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joined Jun 11, 2021

crazy how people are transphobic on here when the yuri tag explicitly states "transgender women are women"

Wha
joined May 28, 2013

crazy how people are transphobic on here when the yuri tag explicitly states "transgender women are women"

Lot of people in the LGB hate the T part.

Wtf%20dog
joined Sep 7, 2024

crazy how people are transphobic on here when the yuri tag explicitly states "transgender women are women"

Considering staff let that transphobic babaniku manga on here, I am entirely not shocked.

joined Jun 11, 2021

by the way, as a trans woman myself, reading all these comments is incredibly depressing. this is so obviously a trans story but yall will clamber over yourselves to try and explain why it's actually not and actually Japanese people are sooo stupid and they dont know anything about transgender and this is just another crossdressing cis man so actually its not even yuri. fucking go somewhere else then how about.

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Dumshork
joined Mar 19, 2022

crazy how people are transphobic on here when the yuri tag explicitly states "transgender women are women"

Lot of people in the LGB hate the T part.

Those are called bigoted garbage.

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joined Apr 25, 2020

by the way, as a trans woman myself, reading all these comments is incredibly depressing. this is so obviously a trans story but yall will clamber over yourselves to try and explain why it's actually not and actually Japanese people are sooo stupid and they dont know anything about transgender and this is just another crossdressing cis man so actually its not even yuri. fucking go somewhere else then how about.

I don't think you really understood these comments at all

Setsuko2
joined Jan 20, 2014

Honestly, and this is just my interpretation of it, he doesn't seem trans, at least so far. His physique type caste him by society to be a certain way, and he discovers he loves yuri. Having a character look one way but secretly be opposite is a bit of a trope. He loves the yuri world, same as a yaoi fangirl loves yaoi. That doesn't make you trans, but also doesn't make you NOT trans. He dies and reincarnates in the game and he's excited he gets to be part of the yuri world he loves. From what it seems so far it's not because he believes he is a woman. His inner monologue clearly acknowledges he's male. He's disappointed his body is still male only because he wanted to be a female to live in the yuri world, not because he believed he was really a woman.

It could still go either way, it's very early in the story. Maybe he really is just in denial believing he's a woman, though i really don't have that impression.

My prediction is this: with the crush showing interest in his male parts, it shows there's still potential for romance for the MC, and he gets like a front row seat to his favorite thing: watching yuri ships around him in first person (which could explain the tag that says it's side character yuri crushes). Thus ensues the hijinks of 1, keeping his gender hidden, 2, the romance with his crush, and 3, whatever wacky crap he gets into to watch/support the yuri among the classmates. I'd be happy to be wrong, and this have more substance than that, though it does have very over the top comedy, so we'll see.

It's a comedy guys, i really doubt there's going to be much depth or big road to discovery in it. It's just meant to entertain.

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Wtf%20dog
joined Sep 7, 2024

by the way, as a trans woman myself, reading all these comments is incredibly depressing. this is so obviously a trans story but yall will clamber over yourselves to try and explain why it's actually not and actually Japanese people are sooo stupid and they dont know anything about transgender and this is just another crossdressing cis man so actually its not even yuri. fucking go somewhere else then how about.

Speaking as a non-binary trans woman:

It's not that japanese people don't get transness. It's that cis people often write stories approximating transness and do not fully deliver on these themes, and my post earlier was reflecting that as well as being very tired from seeing so many similar stories from all over the world.

Anyone saying japanese people don't get transness is just being racist.

Setsuko2
joined Jan 20, 2014

Yes please some intersex representation. I have not saw any work here (or in most places) that have any intersex representation.

"IS" is a manga about an intersex teenager. it's VERY good.

joined May 27, 2025

A really fun first chapter, hope things stay as lighthearted haha. 7/10
P.S. does this mean futanari is gonna count as Yuri now? That would be really cool

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Dynasty Scans
joined Oct 8, 2010

@PantyLee: Referring to people as the T-word is a slur and will not be tolerated. Do not do this again.

Pruning some posts in this thread as well.

Khancrop
joined Feb 18, 2013

Whoof, that's rough, sister. And the girl who caught her has proven her airhead credentials by misunderstanding completely.

It's not clear if this is a magic world or what the tech level is, but I hope they've at least discovered distilled mare piss...

Wtf%20dog
joined Sep 7, 2024

A really fun first chapter, hope things stay as lighthearted haha. 7/10
P.S. does this mean futanari is gonna count as Yuri now? That would be really cool

Considering the main character is either a cis dude or a trans woman who hasn't realized it yet(too soon to tell), I don't see how futanari would even come into this picture.

Gay%20panic
joined Sep 11, 2020

"Huh, a new trans based manga was put up today- and it already has nearly 100 posts in the thread. That is not a good sign"

I hope this will be alright. Currently side eyeing it but like, I'm not gonna say I dont see a future where this turns out well.

Also to add my two cents to the idea, this is obviously a trans manga. Duh. She says she wants to be a woman. She also internally refers to herself as a man. These are not mutually exclusive things. This is someone who wants a thing and believes its out of her grasp. This is a very common trans thing. I've heard countless stories of trans women who are like "god I wish I was a woman. Couldn't be me tho, im a dude" ans get so hyper focused on it until finally something breaks through YEARS later like "oh I can just be a woman"

Now whether this is transphobic is another conversation, but I will save all judgement on that until we get more chapters. As I said, I'm side eyeing it. Just cause a manga is trans doesnt mean it cant be transphobic. There was that one trans manga where the girl transitioned just so she could date her cousin. That was FILLED with awful stuff. But again, saving judgement.

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joined Jun 19, 2019

I feel like this is going to get extremely transphobic at some point, and I really fucking hope I'm wrong.

Bad, bad vibes.

I'm huffing the most powerful copium because if this doesn't suck it would be Mt. Everest levels of peak. "Guy" who really likes yuri and also maybe wishes "he" could do yuri? That was me for a solid five years before I realized that just means you're a girl!

Reading other comments, I am a bit bummed by the people saying "this can't be a trans story, it's a comedy!" As if we can't have something funny and lighthearted that also explores transness. Maybe this won't, and maybe it will suck, but I feel like there's an underlying assumption that trans stories all have to be Serious and Emotional (sad and depressing). Really keeping my fingers crossed here.

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joined Apr 4, 2022

Most of the discussion here can be avoided by finding the mangaka's social media and just checking their thoughts directly.

Hinataskype
joined May 26, 2011

Well this will get posted eventually but I fear for this thread after doing so.

https://x.com/eno_siba

This appears to be the authors Twitter just in case anyone is curious. I can't speak for the auto translation but they appear to refer to the story as "looking like a Yuri story but isn't" and "Yuri style but not quite Yuri romantic comedy" here:

https://x.com/eno_siba/status/1858074662875578516?t=57oltmawUuawVl-KrmVlOQ&s=19

https://x.com/eno_siba/status/1863387496098525373?t=8ozpRfBY0zSupRqrOggvqQ&s=19

The author does appear to have done another Yuri one shot and posts mostly about Yuri. So as far as I personally feel I'm likely to treat this is a transfem Yuri myself depending on where it goes.

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joined Oct 30, 2021

by the way, as a trans woman myself, reading all these comments is incredibly depressing. this is so obviously a trans story but yall will clamber over yourselves to try and explain why it's actually not and actually Japanese people are sooo stupid and they dont know anything about transgender and this is just another crossdressing cis man so actually its not even yuri. fucking go somewhere else then how about.

Your reading comprehension must be in the same level of a twitter user if you think anyone here is being transphobic

joined Apr 16, 2022

Well this will get posted eventually but I fear for this thread after doing so.

https://x.com/eno_siba

This appears to be the authors Twitter just in case anyone is curious. I can't speak for the auto translation but they appear to refer to the story as "looking like a Yuri story but isn't" and "Yuri style but not quite Yuri romantic comedy" here:

https://x.com/eno_siba/status/1858074662875578516?t=57oltmawUuawVl-KrmVlOQ&s=19

https://x.com/eno_siba/status/1863387496098525373?t=8ozpRfBY0zSupRqrOggvqQ&s=19

The author does appear to have done another Yuri one shot and posts mostly about Yuri. So as far as I personally feel I'm likely to treat this is a transfem Yuri myself depending on where it goes.

The Japanese use 'yuri' in a somewhat different way than Westerners do (and transfem yuri in general is extremely rare there), so I don't know how much stock to put in those author statements. Especially when one of the pages posted on the twitter is the MC blushing while wearing a frilly dress lol.

Look, I don't expect this manga to be a serious exploration of dysphoria or anything, it's clearly mainly a comedy. But I legitimately do not see any plausible interpretation of the protagonist other than her being trans. Wanting desperately to be another gender is pretty much the definition of being trans and to be frank, the other proposals I've seen in this thread (they just want to be a girl to date a fictional character?) strike me as extreme reaches. Whether the author themselves intended the trans interpretation, or somehow intended to write a cis boy but wrote a trans girl by accident, or -- possibly the most likely -- just didn't think about it too much is honestly irrelevant to me. Their work stands on its own, and a trans interpretation makes it far more enjoyable to me than any other interpretation. Why not view it that way?

joined Oct 11, 2019

Well this will get posted eventually but I fear for this thread after doing so.

https://x.com/eno_siba

This appears to be the authors Twitter just in case anyone is curious. I can't speak for the auto translation but they appear to refer to the story as "looking like a Yuri story but isn't" and "Yuri style but not quite Yuri romantic comedy" here:

https://x.com/eno_siba/status/1858074662875578516?t=57oltmawUuawVl-KrmVlOQ&s=19

https://x.com/eno_siba/status/1863387496098525373?t=8ozpRfBY0zSupRqrOggvqQ&s=19

The author does appear to have done another Yuri one shot and posts mostly about Yuri. So as far as I personally feel I'm likely to treat this is a transfem Yuri myself depending on where it goes.

Yeah, I think that seals it. Either the MC is cis, in which case everyone side-eyeing this is 100% justified, or they are trans, but the author believes trans women don't actually count as yuri, which would be even worse. I guess there's the very vaguest glimmer of a chance the author pulls off a good trans story despite what they've directly said here, but I'm not holding my breath. I'll give it a couple chapters, but even putting aside the gender of it all, this first chapter was pretty weak. I'm aware that first chapters of isekais are usually pretty shit as a rule because they throw pacing out the window to skip all the setup no one cares about, but even when I was still hoping it could be a good trans story it was a rough read.

Mariya%20and%20karin%202
joined Nov 27, 2022

Im excited to see where this goes. I definitely was nervous reading each page, but they handled it well so far. Honestly, GL, BL, and het comics get their overtly sexualized, slapstick body comedy. This could lowkey be trans equality for comedy ecchi lol

Gc-zrruayaa9zh1
joined May 15, 2024

Frame 4 reincarnation into the frame 3 confession, suboptimal route

Ewe
joined Jan 22, 2017

by the way, as a trans woman myself, reading all these comments is incredibly depressing. this is so obviously a trans story but yall will clamber over yourselves to try and explain why it's actually not and actually Japanese people are sooo stupid and they dont know anything about transgender and this is just another crossdressing cis man so actually its not even yuri. fucking go somewhere else then how about.

Your reading comprehension must be in the same level of a twitter user if you think anyone here is being transphobic

Context doesn't exist for some people, they expect a certain thing in their head and if it doesn't happen it's ok to call the artist names and send them threats. Oh, and fans are (insert bad thing) too because being hateful is totally helpful and brings people closer together. Minor disagreements are a perfectly good reason to declare someone an enemy that should just disappear I guess.

This character could become trans but he could also be stuck with being a Femboy now - not "able" to do yuri, but at least he can see and appreciate it. He calls himself yuri danshi (and man and boy too) - a yuri boy that felt lonely because men don't really belong in a yuri. If he were trans, wouldn't he be a girl anyway? Where would be the conflict of the story? It's a bit ironic if people couldn't accept a male yuri fan in a manga about lonely male yuri fans.

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joined Dec 10, 2022

This character could become trans but he could also be stuck with being a Femboy now - not "able" to do yuri, but at least he can see and appreciate it. He calls himself yuri danshi (and man and boy too) - a yuri boy that felt lonely because men don't really belong in a yuri. If he were trans, wouldn't he be a girl anyway? Where would be the conflict of the story? It's a bit ironic if people couldn't accept a male yuri fan in a manga about lonely male yuri fans.

Why do we need to satisfy male readers in a goddamn lesbian story is always my fucking question tho
Oh my goodness, think of all the men who feel so lonely reading stories that are not about them, oh the tragedy

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Couple_under_the_stars
joined Nov 7, 2022

by the way, as a trans woman myself, reading all these comments is incredibly depressing. this is so obviously a trans story but yall will clamber over yourselves to try and explain why it's actually not and actually Japanese people are sooo stupid and they dont know anything about transgender and this is just another crossdressing cis man so actually its not even yuri. fucking go somewhere else then how about.

Yeah, it is a bit depressing. Several people have already pointed out how closely the protagonist’s reactions line up with pre-transition transfem experience, so seeing others insist it "can't be a trans story" feels like a punch that invalidates those experiences.

And honestly, there are at least a few comments suggesting that having a dick automatically disqualifies the story from being about transgender yuri, which is extremely hostile toward trans women without bottom surgery, which is many of us. I'm surprised those weren't removed.

I think a lot of it comes down to lack of familiarity. Dynasty is definitely on the more tolerant side (seriously, don't read the MangaDex comments unless you want to tank your mood), but there are always some readers who don't have real-life context for trans experience. They fall back on comparing it to gender-swap tropes, and don't realize that self-denial and body dysphoria are actually part of the picture.

(I suppose my past self would have related, chasing the "magical dream" version of transition before realizing that a realistic one is both possible and, honestly, better than the fantasy.)

Overall, the first chapter is promising in how it treats the subject of feminine transition. I don’t think the doom-and-gloom reactions from the comments should take that away from us.

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