題目：Prince Charming by Day, Superheroine by Night? Subversive Sexualities and Gender Fluidity in Revolutionary Girl Utena and Sailor Moon

摘錄：

1Judging from the cropped hair, male school uniform, and other characters’ repeated use of the masculine pronoun in reference to this individual, Usagi might safely assume it is a man.

2As her alluring acquaintance leans in for a second kiss, Usagi hesitantly asks, “Are you a guy… or a girl?”

3?Though Takeuchi insists that Haruka was always intended to be a woman, dismissing fan theories that she had been a man in a past life (reincarnation is part of the series’ mythos),

4?part of what makes Haruka so compelling to audiences is her defiance of the reductive male/female binary

5?A number of comics creators share Stuller’s concerns and have developed alternatives to the stereotypical white, young, male hero figure,?DC Comics’ new Jewish, lesbian Batwoman not being the least among them.

6?The aim of this article is to examine two iconic manga (comics) and?anime (animation) series geared toward young adults

7I am invested in analysing these texts in particular because they feature prominent female characters who are either bisexual or lesbian and who also experience gender as a spectrum rather than a hard and fast box to be checked.

8Though neither narrative is flawless in its depiction of these homosexual and gender-fluid individuals, both disrupt the disturbing trend of queer female negation and invisibility that has long permeated the superhero genre by portraying such characters as admirable, courageous, and relatable.