#it's very awkard seeing people say stuff like 'wow two anime with trans characters!'

[saccharinescorpion]

messaging you here because I’m too shy to respond to your tweets publicly, but fwiw, tengoku daimakyou has a ton of intersex characters and makes a point of exploring the dysphoric disconnect between how kiruko feels and is perceived by others, so I think it’s an intentional attempt at narrative genderfuckery akin to like, that fujimoto story about a character magically waking up as a girl but still wanting to be seen as a man, which very much reads to me as a trans narrative as well

"adding on to my last message about tengoku, the intersex characters were raised in an environment that wasn’t particularly concerned about gender distinctions, so that’s why I mentioned them - I think the manga is making intentional commentary on the subjectivity of gender socialization and not just pulling a clueless cis person move"

i get that, more than anything i just feel bad for viewers who are definitely expecting something very different from that explanation