Showing posts with label afro samurai anime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label afro samurai anime. Show all posts

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Bokkuko (tomboy) characters in anime

These types of characters can be quite common in some shonen manga. Bokkuko girls are basically tomboys that serve as sidekicks and can also play the role of the female heroine along with their hero counterpart.

They can be physically slim, with short hair, skinny and flat chested, yet also have particular skills that you would normally expect from their male counterpart. (Shonen manga can be a bit mysoginistic when it comes to delimiting specific roles by gender, so don't shoot the messenger here XD)

At least we know that these delimitations by gender are changing.

Good examples would be Tatsuki Arisawa from Bleach, or Tenten and Sakura from Naruto.

These type of characters have evolved into strong female characters that don't necessarilly have to be the less appealing, quite the contrary, in fact.

Look at Yuzuriha from Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas. In the original manga, she would have just been another side character as Marin and Shaina with little to almost no development. But she has a key role in helping her friends to achieve all the misions through Hades' Inferno.

Monday, July 26, 2010

El amv de la semana! (5)

El video de esta semana es este excelente tributo al anime Afro Samurai con la canción G Code- Last Motherfucker Breathing de los Ghetto Boys. La calidad y el manejo de las escenas es uno de los mejores que he visto, resaltando la impresionante habilidad con la katana que tiene nuestro protagonista Afro para cortar a sus enemigos.



Fue hecho por el usuario EgalleguillosC de Youtube. Buenisimo!!!

Sunday, July 25, 2010

This week's featured AMV! (5)

This week's AMV is this great Afro Samurai tribute with the song G Code - Last Motherfucker Breathing by Ghetto Boys. The pacing and the quality is the best I've ever seen, highlighting the amazing ability that Afro has with the sword to slaughter away his enemies.



It was made by user EgalleguillosC on Youtube. Great job!