please read/watch marriagetoxin for pride month please pspspsps
Okay in seriousness there are some questions that people ask about this series and have discourse about but I can't really go into detail without some minor spoilers so view this little FAQ with caution:
Is MARRIAGETOXIN a BL?
From a marketing standpoint, MARRIAGETOXIN has never been and will never be labeled as a BL. It is a battle shounen through and through. However, just because it's not a BL does not mean it's not queer.
And usually when people ask this question what they're really trying to ask is, "Will Gero and Kinosaki get together?"
I can't predict the future, and the manga is still ongoing. That being said, at this point in the manga, it is HEAVILY implied that Gero and Kinosaki are in love with each other.
2. Is Kinosaki trans?
I'm not going to answer this as a yes/no question, but give some clarity about what they have/haven't said.
For starters, Kinosaki fits cleanly into the social identity of an otokonoko (ăȘăăłăźćš, literally "male daughter"), which is sometimes translated as femboy. That's not a horrible translation, but those two words are not 1:1. "Otokonoko" is an identity that excludes neither binary cis men NOR binary trans women. Saying something like "they can't be trans, they're otokonoko" is not useful because those ideas are NOT mutually exclusive.
Kinosaki says in the first episode/first chapter that they are a guy (ç· otoko). They could be referring to their gender identity, their assigned gender at birth, or both. I want to emphasize that it is not unusual for even binary trans women in Japanese to use phrases identifying themselves as "men," "men who want to become women," or "men with the heart/mind of a woman," so I don't think it's fair to say that that wholly negates a transfem reading of Kinosaki.
Kinosaki presents as female and is regularly assumed to be a (presumably cis) woman and shows no discomfort towards that. We don't see Kinosaki presenting as male much, but they haven't said they have any discomfort towards that either.
Kinosaki's personal pronoun is watashi, which is female-leaning in casual contexts. Kinosaki's first name, Mei, is also very feminine, and might therefore be a chosen name or pseudonym (it's also written in katakana, which may indicate a pseudonym in other media, but many names are written in katakana in MARRIAGETOXIN so that's not particularly notable). Kinosaki's way of speaking is a bit feminine-leaning but mostly gender neutral.
Kinosaki says they enjoy being attractive to "both sides" in Japanese.
So....basically, it's not too hard to substantiate any cis man, trans woman, x-gender, or unlabelled reading of Kinosaki with canon points. Kinosaki is also an unreliable narrator with some secrets, so keep that in mind.
3. I've heard that Kinosaki was revealed to be "a girl all along," is that true?
This is a common statement on Twitter. If you're asking about Kinosaki being a trans woman, see above. If you're asking about Kinosaki being a a cis woman, anyone who says that Kinosaki is a cis woman in the manga is lying out of their ass. Some people believe that Kinosaki will be revealed to be a cis woman, or that there are "hints" that Kinosaki is a cis woman. Again, I can't predict the future, but "hints" is a massive reach.
Most of the "argument" comes down to the fact that Kinosaki's chest has been obscured very occasionally:
There is a spoilery, non-gender-related reason for this. Some people also point out that, even after that reason is revealed, their nipples are still obscured and like...listen, it's a Shonen Jump title, and seeing a very feminine person with exposed nipples can lead to controversy.
Regardless, it's clear that Kinosaki's chest is flat:
There's nothing that contradicts Kinosaki being AMAB and they are not a "secret cis woman."
valuing them as individuals and friends not just potential romantic partners, making a point of acknowledging their achievements, prioritising their wants and needs beyond his own goals.... forget poison it's Respect Women Juice that gero's dosed up on
Unironically I think Gero doesnât know men can like men. I think he only knows about lesbianism. In support of this is his âwait but if weâre both guys it wouldnât be a date I guess ??â comment with Kinosaki and the fact that he doesnât seem to clock any of whatâs going on with Teruaki. The only thing I would say hurts this theory is Beppu but Beppu is Beppu maybe he thinks thatâs just a Beppu thing.
If you use Firefox, you can go to the about:config page, search for "media.mediasource.enabled" and double click on it to set it to false. After you restart Firefox, all youtube videos will load entirely even when paused! This also affects other streaming websites :)
go to About:config
find media.mediasource.enabled and toggle it to false
find media.cache_readahead_limit and change it to 9999
find media.cache_resume_threshold and change it to 9999
additionally if you'd prefer mp4 to webm
also in about:config, find:
media.encoder.webm.enabled
media.mediasource.webm.audio.enabled
media.mediasource.webm.enabled
media.webm.enabled
and toggle them all to false
note!
this will limit video to 1080p
and use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dont-accept-webp/ to kill WebP
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you will feel so alive again.. like so incredibly alive. i dont know when that will be but it will be. u are gonna feel so alive that ur cheeks hurt from smiling oh man oh man i promise that day is coming. you do have a future, you do have good things coming, and youâll survive everything thatâs thrown at you until you reach that day
