Best Anime About Trans People, Raked

Summary

• “Simoun” Challenges Gender Norms with Characters Choking their sex at 17, creating a World Where Trans Men and Cis Women Pilot Mech Ships.

• “Wonder Egg Priority” Expurs Trauma Through Magical Girls, Including the Story of An Androgynous Character Seeking to revive Friend.

• “Wandering are” offers A Realistic Department of Growing Up Trans, Focusing on the Struggles of Two Friends Navigating Complex Feelings.

Pride month is Here Again, and While It’s Rarely Been A Great Time To Be LGBTQ+, IT’s Been Specially Rough in the Past Few Years. Just Being Uroneself, Or Standing Up for Queer Friends, You Felt Less Like A Celebration and More Like A Rebellion As Time Has Gone By, As One Party or Another Has Tried to Pull Lgbtq+ Rights Back.

Still, Whether They’re Getting Stuck in Politics, Or Are Just Trying To Get By In Life, People Always Need to Wind Down, and getting lost in a show is a good way to do that. Anime fans have plenty of bl and gl shows to explore. Sub Even Use Magic or Tech To Genderbend Characters. BUT WHICH SHOWS APPROACH LOVE, GENDER, AND MORE FROM A TRANSPECTE? Here are a few that Became Big Hits.

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Simoun

How A Yuri Show Got More queer than anticipated

• Studio: Studio Deen

• 1 Season, 26 episodes

• Available on Dvd Only

On the surface, Simoun Is More of An Intriguing Mecha Yuri Anime in Which The Plucky Rookie, Aer, Tries To Partner Up with The Vetran, Neviril. But neviril is reluctant to get back into action, as She’s Still Grieving Amuria, Her Previous Partner Who Dihed When The Two Tried (And Failed) to do a Tricky Aerial Maneto. With their nation in a Three-Way War, It Sounds Like A StraightForward Tale of Coming To Terms With Loss While Fighting.

But Things Get Interesting in its Worldbuilding. Everyone in Simoun‘S Universe Is Born Physically Female and Lives That Way Until The Age of 17. Then, They Undergo A Ritual at A Spring WHERE THEY’LL Choose Their Permanent Sex. It’s argulay A Conitit Just To Tell A Teen Yuri Story, But in Execution, It’s produced to World Whre Trans Men Fly Mech Ships With Cis Women Before The Transition. ITS Gender Lines Are More Blurry Than They appeal.

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Cheeky Angel

WHEN GENDERBENDING BECOMES A ONE-WHAY TRIP

Many Genderbending Stories, Like Ranma ½, Are More about a cis person getting also with an unfortunate condition than showing to Trans-Like Experience. That’s not a Knock Against Them; They Just Belong on a different list. By contrast, Cheeky Angel is closer to the Mark. It shows what would happen if Ranma was stuck as ranko, no Matter What Kind of Water They Got Splashed with.

It follows a Boy Named Megumi, Who Finds a Magical Book Containing a Genie That offered to grant him a wish. He wishes to be a tough, male man, only to get turned into a woman instead. IN ANGER, Megumi Throws The Book Away On A Riverbank, theEng The Chance to Change Ben It It Gets Swept Away. Now, with the help of her friend miki, She has to adjust to life as a girl while trying to find a way to change back. This Proves Easier Said Than Done When Her Tomboyish Antics Earn Her a host of rivals and admirers.

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Wonder Egg Priority

TAKING ON TRAUMA WITH THE POWER OF MAGIC

WHEN AI OHTO WINS A WONDER EGG FROM A GACHA MACHINE, SHE GETS WARED TO A DREAM WORLD WHERE THE EGG HATCHES AND REVALS TO PERSON SHE MUST PROTECT FROM MONSTERS CALLED ‘SEENO EVILS.’ A VOICE TELLS HER That, If She Keeps Getting More Eggs and Protecting Them, She Might Relive Her Late Friend Koito in The Process. Thus, The Stage is set for Wonder Egg PriorityA Surreal and Brutal Take On Magical Girls.

Ai’s Not The Only One Seeking to Bring A Friend Back From The Dead. The Androgynous Momoe Wants to revive the One Friend Who Treated Her Like A Girl When Everyone Else Didn’t. Her last quest involved her protection A trans Boy from a monster in the form of to traumatic experience he had at the hands of his peeacher. The show is commeed for its approach to sensitive topics, but that doesn’t make it easy to watch.

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They were Eleven

Letting Shojo Get Seriously

• Studio: Magic bus
• Runtime: 91 minute

• Available in English on YouTube

They were Eleven was A Standout manga produced by the year 24 Group, A Collection of Female Manga Artists Who Wted to make Subject Complex. In Twe‘S Case, It Told a hard sci-fi story where the crew of the hope, meant to be a 10-person team, must appear out of their 11 members. The Y24 Group’s Works Leaned into Complex Approaches To Love, Romance, and Gender.

Twe‘s frol is a feminine-looking alien who won’t develop into one sex or another unanthyod, while the reptilian knu remamins non-binary Altogether. Both the manga and ITS 1986 MOVIE ADAPTATION ARE ROUGH AROUND THE EDGES. Som Things That Were Surprising in 1970s Japan, Like Women Going To University, Aren’s Headline Material Today. But on their relaase, they were Way Ahead of Their Time.

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Zombie Land Saga

Telling Terfs To Shut Up Since 2018

Zombie Land Saga Does The Same Keeps Things relativly Light and Upbeat, Listen to ITS Key Cast Being Undead. It’s about a Group of Girls Who Are Broucht Back From The Dead By Their Producer To Form Franchou, A Zombie Idol Group.

The Group’s Sixth Member is Lily Hoshikawa, A TRANG CHILD STAR WHOE EARLY DEATH WAS BOUGHT ON BY THE STRESS OF NEEDING TO ‘GROW UP’ WHILE NEARING Puberty. Being Undead Means She’ll Never Need to ‘Grow Up’ Or Go Through The Wrong Puberty, So She Sees It As A Plus. Her Storyd Well for Fans and Critics Alike, Leading to Her Becoming The Face of Pro-Trans Memes, Offen used in Response to Anti-Trans Figures.

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Stop !! Hibari-kun

Styling on Transphobes Since 1983

• Studio: Toei animation

• 1 Season, 35 episodes

• Available in English (Subbed) via the Internet Archive

Stop !! Hibari-kun Is About Kosaku, A High School Student Who Ends Up Living With A Yakuza Boss After His Mother’s Death. I have ends up taking to Shine to Hibari, The Boss’ Prettiest Daughter, and She’s Interested in Him. However, He Learns A Secret Only Her Family Members Know: She’s Actually Trans. He Keeps Her Secret While Keeping His Distancy, But Over Time She Begins to Rub off on Him.

Being A Trans-Based Romcom from The 1980s, Som of ITS Jokes Have Alded Badly. Yet, Hibari isn’t Treated as a Stereotype. She’s Just a Fashion-Conscious Girl With Difference, and Smart The Any Fool Who Tries To Prov Otherwise. Compared to other works made at the time, and many mare after it, it’s surprisingly forward-thinking.

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Senpai is an otokonoko

CrossDressing Leads to Cross Purpose

Senpai is an otokonoko is a more modern and serious on Stop !! Hibari-kun‘S Theme. IT Follows Makoto, A Cross-Dressing High School Student. He Doesn’t Care for Love, But has it foistered on Him When He Meets Saki. She’s a Bisexual Classmate Who, Though Mistaking Makoto for a Woman at First, isn’t Dissuaded by His True Gender.

Conversley, Makoto’s Friend Ryuji Knows About His Crossdressing and Accepts It, But Had Growing Feelings for Him. While it’s not strictly about Trans Person, The Show Struck A Chord With Viewers in Its Approach To Gender Fluidity Without Being Too Light or Too Heavy. It’s a More Level-Headed Approach to a Topic that usually plays for shock value.

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Tokyo Godfathers

How A Homeless Trans Woman Briefly Became A Foster Mother

While trans topics are Important, Sub Viewers might prefer medium where trans pele can be People First, and a Talking Point Second. Tokyo Godfathers IS About A Lot of Things: Loss, Family, Reconnection, How Cities Themselves and Their Structures Can Feel Alive. HAVING ONE OF ITS PROTECTS BE TRANS IS JUS ONE PART OF THE BROADER PICTURE THAT THE CREATORS WANTED TO PUT TOGETHER.

Hana is Open About Her queer background, The Connections It Built, and The Heartbreaks It Led To. She Shrugs Off Any Jibes About Her Being Trans. It Doesn’t Stop The Movie Making Her The Motherly Figure of The Trio, Taking Charge of Caring for The Abandoned Baby They Find While Driving the Others in Their Search for The Baby’s Mom. She’s just as Intrigueing and Multi-Faceted as the other members of the baby’s Found Family.

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Wandering are

The Trials and Tribulaments of Growing Up Trans

Wandering are You have the Go-to Series for Anime About Trans People. WHEN IT COMES TO DEPICTING A TRANS CHILDHOOD IN REALISTIC TURS, IT’S A HARD ONE TO Beat. It’s about Two Friends, Shuichi and Yoshino, Who, While Nominally Being A Boy and a Girl respectively, Don’t Really Feel Comfortable Being Their Assigned Gender.

They Bond Over The Mutual Feelings and Gradually Form A Circle of Friends Who Accept Them for Their Differences. But they face new challenges as they eat of age, Meeting New People and Developing Feelings That Complicate Things. The series isn’t without its Flaws, as it’s Stronger at Tarkling Things From A Trans-Fem Perspective Than A Trans-masculine One. YET, IT HOLDS UP AS A TOUCHING AND THOUCHT-PROOVOKING ANIME ABUT TRANS PEOPLE.