[EVA] Gender analysis in the series, vis a vis Asuka and Misato

[EB]

I wonder if "CLAMP" managed to successfully change some aspects of that
mindset or not; after all, it's not unheard of that doujinshi circle artists
suddenly go Mainstream. Takeshi Azuma, AKA Kimimaru, from Studio Kimigabuchi
became a "household" name of sorts after doing Retake and is now doing a
serialized series (I believe on Shonen Jump) under the name of Super
Dreadnought Girl.

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 6:56 PM, <once at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> It should be noted that the anime industry is as patriarchal as anything
> else has been in Japan, and perhaps even more so than other sectors of
> society; in a 1997 interview in TOKION, Anno described his industry as "a
> boy's club," saying that was the first thing you had to understand about how
> it portrayed women (he didn't exempt himself from this criticism, and I give
> him credit for trying to work within a female creator's viewpoint in
> KareKano--with results everyone liked except the creator herself ^_^).
>
> I think it would be far easier for most people to name a prominent female
> manga artist than it would be for them to name a prominent female anime
> director. Anno is of course himself married to manga-ka Moyoco Anno; it
> really seems a shame that they haven't tried to make an anime together.
>
> --C.
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