Is Onimai still considered a creepy/perverted show?

I was looking for cute queer slice of life show and someone suggested Onimai. I don't know if there are actually any LGBTQ characters but as a trans woman who didn't come out until her 30s, the idea of getting to start my life over as a woman is the ultimate dream. Plus, what I've seen of the animation looks gorgeous and super adorable. So I was disappointed to learn that she show has a reputation for being really creepy and has tons of fan service. I tend to feel any fan service is a lot of fan service so I was hoping to find out if anyone had seen it and if so, how bad and prevalent is the fan service, and is the show actually creepy?

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>is the show actually creepy?

This one is entirely in the eye of the beholder, I think.

There are plenty of people who think that the show is a spiritually beautiful, uplifting celebration of life and a powerful message to male Otaku about how the female life experience is both different yet not so different from the male one, and about developing empathy for that experience.

There are plenty of people who think it's borderline pedophilic pornography (although these people haven't watched that much of the whole series).

>how bad and prevalent is the fan service

Mostly just big, bouncing boobs sort of stuff but in a very soft and gentle palette and moe artstyle that causes it to raise flags for some people.

There are a few scenes relating to peeing and wetting oneself, but at least two of these are critically integrated into the plot and the themes. To expand on that, many ecchi anime/manga often use female incontinence as pseudo-sexual sort of thing, and the act of wetting often connected to being an orgasmic sort of thing. OniMai sets up this situation and then baits-and-switches, cutting from actual act of self-wetting to turn it into a moment of supportive bonding.

>as a trans woman who didn't come out until her 30s, the idea of getting to start my life over as a woman is the ultimate dream

In many ways, the OniMai anime is about gender fluidity, which means it may not mesh very well with your own experiences. It's not about Mahiro developing an identity as a girl, but instead he is fairly explicit about maintain his identity as a boy (in a girl's body), it's just he increasingly enjoys many aspects of what being a girl entails, as well as discovering some of the biological experiences.

That might well be quite unrelatable in some ways, although it obviously very much depends on your own personal experience of those issues.

That said, it is very much a celebration of those things, and all about rediscovering joy that's been lost and repressed and it may be immensely relatable and emotionally moving if that's what you connect with.

@TranstoyerCarbine as someone who has read the manga, is this true?

Its not a show that represents transgender experience. Its an indulgent fantasy that happens to use a gender switch.

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