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Jun 21, 2019
Preliminary (11/24 eps)
Carole and Tuesday, is, first and foremost, a Pretty Good show. The plot is cookie cutter, sure, but the music is incredible and the characters are pretty fun and interesting and the animation ranges from serviceable to excellent. It's also really neat how much representation there is in the show, from a black protagonist to various lgbt/poc side characters. You don't see that a lot in anime.
Now it's time for the the However.
There is a little bit of a transphobia problem in this show, specifically how they portray one of the character's, Angela's, mother/manager, Dahlia, a character heavily implied to be a transgender woman. The way she's portrayed is just kinda... yikes. She's shown to have anger issues and to be very mannish, and there's a scene where Angela is thinking about her and it pans to a picture of the two of them before Dahlia transitioned and it's framed as if things were better back then. There's also this group called the mermaid sisters which I think are supposed to be kind of androgynous but they're just dudes with facial hair and lolita outfits swearing. I don't care how fucking funny that song was, you can't turn an entire identity into a joke. I really enjoy a lot of the aspects of this show, especially the relationships of the characters, but I don't feel like I can recommend it to my trans friends because they would be rightfully upset by that sort of bullshit.
Anyway im giving it a 7/10 which for me basically means "it's good but it's not perfect and im mad about it."
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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