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Uranus Pink said:
It isn't just the dialogue of the endings but also how the voice actors spoke them. Which to me seem like the voice actors read and spoke the lines as if they're still in the nineties or aughts not the troon infested tens and twenties. Cause I seen variations of this discussion done before back then and they did not involved chopping off own body parts.
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Didnt really take the voice acting into account to be honest, as that would change very much based on the director, and well the american bio using female pronounce when the japanese still suggest a male doesnt really bring much confidence.
As for the I am a girl line I still believe that it is just a way of subverting his usual "I am actually a boy" line, as in kind of like a joke from his part.
Mostly because in one of the lose endings he talks about being happy with who he is rn.
Then in the other they tell him to change his perspective on himself, be true to who he is and try to take a different step in life. this is the one where he says the girl line, thats why I assume he says the line, literally trying something diffetent than his usual correction.
In the best one Kys tells him directly that he is fond of the present and is afraid to change, and what would his present be? Thats right, being seen as a girl, he is afraid to open up to others about being a boy because the people he knows know only this version of him, thats why it seems he is still wearing the handcuff in his waist, he is still bound to who he was in the past.
Seems to me like a very japanese way to show stugle with masculinity and femininity but not in a trans way, but in the usual accept every aspect of yourself way.

Tbh what I am more unhappy about this arcade mode is that his brother is nowhere to be seen or mentioned.
 
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mudwogg said:
Streets of Rage 4's new playable cast were clearly designed to appeal to the starbucks demographic. I'm also scared of the possibility of Blue Point touching the MGS series.
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Sorry for being 3 days late to saying this, but this has to be the stupidest shit I've seen someone say on this site. Yeah, the series that had black playable characters and half of the playable starting cast be black in the third entry had characters designed to appeal to the "starbucks demographic" for the 4th entry made by the French. Yep. That makes a LOT of sense.
 
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Bungus Scrungus said:
Sorry for being 3 days late to saying this, but this has to be the stupidest shit I've seen someone say on this site. Yeah, the series that had black playable characters and half of the playable starting cast be black in the third entry had characters designed to appeal to the "starbucks demographic" for the 4th entry made by the French. Yep. That makes a LOT of sense.
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It isn't so much the race of the characters, but the aesthetic standards they were designed in. Indicating who the people behind their conception and target audience are. But in a sense, the race is still connected but not the entirety. It is very in-line with the newer characters made by the ones in-charge of Marvel and DC, as well as more recent iterations/redesigns of legacy characters. There's also numerous woke comics coming from lower profile publications who have characters designed under those standards. There's the cast of Saints Row 2022, there's Knight/Andrea Morgan from Hitman 2: Sniper Assassin who looks like Estel in SOR4.

The Japanese for some reason, know how to design actually attractive black characters. It's not unrealistic, but would be considered high standards in the real world.
We have characters like Elena from Street Fighter III, Master Raven from Tekken 7, Darlie Dagger from Samurai Shodown, and Dolores from KOF XV among the more recent examples. I do not even like how the word "realistic" is being used in defense of ugly ass characters, because that means denying the existence of good looking people in the real world. Woke creators just like to model their stuff after the worst specimens in the real world.

There's even characters like Claire (RE2 Remake), Abby's GF in Last of Us 2, and one of the female player models in Mass Effect Andromeda, as examples being based on actually attractive people but for some reason their character models were intentionally made to look less attractive than their real world models.
 
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mudwogg said:
It isn't so much the race of the characters, but the aesthetic standards they were designed in. Indicating who the people behind their conception and target audience are. But in a sense, the race is still connected but not the entirety. It is very in-line with the newer characters made by the ones in-charge of Marvel and DC, as well as more recent iterations/redesigns of legacy characters. There's also numerous woke comics coming from lower profile publications who have characters designed under those standards. There's the cast of Saints Row 2022, there's Knight/Andrea Morgan from Hitman 2: Sniper Assassin who looks like Estel in SOR4.

The Japanese for some reason, know how to design actually attractive black characters. It's not unrealistic, but would be considered high standards in the real world.
We have characters like Elena from Street Fighter III, Master Raven from Tekken 7, Darlie Dagger from Samurai Shodown, and Dolores from KOF XV among the more recent examples. I do not even like how the word "realistic" is being used in defense of ugly ass characters, because that means denying the existence of good looking people in the real world. Woke creators just like to model their stuff after the worst specimens in the real world.

There's even characters like Claire (RE2 Remake), Abby's GF in Last of Us 2, and one of the female player models in Mass Effect Andromeda, as examples being based on actually attractive people but for some reason their character models were intentionally made to look less attractive than their real world models.
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Estel isn't a "legacy" character though. And why would they further exaggerate the sex appeal in Blaze's design if they were really gung-ho about shooting for the "woke" design? Not to mention keeping a lot of the dominatrix goons pretty consistent.
 
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Estel isn't a "legacy" character though. And why would they further exaggerate the sex appeal in Blaze's design if they were really gung-ho about shooting for the "woke" design? Not to mention keeping a lot of the dominatrix goons pretty consistent.
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I was referring to comic book characters for the legacy argument.
 
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The like/dislike ratio on other videos like this ain't looking too hot either.
 
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A Japanese artist who went by Piriko_1210 posted their drawing of Bridget, tagged #otokonoko on pixiv.
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When they posted it on twitter, the artist told people that Bridget is a boy.
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Some western GG fans didn’t like that. Someone even accused the artist of “pandering to child predators” for saying that Bridget is male. Bridget is an adult in Strive and this picture isn’t NSFW at all.
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Archive of the full drawing, taken from @rayforcegame on twitter. The screenshots above are reposted from twitter and youtube.

As a result of being harassed by Bridget’s MTF fanbase, the artist deactivated their twitter account. They also got suspended from Pixiv, so only archives and screenshots of their art remain as far as I know.
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For people wondering why Pixiv, a Japanese company, would ban an artist for “misgendering” a fictional character:
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These policies were implemented after an MTF employee sued the company because the CEO kept sexually harassing him. So now every pixiv artist has to deal with censorship because of this chaser.

Edit: California? :story:
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This incident with Piriko just highlights to me that the Japanese seem to have an entirely different view on how Bridget's story mode went. There doesn't seem to be any discussion to Bridget's infamous line, and they still call Bridget a boy. It seems a surprise when they're reacting to Westerners.

That the Japanese seem entirely unaware of this apparent big change to a character is pretty telling to me. Either the translators missed/ignored/omitted some context, or it's Troons being Troons and latching onto whatever they can to push their love and tolerance. No matter what the truth is, Bridget discussion is probably ruined forever now. Another Naoto/Chihiro episode.
 
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Summoned Skull said:
Another Naoto/Chihiro episode.
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At least with Chihiro they localizers kept the line where he out right called himself a boy, again this bridget shit is mostly frustrating not because these people call him trans, its because if you dare to disagree with their opinion on the subject they will shout you down and call you a bigot despite the fact that being antagonistic to other perspectives like that is in of itself a form of bigotry.
 
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At least with Chihiro they localizers kept the line where he out right called himself a boy, again this bridget shit is mostly frustrating not because these people call him trans, its because if you dare to disagree with their opinion on the subject they will shout you down and call you a bigot despite the fact that being antagonistic to other perspectives like that is in of itself a form of bigotry.
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Bigot is like other words such as racist, fascist, whateverphobe.
They have been used so much that all the capital power the word had has been spent and its now meaningless.
Even being called a Nazi has nearly zero impact now.
 
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