Anime Drama! and it’s one piece! my favorite!
Context
There’s been a long-standing HEATED debate over whether Kaido’s daughter, Yamato, is trans (FtM) because she identifies as Kozuki Oden. Moreso, it’s because she wants to be like him and idolizes him. If Oden was an amorphous slime, so would she. Basically an obsession. Yamato is the character below
The trains’ arguments come from a scene where she bathed with men and a few instances where Kaido called her his son.
The chud counteroffense is that Oda, the author of One Piece, has gone on record in an SBS (little end of volume question column) saying she’s a woman, it’s in her official vivre card character profile, and her character introduction on reveal is “Kaido’s daughter” and that her identity as Oden is “self-styled”
Drama ![:yotsubafish: :yotsubafish:](/e/yotsubafish.webp)
Oda recently published this color spread with a lot of the series’ most prominent women
it notably includes Yamato. This causes seethe in the twitter user
https://twitter.com/lortomo2/status/1658839706086391808
https://twitter.com/sanjistars/status/1658789629124923392
https://twitter.com/3skulljoe/status/1658751672364019712
https://twitter.com/pinkhairedcoder/status/1658699098084483072
https://twitter.com/british_ninja0/status/1658798719582584832
What’s even more notable, but went under the radar was the exclusion of Kiku (MtF) who is about the best representation that trans people will ever get in popular shonen anime. No fetish, not weird or grotesque, and both a strong and somewhat reasonably developed minor character. See below
More drama on that
https://twitter.com/sanjiluvbot/status/1658832707655290881
https://twitter.com/rrrrxz_/status/1658699215957274625
https://twitter.com/punkmaze/status/1658820741201285120
Guess they’re stuck with Ivankov and the Newkamas
bonus in-theme pirate meme
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For context it's reasonably common in Japanese queer culture for butch woman to refer to themselves with masculine pronouns and be referred to as 'princes' similar to the West. Japanese pronouns are also not just male/female/ungendered and have a large range based on formality, often which pronouns a character uses will be illustrative of their character traits.
A Japanese woman playing male to escape gender roles is also a common trope in Japanese culture which makes this expected.
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There's also the whole subculture of reki-jo, female history otaki who like to LARP as their favorite historical figures (especially members of the Shinsengumi). See the Hippo Team from Girls und Panzer where the characters are always dressed up as and pretending to be people like Julius Ceaser and Erwin Rommel.
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