expecting LGBT representation from a
japanese manga is even nuttier than ZKK
Yaoi and Yuri are extremely popular in Japan. We've had trans and non gender confirming characters, cross dressers and such in manga for decades. And there's Puri Puri Prisoner....(shudders).
Ranma was a great allegory for transgenderism too.
But yeah, it won't be as the forefont and thus aa massive as it in the West especially America ofc.
I cant see Japan fully ever fully embracing it anytime soon ofc.
It's more fetishised and treated as a joke in the mainstream maybe but there's niche series that probably handle it a lot better too.
Just yesterday I heard about mangas and stories with openly autistic MCs and such which was very surprising. I've joked that Shonen writing can be pretty autistic (in the Peter Pan syndrome sense especially)
and characters like Naruto are autistic.
But autism can overlap with symptoms of other problems and doesn't have be autism either ofc. I know some big Japanese creators are though and Japan is like an "autistic country" for me too.
I honestly thought he was a 3rd Mink/sea otter. Not a Fishman. Tbh I like that he's a Fishman more at this point
Yeah that would have made sense too but he's confirmed a kappa fishman IIRC?