All in all I liked it, but I only liked their cute relationship (they were absolutely ADORABLE). Everything else pissed me off!!! All the sexual assault/harassment that went on and was brushed off as comedy or a cute moment for the other to be jealous, and all the annoying characters like Nao's ex (with her very unnecessary comment about Nao's trauma with her mother and her homewrecking tendencies, continuing to persue someone who clearly has a partner), Miyoshi's cousin (I don't need to explain why I hated him, he had no purpose whatsoever apart from making the reader want to punch him in the face), Nao's father (who couldn't even fucking TALK to his son/daughter for AGES, while openly being affectionate with his new family, just because, pOoR hIm, he's just so awkward isn't he?) and others I'm probably forgetting. Not to talk about this (maybe not so) fictional world where they continue bombarding you with ideas about what a "normal woman" is, how ALL GIRLS normally act, what ALL GIRLS normally like or want, the not so subtle idea being pushed that just because somebody has emerged and changed gender that someone NEEDS to conform to their new gender without being able to have an opinion and should automatically like the new opposite gender (even though Nao and Miyoshi clearly had feelings for each other even before, but you know what I mean, it's taken for granted by others that a newly emerged woman should act like a woman and like a man). I really liked what the author did with the main couple, having Nao being confused about his/her gender and how he/she wants to present, and them clearly liking each other even before and their feelings simply being pushed above the surface by the emergence. So I was confused everytime comments like "Nao acting like a normal woman" and such, which are very stereotyped, and other comments that could be taken as transphobic were brought up. I couldn't really understand whether those were brought up as a way of criticizing society, transphobic people etc. or if they were being seriously considered as the right thing to think by the author (=that someone needs to conform to their biological sex and the only reason people in the story didn't is because they emerged and became "true" women). So yeah, I can see a trans or non-binary person being very uncomfortable in more than one part. On the other hand this is still fiction so maybe I shouldn't take it so seriously. It just pissed me off while reading ヾ(❀╹◡╹)ﾉ~
SORRY FOR THE RANT, TODAY I WOKE UP AND CHOSE VIOLENCE
All in all I liked it, but I only liked their cute relationship (they were absolutely ADORABLE). Everything else pissed me off!!!
All the sexual assault/harassment that went on and was brushed off as comedy or a cute moment for the other to be jealous, and all the annoying characters like Nao's ex (with her very unnecessary comment about Nao's trauma with her mother and her homewrecking tendencies, continuing to persue someone who clearly has a partner), Miyoshi's cousin (I don't need to explain why I hated him, he had no purpose whatsoever apart from making the reader want to punch him in the face), Nao's father (who couldn't even fucking TALK to his son/daughter for AGES, while openly being affectionate with his new family, just because, pOoR hIm, he's just so awkward isn't he?) and others I'm probably forgetting. Not to talk about this (maybe not so) fictional world where they continue bombarding you with ideas about what a "normal woman" is, how ALL GIRLS normally act, what ALL GIRLS normally like or want, the not so subtle idea being pushed that just because somebody has emerged and changed gender that someone NEEDS to conform to their new gender without being able to have an opinion and should automatically like the new opposite gender (even though Nao and Miyoshi clearly had feelings for each other even before, but you know what I mean, it's taken for granted by others that a newly emerged woman should act like a woman and like a man).
I really liked what the author did with the main couple, having Nao being confused about his/her gender and how he/she wants to present, and them clearly liking each other even before and their feelings simply being pushed above the surface by the emergence. So I was confused everytime comments like "Nao acting like a normal woman" and such, which are very stereotyped, and other comments that could be taken as transphobic were brought up. I couldn't really understand whether those were brought up as a way of criticizing society, transphobic people etc. or if they were being seriously considered as the right thing to think by the author (=that someone needs to conform to their biological sex and the only reason people in the story didn't is because they emerged and became "true" women).
So yeah, I can see a trans or non-binary person being very uncomfortable in more than one part.
On the other hand this is still fiction so maybe I shouldn't take it so seriously. It just pissed me off while reading ヾ(❀╹◡╹)ﾉ~
SORRY FOR THE RANT, TODAY I WOKE UP AND CHOSE VIOLENCE