#ryo watari

[kingcrustacean]

Finished the manga please god let it be animated one day

[agent13ronnie]

This manga was so important to me as a trans guy. It reminded me of how I felt in high school. I got so emotional that the main love interest is a straight girl who knew Ryo pre transition and pre coming out and still saw Ryo as a guy.

[your-fave-is-transmasc]

not sure if anybody has done these two before but uhh

ryo watari from boys run the riot and natsuyoshi utsumi from our dreams at dusk

both are canon btw

Ryo Watari from Boys Run the Riot and Natsuyoshi Utsumi from Our Dreams at Dusk are both trans men!

[urfavis-transmasc]

Ryo Watari from Boys Run The Riot is canonically a trans man!

Ryo Watari from Boys Run The Riot is a canon trans man !

[velociraptor-run]

@crypticpuffin (ALAAAANNNN 🎉🎉🎉) tagged me to share 9 fav characters 🫡

-Jen (The Dark Crystal)

-Ellen Ripley (Alien, but I do also like Ripley 8)

-Annalee Call (Alien Resurrection)

-Arthur Parnassus (The House in the Cerulean Sea)

-Corky (Bound)

-Toph Beifong (Avatar the Last Air Bender)

-Mae Borowski (Night in the Woods)

-Sarah Manning (Orphan Black, tbh I like most of the clones but if I did more then it would be all clones)

-Ryo Watari (Boys Run the Riot)

Tagging: @copiasforeskin @danisnotmyname @spookyteeths @milfwillgrahamsblog @living-life-lost @p1x3l-h3arts @slasherbat

[dropintomanga]

Boys Run the Riot - Transitioning Forward

Kodansha made a big splash at this year's Anime NYC with a free US-edition of one of their hit seinen manga magazines, Young Magazine. This special issue contains various stories of all genres catered to an English-speaking audience. The catch is that only five of them will make the cut to be ongoing series overseas via online fan vote. The one series that caught my eye immediately, which is most likely going to be one of the five series serialized here because of its overall popularity, is Keito Gaku's Boys Run the Riot -In Transition-.

It still provides a strong message about trying to thrive as a LGBTQ+ individual where a gender-binary world still struggles to understand them.

Picking up where the original series left off, Ryo Watari (formerly Ryoko) is living his life as a 21-year old college student balancing school and part-time work while chasing his dream to become a fashion designer. While he has fought hard to get to where he is, Ryo faces conflict from his mother, who can't accept his decision to fully transition from female to male. This tension causes Ryo to be unable to come to terms with going 100% to being male as he feels that he has to keep asking people to treat him as one. Ryo's struggle is also related to money as he feels that he has to keep waiting to get enough money to afford gender reaffirmation surgery.

Ryo does get a "Just Do It"-like speech from a fellow classmate who went from female-to-male, but it doesn't immediately spur him into action. He is also afraid of job hunting (his mom points this out in a blunt manner) because of his frustrations towards those who won't view him as male right away.

I wonder how many of us can relate to Ryo's feelings about wanting to move forward, but lacking the strength or courage to do so. In Ryo's case, it's living with his mother in a somewhat safe environment despite her criticism and being around kind people at the moment. Ryo was getting too comfortable with his current situation to the point until he noticed that he had to correct people about his gender a lot. In a sense, he was feeling cognitively overwhelmed over time. Which combined with how Ryo viewed his financial status keeps him at a standstill. It's like Ryo was always fighting over people's thoughts and trying to be perfect instead of doing something more productive that can invigorate him.

And it took a reunion with his old friends, Jin and Itsuka, from the Boys Run the Riot fashion label to snap him out of it. Jin, who currently works at a retro fashion store, compliments Ryo and his designer skills in front of his store manager and validates him as male without being asked. Jin proudly wants Ryo center-stage for his own store one day. Ryo mentally wakes up and decides to go ahead with paying for his gender-affirming surgery.

Sometimes, all it takes to move forward is to feel a sense of purpose and remember what your dreams are. And it can take great emotional support to do so. We often get stuck in our heads and it always takes an outside kind perspective to truly see what we're forgetting. Keito Gaku gets it and that's why I feel -In Transition- is perfect to be an ongoing series because LGBTQ+ individuals face harder mental health challenges compared to heterosexual/cisgender people and will sadly continue to do so.

I'll finish by commenting on something Ryo said before he met Jin and Itsuka again. He was crying about his emotional turmoil and said he wished his life was very straight-forward. In some ways, this is somewhat of a mental trap. We don't see the fuller picture because the people around us are hiding their vulnerabilities about their own lives. In a way, Boys Run the Riot -In Transition- is not just about transitioning from one gender to another; it's about transitioning from unhelpful thoughts that keep you stuck to realistic helpful thoughts that will always be in fashion.

[transmasculine]

alt:

canon trans character icons!

if youre a weirdo i will fucking block you

hibari oozora, kaoru anesagi, mako ariga, nitori shuichi, ryou watari, sweet-p, toyosatomimi no miko, yamato, yuzu

[anexistingexistence]

I feel like Mizuki Akiyama and Ryo Watari would make great friends (the type to yell at each other about their shared passion in a friendly competition and very excited kind of manner)