Demon Slayer | 2x9 Infiltrating the Entertainment District - FULL REACTION!
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Actually haven't seen that kind of smile on Kat on almost any reactions compared to you guys having fun with thumb wrestling :D
Thamor
2023-09-12 18:24:18 +0000 UTCYou are forgetting this is time period based alot of this was the norm in the taisho period don't base what is right today on an anime that took place in the 20s women didn't even have rights in that time period unfortunately... Alot has changed and made acceptance on trans but that was unheard of in the 1910-1920s
makotheQ60
2023-09-12 18:09:20 +0000 UTCStill gonna bank on my statement this is the best arc in the entire series just wait!
Lijnaito2021 !
2023-09-12 18:05:25 +0000 UTCFully expecting not everyone will vibe with my take on this, but here goes: This arc is really frustrating in that it is dealing with extremely problematic societal issues by basically not addressing them. The two issues here that I feel aren't properly grappled with in any kind of a satisfying way are the de facto slavery of prostitutes, and gender presentation. I think we have to wait for more of the arc to resolve before I fully give my thoughts, so I'll just say a bit about how gender presentation is treated in this episode. In Japan the culture around gender presentation is honestly pretty toxic. The idea of a "trap" for example, often presented as a man who dresses up as a woman in order to seduce other men, is toxic AF. It is only more recently that any kind of actual transgender representation is bleeding into popular anime (notable examples like Tiger in MHA etc, or maybe Marulk in Made in Abyss), usually trans characters don't exist and instead sex crazed men pretending to be women as a fetish are in their place. Now I'm really glad that's not what Kimetsu no Yaiba is doing... Instead what they're doing is using the MCs presenting as female as mostly a set up for jokes. There is not any reconning with how they each feel about presenting as female, or how it aligns with their gender identity, it is just "Look how funny! They're dressed as women! AMAB people dressed as women! Isn't that funny? Isn't that against the norms and therefore funny?". I don't think Gotouge had any malicious intent in the way they set this up, certainly not, it is actually much better than how a lot of other series handle the issue, but the fact that it doesn't even address the reality or existence of transness feels like erasure in a society where actual trans characters are so rarely allowed to just exist as fully fleshed out people.
Anna Kyruin
2023-09-12 16:22:26 +0000 UTCyeah! they should do rock paper scissors! ... or a different thing every time! but on second thought maybe not that because they'll run out of games xd
Felipe Aravena
2023-09-12 15:26:09 +0000 UTComg the thumb wrestling during the opening was so cute. i couldn't stop laughing seeing Sonny so confused by Kat's technique xdddd and Kat nervously laughing too xddd i was smiling through the whole thing, it made my day <3
Felipe Aravena
2023-09-12 15:22:37 +0000 UTCOMG! You two thumb wrestling was so adorable ^_^. But maybe rock paper scissors would be lower intensity.
Anna Kyruin
2023-09-12 15:18:44 +0000 UTC
