Groomer excited for the new Ranma anime
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It's a gender bender anime where the main character is cursed where if he's exposed to cold water he transforms into a woman and if he's exposed to hot water he transforms back to a man.
The original run of this story was from August 1987 to March 1996 so if they stick to the original source material, it won't have any tranny pushing like this groomer thinks it will. Japan has LONG done gender bending as that last anime they tried to say promoted trans about a brother turning into a girl turned out to NOT support their mental illness.
This is just another case of tourists outing themselves just like their takes on this anime coming out soon.
I'm an anime nerd of that generation and we really didn't have a fetish for gender bending. There were some who did but majority really didn't.
Otoh a lot of males of that generation also liked sailor moon
I remember the stereotype of cons being filled up with fat middle-aged men dressing up like Sailor Moon.
I was in to anime for a period when Kenshin, Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, Love Hina, etc. were very popular. I knew people that were into Ranma, but I never followed it. Anime was then a (like D&D) often a refuge for people who didn't fit into the mainstream.
I don't think it was ever filled but there were definitely some ppl who did that
I will never apologize for enjoying Meatball Head as part of my contingent of Saturday morning cartoons.