• Gaja0@lemmy.zip
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    8 days ago

    Watching japanese dudes keep writing cross dressing semi-gays as a punchline really feels more like an admission than a joke, in many cases being somewhat plot relevant in a really obtuse way to justify its exaggerated presentation.

    I like Persona 4’s Kanji. They still make his ambigious sexuality the butt of jokes, but they give him an arc about tackling his sense of shame and leave it at a pretty open end. It’s a game from 2008, but the main thing is that he stops caring if someone’s a “dude or a chick” when it comes to attraction.

    • verdare@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      8 days ago

      Yeah, it’s pretty aggravating, but I feel like they’ve been getting better on this in recent years as awareness spreads.

      ~Thinking about how Steins;Gate kept insisting that Rukako was a guy, even though she’s probably one of the most clear-cut trans women in anime.~