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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2019-08-24 04:00 pm

[ SECRET POST #4614 ]


⌈ Secret Post #4614 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2019-08-25 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
- dunno

- don't think it counts? all main characters are female with sexual inclinations not particularly described. i guess there's a variety of different kinds of girls included, but they're still all girls under the same general dystopian culture, ethnicity doesn't mean much when they're really all single culture.

- i do find the intentional everyone is absolutely queer silly, and it makes the world seem very...fake? you have to wince hard to accept that is just how this world works, but yeah, as long as you just swallow that setting, story's good. probably fits the best to the OP's description out of the ones i know.

- dunno.

- couldn't get into the story, not really much into the art. matter of preference.

- don't think it counts as checking minority boxes either, since there's a total of like, one gay character? the rest are left unknown because it's not relevant to the plot and i appreciate that.

(Anonymous) 2019-08-25 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
ethnicity doesn't mean much when they're really all single culture

The culture in the comic doesn't matter. Stories that take place in societies where race and gender don't matter are still diverse because they're written in the real world and read by people for whom those things do matter.

There's also the fact that at least one of the main characters is either lesbian or bi, and there's another magical girl who's trans.

(Anonymous) 2019-08-25 09:28 am (UTC)(link)
Don't agree with the culture thing, just because characters look like me doesn't mean I'll identify with them because they look like me. It's like telling Asian-Americans to identify with Asian media just because they look alike. Yes, the racial diversity is there, but it's not trying to force cultural diversity into the story, which I think is a good thing. Stories where authors try to force in different cultures without finding a good place for them in their story is where it becomes like ticking boxes for diversity.

I'm pretty sure any sexual orientation for the main characters is pure speculation at this point, unless the author talked about it elsewhere beyond the comic, which I don't pay attention to. I remember there being one actual lesbian couple? But they barely made an appearance, and two confirmed lesbians out of a cast of 20? girls is barely notable. One trans girl is also barely notable in a cast of so many girls. That's the good thing about having more girls overall, each individual is allowed to be more different without needing to check ALL the diversity boxes.

(Anonymous) 2019-08-26 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
"Pure speculation" because other Kokoro asking Undine out to dinner while blushing and then being asked by another girl if she likes Undine and getting flustered and saying she doesn't know instead of "Uh no I'm straight" is puuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure speculation.