queen of storms.

you know what i want to start this off with? wiki information.

let’s take a quick look at the girls from ashinaka high: kukuri, sumika, chiho, & sakura.

in the wiki, all their sizes are given. their busts, waists, & hips. alright, so you may be thinking… why is this important? it’s just their body type or whatever. really? because i actually agree with you. why IS releasing their sizes even necessary? it’s certainly not knowledge anyone interested in the characters AS characters would want — someone interested in chiho wants to know about her role as student council president & how she reacted to the ashinaka incident in which her fellow students were at risk. who the hell wants to know that she’s a 36-24-35? that information was not released to better fans’ understanding of her personality. it was released for fan-service; so that she could be further sexualized for her body type. there is no further information about her as a character, nor sumika or sakura. but, now you know their sizes, & that’s obviously a lot more important.

strong female characters.

we do see a shit ton of diversity with our girls. seri is badass, lifting weights and wrestling wild animals on her day off. claudia is an intellectual genius — a scientist on the brink of releasing one of the world’s greatest discoveries to the public, & continuing her research on it. neko evades people using her abilities, going completely undetected, & protecting those she loves with a pure heart. anna is the new king, & thusfar a very stable one, too. douhan is an extremely skilled fighter. 

but do you know what really ruins that all?

the fact that neko’s real name has never been released. nor her family. the fact that claudia has not had real development or much information released about her. the fact that seri’s story of meeting munakata & being saved by him was never written.

& this. & this, & this, & this.

that’s right, ladies & gents. it’s everyone’s favourite: fan-service in the official art!!!! canon naked neko!!!!!! even though she’s only fifteen!!!!! hooray for sexualizing young girls and adult women alike, contributing to the beautiful mindset that females are simply items of sexuality & serve no other purpose than to further manifest the male’s sexual drive & sexual interest.

so, thanks. for covering up — or rather, stripping away, all the nice qualities of these females in place of abnormally large breasts, thin waists, & wide hips. great.

the lack of information about all these characters is pissing me off to an unnatural degree. “ oh, why release insight into maria when we can instead design her so that her lingerie is in full view in the manga ? “ “ why give characters nice qualities ? we can just expose them in the official art & it’ll gain a lot more popularity. sex sells. “

“ why would we use female characters like ayumi or watanbe, the ‘shopkeeper’ or shouhei’s friend, more than once, when they only serve one purpose: ayumi is someone who loves rikio no matter what he looks like, but he’s obviously too busy to think about her — he’s got lots of girls all over him in summer. watanbe offered to teach kuroh to cook; she even taught master ichigen before him. because, as gender roles specify, women cook & are more skilled at it than men. the shopkeeper is just helpless, & needs homra’s help. shouhei’s friend is helpless, too. & she’s obviously too ignorant to listen to him, so she ends up in the path of danger, at the hands of a gang! yayoi is stupid— she can’t even go out to look for a cat herself! “

[K] - favorite relationships (non romantic) - 1/? Munakata Reisi and Awashima Seri