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Reference.

m.usouka said:

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2022-10-31/guilty-gear-strive-developers-bridget-was-always-meant-to-be-transgender/.191273

Yeah, Bridget has always been a boy disguised as a girl. That doesn't mean he's trans in the western sense. I'm dead sure the translation mistook "transexual" for whatever that word for effeminate/crossdressing boy is, but it's impossible to check by myself, and I don't have the energy to reason people thinking otherwise.

FJH said:

To be fair, it's only a third of the transgender mark, which only means it's been stylized by leaving the difference between that and the intersex symbol. (Also, a horizontal flip of the gender-neutral symbol.) Fictional sources do tend to do their own thing occasionally. I've met a variety of definition purists who believe that symbols, when other meaning has not been established, should be completely depicted to indicate proper representation; otherwise, it's either an inversion of the original meaning, a corruption of it, or some other imperfection. The vibe is not dissimilar to depicting the cross upside down to casually refer to something unholy (ignoring that an upside down cross actually does mean something on its own) and not unlike substituting other shapes for a swastika in WWII media.

People are going to complain one way or another.

Thank you for interview clarifying things.

See but, it's not the transgender symbol, it's the androgyne symbol, it's a real, separate symbol with its own meaning. Daisuke is very passionate about these things, if he meant for it to be the transgender symbol, it would be the full transgender symbol. He obviously meant for it to represent Bridget's uncertainty about her identity until the end of Strive. But of course you can't ever trust a journalist to actually do their research and know what they're talking about these days, even when getting their info straight from the source.

FRien said:

Yeah, Bridget has always been a boy disguised as a girl. That doesn't mean he's trans in the western sense. I'm dead sure the translation mistook "transexual" for whatever that word for effeminate/crossdressing boy is, but it's impossible to check by myself, and I don't have the energy to reason people thinking otherwise.

Seriously man, literally every official source, including the official GG website, says she identifies as a girl. She's not just a crossdresser. Just get over it. Daisuke wouldn't be letting people call her trans if she wasn't trans.

blindVigil said:

Seriously man, literally every official source, including the official GG website, says she identifies as a girl. She's not just a crossdresser. Just get over it. Daisuke wouldn't be letting people call her trans if she wasn't trans.

So that's the new narrative?

my comment was hidden LMFAO. guess im not allowed to compliment my waifu without a neckbeard getting upset.

Punished_Kiki said:

Director Katano and designer Ishiwatari : "Bridget was always meant to be trans."

that still confuses me though- Bridget was assigned female, then chose to be a woman: Hence, Bridget is technically a cis girl, anatomy irrelevant.

FRien said:

So that's the new narrative?

Are your beliefs falsifiable? Is there any level of evidence that you would accept as proof that this was the authorial intent?

I thought this was the Pringles guy

Also, the source of the video from October 18th, 2016. Lillis and Taylor were out getting lunch in Los Angeles in/near Koreatown and decided to improvise as Misty and Ash. More clips are here:

• Lunch with @TheVeronicaT. #AshandMistyinLA

• Ash and Misty vs. rush hour traffic. And the concept of reality. @TheVeronicaT

• Ash and Misty vs. the law. And Ash's mom. (I'm a master of improv) @TheVeronicaT

And, of course, rest in peace to Rachael Lillis, gone far too soon! I admittedly found out about this while browsing tributes.

what a big eyes

First solo Iri art on here

From what I heard she died from cancer, which is always terrible. May she rest in peace.

:Heart:

May Rachael's soul rest in peace.

MisterJuice said:

From what I heard she died from cancer, which is always terrible. May she rest in peace.

Breast cancer, I believe it was.

ignisha said:

Breast cancer, I believe it was.

Diagnosed in May and now gone :(

It's hard not to cry when this voice actress meant so much to us but also the amount of Joy she brought to her peers as well. She will always be remembered in our hearts and be cherished as we share the tale of Misty and Jesse throughout the ages.

KC Akebono? Best point is AL's Hammann lol

T34-38 said:

KC Akebono? Best point is AL's Hammann lol

which isnt too much tbh, most noticeable trait of hers is being pretty much a pervert bait by her comments, even her CG art points at that.

Where's Azur Lane, Girls' Frontline and Arknights

Admiral_Shippai said:

A tsundere with nothing of dere in her.
Being cranky and is very rude towards the admiral, whom she refers as "Shitty Admiral".
A jerkass all over the place and surprisingly a straight man with a sharp tongue character when it comes to her interaction with other shipgirls.

She will get mad at the Admiral for virtually every thing he/she does.

So, a very unlikeable character. A tsundere without dere is not a tsundere.
If Akebono is just a irritating brat, it makes sense no other game has a character like her.

Sigfried666 said:

So, a very unlikeable character. A tsundere without dere is not a tsundere.
If Akebono is just a irritating brat, it makes sense no other game has a character like her.

Indeed, no other game has an Akebono and isnt hard to realized why.

Admiral_Shippai said:

Indeed, no other game has an Akebono and isnt hard to realized why.

Her seasonal lines are pretty Tsundere though and Akebono's less a traditional tsundere more Ushio's very own Shoukaku if Shoukaku was constantly blamed by naval command for getting bombed. It's Ushio's scaredy-cat attitude if the cat were angry and hissing instead.

There aren't a lot of Akebono characters because the ship's circumstances are unique and most gachas don't have the equivalent of PTSD-ridden old timers with severe dementia only half-remembering stuff from the war (to varying degrees depending on the anime, manga, game, etc.), and being commanded by the spitting image of the man/men that essentially signed her and everyone she cared about's death warrant.

The fact that she's even still fighting on humanity's side and not on the abyssal one, is itself, a massive dere trait.

Well KC has 11 years now so.

I really wanna see Grandma Zuikaku

"Our time together was like a dream... too short, and always painful when I wake up..."

Another head hangs lowly
Child is slowly taken

Argh I had a Gashapon Palace Athene I bought before watching Zeta. The damn thing kept falling apart so I sold it years ago. After watching the series I realized how such a mistake that was....

Sensei casually teleport like it's everyday activities.

ReyZha7 said:

Sensei casually teleport like it's everyday activities.

The power of the adult card in Kivotos is powerful indeed

I love your art

this goes hard

isnt the cover of the record air shakur is holding here a parody of igor from tyler the creator

Oops, all chocolate

Reminded me of a certain banana-loving man in Mother 3

That ain't an Ethereal...