I reread this series sometimes. I look up to Misuzu.
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★ 【遠州しょんないウォーカー】 「 tomo-chan 」 ☆
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2023 Anime Watch List
September:
This post is part of my ongoing record for the new (to me) anime I watch in 2023. I'm excited to see what new shows and films I discover as this list grows through the year.
My Happy Marriage (2023) episodes: 11 started: 7-5-23 finished: 9-22-23 rating: 9/10
Oshi no Ko (2023) episodes: 11 started: 9-6-23 finished: 9-7-23 rating: 9/10
Taisho Otome Fairy Tale (2021) episodes: 12 started: 9-8-23 finished: 9-9-23 rating: 8.5/10
Nana (2006) episodes: 47 started: 9-11-23 finished: 9-14-23 rating: 10/10
Peach Girl (2005) episodes: 25 started: 9-18-23 finished: 9-19-23 rating: 8/10
Tomo-chan Is a Girl (2023) episodes: 13 started: 9-20-23 finished: 9-21-23 rating: 8.5/10
Hana yori Dango (Boys Over Flowers) (1996-1997) episodes: 51 started: 9-24-23 finished: 9-29-23 rating: 8.5/10 note: this show is so ott and I loved it! Between the pacing, the scenes framing and dramatic music score it's like someone got Hitchcock to direct a shojo anime.
Sasaki to Miyano: Graduation (2023) movie watched: 9-28-23 rating: 10/10
Previous Months:
January Watch List
February Watch List
March Watch List
April Watch List
May Watch List
June Watch List
July Watch List
August Watch List
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TOMO CHAN IS A GIRL! SPOILERS AHEAD
Tomo-chan is a Girl is genuinely one of my favorite shows. Like it's a comedy but it's attitudes on sex and early romance and gender are hilarious but also handled so well. Sure there is fan service but the main couple is so well written as just the most awkward teens. Like sure they love each other, but they are 16 so they are going to have to get through a thousand layers of awkwardness before they will even consider getting to kiss.
For being written in 2015, it is surprisingly progressive in terms of gender identity and gender expression. The main character is a girl who is wildly uncomfortable in girly clothes, wears her school uniform hiked up with sport shorts underneath, but wants to be seen as a girl so badly. She is wicked strong and the guy she likes thought she was a boy for 70% of their relationship. But the show constantly reminds the audience that she is a girl, but she likes all this boy stuff. They remind you again and again that Tomo hates "girly" stuff but that she is a girl and she wants people to know it.
The male lead is face blind, himbo of the ages, and has no idea he loves Tomo because being with her and competing against/with her just makes him so happy already. He follows HER lead, only feels brave when SHE is around, and wants to get better so she can be on equal footing with HER. He sees her in a kimono and begins weeping.
In fact the show does an excellent job of showing that their friendship wasn't insignificant, nor is it any lesser than if they were lovers. In fact the show explicitly states that neither want things to change much, they just want the other to know how they feel and to be reciprocal. The show states many times that friendship isn't lesser, and being lovers doesn't make their friendships null and void, the opposite in fact, and the show is half main leads romance antics and the other half is Tomo's relationships with her female friends.
No one in the show ever really puts her down for her boyishness in a way that feels transphobic or puts down her attempt at looking more feminine when she asks for help with it. There are two girls who at first see Tomo as a romantic rival but it takes one convo with her before they are questioning their sexuality and it goes on for the whole first season.
This show does a good job of playing in the safety cishet norm ballpark of "girls want to be girly" while also showing that there are many forms of femininity, with each of the female leads pursuing their own form of "girly".
As a gender queer person, this show is a delight and it has helped with embracing my own gender identity. It also helps that all the characters have their own brand of autistic swag.
Also, she fang. A single fang, the whole show. No explanation.
Tomo-chan gotta be one of my favorite genders.
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Manga: Tomo-chan Wa Onnanoko!
Mangaka: Fumita Yanagida
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★ 【hosh】 「 みすずちゃん 」 ☆
⊳ misuzu // tomo-chan is a girl!
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if tomo-chan doesn't wear the DDT shirt in the anime I will be very upset
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