Goodbye, Lara Anime Explores Queer Themes and Open Ending
This very meta fairy tale retelling both critiques and pays homage to everything that came before it.
Original headline at Anime Feminist: “Goodbye, Lara as an intertextual queer retelling”
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- Anime Feminist
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- #Fairy Tale Retelling
- #Goodbye, Lara
- #Hans Christian Andersen
- #Lake Biwa
- #Meta Narrative
- #Queer Anime
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