#then the reboot is... the reboot. cant afford characters in the first place somehow but does whitewash the hell out of the ones they cant

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i think about diversity in trigun and im always wildly going back and forth on what i think about it. i finish trigun in 2022 and im like wow almost all the different people (a trans woman, a nonbinary character, a character with DID, multiple paraplegic people or a character with some sort of disability, dwarfs, etc.,) were antagonists. don't like that! but also it was made in the late 90s to 2010s, it was a different time, and other shounen were much worse, o/pm by one is still currently obsessed with making fun of marginalized people. but that's also just a low bar that doesnt automatically make that ok, its still Not Good. but also i dont think nightow is intentionally making his characters in that way with an implication theyre evil because theyre different or whatever, he's kind of used it as a sad backstory for some of the antagonists, and the main character is also missing an arm and has the same name mechanic as most of the gung ho guns. but also that makes me think he just uses these aspects of these characters in a way he thinks it makes them cool or whatever, so its most likely a kind of fetishization.

so idk, its not the worst, it can definitely be better. it does personally feel like the exact opposite of today's obsession with "representation". jkr announcing on twitter dumbledore was gay all along, disney declaring their 50th first openly gay character, or new authors not knowing how to even describe their own story beyond it having a queer protagonist or smth. i dont think anyone starts trigun for a character that's a trans woman or has DID, but they are there! they are generally antagonists, though, but they will be drawn in a way nightow thinks is cool, i think, lol