I couldn’t find a nice way to put these all in oldest-to-newest order, but wanted to capture the whole thing.
I’m glad someone with more knowledge into the whole process responded, because from the sound of it seems like at least *someone* involved in the anime gets how much potential there is here. And it’s not impossible that the anime and manga could diverge further, which isn’t usually what you want, but as you point out it’s when they’re less faithful that the show’s better.
(Also, you’re right about its opinion re: sexual assault, didn’t mean to omit that, it’s such a bummer that this is so common a thing :\)
Anyhow, the mood whiplash in general is just fine with me. It feels like it’s so far had just enough serious moments to hint at something deeper going on and provide an avenue for character growth, without losing its upbeat and cheerful nature. I don’t know if my original post gave the impression that the mood whiplash was what bothered me, but if so that wasn’t what I was trying to get at. The only whiplash bothering me is going from heartfelt affection & a budding bond between two vastly different women who have found an unlikely counterpart, and trope-erific gags about perversion & sexual assault & other gross stuff.
I’m still crossing my fingers that it gets less gross, but the fact the original manga isn’t any better is definitely not good news. Important news, however, as there was a post going around a few days ago implying that the manga was better about all this (it was focused mainly on the funimation dub, but that seems from what I can tell to not be inventing anything that wasn’t already there). Maybe the best I can hope to see out of this is baby steps towards actual good anime featuring queer relationships. We’ll see I suppose. Thanks for all the replies.
