Wandering Son Retrospective | Chatty AF

Vrai does a deep dive on the anime and manga of Wandering Son (Hourou Musuko) with special guests Associate Editor of Anime News Network Jacob Chapman, RUclipsr Cayla Coats, and manga scholar and professional translator Rachel Thorn.
[Please note that Rachel began to use this name after the recording of this podcast and is therefore referred to as Matt throughout this episode.]
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SPOILERS: for the entire series of Wandering Son
0:00:00 Intros
0:03:16 Personal experience with Wandering Son
0:14:01 American publication process
0:17:06 Author research into subject matter
0:20:03 Perceptions of different genders crossdressing
0:24:06 Narrative focus on trans themes vs nontrans characters
0:27:06 Differences between anime and manga
0:34:35 Western vs Japanese reactions to the series
0:37:48 Differences in trans representation between America and Japan
0:42:10 Use of pronouns in the manga
0:43:24 Nitori vs Mako
0:50:26 Saorin love
0:55:37 Director’s intention
0:59:16 Representation in anime
1:02:00 Shimanami Twilight and trans politics in Japan
1:08:25 Outro
Recorded Saturday 15th July 2017

[@cryyuni]

i just wanted to say THIS IS AMAZING, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING THIS EPISODE AND I LOVED LISTENING TO these INSIGHTS, i couldnt believe ive found such good discussion about this anime this recently :') as a trans guy, thank you, thank you thank you

[@cryyuni]

however, i do really hold the anime to my heart because its so slice of life and the rarity really does drive home its imperfect "perfectness" the ending of the manga did really turn me off because of takatuski's ending but i do love shuichi and agh it's just so good