I Reincarnated as the Heroine in a Yuri Game, but for Some Reason That Thing Was Still There! - Ch. 1

[Carn109]

Just when the Yuri was so over

We came so back

 

[dy4y]

You wanting to put tags onto something that is not there is extremely annoying because it tries to limit what a story wants to convey with a simple tag.

Oh yeah, gods forbid someone try to limit what kinds of stories can be told

Could this be a title concerning a trans character? Maybe, maybe not. So far I think it's just ambiguous enough that it could be read either direction based on the dialogue presented, and only time and actual progression and development of the plot and the protagonist character will tell if one is the case over the other or if there's some unseen potential third option that I don't want to discount the notion of out of ignorance.

It's not ambiguous though. The only thing ambiguous is whether or not the author is sincere about the very blatant and undeniable transness of the protagonist. Well, that and the transphobic readers who wish to deny trans existence who twist themselves into knots to try to explain why this character couldn't possibly be trans.

 

[UdenEmpati]

It's not ambiguous though. The only thing ambiguous is whether or not the author is sincere about the very blatant and undeniable transness of the protagonist. Well, that and the transphobic readers who wish to deny trans existence who twist themselves into knots to try to explain why this character couldn't possibly be trans.

If that's where the author goes, then that's what is being presented.

That's my whole stance.
I'm not here to deny the reality of transfolk, in reality or in fiction. I'd just prefer to not put words in the author's mouth and let them speak through the story.

But I do try to let the author dictate the story they wish to tell, and not put my own interpretations on their narrative, however justified I may feel they are, until they're backed in no uncertain terms by the individual who is actually putting pen to paper.

And at present, there's an argument that the reason the protagonist is stressed over discovering they possess a penis is because of what canonically happens to men found on-campus within the story of the game the protagonist is currently existing within - and not explicitly because of dysphoria.

Would it be great if this was a trans protagonist realizing their dreams by being Isekai'd into the setting of their favorite escapist fantasy from their old life? Abso-fucking-lutely, I'd be overjoyed to see something like that represented in contemporary manga in a way that's unequivocal in its presentation.
And sure, it could be interpreted that way, and I'd argue convincingly so, but I'd prefer to not make that final call for the protagonist or the artist until it's stated as such by them - because it's really not my place to do so, even for a fictional character.

 

[HamBone]

16
Looks fuckin 30

What is this, Jojo?

 

[dy4y]

If that's where the author goes, then that's what is being presented.

That's my whole stance.
I'm not here to deny the reality of transfolk, in reality or in fiction. I'd just prefer to not put words in the author's mouth and let them speak through the story.

But I do try to let the author dictate the story they wish to tell, and not put my own interpretations on their narrative, however justified I may feel they are, until they're backed in no uncertain terms by the individual who is actually putting pen to paper.

And at present, there's an argument that the reason the protagonist is stressed over discovering they possess a penis is because of what canonically happens to men found on-campus within the story of the game the protagonist is currently existing within - and not explicitly because of dysphoria.

Would it be great if this was a trans protagonist realizing their dreams by being Isekai'd into the setting of their favorite escapist fantasy from their old life? Abso-fucking-lutely, I'd be overjoyed to see something like that represented in contemporary manga in a way that's unequivocal in its presentation.
And sure, it could be interpreted that way, and I'd argue convincingly so, but I'd prefer to not make that final call for the protagonist or the artist until it's stated as such by them - because it's really not my place to do so, even for a fictional character.

The thing you need to understand is that what the author intends doesn't actually matter.
Yes, their intentions will determine what direction the story is going in but what we're talking about is how the author chose to represent this character and that "how" reads as explicitly trans. Yes, you can twist the narrative to argue that any individual part here might on their own not constitute a trans reading but when they're all combined together she is explicitly trans.
Even if the trans reading isn't the author's intention and the later chapters show how this character is not trans it doesn't change the fact that in chapter 1 this character is portrayed as trans.

Take something like the antisemitism in The Hobbit.
Based on J.R.R. Tolkien's expressed views and how the dwarves are portrayed in the later Middle Earth books it can be assumed that it wasn't intentional, but that doesn't change the fact that the portrayal of the dwarves in The Hobbit is still antisemitic.