Sweetness and Lightning's Counter-Hegemonic Masculinity

Sweetness and Lightning’s Counter-Hegemonic Masculinity

Originally published October 2016

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Originally I was gonna focus on the food, since there's a great interview by the voice actors focusing on the foodie elements of it (thus sending me down this rabbit hole of Japanese food as power structures), but ultimately after reading the manga I decided against it.
This has been the most complex editing I've done for a video thus far. It also took the longest. Hopefully you like it!
There's some scant literature on Japanese fathers, and even more scant literature on Japanese single fathers, so it was pretty difficult to get a good gauge going for how the research was going to approach. Many times I thought of focusing on the technical aspects of the series.
Despite me loosely using the word 'show' a lot, it's dominantly the manga. So I guess it's a manga video?
Cooking Papa! is a great manga. Y'all should read it! It's a lot of fun!
Gido Amagakure is known for Boys Love manga, which has been a very interesting subgenre for studying anti-hegemonic masculinity. I do not believe for a second that she has a very specific idea of masculinity, and that it's generally a very contemporary one, which ends up framing Sweetness and Lightning.

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