Winning Love By Daylight: The "Beautiful Fighting Girl"

To some, she’s a champion of justice who balances the challenges of being a woman and saving the world, while to others she’s either a bundle of stereotypes that hold women back, or an object of male obsession with all things sexual. She is the “Beautiful Fighting Girl,” and she’s been a major part of Japanese popular culture for a long, long time. Join anime scholar and professor Matt Poulter (Carleton University) for this journey into the history of one of Japan’s most recognizable exports, where we’ll try to answer a simple but big question: why are we fascinated with Beautiful Fighting Girls?