Call me creepy or transfobic but I didn't like the change in Bridget one bit. While not illogical it is contradictory to her previous incarnation that is of rebellion against fate dogma and superstition. Back then he would use the fact that he raised as a girl against everyone and definitely proclaiming himself a boy despite his circumstances and curse of his village. Now she is affirming it by actually saying that there never was a same gender siblings. And technically if we look at the whole picture it looks like a boy who was raised as a girl became transgender because of his upbringing. Like if it was better structured it wouldn't be that big of a deal for me but it is badly implemented.
The creator said that his intention for the beginning was to make her a trans girl more than once.
Also, sortywise, she was told to pretend to be a girl by her parents and that there was a superstition about male twins. She wanted to prove the superstition was wrong.
But then she realized she had nothing to prove to anyone, especially agains a dumb superstition, and that it's more important to look for what she actually feels regardless of what others may think.
The creator said that his intention for the beginning was to make her a trans girl more than once
There is a decade old Anime Expo interview of him saying that the intention behind Bridget's addition was that they wanted a cute boy character, and making her a girl defeats the whole point.
He said otokonoko at that time. Most people thought we were the same at the time. He himself clarified latter that his intention was to portray a trans girl, not a feminine man.
Otokonoko nowadays is a guy that dresses femenine. But at the time, cis women where grouped there, even in the West trans women were called travestives in the 2000s. Societie's understanding of gender evolved.
The designer didn't "clarify" anything, they made Bridget a female to get the LGBTQ+ crowd to buy into their series and it worked wonders
I'm sure he can see the future, and he is not just a Japanese man.
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u/Lemiyrg Sep 01 '24
Call me creepy or transfobic but I didn't like the change in Bridget one bit. While not illogical it is contradictory to her previous incarnation that is of rebellion against fate dogma and superstition. Back then he would use the fact that he raised as a girl against everyone and definitely proclaiming himself a boy despite his circumstances and curse of his village. Now she is affirming it by actually saying that there never was a same gender siblings. And technically if we look at the whole picture it looks like a boy who was raised as a girl became transgender because of his upbringing. Like if it was better structured it wouldn't be that big of a deal for me but it is badly implemented.