I feel like there's something wrong with the industry when 'not wanting to feel like I'm having a heart attack all the time' is described as selfishness.
In the oneshot he actually is a boy. The whole oneshot revolves around the other boys convincing him to become the female lol
I thought so too, but they look awfully flat in that latest picture.
Well, there goes the last hope I had.
But you're talking about a 36 pages one shot, this is a serialization with 54 pages, it will already not be the exactly same content and i doubt a bit that the author would just do literally the same development considering the one shot is free to everybody read on Plus, my comment was more about the joke i made last week about betting that the boy in the middle would be revealed as a girl from the beginning in the end of the chapter.
Basically, its that the entire premise is a minefield for really offensive and in poor taste gags, and between both the one-shot and the fact that's it's a comedy, I and a good number of others highly, highly doubt it won't dive into those headfirst.
This doesn't really answer my question, though. Also, shouldn't we actually read the series before condemning it?
The funny thing is that gender bender series are something so old in this industry but when Shonen Jump starts one, suddenly is "a minefield for homophobic jokes" kkkkkk
Can you name me a recent gender bender/otokonoko series that wasn't a deliberate deconstruction like Bokura no ****** or Inside Mari and actually was accepted by the public? There's such a thing as a work of fiction becoming politically incorrect as values evolve.
I assume Back Street Girls as that got an anime and Netflix even got worldwide rights for it although that's probably getting too far off topic.
Well Boku girl is a recent gender bend series, and it was a popular enough to get 100 chapters
I can't, but then again, most gender bender stuff is pretty niche, so it's neither aiming for a general appeal, nor is the general public really going out of their way to look for it. I do think you're not wrong to wonder what could happen, considering Jump is a much larger platform than most manga of this kind get, but at the end of the day I don't see this being that big of a deal unless it becomes like a smash hit or something. Tokyo Shinobi Squad caused a fair amount of controversy when the first chapter dropped, but nobody really cared after that because the series on a whole flopped so it left the spotlight.
Ranma 1/2
In fairness, that was in part because Shinobi itself forgot about that detail after Chapter 1. Agravity Boys entire premise appears to be contingent on this aspect of the plot
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Ranma is literally 30 years old
Like mentioned, Backstreet Girls, hilarious manga, and Boku Girl from Young Jump was a pretty good and cute series, and these are just the ones that i read since isn't something that i really search to read, there are tons of gender bender series out there that have zero controversy surrounding it, so your entire point is just you forcing your "politically correct" views on it, you're just assuming stuff and going all "homophobic! i wish you get attacked and canceled", seriously Rain, not attacking you and anything, but be less please.
I think it can be fun. Reserving judgment for after actually reading it since by premise alone I think my top series would look very different than they actually do.
