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why i think the ii contestant's treatment and behaviour towards poppy for their resemblance to steve cobs has a trans theme to it, and could be an allegory for misgendering
poppy is a *non-binary* character who's their own individual. however, ever since the start of the 2nd episode, people immediately jumped to demonising them and mistaking them for steve cobs, a *male* character.
people have been constantly attaching poppy to cobs and assumes the worst out of poppy whenever something wrong happens that involves them. the contestants are associating poppy with a *male* person, mistaking them for that *male* person sometimes and even thought poppy was that *male* person when they first saw them.
poppy's individuality and identity is being associated with a *male* figure, and i think its a metaphor for gender roles placed on trans people. "you're all so sure you know someone that you can't see them for who they really are" this line really contributes to my point.
the fact that a nonbinary character who struggles with wanting to know who they really are and where they come from, gets mistaken for being associated with a man, has transgender undertones to it in my opinion.
it's a common experience for many trans people to get constantly associated with an identity that doesn't define who they are and get stripped of their individuality because of it. many trans people get identity issues and confusion on what their place in life really is because of this. poppy's behaviour mirrors these experiences.
i particularly think about the scene where metag, poppy and bot are at the cliff.
"'yAy hE'S dEad!!' what am i supposed to think when i see that everyday?"
"i'm sorry i look like him, okay?"
these are quotes from poppy when metag dragged them to the cliff and bot starts questioning metag's intentions.
i like to think this could be an allegory for gender dysphoria. because of the fear around poppy *looking* like cobs they feel horrible, confused and insecure about who they are and what they look like.
i believe this is why bot understands poppy. bot knows what it's like to be confused with their identity and be seen and mistaken as someone who a different gender than you. bot's entire arc with their identity and how they aren't bow mirrors poppy's identity with cobs.
i think the connections between poppy and bot go even further when you realise they're both non-binary and both had the experience of being mistaken as a *dead* person who's identity they don't align with.
bot's arc has so many themes around transgenderism, and i think that can apply to poppy currently especially with their friendly relationship with bot at the moment.
as a trans person who's constantly mistaken for a man, i relate to poppy and i like to view a lot of their insecurities and struggles in a trans lens. i hope you can see that too.
of course the contestants aren't LITERALLY being transphobic towards poppy, but i still think the themes of transgenderism and having your identity being stripped away can be acknowledged in how they treat poppy. i hope i articulated all of my thoughts well.
Let's talk about how Ranma is trans in the 2024 anime, part 1
Way the hell back in 2018, after a random exchange with a friend, I sat down and wrote a series of four blog posts where I looked at the manga Ranma ½, which ran from 1988 to 1996, explicitly through a lens where I assumed the protagonist is in fact a trans girl. A major component of the series being that Ranma and several other characters fell into various pools in a cursed set of natural springs causing them to magically change into whatever tragically drowned in one when hit with cold water, then back to their original body with hot, and Ranma fell in the girl one, so it was bound to be a series that would crack a lot of eggs regardless, but my memory of reading it years before transitioning was that it worked on a mundane level too, particularly later. I did somehow forget a bit towards the end where Ranma honestly just kinda straight up comes out of the closet, but I'm not going to link to that panel yet again for the sake of preview links not blending together. Anyway, those posts were already the most popular things I ever put on this blog and have never stopped circulating, despite it being a pretty old and largely forgotten series at the time.
I had always had the idea that I really should go back and also watch the anime adaptation(s) of Ranma, which deviates a good bit from the manga, but that is 161 episodes, 3 movies, and 11 OAVs which are terribly terribly paced, and I don't actually get paid for this. But then lo and behold, here's a brand new anime adaptation coming out decades later, looking really nice, and surely that will deviate even more from the source material, so here I am diving in to find all new bits of gender stuff to talk about, under the fold here and-
Oh. Turns out the new anime series is actually an EXTREMELY faithful adaptation of the original manga and the only deviations I've actually noticed are that there's a little bit less nudity and the one scene with Ranma's breasts fully on display goes the route of not drawing nipples. And really that's only significant because the original anime adaptation somehow got away with that one. Speaking of the original anime run, this adaptation brings back the entire surviving voice cast, and continues the tradition of coloring Ranma's hair red in cold-water form as an extra tell for the audience. And speaking of color, one thing this adaptation does now and then that I really appreciate is punctuating certain scenes with the sort of cool pastel palettes (see above) that were used for the cover illustrations of the original manga.
Another thing the 2024 anime does is throw in a quick little vignette before the opening credits of each episode to restate that Ranma and Akane are engaged, and the feminizing water thing, which mostly feels like it's there as just a little extra emphasis that regardless of all the other shenanigans going on, those two are the one actual couple and making it clear that the rest of the tangled web of crushes and obsessions don't really matter. Something I feel like this adapatation is keen to emphasize in general. In fact, being as nearly 1 to 1 an adaptation as it is, the title of every episode is directly lifted from the chapter names of the manga, so we can just slap together a little infographic and see what's getting compressed a bit and what's getting the time it needs to breathe!
We're chewing through the extended fight scenes pretty quick and slowing down any time Akane's having an emotional moment or some time in the spotlight basically. Which makes sense since the action scenes in the manga are like all full page splash images with a word of text and need to be flowing quickly, and because we have the benefit of hindsight knowing that the Kunos become irrelevant real quick. We're also squeezing out a little early identity crisis stuff for Ranma in the process (there's an early dream sequence after first meeting Kuno, coming to grips with the whole "since I'm a girl, dudes want to sleep with me" realization that barely makes it in and a few early moments of internalized misogyny that get dropped), and we really give Shampoo's debut some space (not QUITE as much as the above suggests, most of episode 10 is wrapping up a three parter on the ice skating with her just punching through the wall as a cliffhanger at the end).
The whole thing is also paced out to nicely cover the first four volumes of the manga, out of 38. They might up the compression rate a little, but as it stands, it's going to take another 8 or 9 seasons to get through everything at this rate. In comparison, my first blog post got through three times this much of it, but the original anime covered only the first half of this in the same episode count (and then for some reason introduced Shampoo and Mousse early and didn't get through the ice skating until episode 27).
Anyway, like I said, this doesn't really change things up enough to have a lot to say about how clearly Ranma is trans. Jumping back to the start though yet again, it really cannot be emphasized enough though just how clearly, even from the very first episode, she is SO much more comfortable presenting as a girl, not at all nervous meeting Akane's family like that, then suddenly super tense and awkward and closed off when interacting with... really anyone while boy-moding. So I guess it's time to bust out some of these other lenses to look at this...
Let's talk about how Akane is gay, part 1
I mean, we've established she's into Ranma, with extra emphasis in this adaptation, and we've established that Ranma is in fact a girl, but that's just the one data point. What else do we have? Well, she's quite explicitly not a fan of guys, particularly guys who are attracted to her, and we're keeping plenty of a focus on that while not wasting time trying to pretend Kuno matters at all in the grand scheme of things. The closest she ever comes to showing interest in a guy is Dr. Tofu, and the anime here is strongly emphasizing how that's less of a real crush and more just emulating her oldest sister (Nabiki of course is also some flavor of queer, and I don't think anyone has ever questioned that) since that's kinda what you do, right? She also gets intensely jealous of the idea of Shampoo kissing Ranma while assuming Ranma is a girl, talks about how hot she is, and hell, at the start of things when everyone's assuming they've somehow gotten into a situation where one of the three sisters has to marry a cis girl, Nabiki points out how that works out perfectly for her. Because she is extremely gay.
Let's talk about how Ryoga is trans, part 1
OK so this isn't the same absolute slam dunk as Ranma turned out to be, but there is a surprisingly strong case to argue that Ryoga is also a trans girl. What do we know about Ryoga after all? Real real socially awkward. Only has one sorta-friend from childhood, who turned out to be trans later. Can we call Ryoga a furry? I'm not even talking about the pig curse, but there's this whole feral wolf vibe before that's even established. In a series where basically every guy who is ever introduced is a horny creep obsessed with rigid gender roles, Ryoga does not bat an eye at seeing women naked (which comes up oddly often), spends a lot of these early arcs hanging out with the gal pals to help practice gymnastics and skating, deals well enough with the pink heart collar and being called Charlotte, and like so many of us, Ryoga is introduced to the series indignantly sputtering about how Ranma's situation shouldn't really be called a curse and is a situation we'd be happy to be in. You could argue that Ryoga's saying this just relative to the pig curse, I guess, but I do at least get the vibe that Ryoga wouldn't be too super worried about finding hot water with that one.
Speaking of the pig curse, I feel like every time I revisit Ranma I have a different perspective on the whole "P-Chan" situation. With this adaptation, it does feel significantly closer to "it's really just this super awkward situation where I've been looking for a good moment to explain and at this point it's been so long she'll probably kill me" than "I am a loathsome sex offender using a disguise to snuggle up with this girl who thinks I am a small animal" and Ranma is doing an appropriate amount of "I'm not going to blurt it out, but you should seriously come clean already" so, glad to know we're downplaying that.
Also, the emphasis on Ranma and Akane as The Couple in this adaptation really makes it clear that Ryoga isn't so much into Akane as just kinda... incapable of conceiving of any sort of existence that doesn't involve being Ranma's rival/friend/polycule member.
Anyway, I guess that's where I have to leave this until the second season drops? Have a patreon link?
Ria Ami's Bikini is Trans Girl Body Confidence Goals and I'm Not Over It
Ria Ami's swimsuit is honestly one of the most affirming pieces of gender euphoria you could put on a trans girl character and I need everyone to sit down and pay attention. She's wearing a hot pink halter bikini top with a deep V-cut and matching bottoms with a tropical flower print, plus flowers in her styled blonde hair, and the entire vibe is someone who's completely comfortable and confident showing off her body at the beach. This matters so much for a character whose wish was to become a naturally beautiful girl because swimwear is one of the most dysphoria-inducing clothing categories for trans women, and Ria is out here thriving in it.
Body Confidence as Revolution
The halter top with the plunging neckline and the way the outfit shows her midriff and legs is a huge statement about body confidence. Trans girls deal with so much anxiety about how their bodies look, whether they're curvy enough or feminine enough, whether people will clock them in revealing clothing, and Ria just bypassed all of that through her wish. Her wish didn't just change her appearance, it rewrote reality so she'd always had the body she wanted, which means when she puts on this bikini she's not worried about tucking or whether her proportions read as feminine enough because she literally got the timeline where she developed naturally as a girl. That's the fantasy right there, being able to wear a cute swimsuit without all the mental calculus about safety and passing.
Summer Freedom
The costume story mentions her breezing through long-distance swimming, beach flags, and beach tennis, which shows she's not just wearing the swimsuit for photos, she's actively participating in beach activities without self-consciousness. A lot of trans girls avoid situations like beach days or pool parties entirely because swimwear is so exposing and makes you vulnerable to scrutiny, but Ria is out there competing in beach sports and being athletic in her bikini. The fact that she's comfortable being active and physical in this outfit rather than just posing carefully shows real freedom from dysphoria. She's not trying to hide or minimize her presence, she's taking up space and enjoying summer the way she wants to.
The Styling Details
The flowers in her hair and the tropical print on the bikini bottoms show attention to cute feminine details that make the outfit feel intentional rather than just functional. Trans girls who've spent time figuring out their style know that accessories and patterns matter because they're part of how you express your gender presentation. Ria chose flowers for her hair and a playful print for her swimwear because she likes those things, and she gets to wear them without anyone questioning whether she's trying too hard or performing femininity incorrectly. The hot pink color is bold and unapologetic, which matches her whole personality of thriving on being seen and celebrated.
Reclaiming Visibility
The swimsuit represents Ria reclaiming visibility in a context where trans women are often told to cover up or make themselves less noticeable. She wished to be naturally beautiful specifically because she was tired of working so hard for beauty that always felt just out of reach, and this bikini is her living in the aftermath of that wish where she gets to be beautiful effortlessly. Standing on rocks and laughing in triumph over the sea in her swimsuit, like the game describes, is such a powerful image of someone who's completely free from the shame and fear that society tries to impose on trans bodies. She's not hiding, she's celebrating, and that's what gender euphoria looks like.
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Book Review: "Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor" by Richard NovakBook Review: "Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor" by Richard Novak
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I know that it wasn't the intended reading but transmasc!ciri works very well. To be fair all of those 90's heroines who want to be boys works well with a trans reading since they rarely ever get to reflect on if they genuinely want to be boys or if they want to fit in because or misogyny. Because well it was the 90's and you were not supposed to consider trans people as even existing so the misogyny answer was the default and only valid reading.
Also all of the witchers do work as trans man, but ciri feels relatable.
