Okay, fine, I did remember my equivalent awesome crappy paper, which was surveying female characters' pronoun usage in this manga up through, mm, volume 24? and examining it for women's language, essentially. The survey was fine, I guess, I don't remember my conclusion, but it probably had something to do with the manga purportedly being "nouveau shonen". And there is all that hype about Bleach being "nouveau shonen" or whatever (aka oh crap we have market shrink we have to get girls to read shonen!), and particularly in the beginning, the inclusion of characters like Chad and the prominence of the female characters seemed so novel and promising, and now…it's just the same old fracking thing. Fuck you, KT.
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Okay, fine, I did remember my equivalent awesome crappy paper, which was surveying female characters' pronoun usage in this manga up through, mm, volume 24? and examining it for women's language, essentially. The survey was fine, I guess, I don't remember my conclusion, but it probably had something to do with the manga purportedly being "nouveau shonen". And there is all that hype about Bleach being "nouveau shonen" or whatever (aka oh crap we have market shrink we have to get girls to read shonen!), and particularly in the beginning, the inclusion of characters like Chad and the prominence of the female characters seemed so novel and promising, and now…it's just the same old fracking thing. Fuck you, KT.