Kyou, Eki de Mita Kawaii Onna no Ko. - Vol. 2 Ch. 25 - Ripped Jeans and Bishōjo Teens

[MangaDex]

 

[xanon]

A Rival has appeared!

 

[anikalmao]

mystery woman from the vol 2 cover finally makes her debut

 

[sssr]

A rival has appeared! But whose?

 

[Mikhail]

Is a plot finally coming out of this?

 

[xanon]

But Bro, you are a boy.

Irrelevant! Completely irrelevant!

 

[EchoGirl]

Great title lol

Irrelevant! Completely irrelevant!

I don't think MC would be in full drag

Spoiler

but hopefully he allows himself a Mitsuo or Oji-san scenario

Irrelevant! Completely irrelevant!

When you pass so well you can call it 'boystyle' XD

 

[pink_rabbit]

This chapter spoke to me. I grew up in a strong conservative household and wanted to dress up in Y2K fashion but my mother scolded me if I dare tried. Glad that it is back since I can wear the clothes I've always wanted to

Irrelevant! Completely irrelevant!

As a trans, I can confirm it is

 

[EchoGirl]

This chapter spoke to me. I grew up in a strong conservative household and wanted to dress up in Y2K fashion but my mother scolded me if I dare tried. Glad that it is back since I can wear the clothes I've always wanted to

"ripped" jeans aren't rly my thing (esp if u pay for bigger holes tho conveniently places ones on knees that makes it easy to bend [tho hopefully ppl wouldn't need to bend down/over in jeans too much]) but my parents def got mad at me for wanting to go to hot topic tho not like i ever rly bought much from there (tho parents def got uptight if i ever wore a shirt backwards or like mismatched socks even tho there are prolly 'mismatched' on purpose colors these days), i wouldn't be surprised if some celebs started wearing jeans under skirts again to balance out the skimpy stuff (to each their own but i def wouldn't wanna be photographed for the latter). Tho nice that there are 'cutesy' backpacks/purses versus just 'branded' backpacks that's like, smaller than a regular handbag XD

 

[dw123456]

Western society: Writes dozens, hundreds of thousands of articles about gender, engineering culture wars
that will shape societal discourse for the next 50 years

Japan:

 

[nikipa]

Western society: Writes dozens, hundreds of thousands of articles about gender, engineering culture wars
that will shape societal discourse for the next 50 years

Japan:

I love how delightfully simple when you see it as it is without people forcing their values on each other.

 

[inkindoug]

Great title lol

Hahhaha, thanks. I'm enjoying thinking these up.

 

[EchoGirl]

Hahhaha, thanks. I'm enjoying thinking these up.

it def sounds like it could be its own manga with a diff storyline

 

[ARealCoolGuy]

Western society: Writes dozens, hundreds of thousands of articles about gender, engineering culture wars
that will shape societal discourse for the next 50 years

Japan:

Huh, this chapter made me think of exactly that. I do wonder if Japan has, or is having these debates, but in a much more subtle way? It's common enough in their media that surely there must have been some discussion regarding it?
I'd be more surprised if that discussion hasn't come back up, given the discourse in the west.

I wonder what their general stance on it is, and what their opinions are of the western discourse are?
And to anyone stupid enough to try, I'm not actually interested in discussing those topics, I'm interested in japan's views of these things, and nothing else.

 

[dw123456]

Huh, this chapter made me think of exactly that. I do wonder if Japan has, or is having these debates, but in a much more subtle way? It's common enough in their media that surely there must have been some discussion regarding it?
I'd be more surprised if that discussion hasn't come back up, given the discourse in the west.

I wonder what their general stance on it is, and what their opinions are of the western discourse are?
And to anyone stupid enough to try, I'm not actually interested in discussing those topics, I'm interested in japan's views of these things, and nothing else.

I don't think its that common. All the glimpses you get here are from manga authors, it would be like trying to understand gender in the "West" by exclusively reading Tumblr.

From talking to friends and from what I've read, it's not that different from here. Being gay, trans or just different is going to be substantially easier in urban areas and there's still plenty of prejudice. Completely personal opinion here, but I think there's some variance in how gender identity is built: it's more common here to transition and try to immediately pivot into the gender you identify as, and in Japan "boymoding" is much more common and is rarely followed up with a full transition.

 

[ARealCoolGuy]

I don't think its that common. All the glimpses you get here are from manga authors, it would be like trying to understand gender in the "West" by exclusively reading Tumblr.

I would not say the world's largest comic industry, the worlds second largest animation industry (honestly, I'd argue they are the largest full stop), and their large video game industry (world's third largest), and their rather frequent uses of this 'trope' could be compared to reading tumblr... but maybe that's just me?

From talking to friends and from what I've read, it's not that different from here...

Interesting. Are there debates over this stuff like the west, or has the dust settled over there?