Latest Chapter Discussion
#1
Posted 05 March 2012 - 08:14 AM
Alright, the latest chapter is Chapter 106.
Finally, it's the moment I have been waiting for since I started the series... the manga is addressing the age-old issue of sex.
#2
Posted 06 March 2012 - 01:32 PM
I wonder how far those two will go with especially with the recent chap... :3
Edited by Amon, 06 March 2012 - 01:33 PM.
#3
Posted 24 May 2012 - 05:34 AM
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Posted 24 May 2012 - 06:09 AM
#5
Posted 24 May 2012 - 06:14 AM
#6
Posted 23 August 2012 - 08:57 PM
#7
Posted 02 November 2012 - 09:22 PM
#8
Posted 02 November 2012 - 09:51 PM
#9
Posted 06 November 2012 - 07:14 PM
Edited by Metrosio, 06 November 2012 - 07:17 PM.
#10
Posted 07 November 2012 - 01:10 AM
Yayyyy!!!! Somebody who'll come talk to me about this great manga!! I'll make you a deal.......if you'll come talk to me every time a chapter of Hourou Musuko comes out I'll let you tell me how to talk (certainly when it comes to gender specific pronouns).Kinda annoying that people keep using "he" for Nitori. She's a girl you know. Kind of the point of being trans.
11/15 tsk, tsk, tsk. >_<
Edited by svines85, 15 November 2012 - 05:09 PM.
#11
Posted 16 December 2012 - 07:47 PM
#12
Posted 27 January 2013 - 01:59 PM
We already have tons upon tons upon tons of stories shaming, misgendering and making fun of trans people (again, almost exclusively aimed at trans women). Where the message is that being trans is something you shouldn't be. That being trans is something made up, icky, childish, perverted and impossible. I seriously hope the trend reverses and the story actually shapes up for the better of trans people in the next few chapters.
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#13
Posted 27 January 2013 - 08:13 PM
Well, that's a very easy wish to fulfill......and it's in this very manga. It's Yuki-san of course. Yuki-san is portrayed in an exceedingly positive light, and has been throughout the manga in my opinion. She's beautiful, confident and kind, has a long-term, loving relationship, and above all, is very successful (her business is what I'm referring to). A great, great character.........though she hasn't gotten a lot of screen time lately, unfortunately.Can't us trans people, in particular trans women, have one freaking positive portrayal where our identity is not seen as some childish whim? Where our lives, however difficult, is actually validated?
I thought this chapter was a great one, lots of insight into the current state of the relationship dynamics between a number of our main characters.
Edited by svines85, 27 January 2013 - 08:14 PM.
#14
Posted 27 January 2013 - 10:30 PM
#15
Posted 28 January 2013 - 12:36 AM
And in all fairness, and though she hasn't been featured a lot recently, Yuki-san's character has only been behind Nitori's very closest friends and sister as far as importance to the story. And there was a least some insight into Yuki's past.........though I just can't bear the thought of delving back through all these chapters to find it, sorry. It seems it was around the time of her school reunion. But no, I agree that I don't remember it detailing her transition.
After her, one of the few other very positively presented trans characters in a work of any length is Urami Satomi from Kore wa Koi no Hanashi.......though she's more of a minor character than I think Yuki-san should be considered.
No, unfortunately when it comes to the sort of thing you're talking about, in most serious works the character's portrayal isn't positive. Certainly in the case of the "transition" period........that's often far more negative....... if not outright ugly....... similar to the one being watched in the current arc of Welcome to Room 305.
#16
Posted 28 January 2013 - 01:40 AM
#17
Posted 28 January 2013 - 12:28 PM
In the school reunion chapter, my love for Yuki-san went up tenfold when she showed how insecure she still is at adulthood- she wasn't willing to be made a spectacle of by attending. Her lack of confidence when it came to facing her past was a contrast to the confidence she has shown towards the children. I'm sure it was a difficult journey for her, though we have only seen bits and pieces of it, and she is still coming to terms with reconciling her past and present.
I will say that the manga takes place in Asia- much like the extremes shown in Welcome to Room 105, I think that Asian culture is less willing to embrace difference than Western culture, at least thus far. I feel that coming out is hard in any family, but the general resistance is more of a struggle culturally in Asia- there's the issue of a family saving face... and there are tons of manga about bullying the kids who are the teeniest bit different. I think the portrayal in a manga in Japan would take a different path than a story written in America might, so thus far I think Shimura-sensei hasn't done so bad towards these characters.
Back to Hourou Musuko, I LOVE LOVE LOVE Anna-chan. When she said "I don't mind being the crazy old lady dating the old man in women's clothes", my heart melted into a puddle. I like that she imagines them together with Shu-chan still in women's clothes. I hope they stay together. When they were children, I loved Saorin best because she was the first to offer Shu-chan clothes and insist that it was okay to dress that way, but Anna has won my heart (though I'm still a fan of the moody sarcastic Saorin).
I love these kids and just want to see them all end up happy somehow, no matter what form that happiness may take. I think it's okay for them to change their minds a few times, but it'd please me greatly to see an end where Shu-chan as an adult somehow manages to be in women's clothes while living with Anna-chan (though that may have consequences on Anna's popularity as a celebrity later on in life).
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#18
Posted 28 January 2013 - 10:24 PM
Yeah, I agree about Anna......though I thought it was a little telling in how the author made a point (for the second time now I think) to show Anna displaying some significant jealousy. To me it looked like she was noticeably pissed with Nitori talking to Tatsuki while she wasn't there. But I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens. It's obvious she really likes Nitori.......but it's also not like this isn't an incredibly complicated relationship either. Much more so than other romantic relationships.I LOVE LOVE LOVE Anna-chan. When she said "I don't mind being the crazy old lady dating the old man in women's clothes", my heart melted into a puddle. I like that she imagines them together with Shu-chan still in women's clothes. I hope they stay together. When they were children, I loved Saorin best because she was the first to offer Shu-chan clothes and insist that it was okay to dress that way, but Anna has won my heart (though I'm still a fan of the moody sarcastic Saorin).