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AJ (LordNikon)
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Yeah, you know right (as my grandkids would say), because Japan, and by extension anime/manga (pop culture) today REALLY do paint an awesome picture of how women in society are still treated. It's not as though women are not objectified as sex objects at an extremely young age, so lord forbid, transgenders would get off any easier than 57% of our country's (female) population. 
This will only cause an uproar with western social justice warriors, as for Japan, the rest will roll their eyes and wave their hand dismissively and groan with annoyance another culture wants to get offended for us. /s |
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WANNFH
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Chrono1000
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A show with forced sex change surgeries on three Yakuza guys who are than forced to be idols is certainly a unique story premise. I find shows that explore the idol world to be fascinating and there are plenty of rumors that the Yakuza are involved in the sleazier side of the business. It sounds like it could be good but considering how much outrage Armed Girl's Machiavellism received I can already predict that this show will be the most controversial anime of 2018.
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Zhou-BR
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When I first came across this series while checking out an issue of Young Magazine, I mistakenly thought it was a Prison School spin-off because the yakuza boss looks just like the chairman of Hachimitsu Academy. The premise is even more bizarre than I imagined.
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CrownKlown
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Honestly, it will create an uproar if anything because people just need to find something to complain about no matter. In the context of this work it has nothing to do with the LBGT community or transgender (these guys still view themselves as that, and like others pointed out the same setup could have been set up with just forced crossdressing, but being a black comedy they went for the extreme). That is simply a plot device for the show. The point is to see burly tough yakuza guys who are way out of their comfort zone and the comedy that ensues. Its basically an extreme version of something like Beverley Hillbillies or Trading Place.
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DeTroyes
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I'll probably give this a look when it comes out. Its one of those premises that could be brilliant or wretched, with no in-between.
Any idea when it might premiere? A year or so from now? |
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Tuor_of_Gondolin
 Posts: 3524 Location: Bellevue, WA |
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I think I'd rather be kicked squarely in the nuts than watch this show.
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Amiantos
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Seeing them react to another one when they show show signs of idolfication such as one of them twisting their ankle and falling then going "kyaaa" with abject horror as they're supposed to be these tough yakuza members is just hilarious. |
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Hellsoldier
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Look, I've been Pro-LGBT since at least the age of 12, and fully embrace the transgender fight for recognition and full equality... and I still want to check this one hard. It has to be hilarious.
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Ashley Hakker
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The Fujoshi in me is very happy with this.
The millennial in me is deeply disappointed that this isn't a gender swapped series about the Backstreet Boy's boy band. I mean who DOESN'T want an idol pop remix of Backstreet's Back as the OP and then Larger Than Life as the ED? |
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aereus
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Oh yeah, I forgot they also have "internal reaction" images that have their original faces with their current hairstyles, etc. that are pretty hilarious as well.
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trilaan
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Epic! Now I just need the several dozen other gender bending manga I know of to get anime adaptations!
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leafy sea dragon
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Several dozen!? You've read that many? I mean, I did find a collage, of sorts (I'd post the link, but it's very NSFW and might not be safe in general), containing 20 male-to-female characters, though some of them are not premise-related but simply one-offs (like Ivankov in One Piece or Rock from that one bonus episode of Black Lagoon). |
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trilaan
Posts: 1086 Location: Texas |
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Gender Bending and Transformation stories are my passion! I am always looking for more, no matter what form they take. But I prefer the written form, largely. And I'm not fond of it being used just for sex(as too much anime/manga does). Pop that link in a PM to me if you read this, I'd appreciate it. |
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leafy sea dragon
Posts: 7163 Location: Another Kingdom |
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Heh, I take it, then, that you've read Hungry Marie, which I believe was just recently canceled in Weekly Shonen Jump? No way they'll make an anime out of that though, not with how hard it flopped. (I mean that said site may create cookies and other unwanted things on your computer. Do you still want the link to the collage someone put together?) How is Back Street Girls, quality-wise? Does it lend itself well to an anime? Because I know some manga plain don't. I'd like to hear this from someone who has read it. I know I had never heard of it before this article, and looking at the comments, most others haven't either. (The Yakuza certainly gets depicted in a lot of strange ways in manga.) |
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