Plus: LESBIANS. I had to write and rewrite this one so many times because I just couldn't stop gushing and flailing, I needed to get my shit together and it was just impossible.

You never said the latter, merely discussed Japanese depictions writ large. Hopefully you can see why I was confused.

EXCEPT FOR ACCORDING TO THE TRANS COMMUNITY, THE CROSS-DRESSING COMMUNITY, DRAG QUEENS/KINGS, AND GLAAD. http://www.glaad.org/refere… WHY ARE WE YELLING?

Mayaya is obsessed with a particular historical period in Japanese history, and on top of that she's really socially awkward. It tends to come off as both stilted and aggressive because she uses formal language and frames basically every conversation in the context of that war-torn era of history.

Have you actually read the book at all? There's an entire section on the difference in how Japanese culture refers to trans people, and really explicitly states that Kuranosuke is not trans. It also, as I said in my review, owns up to the fact that language surrounding LGBTQ+ people in Japan has changed since the…

a) not a transvestite, which is largely considered to be a slur. b) he's not even trans, he's a straight guy that likes crossdressing as a hobby. c) it's a pretty big spoiler. *the more you know gif*

For (most) modern anime it actually has more to do with matching the mouth movements on screen while still maintaining the meaning of the dialog. Older anime it's definitely more of a translation issue, but as anime has grown in popularity outside of Japan that's less and less of a problem.

Part of it is keeping the translation tight to the original text, particularly when there are words and phrases that don't have direct translations. A bigger part of it is that the particular character with that line speaks (intentionally) in a very formal, old fashioned, sometimes disjointed style. If you look at…

I feel like people have been confusing "I enjoyed this movie" with "this was an excellent/important movie" a lot lately, too. Just because I had fun doesn't mean it was fine cinema or world changing. If we could all lean into the skid and critique movies with the knowledge that they're not all going to be award…

I have a lot of feelings about Lois, and for years she was sidelined by Clark at the Daily Planet, forced to work on the lovelorn letters. But in the for the last few decades she's (sometimes)allowed to actually be an excellent journalist, and I loved watching her be the one to go get the story in this movie.

Yessss. Blunt would have been AMAZING. I will always mourn that we never got a Mila Kunis BW too, given you know…language fluency and ability to dance in real life.

Also I realize now I left an (s) off the Avengers movieS accidentally. Most of the issues were with AoU, not Avengers, but it was still a weird 180 with Cap's characterization from TFA to Avengers. Between "There's only one god, ma'am" and "language", Whedon didn't understand MCU Steve at all.

Because Steve and Tony have had no character development that makes me think they like each other? That BS "I was, too" line from Tony is so flat, in the context of Whedon's work. Tony and Steve fighting over Bucky makes sense. The entire MCU devolving into a "civil war" over Bucky doesn't.

I seriously see no indication that they even particularly like each other's company in any of Whedon's movies. They're already at the "married and at each other's throats" phase of their relationship that they had in the first Civil War comic arc, but without any of the character development. And abandoning Tony's…

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I also appreciated that Lois was clearly the star of Perry's newsroom, whereas Clark was "Hey big guy from middle America…write me more football!"

"Friend." I see absolutely no proof in the MCU that Tony and Steve are friends, whereas in DKR there's decades of history between them and in BvS it's two strangers who have fundamentally different IDEAS about who is right, for all that Clark is a hypocrite about it.

I honestly don't think Marvel did it willingly. I think he packed up his toys and went home because no one was flinging praise at him after his absolute mishandling of both of those movies, particularly when it comes to the female characters. I will go down in history as maybe the only person to say this, but I…

You've captured it perfectly. I have nothing to offer except an internet high five for excellence.

I definitely agree it's an interesting interpretation, I just don't particularly agree with it. Superman as messiah feels like something that comes far earlier in his development, and I feel like Snyder's already moved past the point at which Clark would believe his own PR about that. Compare to Landis's Superman:…