Vignette Witch! ~Joshi-ka no Mahou to Isekai Seikatsu~ - Vol. 1 Ch. 7 - The Call of the Skirt

[NeoRetro]

How do you figure he was gaslit into wanting to be a girl? Genuine question, BTW, not trying to be confrontational.

I think that COULD apply to later characters if this plot goes where I think it's going. But we got a flashback where our new witch thinks back to when she first yearned to be a girl in a skirt. (and it IS wanting to be a girl in a skirt specifically see post #22) That was before the events of the manga, meaning none of the witch-related events had anything to do with those feelings. But I do see some magical gaslighting ahead. (and like you, I'm going to just sorta roll with it)

And... why isn't relating to characters in fiction by real world standards "smart" ? There are whole careers that have been made on youtube from making such analysis. Some college literary professors might even make you do it for a paper. Besides all of that, why would anyone read fiction if they don't see things in it that relate to them or their own feelings? It seems like that's a major point of the endeavor.
I think you probably more meant something along the lines of "it's not productive to ascribe real world labels to fictional characters". I'm going to argue assuming that's your angle and please correct me if not. To some degree, I'd agree the trans community can really jump the gun with those at times in discussions of manga characters. The community is starved for representation and starvation can... lead to that sort of overzealous claiming of characters. I can only apologize if that's annoying. But I do think Rin in this chapter is very much an example of a trans girl in my opinion. Just that it's not outright text because characterization in Japanese works are usually done with layers of subtext.

Kind of takes me back to when I was on internet forums in my teens during the late 90's and like all of this was happening but over gay-coded characters. And it got kind of ridiculous when people were like "No, they're just friends! That was a FRIENDSHIP kiss on the lips! Don't force your ideas on Japanese media, you're not from that culture! Don't make throw this AOL free trial disc at your head!"

Just a update, my post was just me misinterpreting the replies here because I was browsing the thread while drunk as fuck 😅
You can ignore literally everything I said earlier

 

[MidnighTea]

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Honestly, I was feeling bad for jumping on you like that to begin with. Like I do think I was being pretty rude/borderline sealioning. I'm sorry about that.

We're more than good if you are!

 

[Nami]

You're trying to talk sense to people who want a result and outcome so badly from the start, that they will headcanon away all objections from the start. It's not even worth trying with some people.

Let's set aside for just a moment how hypocritical you're being by whining about how someone else is interpreting the meaning of a story incorrectly while holding your own interpretation up as somehow more valid.

Death of the Author. You're welcome.

 

[Ambadi2511]

Yeah, I'm not trans, but if turning into a girl gives me magic powers, I'd take that deal too.

 

[Amplify]

Let's set aside for just a moment how hypocritical you're being by whining about how someone else is interpreting the meaning of a story incorrectly while holding your own interpretation up as somehow more valid.

Genderbender =/= trans. This isn't a matter of interpretation, it's not a matter of debate, trying to conflate the two is to confuse two things that can never overlap, by definition. Someone can be one, they can be the other, or neither, but never both.