#anyways have you guys heard the shadow shadow cover. satohina youre so epic..

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i really hope i dont sound like a hater here cuz i truly do love mizuki (and water is wet...) but this event laid bare my biggest gripe with colopale regarding mizukis ambiguous identity.

the scenes showcasing mizukis struggles are too vague on purpose. with mizu5 on the horizon i cant help but notice theyre deliberately giving room for both a cis gnc and trans reading, maybe if this was any other game, if colopale hadnt chosen the most predatory monetization model imaginable, i would give them more grace and say "well, you dont need to say transgender or gender identity disorder to have a trans narrative" but as it stands it wouldn't surprise me if they have different versions of mizuki5 and are deciding which to use depending on what would give them more money.

with all of that in my head i struggled to connect with the story, i didnt feel for mizuki as much as i could have, with blank canvas i cried at multiple points, i felt both pain and hope alongside ena and thats because enas story doesnt need to juggle two different themes, it's able to explore at depth one central premise directly.

trans ppl and cis gnc people do have shared experiences and have found solidarity with each other in the past but there are aspects that are unique to each, because of colopales inability to commit to either, mizukis story is only able to explore the surface level struggles of someone with an atypical gender expression and i think thats a damn shame bc i wanted so badly to like this event!!!

a part of prsks story is undeniably weaker and its all the fault of greedy dirty little colopale!!!! not only that but theres so many people who would connect with these characters but will never do bc this is a gacha game and theres smart ppl on this world for whom gacha is a dealbreaker!! god i wish that were me