#it's very awkard seeing people say stuff like 'wow two anime with trans characters!'
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messaging you here because Iβm 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 itβs 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 wasnβt particularly concerned about gender distinctions, so thatβs 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
#i might delete this later i probably shouldn't have brought it up to begin with#in general i just didn't really like the manga lol#for a few reasons#i understand the importance of messy narratives about gender it's just#it's very awkard seeing people say stuff like 'wow two anime with trans characters!'#when StL is so careful and caring about Nao#and HD is...#well some of the revelations about Kiruko are part of what put me off the manga let's just say
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