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  • I mostly read manga, so my suggestions might be of limited use if you want anime. I think Onimai is a fairly trans code genderswap story, and while it does get a little gross sometimes, it hasn’t completely alienated me yet (it also has an anime adaptation). Until I (M) Become Me (F) is fairly mature in how it handles the subject of gender, and isn’t really pervy at all despite occasional nudity. Kare to Kanojo no Sentaku handles gender well enough, but if you go in expecting the obvious romance, you will be disappointed. TS Gakuen no Nichijou was surprisingly good and didn’t cross the line with its pervertedness like some others do. I’m a High School Boy, but I Got Gender-Swapped into a Gyaru is super perverted, but somehow even more of an egg story than Onimai. Zenbu Kimi no Sei is also quiet good, featuring both nonbinary and explicitly trans characters.

    There’s also more grounded stories with more realistic gender bending that probably deserve a mention. Kakumei no Hi, is technically about an intersex person, but the character goes through a gender transition and has to deal with a gang of chasers literal chasers. Senpai wa Otokonoko challenges understandings of sexuality and gender by the main character simply choosing to exist. Sakura-chan to Amane-kun is a cute t4t story that will probably never get finished. Love Me for Who I Am is refreshing in how it refuses to tip toe around LGBTQ issues like most other manga (Shimanami Tasogare it’s similar, but not focused on gender). I Cross-Dressed for the IRL Meetup Is also explicit trans rep, but still worth mentioning.

    There are other stories like Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl and I Love Yuri and I Got Bodyswapped With a Fujoshi! which I haven’t finished and can’t fully recommend. There’s also plenty of stories that while interesting, I can’t really recommend for one reason or another.



  • Sometimes it might be better to wait on excavation than to do it improperly. This is especially the case in areas that are too politically unstable to have their own research institutions handle it. The artifacts should always be returned to the people who have the strongest connection to it, not taken away by some imperial power. All the shit stolen by Europeans needs to be given back as soon as possible.

    That said, I’m not huge into archaeology in particular. It’s cool, but I’m more interested in other fields.



  • A more recent one is breaking down the intersection between gender swap manga and actual queer media. A lot of gender swap stories aren’t really queer, and there’s a strong compcishet bias amongst the genre’s fans. Somehow, they refuse to comprehend that a character transforming into another gender might have transgender undertones. They even try to deny it when a gender swap story is more obviously trans coded.

    It’s fascinating how genderswap stories intersect with the industry trends of different countries (for example, Japanese genderswap manga tend to be very fetishistic as a result of needing to carve out a niche in a market aimed at young boys). There’s also a world of difference between action oriented gender swap media and more domestic series (most isekai stories are a power trip of a dude in a girl’s body for marketing purposes, while domestic series are more likely to seriously tackle issues of gender and identity). Very few gender swap stories really give me what I’m looking for, yet I keep wading through slop in the hopes of finding gold. Even the ones I kinda like I’m embarrassed to show, as so many of them have a base level of pervy nonsense.