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Inu-Oh’s Gender Politics Are Anime Performance Art
As Inu-Oh rocks theatres, I keep thinking about Tomona Dan-No-Ura, whose narrative ostensibly begins and ends the film. As he passes through all the stages of his life, becoming Tomoichi when he joins the Biwa priests and then Tomoari when he begins his own musical theatre sect, his art becomes intimately tied to his gender…