I thought that I probably at some point have talked some more about one of the biggest shows being released, Zombie Land Saga, which has been great. It has been especially funny. And I thought that I maybe should mention why it has been such a big talking point for the last week from writing this. In particular it has been around a specific character of the show, Lily, who did not really get a lot of attention for most of its run, but episode 8 kind of changed everything.
Generally she has not really been anything too crazy about the character, except that she was the youngest of the group and such. But getting some of her background we learned a bit about her past, which had some sweet but perhaps tragic aspects to her relationship with her, before we got the following part of the episode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Fu0n4CRik
I don't want to just imbed the video in this post, because straight away it could act as a spoiler, to someone who might want to watch the show without seeing what this clip was. But it has got the anime fandom talking, especially as representation of something that anime hardly ever gives a really good image of. In ways, it has made the parts of the English fandom using a particular word, that is in way sort of widespread, but has more and more had members of the minority group informing people that it is not a good word, and has real world problems. I am really happy with how much finesse Zombie Land Saga showed, that the character was handled so well, and I hope this could bring more acceptance within the anime community. I will be more clearer in the bellow spoiler, if one does not want to watch the video, and the vagueness was not enough.
Spoiler wrote:
What happened, was one of the girls came out that she used to have a male name, in turn that she was born male, but she says that it is not who she is anymore. Pretty much that she is a trans girl, that regardless of who she was, or how one character put it of what is between her legs, she is one of the girls. Problems in the fandom have been that certain portion of the fandom call her a "trap", and don't understand how offensive the term is, how it can lead to real world violence with trans women. They pretty much started referring to Lily as a "he", that she is a boy and all that. Many have gone to saying the translators at Crunchyroll changed the original words, despite the fact Japanese is practically more explicit with it, that Lily sees herself as a boy.
For an added bit, I want to link a recent video that was made in response to this from
ThePedanticRomantic, a YouTuber that I have been a fan of for a while, with some quality work, some of which has been on the more social side lately. I totally recommend giving it a watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxeB2AXIG3E
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