[ SECRET POST #2939 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2939 ⌋

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Comments

[iggy]

Incidentally, it's not even stealing from girls. It's written for Japanese women. It parodies the mahou shoujo genre, which in the context of Japanese feminism, is considered by many to be a somewhat sexist genre, by putting attractive men in the role which emphasizes how silly it really is.

So you get attractive, cute, and probably fujoushi-bait boys, plus a somewhat cathartic (I imagine) but gentle roasting of the magical girl genre that's been shoving power comes only through femininity down their throats since they were little girls? Yeah, that's not stealing the genre from girls. It's writing a show for them. In the same way that Free! was popular among Japanese women because it treated the boys exactly like girls are treated in late night anime (aka lots of fanservice, cute boys doing cute things as opposed to cute girls doing cute things, etc.), Binan does the same with the magical girl genre.

[(Anonymous)]

I just wanted to say that all your comments on this thread are the best.

[(Anonymous)]

Except there's nothing wrong with having power through femininity?

And a show that makes fun of that, using BOYS as the characters that makes fun of those tropes, is kind of counterproductive.

[iggy]

Of course there's not, but that's why I said power only through femininity, as in 90% of magical girl shows. Even tomboyish characters become 'feminine' when they turn into magical girls. There's little to no variation. So for girls that might gain power through, for example, wearing pants, a suit, and a short haircut to fight villains, they're SOL.

With how strict gender norms are in Japanese culture, it's no coincidence that magical girl shows enforce that YES YOU CAN be powerful, but only if you're covered in frills and skirts.

When looking at it through a Western lens it seems pretty cool because 'powerful women'= more masculine women in a lot of our media so magical girls seem like a variation on that to us.

But that's not really how it is in anime. It's exclusionary toward girls who don't fit very specific gender norms that are considered ideal in Japanese society, and that's why a lot of Japanese feminists dislike it.

As for why using boys works, I explained that in the comment itself.