Official website: https://nippon1.jp/consumer/bokuhime/
Official Twitter: https://twitter.com/nis_bokuhime
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Nippon Ichi Software announces "Bokuhime Project" for PS4, Switch. A cross-dressing-themed game.
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Official website: https://nippon1.jp/consumer/bokuhime/
Official Twitter: https://twitter.com/nis_bokuhime
Whatever could you mean? Surely the anime fandom is progressive... 😃
Does that mean it shouldn't be made? Some people just like to crossdress or well uh...like people who like to do it. I wouldn't label that audience as toxic, and if it's there why not pander to them like any other audience that already gets pandered to?
Are they any less progressive with crossdressing than they already are with "normal" anime girls?
On a scale of 1 to 10, how respectful will this be towards transgender people? I'm betting on around -20.
Don't see it flopping any harder than outside of Japan (assuming it sees an international release). This kind of casual crossdressing is far more common/accepted in Japan than it is in any western country I am aware of, for example.
I wouldn't expect much from it... The "jyosou" (dressing up like a girl) subculture in Japan often has little to do with gender or sexuality at least on the surface.
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It's not like NIS games are lighting up the sales charts in Japan anyway lol
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Regarding an Anime Crossdressing Game, It's the anime part that's toxic, not the crossdressing part.
Their latest games sell so little in Japan they barely chart and I doubt this one is will be any different. I also don't see NISA localizing it.
It's a fact.
I'm sure this will be developed with the utmost sensitivity towards trans, NB, and GNC individuals.
The arrow in its page is literally a male symbol turning into a female one, back and forth. If you think Nippon Ichi of all developers is going to be knowledgeable and respecful enough to keep it strictly about recreational crossdressing, and that there's going to be zero overlap with transgender tropes, well... I disagree.
Anime isnt inherently toxic, its just a weird vague label. I wouldnt doubt that this might cause lots of "hahaha slur" jokes, but thats just part of the community (that probably wont even play this), so idk if I would use it to criticize the game itself.
Essentially this.
OK, Nippon Ichi software then. Do I really have to paste an image of Etna here?
Some people need a refresher:😃
Anime fandom is not gross at all. 😄
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Remember. "Trap" was made up by ignorant little boys on the internet. The actual term Japanese fans use is "Otoko no ko," used to directly describe effeminate, crossdressing boys - which is also a fetish.
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Well yeah, but some people are singling out the crossdressing part in this thread as a complaint or indicator for incoming toxicity, when I'm just here being glad it's made for the nontoxic parts of the audience. The toxic part comes free with any anime related game anyway.
I never said it isn't? All I said is you can make the same pic about waifus and other objectifications over other anime content as well, and there's tons of games in those directions. So getting worked up over hypothetical toxicity over a game that adresses an audience that has barely any game for them doesn't make that much sense to me, when the toxicity is a guarantee, because anime.
Handing something that requires discretion and subtly to a toxic audience/developer is different than just giving that audience neutral media.
Not really familiar with the dev, but the anime related games that handle anything gender or sex related with subtlety I can count on one hand so...yeah. The (anime) audience has a toxic part to it no matter the topic, I was just glad to hear a game with this topic is made in the first place.
Iunno, its a subject just brimming with problematic potential, completely disregarding its target audience.
Characters (some) will likely use feminine honorifics, I bet there's at least one "raised from birth as a girl/socializes as a girl" character. Boom, its already problematic since its marketed as a cross-dressing game. Japan has a tendency to do that.
Putting the cart before the horse maybe, but you said yourself anime games have a knack for lacking subtlety
I wish them the best of luck!
Also, is NIS okay now? Last I heard of them, they couldn't pay their employees?
Also, is NIS okay now? Last I heard of them, they couldn't pay their employees?
Oh it absolutely is. Yeah I guess it's wait and see with this one, I don't blame people being wary.
So glad people are here just assuming it'll be problematic and passive-aggressively shitting on it.
I don't know, people. I think progressives should be leaving the door open for wokeness. Unless you don't actually care about social justice. Which I believe some of you don't. :/
I don't know, people. I think progressives should be leaving the door open for wokeness. Unless you don't actually care about social justice. Which I believe some of you don't. :/
Preach.
But this being a japanese company, I'm not thrilled about what they're going to do with this.
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Not many people would have the intestinal fortitude to mock an entire fandom who a large number of came together to offer words of support, appreciation and monetary donations of over a million dollars not even a week out following the Kyoto Animation tragedy.😃
Anime fandom is not gross at all. 😄
Please, do keep making your well-timed helpful generalisations coupled with funny emoji faces.
Would you expect anything different from him? He's one of those people with the constant generalization that anime = bad.
Well that's a level of whataboutism I didn't expect to see this morning
You could easily find videos of GamerGates to represent the entire gaming community if you so want and say all the people that play videogames are racist homophobes too.
So the kyoani situation nullifies the frequent casual transphobia/homophobia in anime culture whenever it comes to male characters who're feminine and/or crossdress? An incredibly distasteful whataboutism dude.
FTFY 😃
I mean, game studios frequently have to comment on the toxicity present in online gaming communities, a topic which gets many articles each year. . The biggest streamers tend to engage in casual homophobia, racism, sexism, general toxicity etc. and hell some of them get rewarded in spite of that. So yes it would not be inaccurate to say that an inordinate amount of people who play video games engage in that type of toxicity well into adulthood.
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I mean if you want to have a conversation about how race and gender issues are handled on this site then we could do that but I have to warn you it probably won't turn out the way you intend it to. No need to bring other groups into this.
Was that supposed to be clever? While yes the community can be awful, and there are more than a handful of anime that are problematic, it also has give birth to works like A Silent Voice, Utena, Clamps entire catalogue. You do a disservice to the the entire community and the creators themselves when you lump them all together with the gross parts of the fandom.
Are all fans of video games complicit in the casual homophobia that seeps it's way in to games? No, they're not. Are all the readers out there gross because that medium is where Fofty Shades of Grey came from? No, they're not.
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