Sadia Ferdous

This was an interesting topic! I love that you mentioned the kawaii culture and how that is relevant to the anime. I had never really considered how important the cutesy factor of the entire show it, but I absolutely love the juxtaposition. Good work!

This made me rethink the series in a way I hadn’t thought about before. I watched the show a while back, so I can’t say I remember everything about it, but from what I can recall, I did find the sexual implications as well as the graphic scenes of suffering and pain to be very uncomfortable. However, I also found that to be the series’ strong point, to be able to handle those scenarios in a way that many other anime could not. That said, someone in the comments also mentioned how the author/creator was simply trying to play out their fetishes, which has now made me reconsider my entire position on the series. I would like to see how the anime handles the content from the manga in the upcoming season though.

This was an interesting read. I was wondering if you read the sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale and if you thought any differently about it. I know that things aren’t much better in Gilead 20 or so years after Offred’s time, but I also found it to be a much more hopeful of a conclusion compared to how The Handmaid’s Tale was. That might have partially been because the book was written so far apart from the first book, but I also thought that The Testaments was also for a whole other set of audiences. Your article made me ponder on this for some reason. I would love to hear what you think.