Anime Check-in:🎐Wind Breaker S2 5
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Wind Breaker
season 2
season 2
Episode 5: Ahh I cried. The tightrope scene was so intense. And then Sugishita...;;
I love seeing things animated and hearing the voice acting so much. Kiryuu's "doesn't that hurt your eyes?" when Tsuge says he can't close his eyes when shampooing. 😂 Everyone ganging up on Suou about the nattou!! Sakura's laugh and everyone's reaction!
The Tsubaki/Sakura scene!! Nirei's gentle expression towards Sakura!
Tsubaki putting Sakura's soul back in his body is the funniest thing ever. And I laughed my head off at Sakura's trembling stew. 🤣🤣🤣
I feel like Tsubaki and Umemiya already had a talk about Tsubaki's feelings or there was already an implicit understanding from the beginning that it was one-sided. If Umemiya returned the feelings he would have said.
It's always interesting to see how US fandom people react to trans or crossdressing characters. Tsubakino is confirmed to be a guy by an interview with the author. He likes presenting femme and uses the feminine 'atashi'. If he were born in the US I really do feel he'd use she/her. A lot of people in US fandom still use those pronouns for him.
In a lot of JP media there's a stereotype used in gay bars etc that's pretty much 'transvestite' or sometimes just 'gay' in non-BL, and they're a very exaggerated masculine type sometimes with dark stubble on their face.
Even well-meaning authors (who are cis especially) were born in a society that perpetuates stereotypes and have barriers to understanding the experience that lead them to conclusions that don't go far enough.
So trans women etc are not presented in the best light. X-gender is more accepted these days. Most characters are just seen as crossdressers even when they explicitly say they "have the heart of a woman" or use feminine pronouns. Obvs. not all crossdressers or femme-presenting chars want to be (are) another gender but it's noticeable when very few of them do.
So yeah, a lot of work needs to be done to get to a point where there's more representation than just crossdressing. Or those male power fantasy stories where he gets reincarnated in the body of a woman but there's no difference, it never explores what that really means, it's like he was a woman all along.
Aaand that was a tangent on what was a reaction post lol
I love seeing things animated and hearing the voice acting so much. Kiryuu's "doesn't that hurt your eyes?" when Tsuge says he can't close his eyes when shampooing. 😂 Everyone ganging up on Suou about the nattou!! Sakura's laugh and everyone's reaction!
The Tsubaki/Sakura scene!! Nirei's gentle expression towards Sakura!
Tsubaki putting Sakura's soul back in his body is the funniest thing ever. And I laughed my head off at Sakura's trembling stew. 🤣🤣🤣
I feel like Tsubaki and Umemiya already had a talk about Tsubaki's feelings or there was already an implicit understanding from the beginning that it was one-sided. If Umemiya returned the feelings he would have said.
It's always interesting to see how US fandom people react to trans or crossdressing characters. Tsubakino is confirmed to be a guy by an interview with the author. He likes presenting femme and uses the feminine 'atashi'. If he were born in the US I really do feel he'd use she/her. A lot of people in US fandom still use those pronouns for him.
In a lot of JP media there's a stereotype used in gay bars etc that's pretty much 'transvestite' or sometimes just 'gay' in non-BL, and they're a very exaggerated masculine type sometimes with dark stubble on their face.
Even well-meaning authors (who are cis especially) were born in a society that perpetuates stereotypes and have barriers to understanding the experience that lead them to conclusions that don't go far enough.
So trans women etc are not presented in the best light. X-gender is more accepted these days. Most characters are just seen as crossdressers even when they explicitly say they "have the heart of a woman" or use feminine pronouns. Obvs. not all crossdressers or femme-presenting chars want to be (are) another gender but it's noticeable when very few of them do.
So yeah, a lot of work needs to be done to get to a point where there's more representation than just crossdressing. Or those male power fantasy stories where he gets reincarnated in the body of a woman but there's no difference, it never explores what that really means, it's like he was a woman all along.
Aaand that was a tangent on what was a reaction post lol
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