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Memor-X
Memor-X
01:16
@SPArcheon not really an issue to be honest
really just matters if they stay as a girl in the end
Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl
Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl (かしまし ～ガール・ミーツ・ガール～, Kashimashi ~Gāru Mītsu Gāru~) is a Japanese yuri manga series written by Satoru Akahori and illustrated by Yukimaru Katsura. The manga was originally serialized in Dengeki Daioh between the July 2004 and May 2007 issues, and later published in five bound volumes by MediaWorks from January 2005 to May 2007. The story focuses on Hazumu Osaragi, a normal, albeit effeminate high school boy who is killed when an alien spaceship crash lands on him, only to be restored to health as a girl. This results in a same-sex love triangle that Hazumu finds herself...
similar set up where the boy gets turned into a girl
and depending on the age of the title and possible influences, idealized versions of trans-women because they get to change to a girl near instantly and without all the HRT and Surgery involved
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@UnrelatedString middle school is what, high school (ages 13-18)?
wouldn't be an issue if it was younger anyway because love can start then to. so long as it's nor being sexualized
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eg. this is beautiful ^
more so when you know the subtitles is Sakurako saying she loves Himawari (which they still do love one another when older despite the fighting over boobs)
Peilonrayz
Peilonrayz
> Mihari is a high-school aged girl -- [Onii-chan wa Oshimai! Wiki](https://oniichan-wa-oshimai.fandom.com/wiki/Mihari_Oyama)
> Mahiro Oyama [...], having been transformed into a middle-school aged girl -- [Onii-chan wa Oshimai! Wiki](https://oniichan-wa-oshimai.fandom.com/wiki/Mahiro_Oyama)
> Junior high schools (中学校 chūgakkō) 7th to 9th grade are for children aged twelve through fifteen years old. -- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_school)
Junior high is middle school.
Memor-X
Memor-X
01:36
ahh ok. Australia it's a bit different but generally it's

Primary School: Year/Grade Prep - 6 (Ages 6-12)
High School: Year/Grade 7 - 12 (Ages 13-18)

there are some variations like Years 11-12 getting separated out because you're only required to complete Year 10 and some schools being combined Primary and High School like Ballarat Grammar School
but yeh, 2 girls in middle school being in love. no issue there
Peilonrayz
Peilonrayz
Interestingly Australia's junior high school matches Japan's. The chart for England is a little misleading since year 12 and 13 are non-compulsory and part of sixth form.
Hmm... now I wonder if all British derived school curriculums have a sixth form structure where the last two years are non-compulsory.
Memor-X
Memor-X
02:01
would depend on the purpose of those last 2 years
in Victoria they are called VCE because you get a Victorian Certificate of Education after Year 12 while in other sites you get a HSC (Higher School Certificate)
however after Year 10 you can leave school for work since by then you're at the minimum age to get an apprenticeship
so mandatory completion of Year 10 is really because you're not legally allowed to work until you're 16 from what i understand
Peilonrayz
Peilonrayz
Year 11 (your year 10) we get GCSEs (basic worker qualifications). Then you can go one of three routes 1. apprenticeship, 2. collage or 3. sixth form. Ordered in what I think many deem increasing level of competency. Sixth form's primary purpose is to get A-levels which you then use to apply to university.

I had a friend drop out of collage (didn't turn up) and had to sit around in the local sixth form for a year doing nothing. As legally you must be 'in education' until the year 13 school year is over.
Does seem to have some fairly broad parallels. I doubt the two would be identical, but seems probably coloured by history.
Memor-X
Memor-X
02:33
yeh i imagine England wise Australia took queues from there because we were a formal penal colony of there's lol
 
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Unrelated String
Unrelated String
04:45
yeah momiji is like 13
and as much as i like the romantic tension between them (especially considering how it's completely exempt from the overall passive sexualization elsewhere in the anime (incidentally i hear there's way less of that in the manga)) it does feel ever so slightly weird to show them getting that much closer without some time passing to make the age gap a bit narrower considering mahiro is probably in like the 18-22 range (left pretty vague)
but i also qualify that as ever so slightly and also starred the art because in any case there still isn't really any kind of emotional maturity gap (or if there is momiji is probably on top lol)
 
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SPArcheon
SPArcheon
07:31
@Memor-X yep, what isn't clear from the setup is how the change is played around.
Let's compare.
Ranma is about a boy who can turn into a girl because of a curse. He mostly hates it and can switch back easily (as long as he can find some hot water). His personality is always the same and he has no interest at all in being female.
Lady Oscar is a female that was disguised as a male due to social expectation. She is still female but adapts to "male role standards", doesn't seem disturbed that much by this (read: it is not like the whole manga is about she hating to be a captain of the guards for example)
Princes Sapphire is female and she has to actively pretend to be male to be able inherit the throne of Silverland (see wikipedia for more details about the plot). The manga uses the excuse of her having "a boy and a female heart" to justify her ability to act as a male. In this sense she is probably more of a non-binary character than everyone else above.
This manga... Based on my understanding you have a boy forced by his sister experiment into turning in a girl. The premise is not about him wanting to become a girl at all, nor about him identifying as a girl.
Looking at the plot summaries I see that the ending is also kinda confusing on that point (trying to avoid spoilers in case someone may want to watch it) so I am not sure if this is a decent characterization of someone born with a male body but identifying as a female and transitioning to that.
The mentions of mixed reviews almost seem to point at the opposite.
(note to readers: in the above paragraphs about the three characters, "is female/male" refers to body, not identity. Should already be clear enough but worth mentioning anyway because of the topic)
SPArcheon
SPArcheon
08:06
... it is a difficult topic anyway.
 
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Gao
Gao
10:42
@SPArcheon 2fa by way of sms or authenticator app doesn't really add that much security anyway, even SO doesn't support 2fa yet it's not considered insecure
SPArcheon
SPArcheon
@Gao I doubt SO can claim to be an hacker target. No money, nothing to gain...
One of the biggest anime streaming sites in a world full of horrible people who won't pay a single cent even when they can watch their favorite show legally? Not the same thing IMHO
And I would also say that 2fa already does a lot to keep the bar higher than the average teen idiots looking for a way to steal someone else account.
Alas... for my monthly attempt to give @Memor-X an heart attack...
[Genshin Impact 3 Year Anniversary Fansong] Don't make me worry 【别让我担心】
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Gao
Gao
@AndrewT. I'm on episode 5 and I think Frieren will be up there together with Aria as a masterpiece of the SoL genre. I really like how the anime was directed and the themes it explored, it even has the usual fan service but kind of subverted and done otherworldly, so I expect Frieren to have a wider audience than Aria.
SPArcheon
SPArcheon
Succumb to the cuteness.
Gao
Gao
@SPArcheon neither netflix nor disney+ have 2fa afaik
SPArcheon
SPArcheon
11:51
@Gao well, Netflix was already pretty low on my "paid services I want" list
Gao
Gao
12:29
it's not even on my "paid services I want/don't want list" anymore. good riddance

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