Gender intrigue - what is it?

Writers, designers, directors, for many years have tried a huge number of incredible moves, inventing their stories, stories, styles, and each of them tried and tries to present to the tempted spectator something new, extraordinary, more fascinating. One of the results of the pursuit of originality was the emergence of such a direction in films, manga, anime and doramas, as a gender intrigue. What it is? Now we will analyze, but first we will notice that gender uncertainty has arisen and has become incredibly popular in Asian countries, in particular, China, Japan, Taiwan and Korea.

What is gender intrigue?

Its meaning lies in the fact that the sex of the main character of the above-described work (manga, anime, etc.) remains practically unknown until the end of the story line (or it is such for another character, while the viewer, as the saying goes, already In the know). And it can be like a girl trying to convince everyone and everything that she is a man or a guy who poses as a representative of the female half of humanity. The reasons for this act were invented a lot: the cherished dream (following the example of one manga - to become an athlete-champion), revenge, love, need for money, etc.

Androgyny

The reason (if it is possible to call it so) to the development of such a trend in art, as a gender intrigue, has become androgyny - a person's ability, albeit not in an equal number, but to manifest both female and male characteristics. And distinguish two varieties of this phenomenon: psychological and physical.

Previously, androgyny was comparable to the concept of "hermaphrodite," but later this term was attributed exclusively to psychosocial aspects, removing it from anatomical and physiological signs.

Androgyny, as a fashionable trend, on which it was possible to earn fame, had time to use many celebrities. Thus they sought to excel from the general flow, show rebellious nature, become known with the help of if not vocal talents, then at least thanks to an extravagant number. However, for the sake of justice, it should be noted that some people have similar features, as they say, from nature. And they do not give themselves, so to speak, an artificial androgynous appearance, using various cosmetic means or elements of the wardrobe.

Manga in the theme

The origins of the majority of doram and anime are primarily manga - a kind of Japanese comics that has gained immense popularity among Asian nations, especially Japanese and Koreans, and among many people around the world, including people of completely different nationalities and ages.

Manga, whose gender intrigue served as the basic storyline, gained popularity in Japan, especially for young girls and girls. Then it began to spread to neighboring states, gaining more and more admirers. This fact served as an impetus to the development of this topic and the release of a huge number of manga with a similar plot.

The first project, based on the plot of which was gender intrigue, was the Japanese soyuza manga "For you in all colors, or the Incomprehensible Paradise." The girl enters a male school, posing as a boy, with the goal of supporting and returning to the sport an injured jumper, whom she admires.

At the moment, there are more than one hundred manga released or still released, with a similar theme: Sekire, Sweet Blood, The rumored Midori-kun, Bremen, etc.

Confused in anime

Anime was spread even faster than manga, as many enterprising people realized that it is possible, using an already prepared plot, to create a very profitable business, playing on the feelings and desires of the fans not to read their favorite story, but to watch it on TV. Realizing that you can film manga, and even make money and success, and material resources, many animators rushed to release a number of anime. Gender intrigue, accordingly, began to be regarded as one more topic, interesting to readers, and hence, to future viewers. The most popular projects of this category are: Hourou Musuko, Paradise Kiss, Kuragehime, Shugo Chara and others. There is still a great number of animated works that can be safely attributed to the section "Gender Intrigue", and most often next to this category is a genre such as comedy.

The Doramas there also

Honestly speaking, Dorama is an ordinary "soap opera", broadcast by television channels in the evenings, only Japanese. Well, perhaps they have a slightly higher rating. Do not have time to enter the Japanese anime industry dorami, gender intrigue immediately penetrated into this category of cinema, tightly attached and entrenched as another trend of fashion. The genre mentioned by its name is due to the English word drama, however, in parallel with the dramatic, there are also romantic, comedy, detective films, and even horror dramas.

For the first time, gender intrigue as the main line of the plot for the drama was used in the Korean television series The First Cafe Prince. Among the known works of this type are the following: "Angel. You are beautiful "," K-pop: survival school "," Our secret ", as well as the aforementioned drama" For you in all colors ".

Films

Despite the popularity among the audience, gender intrigue as a subgenre did not take root in the cinema. Most likely, the whole problem lies in money: for the release of a full-fledged film, you need to involve a large number of people, buy scenery, sew costumes, not to mention special effects. In addition, interest in works with elements of gender intrigue arose and still remains relevant primarily in Asian countries, which as the most preferred types of film adaptation choose the above-described dorums and anime.

However, not so far from the topic of gender uncertainty are such famous American films as "Mrs. Doubtfire" and a series of films "The House of the Big Mommy", based on the plot of which are men's disguises to women. And in both cases the genre is defined as a comedy in view of the huge amount of comic scenes into which the main character gets, trying to keep his real essence incognito.