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Lethal Girls Drawn for Boys: Girl Assassins in Manga/Anime and Comics/Film

2014; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 39; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/chq.2014.0059

1553-1201

Katharine Kittredge,

Digital Games and Media

Hit-Girl, the ultra-violent eleven-year-old character in the 2010 film adaptation of Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.’s comic book Kick-Ass (2008), strongly resembles the Japanese anime/manga characters known as the sentō bishōjo or “beautiful fighting girls.” A comparison of Hit-Girl with the girl assassins of the Japanese series Gunslinger Girl , in both its manga (2002–2012) and anime (2003–04; 2008) versions, highlights the differences between Western and Eastern responses to violence, innocence, and gender performance. All four texts challenge traditional gender binaries with their representations of nurturing masculine individuals and dangerous female children.