Gender diversity: What anime taught the 90s kids that school books didn’t

Winona Laisram

7:15 AM, 21 August, 2019

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In 2003, when Pokémon was first aired in India, it flooded classrooms with trading cards and tazos of Pikachus, Charizards, and Bulbasaurs. Surprisingly, even an anime as innocuous as Pokémon bucks gender norms as we are taught to understand them.

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