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Anne Shirley (2025)
Anne Shirley (2025)
Overview
Anne Shirley, a redheaded eleven-year-old girl, moves from an orphanage to Green Gables, home of the elderly Cuthbert siblings Mathew and Marilla. Her abundant imagination, cheer, and earnest heart begin to change the people around her.
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Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: Low
LGBTQ: Positive
Christianity: Positive
Viewer Rating
8.0
Overview
Anne Shirley, a redheaded eleven-year-old girl, moves from an orphanage to Green Gables, home of the elderly Cuthbert siblings Mathew and Marilla. Her abundant imagination, cheer, and earnest heart begin to change the people around her.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
The series explicitly and centrally promotes progressive ideology by weaving contemporary social justice themes such as systemic racism, gender equality, LGBTQ+ issues, and indigenous histories into its narrative, aligning with contemporary U.S. progressive liberal values.
The movie maintains a traditional representation, remaining faithful to the original story's predominantly white, Anglophone setting with no intentional racial or gender recasting. Its narrative focuses on themes of female empowerment, socioeconomic mobility through education, and belonging within a historically homogeneous community, without explicitly engaging with contemporary racial, LGBTQ+, or disability diversity concerns.
Secondary
The film "Anne Shirley" (2025) offers a direct and affirming portrayal of LGBTQ+ themes by centering an explicit bisexual or lesbian relationship between Anne and Diana. It frames Anne as a feminist and queer icon, integrating her queer identity as a vital part of her character development. This depiction provides a nuanced and positive representation of queer love, moving beyond subtle subtext.
The show portrays Christianity primarily through its cultural and social context, emphasizing positive values like love and morality. While it critiques some conservative Christian attitudes, the narrative's overall alignment with the virtues of the faith provides a nuanced and affirming depiction.
The 2025 anime series Anne Shirley does not feature any transsexual characters or themes. The narrative centers on Anne Shirley's journey of personal development and emotional growth within the historical context of the original novels, without exploring transgender or transsexual experiences. For example, Anne's character arc focuses on her imagination and friendships, not gender identity.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The 2025 anime series *Anne Shirley* portrays all main characters, including Anne Shirley, Marilla Cuthbert, and Matthew Cuthbert, with their original canonical genders as established in Lucy Maud Montgomery's novels. No characters have on-screen genders differing from their source material, indicating no instances of gender swaps.
The anime visually depicts characters with European phenotypes consistent with the source material. While the voice cast is ethnically Japanese, the on-screen portrayal of the characters' race remains unchanged from their established white Canadian ethnicity.
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