The Haikyuu!! Girls Are (Mostly) Good

We all know and love Haikyuu!!, but how does it treat its female characters? Well, good. Mostly. Sometimes. Join me as we explore Kiyoko Shimizu, Yachi Hitoka, and the development of Haikyuu’s female characters in this video essay. Ko-fi: Twitter: MyAnimeList: Watch Haikyuu!! here: #Haikyuu!! #Haikyu! #Haikyuu #Haikyu #KiyokoShimizu #YachiHitoka #HinataShouyou #KageyamaTobio ##ゴミ捨て場の決戦 #ハイキュー #アニメ Readings and Sources, building off my “My Hero Academia is Sexist“ video: - Laura Mulvey’s 1975 essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,“ which introduced the idea of male gaze in film: - I highly recommend all of John Berger’s BBC documentary series Ways of Seeing, but especially episode 2 on the female nude: I also recommend the book version of Ways of Seeing, also by Berger, where the term “male gaze“ first appeared. - bell hooks’ “The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators“ from her book Black Looks: Race and Representation: ~bgoldfarb/cogn21s12/reading/. - 2012 article on the gender divide among Weekly Shounen Jump readers: - 2020 article on sales of manga volumes by age and gender: 00:00 - Intro 02:35 - Season, Kiyoko and Yui 14:41 - Season 2, Enter Yachi 26:05 - Season 2, Yachi and the New Quick 31:26 - Female Supporting Cast 38:33 - Kiyoko, After Season 2 45:57 - Kiyoko Analysis 52:59 - THE MANGA... and Kiyoko 1:03:14 - Conclusion 1:08:05 - Outro 1:10:20 - Secret Meme Ending