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In the first episode the main character Anisphia "Anis" Wynn Palettia crashes a party her brother is having, she steals her brother’s soon to be ex-fiancé Euphyllia "Euphy'' Magenta, decides it is in everyone’s best interest to keep her, and the two end up in bed. I mean there is other things about the fact that Anisphia is a princess who cannot use magic so is creating her own system of magic, that Euphyllia is a genius (and turns out to be a bigger switch that at first glance), also there is maids and a lesbian vampire. This anime is gay, and I think that the anime actually did the light novel justice and might have made it moar gay. Also a deep story about what is needed to be a ruler of a country and if someone is willing to give up what they want for others. Also again a lesbian vampire, who yes is not a big stompy dommy mommy but still should be called out.

Damn, last time I went hard gay and well time to get a little preachy on this a Wednesday that is Weeb aka Weeb Wednesday. With that I am unleashing this little factoid on why anime is far superior to other art-forms.

So let's break this down and why it matters so much. 

In one corner we have the might of the mouse, Walt Disney with 100 years of not saying gay even when it could have helped the people that worked for them. But go and embrace rainbow capitalism when it would make them money but fuck having any actual diversity in the movies it makes because it will upset different markets and not make them money.

In another we have the queen of terf island, Joanne Rowling, writer of wizard books and horrible books under a bad pen name (Robert Galbraith), who has said she stands with marginalized people from her ivory tower, and has reconned her stories that people loved to be more inclusive after the fact but only really in passing. Did I also say she is a terf, yep she be a terf.

And who is this in the last corner? Why the fantastic Naoko Takeuchi! She is best known as the creator of a little known cartoon called Sailor Moon. Yep that one, what most people would consider the OG Magical Girl who is, guess what, in manga is canonically bisexual (another gay magical girl!). Also there are the wonderful Sailor Neptune and Sailor Uranus that I brought up in a past #WeebWednesay. And Sailor Moon had Kunihiko Ikuhara who went on to create Revolutionary Girl Utena (watch more Utena).

When You See Gay Magical Girls Think of Me

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So a little different for this Weeb Wednesday because I am hoping to launch this before the next Weeb Wednesday, the day before that is rather fitting.

I have been working on this for the last few months and I am finally putting the finishing touches on it before I post the first part online. I present to you.

Duel 1: The Woe’s Bride

Once upon a time, many years ago, there was a little princess, and she was very mad, for her mother and father had died. Before the princess appeared a traveling prince, riding upon a grey horse. They had a regal bearing and a knowing smile. The prince wrapped the princess in a rose-scented embrace and saw the rage in her eyes. “Little one,” they said, “who bears up alone in such deep sorrow, never lose that strength or nobility, even when you grow up. I give you this to remember this day. We will meet again. This ring will lead you to me one day.” Perhaps the ring the prince gave her was an engagement ring. This was all well and good, but so impressed was she by them that the princess vowed to become a prince herself one day. But was that really such a good idea?

I will post the whole thing on the 31st. The idea came from asking what would happen if you took Wednesday and put her in Ohtori Academy and it grew from there.

If you have any questions about what is to come, please ask away.

Update edit 10-31-2023: Here is the link if you did not see the announcement post-

So as I have said in past posts that I am part of Anime Festival Orlando and well we decided to start a podcast for some reason. If you want to hear me talk about con going with other people who run anime cons why not check it out. I will put the show notes under the cut if you want to know more.

I am rather proud of what we did and cannot wait to finish the next episode.

Something something, Weeb Wednesday, something something gay magical girls, something something Watch More Utena. With that done thank you for coming to my Weeb Wednesday. 

Sorry about missing last Weeb Wednesday, started a new position at my job and life was crazy, but it got me thinking about jobs and long story short I thought of isekai because this devil is not just a part timer. I am not a fan of most isekai, even though one of my favorite stories is an isekai (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There) I did want to talk about an isekai I did like. Also because it is Weeb Wednesday it has to involve gay magical girls, okay that might not be the rules but the world just needs more gay magical girls. I mean technically one is magical(ish) but does travel through time and there is something about time traveling lesbians.

Anyway the anime I am wanting to bring up is Shokei Shōjo no Ikiru Michi (The Executioner and Her Way of Life) which I loved because it started out as your normal power fantasy isekai where some guy gets summoned to a fantasy world and turns out he has a magical ability that gives him incredible power. Now, in your average isekai the hero would:

Meet up with a priestess, ⭕ like he does

She shows him how to use his ability, ⭕ like she does

They go on an adventure. ❌ wrong.

Nope, turns out the priestess was not your normal member of the clergy but an executioner who was sent out to kill anyone who ended up getting isekai'd.

So the “main character” gets murked halfway into the first episode and all the nerds got upset on MAL (MyAnimeList) and review bombed the episode because they “killed the main character.” From then on it follows the story of the priestess Menou as she tries to kill other “lost ones” but turns out that is harder than you think, mainly because the one she has to kill is just a normal Japanese school girl, Akari, but falls in love with Menou and can turn back time (yep a time traveling lesbian). Throw in her assistant Momo who also has a crush on Menou and Ashuna the warrior princess who has a thing for both Momo and Menou and you get the gayest anime in the spring of 2022 that did not involve golf (yes golf). It is not really a polycule but damn close. Unfortunately it looks to be just one season but the light novel is better than the anime in my opinion.