Do other characters refer to Yamato as male explicitly, or with masculine terms? That's rhetorical.
Look, I'm not unsympathetic. I understand, to an extent, where the confusion comes from, but I'm also really tired of this debate.
Yamato is not transmasc, she's either delusional or an extremely dedicated roleplayer (IIRC, she referred to Momonosuke as her own son to his face), and either way to compare her mental state to being trans should be offensive to real trans people. It's supposed to be a silly character gimmick that some characters in-universe see through, some humor, some ignore, et cetera. Other characters obviously know that Yamato is not Oden and (most) should not refer to her as though she actually "became a man" or whatever because that makes no sense and is not what being trans is.
I consider it a bad dubism because Yamato adopting Oden's identity is supposed to be a joke, and changing the entire cast to take it 100% seriously (in a way that, again, disrespects real trans people) because Western audiences are overly sensitive to gender-related topics right now was a terrible decision, in part because it spawned this debate.
Think about this: If Yamato had adopted the identity of a specific dead woman instead, to the extent of referring to that woman's relatives as her own, the only thing we would be debating would be if she was actually crazy.
Rant over. Please don't make me do it again.
last edited at Oct 1, 2023 11:31AM