPN cause she was a great villain and I dont think she necessarily alls into any stereotypes. Shes multifaceted

@remo27

5 ай бұрын

Isabella is a tragic villain who is forced for sheer survival and by intensive training (to such an extent every 'graduate' probably has some form of PTSD ) to do horrible actions that she hates and tries her best to mitigate. Later , when she rebels, she redeems herself. While she functions as a baddie most of the first season, even most of her worst actions (breaking a child's leg for one) are more understandable and less evil when you realize her goal was to maximize the life of the child while still protecting her own. Understand that her dying would not, in any way, shape , or form, help the kids in her care. In fact, if you go farther into the manga you see she has a rare level of intelligence and wisdom and practical ruthlessness that makes her invaluable as an ally. Edited to add: She's not perfect. In the manga and anime there are one or two times where, out of spite or out of fear (why are they rebelling when its pointless? Causing me all these problems?)she genuinely does something mean that isn't meant for the 'greater good' of her charges. Telling one boy it is his time in front of the other kids is one such: that was meant to break their spirits (and hence also stamp out rebellion) but she did get some perverse joy out of it, whereas 99 percent of the time she really hates even having to discipline them, let alone 'fight' with them). There's one or two other times, but then there's also her toy shrine to the children she had to put through the process. I could see her crying in there at times. Though that's something people often overlook, as they mostly 'humanize' her at the very end of the first arc. She's a complicated character, but I maintain the only type of villain she is is tragic.

Okay, but consider the fact that it is simpler for a writer to have all of their villains work under the main bad guy to not only create a sense of cohesion between antagonistic forces, but also to make the main villain look more terrifying by basic threat escalation logic, and most people just tend to default to making male villains. No writer is thinking "Ahhh, by making my villainess subservient to a male villain, I will keep those women under the claws of patriarchy and rule over them. MUAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!!". Does having multiple villainous factions and villains and villainesses who don't have an allegiance help your world feel more lived in and make your worldbuilding more complete and logical? Yes. Does it require way too much effort and is prone to getting out of hand VERY quickly? You betcha.

@aarondx3764

5 ай бұрын

I agree I don't think it's an issue of agency there a ppelbty anime organisations, it's the issue that none of these villains are ever women. Shoutout to Makima Big mom, Medusa and Dante bcs those are the only ones I know tbh.

I really like this analysis cuz it goes beyond the plot points and designs of characters into how society and systems can really influence certain characters' designs and characterisation, esp implicitly since certain things like eg evil characters having certain features or personalities or default characterisation based on stuff like their gender is a really good way into seeing how society and systems like eg patriarchy, can just implicitly inform one that they just auto think to that cuz thats all theyve known and they didnt have a reason to question it.

@zanitzeuken

6 ай бұрын

Art is an imitation of real life. By all means, make something that doesn't and relearn Disney/Marvel's missteps. Maybe you can discover why that's a mistake before they do?

@remo27

5 ай бұрын

Wow! You sure threw around alot of Big Words. I bet you are really proud of yourself for being a college freshman, now, aren't you? If you read most of the comments you'll see this 'analysis' butchers most of the characters and anime she's talking about so she can try to fit her points into them when in reality she sometimes even gets major plot arcs of the characters wrong. Learn to think critically. Take courses on statistics and logic. Or, if they have one, a 'critical thinking' course, where you examine various other view points and logical fallacies.

Not sure I agree completely with the points on Uraraka and Toga, for one I feel Uravity's growth as a fighter is actually pretty interesting not to mention Toga being "misunderstood" due to the inherent malicious nature of her quirk is the foundation of her entire character arc. Not to mention she isn't opposed to Uraraka because of Conflict over Deku and rather she's also in conflict with Deku to the point of harming him genuinely because she likes him and is also depicted as being attracted to Uraraka as well as another female character in the show (Tsu). If anything, Deku just takes precedence essentially due to a trauma response from Toga (he looks like her first crush who died).

Not a single mention of Kill la Kill?

One anime Villainess I feel like people should mention more is Haman Karn from Z Gundam and it’s sequel Gundam ZZ and is probably the best part of Gundam ZZ to be honest.

@Duothimir

6 ай бұрын

Silly tiffany-chan1235, anime before the 2010s doesn't exist.

@tiffany-chan1235

6 ай бұрын

@Duothimir One of the villainesses in the video is from an anime from the 90's, Heck anime has existed since the early 60's

@Duothimir

6 ай бұрын

@@tiffany-chan1235 1912 or possibly earlier if you want to get into semantics over what counts as anime. Regardless, the joke was about how most of the internet only seems to have a memory that stretches back about ten years or so, especially when it comes to anime. You could even argue that Sailor Moon still fits into this criteria, as Crystal came out in 2014 and reminded everyone that Beryl exists, while the later arcs of the story still go mostly forgotten except as weird bits of trivia for anyone who isn't specifically into Sailor Moon.

This was a really refreshing critique on anime sexism honestly. That detour on real life sexism really made the whole video for me. I feel so many videos get caught up criticizing the characters as if they are real people and not just characters made by real life people based on their real beliefs. Then the solution being to encourage more women in the workforce in anime is truly the realest solution.

@emblemblade9245

6 ай бұрын

It’s so annoying how Japan just cannot get it together, and how for all the media they do get about self-expression, their real-life feels so regressive.

@bobtheball5384

6 ай бұрын

@@emblemblade9245 Word

@orangeslash1667

6 ай бұрын

@@emblemblade9245 What abound Medusa from Soul Eater???

I liked manga Sailor Galaxia as a villain, and was annoyed with how she was handled in the 90s anime. She was a regular sailor senshi stuck protecting an awful planet, who one day decided she deserved better, and realized she was willing to kill everyone in her path to achieve it. The 90s anime instead turned her into the tragic tale of a legendary hero that was slowly possessed by the big bad evil enemy she'd tried to seal away. (The 90s anime also made Serenity/Usagi a bit more acceptable, considering manga Serenity killed herself because she felt she couldn't live without Endymion, Usagi tried to do the same and in the process would have left the restored silver crystal for the villain to take unopposed, Neo Queen Serenity was arguably a bad mother and a bad ruler, and far future Sailor Moon had that frankly terrible plan that would have turned *her* into the greatest villain in the galaxy if she'd managed to succeed.)

@minicle426

3 ай бұрын

The Sailor Moon Manga is overrated bad fanfic level drivel quite frankly. And Galaxia was no different then any of the other boring one dimensional antagonists in it...