The designs for shojo manga characters found their origins in dolls. It wasn’t until the 1950s that Osamu Tezuka would write his ground-breaking Princess Knight manga.i bring this up because the media coming out of Japan currently didn’t just start in a time vacuum it continues to evolve and has been doing so for a very long time. When approaching media from other cultures having an open mind is necessary and Japanese Media is no exception. You expose yourself to an imperialist mindset if you just start barking about your issues with the entertainment without even trying to dig into how it ended up the way it became. Caution and researching before going on social media and spreading partially formed thoughts is how messed come about. I cannot help but wonder if all such is the case at least some times.
Dolls and Shojo
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