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Prison Blog

In which Possum recounts his experiences as an offender in the system.

Possum Bones is autistic. He has identified as a dirty kid in the past, and he’s attended multiple rainbow gatherings. He has several years left to serve in the Washington Correctional system.

He has been making art since he could sit up. He communicates better in writing than speech. If you are interested in the experience of an autistic person doing prison time, check out his Prison Blog. If you are a fan of comic art, underground/outsider music, Lovecraft, Clarke Ashton Smith, Murakami, Cixui Liu, etc.

Female characters in shonen anime

I also feel like you can tell a lot about a shonen anime by its female characters. In a shonen anime, there's bound to be a lot of 'moe' fetishism of the female characters. I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with that, but you can tell how retarded ( you goddamn bunch of shinjis disgust me ) the target audience is by the types of female characters that occupy is niche. In SAO the prime real estate is asuna, who wears a goddamn doily on the back of her head. She's pretty fucking stupid and she's dressed all in white. No bite on this ho at all. She cries a lot. No discernible personality even though shes a main character ( this is true of the male lead as well ). The females in this anime are attempted to be represented as warriors but they’re constantly relying on and fawning on kiri to.
Contrast this with, for example, soul eater. You've got Maka, whose not really a sex object , being both a teenager and not very precocious physically. She's a bean pole who dresses in school clothes and a trench coat . But shes the main character, sort of. Depending on your definition of moe, she might count as being moe. She beats the hell out of her enemies and her boyfriend and weapon, Soul, and pushes him as a weapon to the point that he makes a deal with a devil to become a better weapon. Tsubasa, Patty and Liz are much boobier and look like adults. Patty and Liz are a pretty cool western kind of duo , a set of pistols for Death. They're both more mature than him physically, but Patty acts like a stupid kid. They're former gunpoint robbers. They wear these sweaters that show their midriff and short shorts. Tsubasa is a ninja weapon with a dark past who has a whole arc about how black star needs to be a better warrior to wield a weapon as fine as Tsubasa. Tsubasa seems to be the oldest of the clique of main characters at the death weapon academy. She wears a kind of weird military-ish garment which shows some leg and is totally devoted to black star even though he's the least sneaky ninja imaginable.
Fire force , also by Atsushi Okhubo, is much more fan-servicey. You get the sense that Okhubo said 'OK, I did OK with the last one, now I'm gonna throw out all the stops and not worry about being sexist'. Usually by bad guys, the value of a woman as a fire soldier or an asset is repeatedly questioned or undermined. One of the girl fire soldiers is a nun / shrine maiden who prays for the souls of the infernals before they are extinguished. Another's clothes are constantly falling off in comedic scenes where they play a rinky dinky theme highlighting how ridiculously improbable this type of thing is, but its always happening only to her. Her fire manifests as cat ears and a tail. Needless to say, extremely moe . Various other female characters exist, most of whose whole shtick as a character revolves around their being female, and being a romantic foil or sex object . However, the fan service in this anime is clearly fan service. No apology is made. While the unreality of the female characters in SAO is masked with the subtlety of a baboons erection, the fan service in Fire Force is unapologetic in a way that makes it feel a lot less corny. SAO is essentially an anime that can't decide whether its an action anime or a harem anime, and fails at both.

Elisa Carlsonshonen, female, moe