10th February 2017, 1:54 PM
So Konami is finally using their Bomberman franchise...
http://www.polygon.com/2017/2/10/1457182...rman-anime
![[Image: bombergirl.0.jpg]](https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/_--iOuMKRk6aeupdhOAjx1c4aYQ=/0x0:1365x812/920x613/filters:focal(613x321:831x539):format(webp)/cdn1.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/53190447/bombergirl.0.jpg)
On the one hand, it's a nearly all-female cast.
On the other hand...
This isn't what we meant.
First of all, look at cartoony Bomberman male among a bunch of more realistically proportioned females. This is a trope I see a bit too often. Here's a female bomberman done right.
http://bomberman.wikia.com/wiki/Pretty_Bomber
![[Image: latest?cb=20090416213931]](http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/bomberman/images/b/b4/PrettyBomber.PNG/revision/latest?cb=20090416213931)
Now, is that super progressive? Well, it certainly is playing up to "girly" stereotypes, what with the skirt and the hearts and the pink and all, but compared to what Konami is doing, it's downright progressive because she's otherwise treated just like the rest of the cast, drawn in the same style and everything. Besides, having a "girly girly" type character isn't bad so long as it's not what they do every single time (spoiler: in Japan, it is). There's room for the message that "girly" doesn't mean "worse than manly".
Just to really drive the point home, these character all get their clothing blown off of them as the battle goes on. Yay for violently forced exposure!
Go to hell Konami! Maybe that one where you get frozen in ice. This is exactly why I'm sick of the anime and gaming industries in Japan right now. This stuff right here!
http://www.polygon.com/2017/2/10/1457182...rman-anime
On the one hand, it's a nearly all-female cast.
On the other hand...
This isn't what we meant.
First of all, look at cartoony Bomberman male among a bunch of more realistically proportioned females. This is a trope I see a bit too often. Here's a female bomberman done right.
http://bomberman.wikia.com/wiki/Pretty_Bomber
Now, is that super progressive? Well, it certainly is playing up to "girly" stereotypes, what with the skirt and the hearts and the pink and all, but compared to what Konami is doing, it's downright progressive because she's otherwise treated just like the rest of the cast, drawn in the same style and everything. Besides, having a "girly girly" type character isn't bad so long as it's not what they do every single time (spoiler: in Japan, it is). There's room for the message that "girly" doesn't mean "worse than manly".
Just to really drive the point home, these character all get their clothing blown off of them as the battle goes on. Yay for violently forced exposure!
Go to hell Konami! Maybe that one where you get frozen in ice. This is exactly why I'm sick of the anime and gaming industries in Japan right now. This stuff right here!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)