LGBT manga/anime: "when I get high I can get really emotional about sapphic love"

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PhysicsFrenzy: May 30, 2011; this, too, is physics

Pollyanna posted:

I honestly wish there was more outright trans rep in anime and manga. Maybe I’ve just been missing it, but most of the non-cisnormative rep is couched in “haha gender-nonconforming presentation but nope actually definitely a boy!!”. Which is all well and good, GNC rep is important, but we’re just outright rare in comparison.

It actually kinda bugs me, and I think a lot of it is authors either being too scared to fully commit, or chasing some fetishistic 4chan-style fad. Cause I know for a fact that there’s Japanese trans people, so it’s not some ethnocentric “this concept doesn’t exist in the East” bullshit.

The trans/GNC rep we do get is often of the idealistic anime waifu garbage nature too. I’d really love to see more realistic, non-turbofemme rep. Gimme some bikers or programmers or something (not biased, I promise). Double House and Shimanami Tasogare were great about this sort of thing.

Have you watched zombieland saga? I thought they did a really good job.

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PhysicsFrenzy: May 30, 2011; this, too, is physics

Pollyanna posted:

I haven't watched S2, did they flesh out Lily further? If so, , but still falls under the overly anime clause.

I wish Lily had gotten more in S2, but her episode was in part about how she's fully comfortable with herself which I thought was a good message.

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