I know I said I'd watch kill la kill after murder drones but. counterpoint. I don't care
watching onimai now
holy shit, no one told me this show involved mad science
oh she's TRANS trans.
everywhere I've seen it mentioned onimai is treated like some scandalous pornographic forcefem adult show but I'm five out of twelve episodes in and so far it's a perfectly normal and even mostly clean show about a trans girl. this aired on live tv just fine and everything. it mentions horny topics, but like. the show itself isn't horny in its own right at all, let alone scandalously so like how everyone talks about it. and even when it does touch on something horny, it's pretty tame about it.
onimai is actually a remarkably unhorny show, especially considering some of its subject matter.
just finished episode 7 of 12. they put the mc in middle school. this is barely even a comedy show anymore, it's transitioned to just being slice of life
in theory I should be going to bed about now, but there are only two episodes left, sooooo
Onimai: I'm Now Your Sister! is a comedy slice-of-life anime about a shut-in named Mahiro who is used as an unwitting test subject for his little sister's sex-changing drug. After waking up to find himself in the body of a middle-school-age girl, Mahiro embarks upon a coming-of-age story and a journey of self-discovery, making close friends along the way. In the end, Mahiro decides her new life, and her new self, are worth keeping.
Onimai: I'm Now Your Sister! is most often talked about as if it were a porno or some form of fetish content. at worst, I can only see it as wish fulfillment. it's just queer. get comfortable with that.
reblog the full version, please
oh yeah no absolutely. kill la kill is a very horny show. not explicit, strictly, but definitely well into the territory of "check out these high school girls in skimpy outfits" type of horny show. absolutely one hundred percent a horny show on purpose where they all knew what they were doing.
but kill la kill doesn't get branded as fetishistic outside of being included in racist "all anime is pornographic" tyrades. onimai on the other hand, a show that basically only acknowledges horniness and related topics as Something That Happens Sometimes, is constantly branded and even billed to people as fetishistic and horny. people use that as a fucking selling point for onimai.
I'm not well-versed in this sort of thing, so I don't have very many detailed thoughts on this, but after sitting on it for a little bit my take is that onimai's branding as fetishistic is transmisogyny
