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Ice Mountain said:
I looked it up, just to make sure, and yep:
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You'd think she'd sound a little more animated, considering she's voicing a self-insert character on her own show, which is an amazing opportunity a lot of creators wouldn't even DREAM of achieving, but no.
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"Now tell me class, what does T stand for?"
"Tranny!"
"PARSLEY YOU MOTHERFUCKER-"
 
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... If the professor takes potions every month to keep his body male, shouldn't he be voiced by a biological man? I assume that since the potions turn him into a biological male, they'd have some sort of effect on his voice and give him a naturally and actually male voice instead of Raye's ridiculously girly alto.

Hearing what is blatantly a woman's voice come out of the mouth of a male-looking character is so jarring and takes me out of the scene even more than I already was. Absolutely terrible casting, frankly.
 
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madethistocomment said:
... If the professor takes potions every month to keep his body male, shouldn't he be voiced by a biological man? I assume that since the potions turn him into a biological male, they'd have some sort of effect on his voice and give him a naturally and actually male voice instead of Raye's ridiculously girly alto.

Hearing what is blatantly a woman's voice come out of the mouth of a male-looking character is so jarring and takes me out of the scene even more than I already was. Absolutely terrible casting, frankly.
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You're thinking on this far, far deeper than they are. They're doing it for woke points and to be trendy, it's never been about the actual situation or the magic involved. If they'd actually done that it would be at least vaguely reasonable instead of laughable horseshit.

The best part is if they were actually trying to indulge the fantasy of trannies they'd have their voice be more masculine instead of blatantly unfitting. Didn't even bother to go that far.
 
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morimori-chan said:
And looking at Twitter and Tumblr... The average SJW's reaction to this show:
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Dude looks like he's trying to do an impression of Nicolas Cage doing an impression of Nicolas Cage.

So, this show is really weird about really powerful magic. Like, 'new magic' is easy to use, has no drawbacks and doesn't even need knowledge to use correctly. There is a little marble that can turn an entire city's populace to stone and it's just a thing you can buy. It's not even black market or anything, just a little expensive, and all you need to do is hit it to activate it and hit it again to undo it.

And then a big plot point is that evil shit is corrupting nature or something and the bad guys are hunting the good guys to make sure they don't expose the secret to curing trees of the evil tentacles. Except, that 'secret' is to just use the all powerful healing water that's stored in the dungeon first years use for practise (like, it's regular for students to be sent in there and retrieve the water to prove themselves). So, when the good guys lose their vial, no one thinks of just.. Going back into the dungeon. Or telling the teachers 'Hey, use that healing water on the trees, Dip Shits'.

Also, the one dude student in the group is totally going to transition just to fuck the lesbian witch chick.
 
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madethistocomment said:
... If the professor takes potions every month to keep his body male, shouldn't he be voiced by a biological man? I assume that since the potions turn him into a biological male, they'd have some sort of effect on his voice and give him a naturally and actually male voice instead of Raye's ridiculously girly alto.

Hearing what is blatantly a woman's voice come out of the mouth of a male-looking character is so jarring and takes me out of the scene even more than I already was. Absolutely terrible casting, frankly.
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I'm going to die laughing if their explanation amounts to "Well in Japan, women play men all the time!" except in those series, they never once state anywhere the boy was once a girl. Ever. Except for one time in Escaflowne, but that's not a trans allegory.
 
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madethistocomment said:
... If the professor takes potions every month to keep his body male, shouldn't he be voiced by a biological man? I assume that since the potions turn him into a biological male, they'd have some sort of effect on his voice and give him a naturally and actually male voice instead of Raye's ridiculously girly alto.

Hearing what is blatantly a woman's voice come out of the mouth of a male-looking character is so jarring and takes me out of the scene even more than I already was. Absolutely terrible casting, frankly.
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Can't he just use a spell to change his gender permanently?
 
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morimori-chan said:
Can't he just use a spell to change his gender permanently?
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Considering that the bitchy rival's botched potion managed to turn a regular housecat into a sentient Khajit-like creature capable of speaking very eloquently and the only way that they were able to turn him back was a whole different spell, there absolutely should be a permanent sex change spell or potion or something. But then they wouldn't have a magical HRT allegory and we can't go without that, now can we?

Also, the show has this concept of "old magic vs. new magic" where old magic (something Sage learned from her mother and practiced before she started attending the academy) is magic in the more traditional sense, with it being difficult to harness with lots of rituals and every spell having a cost (whether that be material components or the caster's energy), as well as having limitations in what it can do. New magic is easy to use and learn, instantaneously castable, can do practically anything, and comes at literally no cost to the caster. The show keeps beating the audience over the head with how new magic is so much better and easier and that traditionalist magic users like Sage's mom being painted as sticks in the mud, backwards, or closed minded for not using it.

I can't tell if this is supposed to be them taking jabs at IRL traditionalists/conservatives, or if they're trying to hint that new magic is actually evil since it's practically too good to be true. Apparently Sage's mom tried experimenting with new magic in her past, but renounced it and refuses to acknowledge that she practiced it, which could honestly work for either interpretation. The second option would actually kind of impress me if they went that route because they'd at least be doing something mildly interesting with the writing. And if there's a person of the writing team with even a lick of writing skills (doubtful) they could do something VERY interesting with the fact that new magic is secretly evil and one of the main characters has been ingesting it every month, though the chances of that subplot happening are smaller than a snowy day in hell since it'd imply that the fantasy HRT might be a bad thing, actually.
 
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