2/4/2024 0 Comments Gay anime characters 2020” Admittedly, taking a stance on gender politics was probably not the intention here creators of the 90’s anime Ranma ½, which features another gender-swapping hero/heroine, confirmed that they simply wanted to appeal to a wider audience by including a protagonist that is simultaneously male and female. Unknowingly, Princess Knight had tapped into an audience across the full gender spectrum by including a protagonist “ born with both the blue heart of a boy and a pink heart of a girl. “Father of Manga” Osamu Tezuka created Princess Knight in 1953, decades before Disney’s Mulan was breaking gender-roles. Without jumping into a full lesson on art history and Japanese censorship, let me give you some background: At its origins, anime freely questions gender identity and heteronormative sexuality.
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