rpanons | chortles fatly

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just play them as x-gendered using female pronouns, since that's as explicit as the japanese source material gets about it.

the leaning heavily into being a trans woman interpretation isn't invalid, but it's also just kind of applying a western perspective on the gender binary to it, which i've never been super comfortable with since japan has their own cultural approach to this (x-gender is a thing over there, and not one-to-one equivalent to non-binary over here).

that just feels like the safest bet.

I definitely don't begrudge anyone who reads Arashi as trans (I see why they would) but I'm in the same boat with being uncomfortable applying western gender expression standards to Japanese media. I'm also really uncomfortable viewing them as trans considering how much of their early characterization is ripped straight from terrible mid-90s anime gay man stereotypes. Especially the boundary pushing and stalkerish crush on someone that's clearly uninterested.

X-gendered with a lean towards female presentation is exactly what I was planning to go with, but it's sounding like even that might be risky it so I'll think on it some more. Thanks for your response in the meantime!

chortles fatly

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