![]() Tanuki and tengu function in a world of their own, but they can assume human-like appearances to interact with human society. Let’s first take a look at Uchouten Kazoku, which often displays this power of invisibility. There is no interaction through the way that we, the audience (who live in a normal society) perceives it. In Gatchaman and Uchouten however, this social phenomena is absent because the characters live in a different world completely. Social constructs, then, are concepts that have meaning and shared understandings based on a given people’s ways of seeing, interpreting, interrelating and interacting. ![]() Yet both shows share a similarity that’s far deeper and more interesting than just the technical: the two have distinctive ways of twisting with social constructivism when it comes to gender. Social constructionism considers how social phenomena or objects of consciousness – such as sex and gender – develop in social contexts. Kazoku focuses on the day to day lives of the tanuki family and its friends, while Gatchaman takes a look at the heroes of Tokyo City as they try to stop alien attacks on the home front. At a first glance, Uchouten Kazoku and Gatchaman Crowds share hardly anything in common, except for a flashy art style and smooth music.
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