Female Wrestling in Manga

A place to talk about our love for the art and artists of Japan, as per their depictions of women's professional wrestling.

Thursday, March 22, 2007

The manga/anime connection

"But Plawres Sanshiro have not female wrestling, is only boy with his robot."

This comment was left awhile back, whilst we were talking about the never-produced "Wrestloid Baby". I had put forth the idea that maybe the other shows out in the market place made another show dealing with wrestling dolls unattractive to the Japanese networks. It always made we think about that weird way things work in Japan, at times.

It's true that, in the show based on the manga, Plawres only has the one episode were a female robot is shown taking part in a match (see above) ... vs the boy's male robot; a mixed match, never a female vs female match. Yet in the manga, there is a female robot that the lead characters control that fights both in mixed and F vs F matches.




Named Sakurahime, she plays a smaller roll in the stories, but is there, none-the-less. But, when the show was adapted for TV, she and her female foe (La Llorna) were completely left out.



Yet in other manga, let's take Air Gear as an example, the simple introduction of a character as wrestler is enough to set the animation department to work on an entire episode devoted to her, a match/chapter which never appeared in the manga at all.















Obviously, the time that the series were made, the target audience the producers are aiming for, the writers that move the story along ... all will play a roll in the inclusion/exclusion of content. It does make it hard to figure out what shows to watch, or manga to buy though ... I've gotten a lot of manga over the years on the idea that it would have something to add to my collection, only to find out that I had been misled by the TV show ... OK, fine, there is no wrestling in the Sailor Moon manga ... lesson learned.

8 Comments:

  • At 10:31 PM, Blogger MagicAlex84 said…

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  • At 10:31 PM, Blogger MagicAlex84 said…

    I saw that episode of Air Gear. The animation during the wrestling match (and much of the series) is terrible. In some scenes it looks like they cut off the edges of the frame so that they wouldn't have to draw the whole animation. It's interesting that they included the wrestling match, but it didn't really do much for the anime.

     
  • At 10:22 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    The stereotype of female wrestling is a women fat or with body of man ?, I view air gear the match wrestling and is it.

     
  • At 12:10 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I have comics catfight and mangas cat and wrestling I want a exchange with scans manga Plawres ( matches f/f ) please some accept write me mail
    shadow2_peck@hotmail.com

     
  • At 2:28 AM, Blogger e.a.setiaone said…

    What is air gear series that show female wrestling

     
  • At 11:00 AM, Blogger e.a.setiaone said…

    what is the title anime that picture you show female mask wrestler?

     
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