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Subject: Re: what happened to clamp?


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Ariane
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Date Posted: 13:17:30 09/02/03 Tue
In reply to: Marina 's message, "Re: what happened to clamp?" on 19:39:13 08/30/03 Sat
 >I COMPLETELY agree. Just today in the car I was
>complaining about where all of CLAMP's awesome female
>characters had gone. All their most recent ones have
>just been kind of disgusting to someone like me who
>likes to see her own gender represented fairly and
>accurately. I can't believe CLAMP has sold out their
>strong, independant females (Hokuto, Umi, Sakura, to
>name a few) with weak, gooshy females for more cash to
>line their pockets with.

I guess with all the shounen and seinen stuff they're doing, they have to come up with female characters that fit into the steriotype (sp?). Hence your point about Sakura going from being a strong, independent girl to one who is...not (adjectives are failing me at the moment...slipping...). Nobody really likes it, but I guess since boy's culture and girl's culture are two separate things in Japan, it would be harder to pull off series for boy's story using plot and character devices for a girl's story.

But then: why is "Tsubasa" shounen and not shoujo?

Skanks, where is our "X"?

(And I've always thought of CLAMP as shoujo mangaka. I was in a car with a bunch of macho manly man men talking about "Chobits" not too long ago. Something about that struck me as very strange, even if "Chobits" is a seinen series... @_@;;;)
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