{"id":3692,"date":"2021-09-30T19:29:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T19:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vulvani.com\/little-miss-period-die-verkoerperte-periode\/"},"modified":"2022-11-03T12:25:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T12:25:00","slug":"little-miss-period-a-character-to-personify-periods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vulvani.com\/en\/little-miss-period-a-character-to-personify-periods\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Little Miss Period\u2019: A\u00a0character to personify periods"},"content":{"rendered":"

In late 2019, the company Yoshimoto Kogyo released the comedy film Little Miss Period<\/em><\/strong>, about a character who personifies periods. She is a \u2018pink, heart-shaped being<\/a>\u2019 who bothers menstruating people<\/a> month-by-month, \u2018delivering awful gut punches but also offering a shoulder to cry on.<\/a>\u2019 Little Miss Period<\/em><\/strong>, or Seiri-chan, in Japanese, also extracts blood with a syringe, to show how having your period can feel.<\/p>

\u2018If only men could get periods, even just once a year.\u2019<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div><\/div>

The film is based on a manga by the cisgender male artist Ken Koyama. Said manga is described as very blunt, with Little Miss Period<\/strong><\/em> visiting menstruators to deliver her \u2018menstrual punches\u2019 as cramps<\/a>. But she also supports them in day-to-day situations. And if a menstruating woman encounters a rude, unfeeling partner or boss, she punches them as well, to show how it feels. The film\u2019s plot<\/a> is largely similar. Aoko, the main character, works in a publishing company under a cisgender male boss who is dismissive towards her pain. She also has a widower boyfriend who is raising a young daughter by himself. She says at one point, \u2018If only men could get periods, even just once a year.\u2019<\/p>

Here is the Japanese trailer:<\/p>

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