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[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Not trans and my favorite anime is Nausicaä.

I love most of Hayao Miyazaki's stuff, and I do tend to prefer full movies to series in general.

[–] Maultasche@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Have you read the original manga? It's even better than the already great film.

[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 4 points 5 days ago

Nah, my first copy of the movie was a VHS we made off of HBO in probably '85 or '86. I might try to find the manga tho.

[–] tio_bira@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

My favorite Ghibli movie, i just have a thing for post apocalypse stories where society rebuilds

[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Could those of us that aren't aware get the name?

[–] chellewalker@lemmy.ca 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Ranma 1/2. From a strict reading of the material, Ranma is not himself trans (he insists he's a guy even when in female form), but someone that changes bodies from male to female on a regular basis understandably resonants with a lot of trans people.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Ranma is not himself trans (he insists he’s a guy even when in female form)

Haven't watched it yet. Still, an incongruence between body and mind seems like a defining feature of the gender dysphoria. Sounds pretty transmasc to me.

[–] glilimith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hardly anyone reads Ranma as a transmasc character though, mostly because he was born and raised male and his female form is rather new. Instead, he's typically seen as the transfem egg fantasy of "oh no someone made me become a girl! Oh well, there's nothing I can do." In the actual text of the anime/manga, he is pretty adamant that he's a guy, but mostly seems to want to get rid of his female form because it's inconvenient (he gets comfortable being seen as a woman pretty quickly). IMO it's got some genderqueer/gnc flavor, but doesn't map very well onto more binary trans experiences.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Transfems have a tendency to do that (myself included). There's a few other shows I can think of where a character is somehow reincarnated into a girls body and are effectively made into transmasc characters, but its hard not to be jealous of them anyways despite their struggles with dysphoria that result from the sudden change. Granted, these are permanent reincarnations, not a temporary change, so temporary form changes map even worse to real life.

I'm curious about the authors who write these stories. Are they transfem eggs who want to effectively be forced femmed but don't want to admit it (hence the characters expressing negative emotions towards the changes), are they actually transmasc and just expressing their feelings via a character who was forcibly feminized? Do they just find gender bending to be an interesting topic philosophically. Ranma 1/2's author seems to be a cis female. Tanya and Wild Last Boss are written under a pseudonyms and I think their authors are pretty much unknown.

[–] glilimith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 days ago

You should check out Total Fantasy Knockout. The author has stated multiple times that the exact nature of the unavoidable queerness of the story is left for the audience to decide and that they just want to cause people to realize things about themselves, lol.

I do get kind of frustrated when transfems claim for their "team" characters whose experiences and stated feelings map really well onto transmasc experiences, but I understand the impulse and at some point we all just need to take what we can get. (For the record, Ranma does not fall into that camp for me because he very much does not seem to have dysphoria, lol)

[–] hayreddin@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Ranma 1/2. It's from the same mangaka that made InuYasha.

[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 days ago

oh damn I should def try it then, loved Inuyasha. Also looks like there was a recent adaptation by MAPPA, so lots to watch through.

[–] essell@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Not -Trans: Its Inuyasha.

Only only I've ever seen. A Trans person made me watch it. 😁

[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 days ago

that's still a great pick

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

My favorite anime from when I was "not trans" was Madoka, which not infrequently was shared in my facebook profile picture/cover photo as male characters of other shows wearing the outfits from Madoka. Certainly no deeper meaning to those crossovers pictures other than celebrating some of my favorite shows!

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 3 points 5 days ago

Are we the same

[–] fleurc@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 days ago

Don't really have a favorite of all time anime series... Do have a favorite Yuri franchise tho: I'm in love with the villainess

And my favorite anime movie: Howl's Moving Castle.