Anime and Sexism

Prominent Breasts

I have decided to analyze anime. Anime is a series of Japanese animation that can be about anything. Most animes are about magical beings, romance, action, sci-fi, etc. I am one of many that like to watch anime. I have watched animes such as Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, Fairy Tale, and many more. These are a select few that are considered to be very popular. In these animes there is the generic protagonist and the heroin that must be saved all the time. Women in animes are typically skinny good looking, and have big breasts. The women's appearances are just fan service for the males watching. The women are always being captured or killed because they were too weak. The men would need to try to save them or avenge them by becoming stronger and stronger.


Women typically do not get much stronger in animes. All they do is power up a little and and depend on the strength of men, or they must band together with other women to try to become stronger. Women in anime do not become stronger on their own, because they are not seen as very strong throughout the series.

Fan Service

The invisible narrative in anime is that women are weak and they need the aid of men to be saved. In the anime, women are not active and are weak to point of being very annoying. It makes so sense whenever they just stand there and let the antagonist capture them. It also peeves me when I see all the male protagonists power up to the point of being super-humans, while women only power up to about a fifth amount of power that the protagonist has. Even the strongest of women are portrayed as big breasted with very little clothes to cover her. Some might even describe these large breasts as having their own matrix sometimes.


In Emily Martin's writing, “The Egg and the Sperm”, she writes about how scientifically women are viewed as passive, and unproductive. Males on the other hand are active, strong, and superior. Anime shows a perfect example of these scientific theories. Animes portray women as the annoying thing that is always getting in the way, because she is not meant to fight or she is not meant to be the active role.



We need to stop this by having a new view on what women can potentially do. Women can do what men do; they can be active. They aren't meant to be just the locks that are waiting to be freed by just men. They can be freed with their own power, if we could just change our views on what and who women can be. We need to view ourselves equally to each other, because there is no active or passive role for just one gender. We can all be active or passive, so why should we put one category for each gender? What should we do to change the views we have on each other? I want the world to view each other with the same views they would have of themselves. We need to stop supporting the fan service in animes as well. We need to start viewing women as the person that could potentially become our savior or they can be equal partners with the men to save our planet from total annihilation.