How Hand Jumper Treats Gender

How Hand Jumper Treats Gender

Most of the manga/manhwa I read default to the male gaze. I don't even mean that the female characters are needlessly sexualized, which they often are, but that they're only allowed to fill certain roles. Holy figures and healers are (young, impossibly beautiful) women, the tragic, innocent character who gets assaulted is a woman, the skimpily dressed ninja is a woman, the pure, younger sibling that needs protection is a woman, the seductive villain is a woman, the extremely powerful fighter that will nonetheless always be second in strength to the male lead is a woman. Upskirt shots and carefully framed ass/boobs panels abound. Their characterization can be shallow: especially in action and thriller series, the motivations of female characters are rarely given the same consideration that male characters receive.

Hand Jumper is different. First, female characters are taken just as seriously as male ones, in every way possible. Second, a character's gender does not influence their power level. While it's true that cis men are physically stronger than cis women in the real world, "men are always stronger than women" does not make sense in fantasy action contexts. Why are all the most powerful heroes in My Hero Academia men? Why must all the notable healers in Naruto be female ninja? In worlds where people possess honest to God magical superpowers, power is totally divorced from the density of your muscles. This is true of Hand Jumper's world as well, so it treats its characters appropriately: Male and female Aberrants fight on equal ground. As a result, some of the most prestigious Aberrant positions are held by women: Samin is the leader of the Crimson Society, Cell 4's instructor and mentor are both women, and Sayeon's mother Sara is so mysterious and so powerful that she seems close to godly. Sara's treatment is especially interesting, given that she's filling a role usually reserved for men: the mysterious, legendary parent of the protagonist who left their life when they were still a child. Think Gon's father in HxH, Baki's father in Grappler Baki, Naruto's father, the Joestars in JoJo, or Luffy's father in One Piece. In Hj, it's not the mother, but the father who is drowned out in the shadow cast by his spouse.

Personalities, fantasy power levels, and interests are not inherently gendered! So Hand Jumper doesn't treat them as gendered either. The bubbly, cheerful member of the main group is usually a girl, but this time it's Iseul Kim. The pretty, androgynous Min is both a deadly weapon and a baker of cute pastries- he picks up Sayeon in a bridal carry after a fight, and incredibly, it's not framed as a romantic gesture. Lastly, the aggressive, jaded rival to the protagonist is usually male, but this time it's Ryujin Kang. This position being filled by a female character is so unusual that I remember the comments section being filled with people mistaking Ryujin for a boy, even though she was clearly presented as a woman from the start. Part of this confusion is probably fueled by how Ryujin has a lot of… tension with Sayeon, tension usually found in heterosexual enemy-to-lover relationships. And Sayeon herself? She's on a crusade to avenge her childhood friend, a damsel in distress who died in Episode 2. Somehow, in Hand Jumper, the tragic dead lover that needs avenging is a man.

More Posts from Aira-a-dramatic-asocial and Others

So How Are We Feeling About The New Chapter Guys??
So How Are We Feeling About The New Chapter Guys??
So How Are We Feeling About The New Chapter Guys??
So How Are We Feeling About The New Chapter Guys??

So how are we feeling about the new chapter guys??


Tags

Lmao I don't even know him

Spin a wheel to be assigned someone!

SPOILERS (Spy Family Manga)

Just a normal day with a bunch of six-year olds following you.

SPOILERS (Spy Family Manga)
SPOILERS (Spy Family Manga)
SPOILERS (Spy Family Manga)

Tags

This too

🍗🍗🍗

🧀🧀🧀

Honey, what?

Forgot to post this here ToT

wiege?? What’s that hahahahha


Tags
Rayleigh @ The Straw Hats:

rayleigh @ the straw hats:


Tags
ID: A black and white comic page of Damian and Anya, read from left to right. The first panel has Anya picking up a card as the word "Magicianya" floats on top. Damian asks her to sit down. In the second panel she smugly turns around and asks him, "Is this your card?" The third panel zooms in on his perplexed face as he says "It's not." The fourth panel has a dramatic zoom-in on Anya frozen with the same smug expression, now accompanied by a tear. In the last panel, we see her smack her head on the table and start sobbing, making Damian panic and yell "Why are you crying?" as Becky, Emile and Ewen are revealed to have watched the whole thing, silent and judgmental. End ID

haven't done one of these in a while KSDFJKSD


Tags

I’ve read Time Traveler Zoro AUS far more interesting than anything my feeble little mind could cook up on it’s own, but I’d still love try to play around with the premise and give it my own spin.

I’ve read two in which Zoro loses the crew in a great tragedy, so he goes back in time to save them, and the greatest source of tension in the story is the way he tries to hide all the future knowledge he maintains from the others, while still trying to rewrite history. It’s so good and thrilling. But. Yet. However.

I’m reminded of the scene in Sabaody in which Rayleigh offers to tell the crew about the One Piece, and Luffy furiously rejects him. Says he doesn’t want a boring adventure where he knows the ending. And though I don’t Zoro saying anything in that scene, I think him would agree. So in this Time Travel AU, Zoro goes back in time, he does so with the idea that this second try isn’t for him. He wants to help, but if he gets on that boat, he won’t be able to keep himself from giving Luffy all the answers in hopes of saving his life, and that would ruin his Captain’s dream.

So let’s imagine Luffy. At seventeen years old, he sets out on a journey through the Grandline to become the King of the Pirates. He has his navigator, his sniper, his cook, his doctor- all his friends by his side. And things are challenging sometimes, but always fun. And he gets lucky.

He gets lucky a lot.

Sanjj tells him it’s a guardian angel, but Luffy’s not so sure. There’s something at the back of his mind, an itch behind his ear. He start to notice signs of a certain presence everywhere he goes, a mysterious someone who seems to always want to beat him to the punch, but also seems to never finish the job.

Like back in Orange Town, when he met Nami and fought the Buggy guy, the Clown complained about his knife thrower being put out of commission by a bounty hunter right before the fight. Or in Syrup Village, when Captain Kuroo called for reinforcements two of his officers were a no-show, their crewmates reporting that it was as if the Nyaban Brothers had disappeared into the night. When Luffy met Sanji at the Baratie, he’d felt a tension build within him as he listened to all the rumors of the Greatest Swordsman in the World having been seen nearby. But then, the tension is cut abruptly when Don Kreig walks through the door instead, announcing that he’d escaped the Warlord when some suicidal swordsman intercepted his chase.

In Whiskey Peak, Nami tells him about how she saw a cloaked figure take down 100 hundred bounty hunters without making a sound, as if trying to not disturb the Strawhat’s sleep. Luffy thinks he might’ve seen such a figure from afar when taking a leak, but he can’t be sure. In Alabasta, Ace keeps throwing looks over his shoulder as if searching for someone, but always telling Luffy there’s nothing to worry. Vivi is shocked to discover someone took down Baroque Work’s Number 1 in a duel a night before their arrival at Alubarna. When Robin joins them at the end of it, she seems shocked to find the crew only has five members, instead of six. But she doesn’t seem keen on elaborating why just yet.

The only place that they haven’t been followed to by this Mystery Guy (as Luffy has taken to calling him) is Skypeia. Almost like he couldn’t figure out how to get up there.

And still, the whole time Luffy’s there he can’t stop thinking about him. Looking left and right for as if between the clouds and the trees he’ll catch a glimpse of Mystery Guy’s face. Nami says it’s ludicrous to think that all these instances can be chalked up to same guy. Usopp tells tall tales of how they’re being stalked by a man who fell madly love with the Great Sniper’s good looks, or sometimes he tells tales of how they’re being followed by the ancient God of Fortune, or sometimes it’s any other grandiose tale he’ll accept before he accepts that it’s just a guy, just a Mystery Guy, who is real and Luffy knows it.

He knows, and he’s a little obsessed with it. And it’s not always great. He loses sleep, wondering who are you and do you know me and do i know you and stop getting in my way and why don’t you do it more and do you want to join my crew and i need you to watch me and i need you on my crew.

(Meanwhile, on his end, Zoro is planning how to stop the tragedy that will befall his family. But in the meantime he doesn’t want to just be dead weight. He doesn’t want to be apart from them. He may not have a place on that boat anymore, but he can’t have his Captain fighting his battles. He can’t let his friends go unprotected. So he’ll protect them, protect him, in silence, from afar, always one day head, always knowing what’s coming next)


Tags
Loading...
End of content
No more pages to load
  • solanaceae-piperita
    solanaceae-piperita liked this · 1 month ago
  • bluejackals
    bluejackals liked this · 1 month ago
  • coffeegardens-misc
    coffeegardens-misc reblogged this · 1 month ago
  • sleeping-ocean
    sleeping-ocean liked this · 1 month ago
  • galarraiden
    galarraiden liked this · 1 month ago
  • iseegrey
    iseegrey liked this · 1 month ago
  • soniagvxoxo
    soniagvxoxo liked this · 2 months ago
  • jelous-girl-encoure
    jelous-girl-encoure liked this · 2 months ago
  • aira-a-dramatic-asocial
    aira-a-dramatic-asocial reblogged this · 2 months ago
  • aira-a-dramatic-asocial
    aira-a-dramatic-asocial liked this · 2 months ago
  • r4t-g0d
    r4t-g0d liked this · 2 months ago
  • ananaaaaaa
    ananaaaaaa liked this · 2 months ago
  • ursecondleastfavcav
    ursecondleastfavcav liked this · 2 months ago
  • wooooolymamoth
    wooooolymamoth liked this · 2 months ago
  • vitamindeeznutz
    vitamindeeznutz liked this · 3 months ago
  • eyecounter
    eyecounter liked this · 3 months ago
  • totallyhumanatronaut
    totallyhumanatronaut liked this · 3 months ago
  • bowlofoats
    bowlofoats liked this · 3 months ago
  • lilo1287
    lilo1287 liked this · 4 months ago
  • bittersweetssnaps
    bittersweetssnaps liked this · 4 months ago
  • fabulousnomatterwhat
    fabulousnomatterwhat reblogged this · 4 months ago
  • fabulousnomatterwhat
    fabulousnomatterwhat liked this · 4 months ago
  • besssie-ab
    besssie-ab liked this · 4 months ago
  • oppo13
    oppo13 liked this · 4 months ago
  • headdaze
    headdaze reblogged this · 4 months ago
  • headdaze
    headdaze liked this · 4 months ago
  • your-local-asylum-escapee
    your-local-asylum-escapee liked this · 5 months ago
  • paleontologyfanatic
    paleontologyfanatic reblogged this · 5 months ago
  • paleontologyfanatic
    paleontologyfanatic liked this · 5 months ago
  • unusualchemistry64
    unusualchemistry64 liked this · 5 months ago
  • qteliier
    qteliier liked this · 5 months ago
  • pwupiie
    pwupiie liked this · 5 months ago
  • s4nnym00n
    s4nnym00n liked this · 6 months ago
  • spivey-moro
    spivey-moro reblogged this · 6 months ago
  • spivey-moro
    spivey-moro liked this · 6 months ago
  • supremefloof
    supremefloof liked this · 6 months ago
  • blue7blanket
    blue7blanket liked this · 6 months ago
  • suuu24
    suuu24 liked this · 6 months ago
  • cynicane
    cynicane liked this · 6 months ago
  • zoetropist
    zoetropist liked this · 6 months ago
  • hottakehoulihan
    hottakehoulihan liked this · 6 months ago
  • yugonostalgia2019
    yugonostalgia2019 liked this · 6 months ago
  • eyesra
    eyesra reblogged this · 6 months ago
  • eyesra
    eyesra liked this · 6 months ago
  • dramatic-fool
    dramatic-fool reblogged this · 6 months ago
  • cup-of-anxi-tea
    cup-of-anxi-tea liked this · 6 months ago
  • the-letterbox-archives
    the-letterbox-archives liked this · 6 months ago
  • orangeisfab
    orangeisfab liked this · 6 months ago
  • romyoia
    romyoia liked this · 6 months ago
aira-a-dramatic-asocial - Hyperfixations go brrrrr
Hyperfixations go brrrrr

✨I don't need a reality check, I wish to live in delusion✨

279 posts

Explore Tumblr Blog
Search Through Tumblr Tags