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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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....
