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Apr 19 5 tweets 4 min read
The current goalpost-moving narrative being pushed instead is how manga is male-dominated because women had to use more masculine bylines to be taken more seriously for SHONEN works.

Even though by the time Hiromu Arakawa was working on Fullmetal Alchemist, that was changing. Image You know who also had trouble with those same male-dominated Shonen publishers and had to fight for getting a manga out?

Hirohiko Araki, all because the first three JoJo volumes didn't focus on Japanese characters. Image