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marlowe1235.Inside Mari by Shuzo Oshimi - I actually spoiled the later volumes in this series for myself because it was a weird body switch book where this guy wakes up in the body of a high school girl but when she/he goes to the guy assuming that Mari is inside him, there is no indication that it was a full body switch like in "Your Name". Strangely enough, this one doesn't shy away from the aspects of intergender body switching that Your Name glossed over. But also it's very obvious that Mari, the girl, is not in the body of the guy because when he/she goes to his apartment, he's acting like a typical gross twenty something dude with garbage all over the place and masturbating like a wild monkey (granted, I would masturbate if I found myself in the body of a woman in a body switch way).
Also I am feeling weirder using "he" pronouns for the author since he AGAIN writes an afterword talking about how he would like to be in the body of a woman. Like everything about his work feels trans but he isn't embracing that designation ultimately.
Maybe he's like Poppy Z Brite who spent years claiming that he wasn't a "gay man in a woman's body" (even though he almost always wrote books from the perspective of gay guys and not in a Manga fetish way) and only in his 40s (maybe late 30s) did he come out as a transman (also Poppy is his pen name so I am ok using it. I was actually worried when I got him to blurb King David and the Spiders from Mars because I wanted that blurb to read Poppy and not Billy, like Billy is some guy. Poppy is the coolest goth writer of Generation X).
This series gets weirder and it does make sense later on, but not in the first book. And I doubt I will read any more volumes in the two weeks left in the year.
236.Welcome Back, Alice by Shuzo Oshimi - So this is a love triangle between teenagers that starts out with them around 13 or 14. Two guys and a girl. The one guy is in love with the girl. His friend Kei asks him if he masturbates. The girl wants Kei and Kei kisses her and that sours things but then Kei moves away.
Only then Kei comes back as a non-binary, but presenting as woman. And that throws an even bigger wrench into things and Kei wants the other boy and the girl still wants Kei but not like that. Boys who like girls who like girls who like boys who look like girls but don't necessarily want to be either boys or girls...
It's fine.
Also I am feeling weirder using "he" pronouns for the author since he AGAIN writes an afterword talking about how he would like to be in the body of a woman. Like everything about his work feels trans but he isn't embracing that designation ultimately.
Maybe he's like Poppy Z Brite who spent years claiming that he wasn't a "gay man in a woman's body" (even though he almost always wrote books from the perspective of gay guys and not in a Manga fetish way) and only in his 40s (maybe late 30s) did he come out as a transman (also Poppy is his pen name so I am ok using it. I was actually worried when I got him to blurb King David and the Spiders from Mars because I wanted that blurb to read Poppy and not Billy, like Billy is some guy. Poppy is the coolest goth writer of Generation X).
This series gets weirder and it does make sense later on, but not in the first book. And I doubt I will read any more volumes in the two weeks left in the year.
236.Welcome Back, Alice by Shuzo Oshimi - So this is a love triangle between teenagers that starts out with them around 13 or 14. Two guys and a girl. The one guy is in love with the girl. His friend Kei asks him if he masturbates. The girl wants Kei and Kei kisses her and that sours things but then Kei moves away.
Only then Kei comes back as a non-binary, but presenting as woman. And that throws an even bigger wrench into things and Kei wants the other boy and the girl still wants Kei but not like that. Boys who like girls who like girls who like boys who look like girls but don't necessarily want to be either boys or girls...
It's fine.
