Unknowingly, Princess Knight had tapped into an audience across the full gender spectrum by including a protagonist “ born with both the blue heart of a boy and a pink heart of a girl.
“Father of Manga” Osamu Tezuka created Princess Knight in 1953, decades before Disney’s Mulan was breaking gender-roles. Without jumping into a full lesson on art history and Japanese censorship, let me give you some background: At its origins, anime freely questions gender identity and heteronormative sexuality.
