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Tomo-Chan Is A Girl is a sweet little romcom anime but Ive fallen into the unfortunate habit of looking at the comments section on crunchyroll and learning that theres people watching it mystified by Gundō Misuzu’s behavior, as though she ISNT motivated by being so gay it makes her stomach hurt. Like maybe Im just too far gone in reading queer characters into a work but the girl just spent two episodes mooning over Tomo in a prince costume while internal-monologuing about how beautiful she’d also be as a princess and struggling with obvious jealousy that Tomo likes Jun and not her, idk how else you interpret that.

Same thing with Carol being neurodivergent, like theres folks being like “ooh shes just so quirky and weird, its crazy how she bluntly addresses socially awkward topics and unknowingly crosses unspoken intimacy boundaries with a fixed expression that we learn stems from a misinterpreted offhand comment from her parent when she was young” and Im like are you a newborn lamb unaware of the world or have you just never met any autistic folks before. (Not that any real person with autism is One Way or another obviously, Im talking about general tropes/coding in media more than anything).

……furthermore I think Jun can be pretty easily textually read as trans/questioning but thats not something I have the authority or wherewithal to comment on further

Anyway these bitches gay good for them good for them etc