Twenty years ago, I fell in love with the Pokemon anime. Now, I think I can finally tell you why: why this strange, silly, sincere show mattered, not just to me but to the turn-of-the-century Western kids’ media landscape as a whole. How it filled the space between “boy stuff” and “girl stuff,” treated both as having value, and—through its world, characters, and story—challenged why there was a division in the first place. The post [History] Nonconforming in the ‘90s: How Pokemon’s gender variance caught the hearts of generation appeared first on ANIME FEMINIST.
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