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Answers to Module 7 Questions
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Practising Citations:
Rosa Lee compares the hero in Shiba Ryotaro’s Moeyo ken to the Shinsengumi in Gintama, describing Sorachi’s creative process in writing the manga, where “Sorachi and his editor are extremely sensitive to reader response collected from weekly surveys, sales data, fan letters and more.”

Sharon Kinsella’s Adult manga: culture and power in contemporary Japanese society examines the “transformation of popular culture into a new cultural form”.

Andrew Smith's analysis of Sorachi’s writing delves into the popularity of the series as an “Edo-era comedy decked out in science fiction trappings and alternative historical versions of famous characters”.

Within her discussion on Gintama, Jones asserts that the manga serves as a subversion of typical female stereotypes through the writing of empowered characters, and unconventional humour told through female characters.

In a 2015 peer-review by Karen Nakamura, published in the Social Science Japan Journal, she considers that “Jones demonstrates a great degree of adroit-ness in pulling together Japanese feminist critiques, anthropological studies on gender, critical social theory, and contemporary manga”.