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Reply to Lillybeenny
A well written trans character from a 2011 anime? OMG I love this
| @Lillybeenny Luka is not trans at all. |
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Reply to Phinyxia
A lot of world line jumps and subtle allusions now start going on to keep the viewer engaged and on edge here, at least certainly me.
Overall slowly more and more stuff is happening (really a "slow" burn), and I personally really liked the transgender confession here a lot and how nicely they handled it (for the time I guess). So Rukako wants to be a girl and there is more and more world line jumping, the "Reading Steiner" ability (the ridiculous name is not too bad actually for maintaining the goofy/serious contrast the show is based on) activated and this time I noticed there was clearly a number displayed with the microwave display digits, it was 0.4smthsmth. I remember the digits being in visual focus a lot before, maybe I missed other such occassions? But it felt very intentional and like it has something to do with that world line divergence. Oh and I really want that poor gal to have been born female too now..
Overall slowly more and more stuff is happening (really a "slow" burn), and I personally really liked the transgender confession here a lot and how nicely they handled it (for the time I guess). So Rukako wants to be a girl and there is more and more world line jumping, the "Reading Steiner" ability (the ridiculous name is not too bad actually for maintaining the goofy/serious contrast the show is based on) activated and this time I noticed there was clearly a number displayed with the microwave display digits, it was 0.4smthsmth. I remember the digits being in visual focus a lot before, maybe I missed other such occassions? But it felt very intentional and like it has something to do with that world line divergence. Oh and I really want that poor gal to have been born female too now..
| @Phinyxia Luka is not trans though. |
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Reply to Phinyxia
@SciADV_Maniac They literally said "I always wanted to be a girl", which is how I would define being trans, being trans myself. I guess it's just a word issue and we mean the same thing anyway
| @Phinyxia The anime unfortunately omitted the context of this almost entirely. Luka is gay and is in love with Okabe. Since Okabe is hetero, there is no way for Okabe to love him. That's the real reason he wants to be a girl, and not because he is uncomfortable in his body, or that he identifies himself as a female. Notice that he always uses masculine pronouns to refer to himself. The anime also omitted that he has a near pedophile father, who basically asks him to wear feminine clothes, because he has a sister who is more boyish than girlish. |
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| I feel so bad for Ruka, hopefully it worked and he did become a girl. |
| Pretend there's something flashy and cool here. |
| Damn man I rlly hope Ruka can turn into a girl forever lol |
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| I'm surprised what went down in this episode and what affected the timelines. Eat veggies for female babies ? |
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