Not sure if I'm posting this in the proper area, but oh well...
Starting things off, while this trope doesn't actually bother me, I've noticed that like 99% of the time when I've come across either "Science Babies" or "Magic Babies", the child seems to be- without fail- a girl. Again, I'm not complaining about this, but I have multiple female family members who- more than anything- wanted a son.
I'm not going to get into ethical and social implication of this, or whether this is right or wrong. Rather, I've been thinking about what a yuri series would be like if this was somehow a factor. Comedically, there's a part of me that can't help but think it would be funny if this was lampshades in a series, where the son says something along the lines of "I know what sort of genre we're in, Mom, so I know you would have preferred to have a daughter..."
But there's also a part of me that would enjoy seeing a manga with an established couple, where one of the women just happens to have a son from a previous failed (het) relationship. I honestly believe there's real potential in exploring the whole mother-son relationship in this sort of setting. It also wouldn't even have to be some needlessly fraught drama, as I think it would be great if they had a close relationship and the son was fully supportive.
As always, I'm speaking purely from my own personal perspective (as a straight man), so I'm sorry if any of what I've written in this post is somehow out of line. This is purely just my stream of consciousness at work...
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