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Cool arguments, but Bridget is, and always will be, best boy.

Interesting topic

Great video, you really came out swinging. Well done

Hey so, when can we expect to see the return of part 6? It's been about a year since this video was made, and I kinda want to hear what you have to say about that.

I used to follow Dimitri but i had left his discord due to being embarrassed by arguing about how debates should be (with his mod). It was stupid but also, after I left, I think I learned he was a scumbag for grooming a 16 year old right?

It's so weird. Why make a competition about femboys and transgirls? Both exist and have their place. Main issue is that there is an overlap. Many AMAB queer (assigned male at birth) start by trying on female clothing when expressing their gender identity. Some continue to identify as male and are femboys and some identify as female, being transgirls. No reason to cause conflict. The one's trying to erase femboys are not transgirls and their allies, it's bigots who would shame any male who would dress up as a femboy.

Femboy Messiah ❤❤❤

I'm a trans woman that figured things out about a year before Bridget did. Honestly? Bridgett's slow-burn figuring stuff out over years is some of the best representation I could hope for. The whole trap thing and people equating trans people to cross-dressers thing are both pretty bad. That said, watching her struggle with her gender, what she's told, and how she's seen and eventually figuring things out confidently enough to say it out loud reflects a lot of our journeys, and for that, I'm grateful. Also, as a fluent bilingual born in Japan, thank you for discussing Japanese with as much nuance as you did. It's truly wonderful to see Japanese analyzed beyond a surface-level scan as happens so often.

It was weird when Bridget released in Strive and people were not sure how to interpret the multiple endings. But now that it's just word of god and stuff, it's shitty that people are like arguing about it. Fighting games and the FGC are literally the most diverse video game genre and community. It's unfortunate that even there people can't just accept things. God forbid a character have like...development or a journey or something over 20 years idk.

As someone who hasn't played guilty gear ever and only started getting into it i remember this controversy oddly well and for me i always saw bridget becoming a girl as her story going from."forced to be a feminine girl." To "screw you town im going to be a girl and go hunt bountys and kick ass."

Something I often see is that trying to Google Translate Japanese pages is already a massive error. As someone who has been a part of many communities where games may release content in Japanese before English, a VERY common issue is that trying to Google Translate a page can often lead to problems related to pronoun usage, and would often default to masculine pronouns even for explicitly feminine characters. The way pronouns work in Japanese is not the same as English, and Google Translate is not a de-facto perfectly-accurate translation and is only really good for quick, rough translations.

Bridget for me is such a fun little story. At first i identified with her because I considered myself just a femboy or cross dresser, then i began identifying with testament, and the same hear i came out as gender fluid/trans fem, Bridget came out as trans fem too. Its so strange when your gender envy follows a similar story as you do and because of that, the character became much more powerful for me personally!

Don't really care about the hole Trans crap if there fun to play then there fun to play lore is more or less secondary for me

I guess it’s character development. As long as it wasn’t a stunt to attract/appease the sexual minority.

She is epic

just wanted to say, pretty good video, but I have one big issue with your idea that pandering being done to the lowest common denominator (in this case the transgender community) is an inherently bad business idea. if the developers wanted to market a character towards the trans community they would also gain a significant amount of favor with anyone partial to the trans community (the west and its younger generations are very much partial towards the LGBT community). you also mentioned that it wouldn't make sense for them to market towards the transgender community if their audience was japanese, but arcsys has directly stated before that they want to market games to a western audience and obtain a bigger grasp of players overseas (they've been saying this even as far back as with blazblue cross tag's release, but likely even further if I had to guess). i'm not trying to say this is some global conspiracy for arcsys to be some sort of evil conglomerate harping traction off the backs off of westerners, but to say that marketing a character towards a lgbt-partial direction wouldn't be profitable is pretty disingenuous. for that reason, I do believe that there was some level of pandering with the character's direction, especially because i generally have a negative view towards the faith of corporations when making decisions like this as a whole. regardless of the quality of her story and regardless of whether or not it was done for profit, the fact remains that bridget is a girl and that this entire conversation is the most annoying discussion to hit guilty gear.

the fact that people were so willing to sexualize +R bridget (who was 14 at the time) but are suddenly put off at the idea of bridget coming out as a trans woman is so icky to me

I was so happy when Bridget came out as trans. I feel like Bridget was always meant to be trans, but it couldn't be explicit for reasons. Like how Hoyoverse can't have explicit lesbian characters because of China, but they have a ton of implied lesbian couples. Even if I'm wrong about Bridget always having meant to be trans, I feel like her story is a natural evolution so I don't see a problem with them pronouncing her as trans.

"Male Daughter" goes so fucking hard

Amazing and well written video, thanks for taking the time to speak on this topic and clear up the misconceptions surrounding this topic and the broader topic of transgenderism in Japan. As a trans woman myself, I find support like this to be far and few between so again, thank you!

2:10 I don't get it why didn't the parents just move out of the town, surely there's less weird places to live at besides that town

Saw you mention Dimitri Monroe, who just *looking at the section names* from that video from 9 months ago was *still* using talking points that Bridget deniers had abandoned long ago because of being so thoroughly debunked.

All right, that cut redeemed Encanto for me

I knew unsubbing from Dimitri when he said Sage was cute and funny was the right move. I'm still on team 'sad we couldn't have a femboy because god forbid a man want to be girly' though.

We love ✨Brisket✨

Your videos have so much effort put into them, hope you haven't given up on youtube (not that not uploading for a few months is necessarily an indicator of that, but still). Would love to listen to you talk more about animation/gamedev, or whatever really, because this is some great stuff!

i don't play games much, just here to understand, thank you for the informative video! i really like these animations but i hate playing games yayy

Honestly it's just the character direction that was just really wacky, especially given her past story lines. Ofc that's how it is now so she's a she, but if she ends up going back to a boy next game I'm still just gonna be a little caught off guard. It's just a weird direction to go into especially since her last story really emphasized the fact that she wanted to have more masculine traits but in the end became ok with still dressing however she liked. Yes this is a outcome that could have happened in the story no doubt. But mix that in with the way she was raised and it's just a really weird direction, and it feels like it thematically contradicts her story up unil now even if no hard lore was broken.

whats wrong with sin :(

10:23 WHAT WAS THIS GUY YAPPING ABT IS HE FCKING SERIOUS? 😭 This was the hardest cope I've ever seen and it hurt my soul to even listen to him speak 💀

I'm surrpised you have as few subscribers as you do, but I've added myself as one now.

As a trans person who was honestly feeling kind of upset with the mass amount of negativity towards this newly found character I can see myself in, seeing such a level headed video like this really means a lot. Thank you for being such a good voice on the topic

Before this vid I didn't know who Dimitri Monroe was and his stupidity you shown made be laugh out loud lmao Tho I noticed that on minute 13:05 his user features the italian flag tho having an english Name So either he's actaully Italian Or (most probably) he's one of those people who see they are 0.001% Italian and think they are Italian and know our culture

17:13 "That's a crunchyroll level of shitty business model." I'm going to start using that freaking phrase from now on. that made me laugh so hard.

I think the funniest part about this is that in online discourse surrounding Japanese media, theres the extreme weeb side that constantly says to not misinterpret Japanese creator's intentions either due to language barriers or cultural differences from media they create...And it seems when it comes to things they do not like, especially when it comes to transphobia or bigotry, they do not care and are big hypocrites.

you know, i came here prepared to dislike but you genuinely acknowledge the problems and give a very wellmade video. take the like

i know it's a bit old now but this video is GOOD SHIT and i'm gonna make a big comment tomorrow (even if no one is going to care about my opinion on the subject) as it's almost 5 am where i live and i need to sleep

It takes the best boy to be the best girl

This is the nuanced AI discourse we need.

Canon

21:30 Haha yeah, some people really think of gender and sex through nhentai tags

9:31 Did someone say "canon events"?

this is such a good vid thx for making it

bruh what the fuck

So... 3d wasn't a threat to 2d and the proof is that everything (Disney) is animated in 3d now? When A has been replaced by B, I'd say the threat was real. Note that I'm not saying that 3d is bad. They've managed to bring back the soul of 2d animation into 3d now and... it works.

why do people make fight of it? even if a person is non-binary or gender-neutral, the person is trans. transsexuality is an umbrella. another thing is a femboy becoming trans is something so strange? to the point of having so many fights like that? it is not obvious? if astolfo is canonized as a trans character tomorrow 0 people will be surprise. This fight doesn't even make sense. and does this do testament trans too? yes bruh I am non-binary all non-binary people know that all non-binary people are trans. if Femboy is something that is linked to gender androgyny agenero or non-binary IT ENDS UP BEING TRANS TOO. it's an unnecessary fight that doesn't make sense, people just do that because people hate trans people for no reason. but at this point femboy is not a gender femboy is more a part of gay culture.-. facts here.

Apparently the hobgoblin made a new video a few months back citing Vastedge, editing interviews and claiming Daisuke didn’t make Bridget after all