Question for people familiar with Project Sekai, but was Mizuki ever confirmed to be trans or nb? Because right now most of the Ena x Mizuki tag is tagged with Non-binary, a few are tagged with Transgender, and one is tagged with Yuri.
skelly85
Apr 8, 2025 11:45AM
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So Mizuki is canonically trans but Project Sekai hasn't used almost any explicit labeling language, however it has been pretty much confirmed since Mizuki's 5th focus event. I think of the level of confirmation as equivalent to the confirmation of Haruka and Michiru being a couple was in the original Sailor Moon anime (not the English dub). The main elements of Mizuki's story are about their struggles with society's perception of folks that are gender non-conforming and the othering that is associated with that. Their story is absolutely written to tell about a queer experience.
General overview of the story events, spoilers for Mizuki's story:
* As a young kid they preferred to dress in "cute", more traditionally feminine attire. However other students would bully them and make comments that their clothes were "weird". (The quoted words are words that Project Sekai uses to frame the narrative.)
* They entered an all boys school for middle school, no longer choosing to present with "cute" clothes. They had an extremely isolating experience there, their only friend being the other loner, Rui.
* Towards the end of their middle school time they found an online group of friends, 25 o'clock at Nightcord, and with the encouragement of their older sister she decided to go back to presenting in the way they felt most comfortable which was by dressing "cutely" and with their signature ribbon. Also growing her hair out past this point.
* In high school Mizuki is treated like a "zoo creature", where students talk about them behind their back. Students still commenting on Mizuki's choice of clothing. This is why she chooses to skip school as much as possible.
* Most of her focus story events are about their concerns about wanting to come out to their friends with their "secret" and/or being outed by students from their school before they get the chance. However they worry about how her friends will perceive her once they come out.
* Mizuki mainly wants to be accepted for being themself.
* Mizuki was outed as trans during the events of Mizuki 5 when Ena got stopped and asked by a group of students from their school about whether Ena knew Mizuki. Then the students started making a "joke", asking Ena if she was "also a guy". Those students also then say Ena is a "normal girl" where as it is implied then that they don't see Mizuki as such.
* During the end of the events of Ena 5, Mizuki came out to the rest of her nightcord group.
Since Non-binary is very often considered under the umbrella of Transgender and especially since the current Mizuki's story so far would lead me to read Mizuki as trans fem and nb, those are the reasons I would guess on why both tags have been used.
There's a Japanese blog post I read about the Mizuki 5 focus story event and the focus events before that has a good in-depth explanation of why one should read Mizuki as trans fem and/or nb. It has a better Japanese language/media context than I can provide: https://note.com/nebou_june/n/n37fe1265a179#049ff682-479e-4980-9730-97204971e24d .
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Doctor_Hoot
Apr 8, 2025 9:36PM
From what I understand, Mizuki was assumed to be a girl by Ena and the other two girls from their unit, and she seemed to be completely fine with that. She wanted to come out to them, but she delayed it for a long time. If for all intents and purposes, she was a girl when she was with her closest friends, why the hesitation to call her a girl?
I find it strange that the uploaders here apply the yuri tag to something like Akane x Ranma automatically, but not to MizuEna. Why is it that the shapeshifter is accepted as a girl so easily (with none of this concern trolling about how Ranma is "actually just" nonbinary or genderfluid or whatever), but Mizuki, a character whose story is very similar to that of many young trans girls, does not get this courtesy?
Surely it's not just because Ranma can shapeshift into a form where she is a cis girl, but Mizuki can't. It's not just because Mizuki has a dick that she can't shapeshift away... Right?
Those students also then say Ena is a "normal girl" where as it is implied then that they don't see Mizuki as such.
Not that those idiots have any say in who Mizuki is, but if they actually viewed Mizuki as just a boy, they would have just asked Ena if she's a girl, and the "normal" qualifier would not have been necessary. Ena being called a "normal girl" implies that Mizuki is viewed as a girl too, but the abnormal kind.
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juanelric
Apr 8, 2025 11:11PM
I don't play Project Sekai, so I don't know all details, but other characters have earned the Transgender tag much more easily, so at the very least it's not anti-trans bias.
last edited at Apr 8, 2025 11:11PM
Perlen297
Apr 9, 2025 11:55AM
I'm assuming there's multiple uploaders with different interpretations of Mizuki so the different tags is from there. It's one thing that Mizuki was 'widely accepted' by the fandom to be enby before Mizu5 but the posts after that? Some consistency would be neat.
ninryu
Apr 9, 2025 1:21PM
Mizuki is clearly trans, but it's unclear if they're a trans girl or non-binary trans-fem.
Norainhere
Apr 11, 2025 1:29AM
I'll just go ahead and tag all the posts with both Transgender and Non-binary to keeps things consistent, then
Aureole Apr 7, 2025 11:33PM
Having thoughts ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Norainhere Apr 8, 2025 12:07AM
Question for people familiar with Project Sekai, but was Mizuki ever confirmed to be trans or nb? Because right now most of the
Ena x Mizukitag is tagged withNon-binary, a few are tagged withTransgender, and one is tagged withYuri.skelly85 Apr 8, 2025 11:45AM
^
So Mizuki is canonically trans but Project Sekai hasn't used almost any explicit labeling language, however it has been pretty much confirmed since Mizuki's 5th focus event. I think of the level of confirmation as equivalent to the confirmation of Haruka and Michiru being a couple was in the original Sailor Moon anime (not the English dub). The main elements of Mizuki's story are about their struggles with society's perception of folks that are gender non-conforming and the othering that is associated with that. Their story is absolutely written to tell about a queer experience.
General overview of the story events, spoilers for Mizuki's story:
* As a young kid they preferred to dress in "cute", more traditionally feminine attire. However other students would bully them and make comments that their clothes were "weird". (The quoted words are words that Project Sekai uses to frame the narrative.)
* They entered an all boys school for middle school, no longer choosing to present with "cute" clothes. They had an extremely isolating experience there, their only friend being the other loner, Rui.
* Towards the end of their middle school time they found an online group of friends, 25 o'clock at Nightcord, and with the encouragement of their older sister she decided to go back to presenting in the way they felt most comfortable which was by dressing "cutely" and with their signature ribbon. Also growing her hair out past this point.
* In high school Mizuki is treated like a "zoo creature", where students talk about them behind their back. Students still commenting on Mizuki's choice of clothing. This is why she chooses to skip school as much as possible.
* Most of her focus story events are about their concerns about wanting to come out to their friends with their "secret" and/or being outed by students from their school before they get the chance. However they worry about how her friends will perceive her once they come out.
* Mizuki mainly wants to be accepted for being themself.
* Mizuki was outed as trans during the events of Mizuki 5 when Ena got stopped and asked by a group of students from their school about whether Ena knew Mizuki. Then the students started making a "joke", asking Ena if she was "also a guy". Those students also then say Ena is a "normal girl" where as it is implied then that they don't see Mizuki as such.
* During the end of the events of Ena 5, Mizuki came out to the rest of her nightcord group.
Since
Non-binaryis very often considered under the umbrella ofTransgenderand especially since the current Mizuki's story so far would lead me to read Mizuki as trans fem and nb, those are the reasons I would guess on why both tags have been used.There's a Japanese blog post I read about the Mizuki 5 focus story event and the focus events before that has a good in-depth explanation of why one should read Mizuki as trans fem and/or nb. It has a better Japanese language/media context than I can provide: https://note.com/nebou_june/n/n37fe1265a179#049ff682-479e-4980-9730-97204971e24d .
last edited at Apr 8, 2025 11:47AM
Doctor_Hoot Apr 8, 2025 9:36PM
From what I understand, Mizuki was assumed to be a girl by Ena and the other two girls from their unit, and she seemed to be completely fine with that. She wanted to come out to them, but she delayed it for a long time. If for all intents and purposes, she was a girl when she was with her closest friends, why the hesitation to call her a girl?
I find it strange that the uploaders here apply the yuri tag to something like Akane x Ranma automatically, but not to MizuEna. Why is it that the shapeshifter is accepted as a girl so easily (with none of this concern trolling about how Ranma is "actually just" nonbinary or genderfluid or whatever), but Mizuki, a character whose story is very similar to that of many young trans girls, does not get this courtesy?
Surely it's not just because Ranma can shapeshift into a form where she is a cis girl, but Mizuki can't. It's not just because Mizuki has a dick that she can't shapeshift away... Right?
Not that those idiots have any say in who Mizuki is, but if they actually viewed Mizuki as just a boy, they would have just asked Ena if she's a girl, and the "normal" qualifier would not have been necessary. Ena being called a "normal girl" implies that Mizuki is viewed as a girl too, but the abnormal kind.
last edited at Apr 8, 2025 10:28PM
juanelric Apr 8, 2025 11:11PM
I don't play Project Sekai, so I don't know all details, but other characters have earned the
Transgendertag much more easily, so at the very least it's not anti-trans bias.last edited at Apr 8, 2025 11:11PM
Perlen297 Apr 9, 2025 11:55AM
I'm assuming there's multiple uploaders with different interpretations of Mizuki so the different tags is from there. It's one thing that Mizuki was 'widely accepted' by the fandom to be enby before Mizu5 but the posts after that? Some consistency would be neat.
ninryu Apr 9, 2025 1:21PM
Mizuki is clearly trans, but it's unclear if they're a trans girl or non-binary trans-fem.
Norainhere Apr 11, 2025 1:29AM
I'll just go ahead and tag all the posts with both
TransgenderandNon-binaryto keeps things consistent, thenPerlen297 Apr 11, 2025 9:06PM
Oh neat! Thanks!!
of_blood_and_roses Apr 12, 2025 7:08PM
woah this is so pretty