Tezuka Osamu's gekiga show some artistic experimentation, but also dig further into his conservative ideas about gender and sexuality, which were more ignorable in titles aimed at wider audiences. Two stories in particular, Apollo’s Song and MW, hammer in how much of his work was steeped in heteronormativity and homophobia. The post [History] The Transcendent and the Perverse: Sexuality in Apollo’s Song and MW appeared first on ANIME FEMINIST.
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