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Seeing yourself in toku
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.
Two moments immediately come to mind that did that for me. First, when Chase asked Shinnosuke and Kiriko to explain romantic love. I'm asexual (mostly, it's complicated) and while I sometimes get annoyed by us being stereotyped as not understanding love, there have been times I genuinely was mystified by the whole dating thing and wished my friends would explain it to me. The second has nothing to do with gender or sexuality, and that's Touma's struggle of having too many ideas for stories and not being able to decide which one to write first. As a writer and aspiring author myself, I felt that pain in my soul! I have a feeling the scriptwriter for that episode was speaking from experience with that line. |
A lot of Wataru’s struggles to talk to people.
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Honestly just Touma in general whenever he talks about writing, whether it be him suddenly getting inspiration, being stuck in a rut, having too much information... that's basically my "That's me!" moment.
Purely because of me taking up Fanfic writing again, I can relate hard with him in those cases. |
All of Ryotaro, and I doubt I'm alone in this.
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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. |
Eiji's constant need to help others and martyr himself hit really close to home for me.
In a more postive way Cam from Ninja storm was the first time I felt truly represented by a tv series. |
Touma for the same reason others have mentioned.
Ryuuga wanting people to accept him for who he is, instead of seeing him as another Evolt, is a problem I definitely relate to, due to certain people IRL thinking my identity is invalid and that I should be the same as everybody else. That's why watching Ryuuga fight for his right to exist in the world and not be defined by his past was very inspiring to me. |
I don't know if "seen" is the right word, but not long after I realized (or RealxEyes-ed) that I was non-binary, Naki showed up in Zero-One as the first non-binary Kamen Rider.
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I think it might be impossible to not relate to Shinji from Ryuki on SOME level. No one respects him and he is constantly trying to duct tape the situation back into some semblance of sanity. I think everyone has been there at some point, probably at their job, hahaha...
I also kind of resonate with Takumi from Faiz. It sounds bad to say I resonate with a Faiz character, but I could definitely relate to Takumi’s difficulty in connecting with people and his inability to communicate effectively at times. |
If there's anything 555 does exceed at, it's the very visceral portrayal of what a lack of communication can do to people and how that lack of communication is brought on from societal nature. I've come to respect it a lot for that
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