• amethyst@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 months ago

    I’m curious how these modern takes on One Piece will deal with the Okama and related characters (assuming they get that far!)

    I haven’t read the manga, but the anime at least comes off super-transphobic in how they’re played for laughs at times. I think that’d necessarily be cut from the live action version, but less hopeful about this for another anime adaptation.

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      11 months ago

      Okama are definitely more of a personality trait group similar to drag queens. Some of them being trans is more incidental rather than the purpose of them in the story

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        11 months ago

        Sure, that’s kind of tangential to the point I’m making. Something can reflect transphobic ideas without explicitly being about trans folk.