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WEP author isn’t a bigot

Yes, you hear me. There’s a lot of misinformation regarding the creator of Wonder Egg, that he his apparently a lesbophobe and a transphobe. After episode 10, I honestly couldn’t believe that someone who wrote such a positive trans rep could possibly be that kind of bigot, so I dig up.

The reason why he’s accused of lesbophobia was because of a badly translated interview that is 2 years old regarding another project he made. The interview was specifically about that project and wasn’t meant to be lesbophobic.

About the transphobic accusation, that one was really odd to me given WEP ep 10. Some people literally dig up a 10 years old manga he wrote to prove he was an awful bigoted transphobe and posted a few pages, removing certain from the scene, to paint the manga in a bad light as if it was actively transphobic. The manga in question is Sunu Sumu Muriku no Koibito. The pages I saw looked really taken out of context so I decided to read the damn manga, and guess what? It was all bullshit. There was no transphobia in it. You can read it for yourself, it’s only 6 chapters long. A lot of people assume the manga is transphobic because of the “misgendering” but that’s 100% a translation issue, given pronouns dont work the same way in Japanese. That’s the reason why, whenever a character’s gender is unknown, translators often end up picking a gender for translation sake, because they cant tell just from Japanese text. The fact Nono, the trans girl, is refer as “he” is on the translator only, not the author. Like heck, sometimes she was refered as he and then she within the same page and ever the same text bubble! Thats clearly a translation issue.

A certain twitter user posted 4 pages of a much longer scene to paint the scene as transphobic, but the whole context what the trans girl’s friends trying to convince the entire school to let her wear a female uniform to eleviate her dysphoria, and then right after collected enough money to pay for her gender reassinment surgery. The manga used terminology of its time but it was still very accurate with trans experience and struggle with dysphoria. For its time, especially in Japan, it was a progressive manga.

Painting WEP author as some horrible bigot is just wrong and misinformed. Instead of jumping to conclusion, do your own research. Don’t assume someone who created a show that is clearly trans friendly is actually a bigot because of some out of context stuff, it doesn’t make sense. And even if in the past he might have had bigoted opinions, people can change. If you dig up stuff I said barely 2 years ago out of context you could easily paint me as awful too. Give people the benefit of the doubt and take the time to research because spreading harmful misinformation about people that could be your ally.

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Wonder Egg Priority - episode 4 (Shinji Nojima, Shin Wakabayashi)

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Several machine and amateur translations of an old interview by WONDER EGG PRIORITY series composer Shinji Nojima have been going around that appear to say some pretty distressing stuff! So we had our team’s native speaker, Chiaki Hirai, look at the original interview herself.

This is her translation (alt text below). While it still reveals some pretty bullshit gender essentialist assumptions (that are in keeping with the lines from episode four that the director stepped in to overrule/decry on Twitter) that definitely deserve criticism, it is worlds different from previous circulated excerpts (which allege, among other things, that this text claims “men and women will always end up together”)--proving how important good translations are to a nuanced discussion of a work and its issues (not to mention, as is made clear with the director statement above, how important it is to remember that collaborative art can often involve artists pushing back on a colleague’s shitty impulses!).

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[ I didn't plan on making a love story about two women while working on this script. During a time when women are increasingly too busy to find themselves a boyfriend because of work or because of getting a divorce, it might all end up with two women deciding to live together. I think we're approaching the limits of what a heterosexual relationship can achieve. At its core, I wonder if it makes more sense for two people of the same tribe who understand each other to be together instead of between two beings who can't understand each other at their core. It's an extension of how girls will hold hands and go off to the bathroom together. I wonder if it makes sense that they'd might as well share a good looking guy, too, amongst themselves.]

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