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Gender dysphoria, cross dressing and internalized homophobia
(SA mentioned!!)
I LOVED this series, and I mean with my whole heart. Genuinely one of my comfort series. I never expected to like this so much and that has one big reason, the fucked and lacking representation a lot of Japanese or Asian drama's have on transgenders and anyone falling under the trans umbrella. And recently I have rarely rated a movie or series a 10/10 aswell. Decided to watch it mainly because I like short series, with short episode. I feel like I can really relate to this series as a female looking guy, I'm always judged. I love how it's filmed and edited in the typical 2000s-1990s Japanese style.
I love how they added internalised homophobia, however, I'm not a fan of the bullying scenes. They were heavily needed through this whole series but I can't believe Futoshi was okay and accepted the apologies so fast. I did have to laugh extremely much at the them catching the guy who is homophobic use their lipstick lmaooo.
I was kinda confused until the last few episodes, does Futoshi just like cross dressing? Is she a Trans girl? Or maybe just body dysphoria? Through the show I notice they are just experiencing with gender a lot, but it clear there's also some dysphoria. I doubt they identified as a girl but definitely liked being treated like one. (I'm calling Futoshi them.) No matter what Futoshi actually identified as, the representation was extremely well and without clearly having dysphoria scenes there it was very obvious those feeling were involved.
Another extremely well done part in the series. Often, SA is portrayed wrong and as a victim it really sucks to see characters forget about the SA the next day. Again, especially in Asian and American series the SA scene's are often easily pushed into a series to create some trauma. But in this series it was super accurate and I'm really happy about that. I'm gonna be honest I didn't think weird of that teacher at first until he made fun of them in front of the class with the spanking. I still trusted him and then was quite surprised when he actually did so. I love how they made me trust him at first, showing how wrong you can be about someone.
I heard people mention the ending is very different in the. manga and now I'm hyped to read the manga aswell. In my opinion the ending was quite lacking and it was nice but could be nicer. I was also kinda confused who Futoshi ended up with but that's my fault for watching this at 12am.
I'm a trans person aswell, I'm not open about this and I let people figure my gender themselves hoping they'll get it right. It's very exhausting but I don't exactly feel comfortable saying I'm trans in my class since I feel like they are already talking behind my back. I feel like I can relate soooo much to Futoshi.
I LOVED this series, and I mean with my whole heart. Genuinely one of my comfort series. I never expected to like this so much and that has one big reason, the fucked and lacking representation a lot of Japanese or Asian drama's have on transgenders and anyone falling under the trans umbrella. And recently I have rarely rated a movie or series a 10/10 aswell. Decided to watch it mainly because I like short series, with short episode. I feel like I can really relate to this series as a female looking guy, I'm always judged. I love how it's filmed and edited in the typical 2000s-1990s Japanese style.
I love how they added internalised homophobia, however, I'm not a fan of the bullying scenes. They were heavily needed through this whole series but I can't believe Futoshi was okay and accepted the apologies so fast. I did have to laugh extremely much at the them catching the guy who is homophobic use their lipstick lmaooo.
I was kinda confused until the last few episodes, does Futoshi just like cross dressing? Is she a Trans girl? Or maybe just body dysphoria? Through the show I notice they are just experiencing with gender a lot, but it clear there's also some dysphoria. I doubt they identified as a girl but definitely liked being treated like one. (I'm calling Futoshi them.) No matter what Futoshi actually identified as, the representation was extremely well and without clearly having dysphoria scenes there it was very obvious those feeling were involved.
Another extremely well done part in the series. Often, SA is portrayed wrong and as a victim it really sucks to see characters forget about the SA the next day. Again, especially in Asian and American series the SA scene's are often easily pushed into a series to create some trauma. But in this series it was super accurate and I'm really happy about that. I'm gonna be honest I didn't think weird of that teacher at first until he made fun of them in front of the class with the spanking. I still trusted him and then was quite surprised when he actually did so. I love how they made me trust him at first, showing how wrong you can be about someone.
I heard people mention the ending is very different in the. manga and now I'm hyped to read the manga aswell. In my opinion the ending was quite lacking and it was nice but could be nicer. I was also kinda confused who Futoshi ended up with but that's my fault for watching this at 12am.
I'm a trans person aswell, I'm not open about this and I let people figure my gender themselves hoping they'll get it right. It's very exhausting but I don't exactly feel comfortable saying I'm trans in my class since I feel like they are already talking behind my back. I feel like I can relate soooo much to Futoshi.
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