Gender, Genre, and Games in Sports Anime

calendar_today Fri 8:00 PM - Fri 9:00 PM

location_on Prog Panels - 307

What makes a sports anime a sports anime? Is it the thrill of the competition? The forced team building? The homoerotic subtext? Join us to trace the development of shojo and shonen sports anime tropes/conventions from the 1970s (Ace wo Nerae! and Ashita no Joe) all the way up to the modern day (Birdie Wing and Sk8 the Infinity).