[dreamcastegirl]

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Originally Posted by FairyKing

I just think it could be fun to have a thread to talk about moments in toku that made you go "hey, that's me!" I was inspired by Pride month and thinking about queer representation in media, but I wanted to define it more broadly than that so we have more to talk about and everyone can join in.

Oh, FairyKing, this whole thread is wonderful, I love it, thank you for making this and for sharing your thoughts too.

Obviously, no surprise to anyone that I should mention this, but the profound impact for me of Hurricanger episode #30 is just undeniable. I can't begin to properly find words for how much this meant to me without writing an essay, and I am aware that there are a lot of problems, that the episode walks back what it is suggesting by the end in order to preserve the status quo, that it could always be argued that I am interpreting it against the wishes of the creators of a Japanese children's television show, that I am taking the traditions and mores of a genre like Class S and considering them within the context of my own very Western upbringing, but for me, the central relationship of Nanami/Furabijou in this episode meant so, so much, and I will forever wilfully construe it as a relationship because... Death of the Author.

Also, more recently, I strongly related to Rita's motives in Super Sentai Strongest Battle; girl is let down by people around her, girl summons Satan, wrecks havoc. Yeah, that would have made a lot of sense to me as a kid.