“they have good vibes + and then they do it” asdfhjkl
im losing my mind over the panels where he imagines his life with the hamster as his crime fighting partner and the little wineglass during their fancy dinner
for the sake of my health, I’m going to wait until I can binge this arc don’t need my blood pressure rising
agree
this is just yaoi with extra steps lol
also; I understand genderbend is fun and we shouldn’t take it so seriously, but there’s always the question of whether
1. they actually like each other when they were the same gender,
2. they fell in love with each other because they can see each other as a “man” and “woman” now (which is another can of worms I don’t want to open)
3. they liked each other before but only realised it in a straight setting because dudes can only have ~feelings of pure friendship~ for each other
THANK YOU!
I could never quite put my finger on the reason I hated genderbender, but THIS! This is it articulated!
I guess it's these gaps that make us question the quality of genderbend stories
You said my feelings towards gender ends in a way I could never properly explain ε=ε=(ノ≧∇≦)ノ
ive read a few manga where they keep switching back and forth and still like the person no matter what gender they have
I’ve seen some funny tags before but “aerodynamics of a lobster” is just ???? Lmao
The setting for cosette to be a housewife in her previous life is so wasted because her character is seriously inconsistent... she acts like a teen with the occasional mom joke or mom empathy but not with the actual experiences, maturity and emotions of one...
the only time it was really important was when they used it as set up for the “housewife slippers” joke in the beginning and the mental age difference when they were kids but then she is basically the same as them when they reach their teens lol
I can understand regression but we cannot pinpoint when it happened as it was too rapid and underdeveloped. No way is her mental age 40+ lmao
The thing is, it would be easy for the story to take some time to address the inconsistency as regression if let’s say cosette notices that she is more childish and reacts the way a teen would in situations because I think you would notice if you were acting “unreasonable” after a while... or even cosette saying “I want to enjoy being a teenager instead of being an old person stuck in a kid’s body” something along those lines
but they just kind of handwave it as “oh look, she used to be a housewife who knows the setting of this world from her teenage daughter and now she’s a blushing, oblivious teenager!” and the whiplash from that is painful lol
So it’s honestly just lazy storytelling because her being an ex-housewife is only used to sell the story as interesting. but we all know after reading it that it’s just on the surface and nothing really comes from it - it doesn’t make us root for her or relate with her and all it accomplishes is make everyone uncomfortable lmao
I mean, she is working with a teenage body after all. The software doesn't matter much if the hardware is not working properly. Aka, she's having to deal with teenage hormones again plus a brain that hasn't finished cooking
I mean that’s a fair assessment but from a storytelling pov, if the reader has to do some heavy guesswork/assumption about the character inconsistency rather than it being said/addressed etc in the story then it doesn’t work though that’s just my opinion
if villian why hot
If sexy why evil