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The Point of this is not to get people to stop watching anime/manga or shame them for doing so. Watch and read what you want but you should have the knowledge necessary to make the right choice regardless of what ever delusion you had about the supposed ''basedness'' of anime before.
I am just one guy compiling a list of all instances of Tranime I found and deem important. There are lists on Mal that feature like 30 different manga that have trannies in them in some way and I am not going to list them all since most are just one volume things and pretty irrelevant. I do not speak Japanese nor do I have any connections to Japan. With the famous works I mention in the magazines are the works I consider important. Most magazines I list have a ton of million seller manga and I am way to lazy to list them all, so I just listed the ones I deemed important.
Shonen: Term for a Demographic, Means Aimed at adolescent Boys Aged 9 to 18
Shojo: Term for a Demographic, Means Aimed at adolescent Girls
Seien: Term for a Demographic, Means Aimed at Man Aged 18-40
Josei: Term for a Demographic, Means Aimed at adult Woman
Manga Magazine: Nearly all Manga is published in big, telephone book like anthology magazine that feature multiple manga and are released in different cycles (weekly, biweekly, monthly…). They usually feature one Chapter of each published manga. These individual chapters are later compiled into pocketbook like volumes, which are mostly 200 pages long and feature one series from the magazine. These magazines often target a specific audience for example the Weekly Shonen Jump targets adolescent Boys.
Licensed in English/multiple western languages: Is a big sign of how successful a manga is cause it wouldn’t get licensed in the west otherwise. You can compare it to Young Adult English novels that get translated into other European languages, which only happens with the few really successful ones.
Anime=Tranime
Anime is Tranime is an accusation that has been often brought up by various right-wing personalities, who most often are very critical of anime.
But is it true?
The people who proclaim these accusations most often aren’t anime fans themselves, for obvious reason, and as such most often have little prove for their beliefs.
I however know more than enough to prove these accusations, since I am terminally online retarded who spent way to much time watching/reading anime/manga and hanging around anime related website and boards like /a/.
(The fact that I gained a kind of morbid and unhealthy interest in finding out whether these accusations where true after being exposed to instances of tranny stuff in anime/manga also helped)
My point is not that Japan is like some kind of tranny paradise or that there aren’t probably a lot Japanese who are gender-critical, but rather that tranny stuff is widely accept and distributed in the manga/anime industry and has been for a while.
I will probably miss a lot so please reply with your own findings as well.
I am also not going to feature Gender bender stuff even if a lot of it is proto Tranime shit (effeminate male gets turned into girl stays a girl cause he falls in love in with a guy or something, for example Sekai no Hate de Aimashou, Boku Girl and Hen by the Gantz Guy, there are 2 I mean the older one) cause that would be just way,way,way,way,way,way,way to much work. My Anime List (MAL) says that there are 217 manga in its database that are Genderbender (they call it Magical Sex Shift) and I would say that at least half if not more are proto Tranime, for an example of Genderbender that is most definitely a Tranime look up Ore ga Watashi ni Naru made/Until I become me, about a Boy who wakes up as a Girl one day, so MTF.
My sources are mostly MAL and the Interest Stacks you can find on it, as well as the knowledge I picked up during my time online.
Tranny shit in Manga
There are far more manga which’s many focus is tranny stuff than anime so I will start with that. I will mention which magazine the manga got serialized in, what kind of magazine it is (Avant Gard/underground mainstream aimed at boys, aimed at girls you get the gist) and which other famous series ran in it. Will also mention famous series that have a trans characters but don’t mainly focus on tranny stuff.
Stop!! Hibari-kun! (1981-1983), 4 volumes, weekly magazine
TLDR: High school guy moves in with yakuza family who has 4 children. One is a MTF. He falls in love with the MTF one. Its Anime adaptation might be the first anime to feature a tranny.
Has an Anime: Yes
Licensed: No, way to old for that
Magazine: Weekly Shonen Jump (The biggest Shonen manga magazine in Japan), peak circulation of 6,5 million the 1990ths currently around 1,5
-this is the magazine where basically all anime/manga that casuals know come from (Dragon Ball, Naruto, One Piece, Bleach, JoJo Bizarre Adventure, Chainsaw Man, Demon Slayer, My Hero Academia, Death Note, Hunter x Hunter) All of which have sold volumes in the at least two digit million range.
- The fact that they had a tranny manga as far back as in the 1980s probably tells you all you need to know about the manga/anime industries attitude towards trannies, however as far as I now there haven’t been another Tranime Manga in the magazine since then. However, the recently started online app/spinoff magazine Shonen Jump+ has a Manga called After School Mate that is Tranime, with one of the main characters being a MTF.
Wandering Son (2002-2013), 15 volumes, monthly magazine
TLDR: About a FTM and an MTF, who are both young kids and their experiences with being trans. Basically a tranny Coming of Age tale. Author also created a lot of Girls love/Lesbian/Yuri and Boys Love/Gay/Yaoi Manga which also got adaptations, generally a well-known famous Manga author (at least in Japan).
Probably the most famous full on Tranime work, at least in the west.
Has an Anime: Yes
Licensed: In English by Fantagraphics, only published 8 volumes of 15, started publishing it in 2011 long before anyone cared about trans stuff in the west
Magazine: Comic Beam, an Underground/Avant Gard Magazine, circulation of about 20 000, aimed at college students and anime Connoisseur
-Emma (Has an Anime, Other famous work by author is Otoyomegatari/Young Bride's Story, both licensed in English/multiple western languages)
-Desert Punk (Got an Anime)
-Thermae Romae (Got an Anime, licensed in English)
-King of Thorn (Got an Anime, licensed in English/multiple western languages)
-Gou Tanabes Adaptations of Lovecraft Works also got published in this magazine (most of which are licensed in English/multiple western languages)
-For being and underground magazine in Japan a lot of works have gotten licensed not just in English but in French, German, Italian... as well. The number of manga that got an anime is also surprising, since that usually only happens with big/famous works.
Boys Run the Riot (2020), 4 volumes, weekly magazine.
TLDR: About a high school FTM that starts their own fashion line. Main reason why it is a big one because it ran in Weekly Young Magazine, one of the biggest Seien magazines of Japan and just shows how mainstream trans stuff is with the mainstream/most important people in the manga industry. Author is also a FTM.
Has an Anime: No
Licensed: In English by Kodansha's Comic/multiple western languages
Magazine: Weekly Young Magazine (One of the biggest Seien magazines of Japan), peak circulation of 1,5 million in the 1990s currently around 400 000, was then transferred to the Comics Days Manga App
-Akira (10 million copies sold, Has an Anime, licensed in English/multiple western languages, its anime adaptation made Anime big in the USA, generally one of the most influential manga/anime of all time)
-Inital D (55 million copies sold, has multiple Anime adaptations, made Eurobeat famous, licensed in English)
-xxxHolic (14 million copies sold, Has an Anime adaptation, Live Action, licensed in English/multiple western languages)
-Prison School (13 million copies sold, Has an Anime adaptation, licensed in English/multiple western languages)
-I could list a couple more but I think you get how important this magazine is in the manga industry
Claudine (197
, 1 Volume, biweekly magazine
TLDR: Adult FTM that tris to be accepted as a man and searches for love, ends tragically. Was created by the woman who wrote rose of Versailles, also in the 1970s, one of the most influential manga of all time. Might be the first somewhat well-known manga featuring a tranny.
Has an Anime: No
Licensed: In English by seven sea entertainment
Magazine: Margaret (Shojo Magazine), had a circulation of 180 000 in 2010, so peak circulation was probably around a million, currently around 30 000.
-Hana yori Dango/Boys Over Flowers (61 million Copies sold, most successful shojo manga of all time, has an Anime, multiple live action adaptations, licensed in English/multiple western languages)
-Hirunaka no Ryuusei/Daytime Shooting Star (2 million copies sold, Live Action Adaptation, licensed in English/multiple western languages)
-basically, the magazine is a big deal in female orientated manga
Homunculus (2003-2011), 15 Volumes, weekly magazine
TLDR: Has about 4 million copies in print. Plot is mostly about something else, but one of the last arcs focuses on the second main character. The first Main character helps him realize that he is actually a she, so MTF, I shit you not for like 2 or 3 volumes the main dresses him up an goes to restaurants and shit with the MTF. The first work from 1989 of the author was also some weird crossdresser work, however the Japanese LGBT hated it so much that they got the publisher to stop printing the volumes. Was only entirely printed in volume Form in 2007 with adjusted to the dialogue and art. (Their methods never changed regardless of time or country).
Has an Anime: No, but a live action adaptation
Licensed: In English by seven sea entertainment, multiple western languages
Magazine: Big Comic Spirits, had a circulation of 300 000 in 2010, so peak circulation was probably around a 1 or 1,5 million, was around 150 000 in 2015. Another Big Seien magazine, basically a big deal when it comes to adult-male oriented Manga.
-Oyasumi Punpun/Goodnight Punpun (3 million copies sold, licensed in English/multiple western languages, one of the most famous adult manga in the west)
-20th Century Boys (36 million copies sold, licensed in English/multiple western languages, multiple live action adaptations, the author also create a couple of other highly famous and acclaimed manga, most of which are also very popular in the west)
-Maison Ikkoku (25 million copies sold, licensed in English/multiple western languages, multiple live action adaptations, multiple anime adaptations, the author Rumiko Takahasi is one of the most famous manga authors of all time on par with the likes of the One Piece author or Naruto author, All of her manga series have combined sold more than 150 million copies, they mostly ran in shonen manga magazines)
-Uzumaki (live action adaptation, upcoming anime adaptation, basically the most famous horror manga created by the most famous horror author Juni Ito, he is as big/important in horror Manga as Stephen king is in western horror)
-I am a Hero (4 million copies sold, live action adaptation, licensed in English/multiple western languages, won a bunch of manga awards)
TLDR: About a fashion Design club. One of the older members is a MTF. The magazine it ran it has basically zero other manga listed on MAL and I didn’t manage to find more info on it, however the manga is one of the oldest josei manga to be popular popular in the west and is also popular in Japan.
Has an Anime: Yes, and a live action adaptation (a man plays the MTF in that one)
Licensed: In English originally by Tokypop, recently rereleased by Vertical Comics, multiple western languages
I included this cause it is A) one of the few josei manga very popular in the west and B) obviously cause it features a tranny, showing that featuring trannies isn’t something only done in for example Shonen, but rather regardless of targeted demographic
TLDR: Autobiographical manga by a MTF. Is not important or big in itself but is rather important cause it ran in a very famous/important Seien magazine.
Has an Anime: No
Licensed: No
Magazine: Morning (Big Seien magazine, there are two Sister publications one called Afternoon and the other Evening that are two other very big Seien magazines)
-Vagabond (82 million copies sold, licensed in English/multiple western languages, Besides Berserk biggest adventure/action adult manga in the west, the author also created Slam Dunk, the biggest sport manga of all time, that ran in Weekly Shonen Jump and has sold 170 million copies)
-Billy Bates (By the 20th Century Boys Guy, Won a bunch of manga awards)
-Planets (By the Vinland Saga Guy, has a anime adaptation, licensed in English/multiple western languages)
TLDR: About two Crossdressing Boys and MTF. At the end one of the Boys becomes a MTF and his live goes very well afterwards, while the other remains a man and his life goes to shit. Not a famous manga but it is popular in the west among you know who.
Has an Anime: No
Licensed: No
Magazine: Comic Ryu (Seien magazine), Online now, pretty old, not as popular as the other Seien magazines mentioned
-Monster Musume (has multiple anime adaptations, licensed in English/multiple western languages)
-Emanon (licensed in English/multiple western languages)
Manga that just feature trannies
-Firepunch: From the Creator of Chainsaw man, has a FTM Character (also a former Assistant of the Chainsaw Man/Firepunch Author Fujimoto created a oneshot [single chapter manga] that was about a FTM Hunter)
-Skip to Loafer: The Aunt of Main Girl is a MTF. Upcoming Anime.
Runs in Afternoon Seien magazine alongside: Blade of the Immortal, Blame, Mushishi, Oh My Goddess, Gunsmith Cats, Land of the Lustrous, Parasyte. A lot of popular western Seien Manga come from this magazine. A lot of the manga from the magazine also got an anime.
-Welcome to the NHK Manga: In one chapter Yamazaki, one of the main Trio, meets a MTF. The Manga ran in a monthly Shonen magazine. The MTF doesn’t appear in the Anime or the Novel.
-Mahou Shoujo Site/Magical Girl Site: One member of the large main cast is a MTF. Kind of funny cause at the very end they to defeat the ultimate evil they have to use a device that only a man can activate, and the other main male character can’t activate it cause he was anally raped and thus lost his manhood. Instead, the MTF activates it. Has an Anime.
-Wind Breaker (The Manga, there is Manwa with the same name): MTF, just take a look at the 9. Volume Cover. Runs in Magazine pocket. Nagataro, the Fairy Tail (Has 72 million copies sold) Sequel Manga Fairy Tail 100 Year Quest and a Spinoff of Rental Girlfriend, Rent-a-(Really-Shy)-Girlfriend run in the same magazine.
-Honourable mention to Shuuzou Oshimi, pretty famous in the west for creating ''psychological'' works about BPT woman and the effeminate males they fuck over (almost all of his works licensed in English/multiple western languages), Creator of:
Aku no Hana/Flower of Evil (got an Anime)
Chi no Wadachi/Blood on the Tracks
Happiness (Manga)
Boku wa Mari no Naka/Inside Marie
Okaeri Alice/Welcome back Alice
In the Afterword of Boku wa Mari no Naka/Inside Marie he revealed that he is the typical incel/effeminate Male to troon guy, basically felt out of place as a man cause he didn’t live up to masculine Stereotypes and thus began to think that he was really meant to be a woman.
This brings us to his newest work Okaeri Alice/Welcome back Alice which is about the love triangle between a insane BPT High school Girl an effeminate faggy High school Boy and his (male) childhood friend that he meets for the first time since childhood in high school but who is back as a crossdresser and goes by they/them pronouns now. In the latest chapters the effeminate High school Boy starts ranting about wanting to cut his dick of. It’s pretty obvious that he is a stand in for the 40 years old author who never got over his butthurt caused by not living up to the masculine ideals espoused by Japanese society, oh yeah, he is also married (to a woman). Can’t imagen how she must feel reading it.
I think by now I have proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that tranny stuff is accepted and gets published in many different famous/prestigious manga magazines regardless of the Demographic it targets. Again, this is just the tip of the Iceberg and there are a lot of smaller/unknown manga that either focus on Tranime or feature trannies.
Tranime (Tranny shit in Anime)
WIP
General Thoughts
Tbh there aren’t a whole lot of anime that feature trannies and most are just adaptation of manga I already listed. Main new one would be Steins Gate which is a huge deal cause of its popularity in the west and the fact that it has an entire arc about a MTF side character. Still wanne list for example on what the Director, Producer… who worked on the Wandering Son Anime worked on otherwise cause it had a pretty top tier production behind it with a lot of influential industry vets who worked on much more famous anime.
About maybe just crossdressing/maybe actually a tranny characters in anime in general, per example of Zombieland Saga: This is a general point, but this series is the one I have seen the most ''debates '' about whether the crossdressing, 10-year-old, boy is just a crossdresser or a MTF. Regardless of the actual intent, you do realize that A) both is pretty degenerate and B) the creators of the series are probably pro trans. The kind of people that would include a constant crossdresser probably don’t have much of a problem with ''alternative'' sexualities since they already include something akin to that.
Or to say it in simpler terms do you really think that the creator believes: ‘‘Ah yeah, a boy that crossdresses 24/7 is okay, but a boy that says he actually is a girl that is degenerate, that is where I draw the line.’’
I’d like to create a infographic that shows the Tranime manga, the magazines and the other important manga that ran it but I have zero talent for graphical design.
I am just one guy compiling a list of all instances of Tranime I found and deem important. There are lists on Mal that feature like 30 different manga that have trannies in them in some way and I am not going to list them all since most are just one volume things and pretty irrelevant. I do not speak Japanese nor do I have any connections to Japan. With the famous works I mention in the magazines are the works I consider important. Most magazines I list have a ton of million seller manga and I am way to lazy to list them all, so I just listed the ones I deemed important.
Some Important terms
Shonen: Term for a Demographic, Means Aimed at adolescent Boys Aged 9 to 18
Shojo: Term for a Demographic, Means Aimed at adolescent Girls
Seien: Term for a Demographic, Means Aimed at Man Aged 18-40
Josei: Term for a Demographic, Means Aimed at adult Woman
Manga Magazine: Nearly all Manga is published in big, telephone book like anthology magazine that feature multiple manga and are released in different cycles (weekly, biweekly, monthly…). They usually feature one Chapter of each published manga. These individual chapters are later compiled into pocketbook like volumes, which are mostly 200 pages long and feature one series from the magazine. These magazines often target a specific audience for example the Weekly Shonen Jump targets adolescent Boys.
Licensed in English/multiple western languages: Is a big sign of how successful a manga is cause it wouldn’t get licensed in the west otherwise. You can compare it to Young Adult English novels that get translated into other European languages, which only happens with the few really successful ones.
Anime=Tranime
Anime is Tranime is an accusation that has been often brought up by various right-wing personalities, who most often are very critical of anime.
But is it true?
The people who proclaim these accusations most often aren’t anime fans themselves, for obvious reason, and as such most often have little prove for their beliefs.
I however know more than enough to prove these accusations, since I am terminally online retarded who spent way to much time watching/reading anime/manga and hanging around anime related website and boards like /a/.
(The fact that I gained a kind of morbid and unhealthy interest in finding out whether these accusations where true after being exposed to instances of tranny stuff in anime/manga also helped)
My point is not that Japan is like some kind of tranny paradise or that there aren’t probably a lot Japanese who are gender-critical, but rather that tranny stuff is widely accept and distributed in the manga/anime industry and has been for a while.
I will probably miss a lot so please reply with your own findings as well.
I am also not going to feature Gender bender stuff even if a lot of it is proto Tranime shit (effeminate male gets turned into girl stays a girl cause he falls in love in with a guy or something, for example Sekai no Hate de Aimashou, Boku Girl and Hen by the Gantz Guy, there are 2 I mean the older one) cause that would be just way,way,way,way,way,way,way to much work. My Anime List (MAL) says that there are 217 manga in its database that are Genderbender (they call it Magical Sex Shift) and I would say that at least half if not more are proto Tranime, for an example of Genderbender that is most definitely a Tranime look up Ore ga Watashi ni Naru made/Until I become me, about a Boy who wakes up as a Girl one day, so MTF.
My sources are mostly MAL and the Interest Stacks you can find on it, as well as the knowledge I picked up during my time online.
Tranny shit in Manga
There are far more manga which’s many focus is tranny stuff than anime so I will start with that. I will mention which magazine the manga got serialized in, what kind of magazine it is (Avant Gard/underground mainstream aimed at boys, aimed at girls you get the gist) and which other famous series ran in it. Will also mention famous series that have a trans characters but don’t mainly focus on tranny stuff.
The big ones (Manga that focus on tranny stuff)
Stop!! Hibari-kun! (1981-1983), 4 volumes, weekly magazine
TLDR: High school guy moves in with yakuza family who has 4 children. One is a MTF. He falls in love with the MTF one. Its Anime adaptation might be the first anime to feature a tranny.
Has an Anime: Yes
Licensed: No, way to old for that
Magazine: Weekly Shonen Jump (The biggest Shonen manga magazine in Japan), peak circulation of 6,5 million the 1990ths currently around 1,5
Other notable series that ran in the magazine:
-this is the magazine where basically all anime/manga that casuals know come from (Dragon Ball, Naruto, One Piece, Bleach, JoJo Bizarre Adventure, Chainsaw Man, Demon Slayer, My Hero Academia, Death Note, Hunter x Hunter) All of which have sold volumes in the at least two digit million range.
- The fact that they had a tranny manga as far back as in the 1980s probably tells you all you need to know about the manga/anime industries attitude towards trannies, however as far as I now there haven’t been another Tranime Manga in the magazine since then. However, the recently started online app/spinoff magazine Shonen Jump+ has a Manga called After School Mate that is Tranime, with one of the main characters being a MTF.
Wandering Son (2002-2013), 15 volumes, monthly magazine
TLDR: About a FTM and an MTF, who are both young kids and their experiences with being trans. Basically a tranny Coming of Age tale. Author also created a lot of Girls love/Lesbian/Yuri and Boys Love/Gay/Yaoi Manga which also got adaptations, generally a well-known famous Manga author (at least in Japan).
Probably the most famous full on Tranime work, at least in the west.
Has an Anime: Yes
Licensed: In English by Fantagraphics, only published 8 volumes of 15, started publishing it in 2011 long before anyone cared about trans stuff in the west
Magazine: Comic Beam, an Underground/Avant Gard Magazine, circulation of about 20 000, aimed at college students and anime Connoisseur
Other notable series that ran in the magazine:
-Emma (Has an Anime, Other famous work by author is Otoyomegatari/Young Bride's Story, both licensed in English/multiple western languages)
-Desert Punk (Got an Anime)
-Thermae Romae (Got an Anime, licensed in English)
-King of Thorn (Got an Anime, licensed in English/multiple western languages)
-Gou Tanabes Adaptations of Lovecraft Works also got published in this magazine (most of which are licensed in English/multiple western languages)
-For being and underground magazine in Japan a lot of works have gotten licensed not just in English but in French, German, Italian... as well. The number of manga that got an anime is also surprising, since that usually only happens with big/famous works.
Boys Run the Riot (2020), 4 volumes, weekly magazine.
TLDR: About a high school FTM that starts their own fashion line. Main reason why it is a big one because it ran in Weekly Young Magazine, one of the biggest Seien magazines of Japan and just shows how mainstream trans stuff is with the mainstream/most important people in the manga industry. Author is also a FTM.
Has an Anime: No
Licensed: In English by Kodansha's Comic/multiple western languages
Magazine: Weekly Young Magazine (One of the biggest Seien magazines of Japan), peak circulation of 1,5 million in the 1990s currently around 400 000, was then transferred to the Comics Days Manga App
Other notable series that ran in the magazine:
-Akira (10 million copies sold, Has an Anime, licensed in English/multiple western languages, its anime adaptation made Anime big in the USA, generally one of the most influential manga/anime of all time)
-Inital D (55 million copies sold, has multiple Anime adaptations, made Eurobeat famous, licensed in English)
-xxxHolic (14 million copies sold, Has an Anime adaptation, Live Action, licensed in English/multiple western languages)
-Prison School (13 million copies sold, Has an Anime adaptation, licensed in English/multiple western languages)
-I could list a couple more but I think you get how important this magazine is in the manga industry
Claudine (197
, 1 Volume, biweekly magazineTLDR: Adult FTM that tris to be accepted as a man and searches for love, ends tragically. Was created by the woman who wrote rose of Versailles, also in the 1970s, one of the most influential manga of all time. Might be the first somewhat well-known manga featuring a tranny.
Has an Anime: No
Licensed: In English by seven sea entertainment
Magazine: Margaret (Shojo Magazine), had a circulation of 180 000 in 2010, so peak circulation was probably around a million, currently around 30 000.
Other notable series that ran in the magazine:
-Hana yori Dango/Boys Over Flowers (61 million Copies sold, most successful shojo manga of all time, has an Anime, multiple live action adaptations, licensed in English/multiple western languages)
-Hirunaka no Ryuusei/Daytime Shooting Star (2 million copies sold, Live Action Adaptation, licensed in English/multiple western languages)
-basically, the magazine is a big deal in female orientated manga
Homunculus (2003-2011), 15 Volumes, weekly magazine
TLDR: Has about 4 million copies in print. Plot is mostly about something else, but one of the last arcs focuses on the second main character. The first Main character helps him realize that he is actually a she, so MTF, I shit you not for like 2 or 3 volumes the main dresses him up an goes to restaurants and shit with the MTF. The first work from 1989 of the author was also some weird crossdresser work, however the Japanese LGBT hated it so much that they got the publisher to stop printing the volumes. Was only entirely printed in volume Form in 2007 with adjusted to the dialogue and art. (Their methods never changed regardless of time or country).
Has an Anime: No, but a live action adaptation
Licensed: In English by seven sea entertainment, multiple western languages
Magazine: Big Comic Spirits, had a circulation of 300 000 in 2010, so peak circulation was probably around a 1 or 1,5 million, was around 150 000 in 2015. Another Big Seien magazine, basically a big deal when it comes to adult-male oriented Manga.
Other notable series that ran in the magazine:
-Oyasumi Punpun/Goodnight Punpun (3 million copies sold, licensed in English/multiple western languages, one of the most famous adult manga in the west)
-20th Century Boys (36 million copies sold, licensed in English/multiple western languages, multiple live action adaptations, the author also create a couple of other highly famous and acclaimed manga, most of which are also very popular in the west)
-Maison Ikkoku (25 million copies sold, licensed in English/multiple western languages, multiple live action adaptations, multiple anime adaptations, the author Rumiko Takahasi is one of the most famous manga authors of all time on par with the likes of the One Piece author or Naruto author, All of her manga series have combined sold more than 150 million copies, they mostly ran in shonen manga magazines)
-Uzumaki (live action adaptation, upcoming anime adaptation, basically the most famous horror manga created by the most famous horror author Juni Ito, he is as big/important in horror Manga as Stephen king is in western horror)
-I am a Hero (4 million copies sold, live action adaptation, licensed in English/multiple western languages, won a bunch of manga awards)
Paradise Kiss (1999-2003), 5 Volumes, monthly? Magazine
TLDR: About a fashion Design club. One of the older members is a MTF. The magazine it ran it has basically zero other manga listed on MAL and I didn’t manage to find more info on it, however the manga is one of the oldest josei manga to be popular popular in the west and is also popular in Japan.
Has an Anime: Yes, and a live action adaptation (a man plays the MTF in that one)
Licensed: In English originally by Tokypop, recently rereleased by Vertical Comics, multiple western languages
I included this cause it is A) one of the few josei manga very popular in the west and B) obviously cause it features a tranny, showing that featuring trannies isn’t something only done in for example Shonen, but rather regardless of targeted demographic
Boku ga Watashi ni Naru Tame ni (2016), 1 Volume, weekly magazine
TLDR: Autobiographical manga by a MTF. Is not important or big in itself but is rather important cause it ran in a very famous/important Seien magazine.
Has an Anime: No
Licensed: No
Magazine: Morning (Big Seien magazine, there are two Sister publications one called Afternoon and the other Evening that are two other very big Seien magazines)
Other notable series that ran in the magazine:
-Vagabond (82 million copies sold, licensed in English/multiple western languages, Besides Berserk biggest adventure/action adult manga in the west, the author also created Slam Dunk, the biggest sport manga of all time, that ran in Weekly Shonen Jump and has sold 170 million copies)
-Billy Bates (By the 20th Century Boys Guy, Won a bunch of manga awards)
-Planets (By the Vinland Saga Guy, has a anime adaptation, licensed in English/multiple western languages)
Bokura no Hentai (2012-2015), 10 Volumes, Monthly Magazine
TLDR: About two Crossdressing Boys and MTF. At the end one of the Boys becomes a MTF and his live goes very well afterwards, while the other remains a man and his life goes to shit. Not a famous manga but it is popular in the west among you know who.
Has an Anime: No
Licensed: No
Magazine: Comic Ryu (Seien magazine), Online now, pretty old, not as popular as the other Seien magazines mentioned
Other notable series that ran in the magazine:
-Monster Musume (has multiple anime adaptations, licensed in English/multiple western languages)
-Emanon (licensed in English/multiple western languages)
Manga that just feature trannies
-Firepunch: From the Creator of Chainsaw man, has a FTM Character (also a former Assistant of the Chainsaw Man/Firepunch Author Fujimoto created a oneshot [single chapter manga] that was about a FTM Hunter)
-Skip to Loafer: The Aunt of Main Girl is a MTF. Upcoming Anime.
Runs in Afternoon Seien magazine alongside: Blade of the Immortal, Blame, Mushishi, Oh My Goddess, Gunsmith Cats, Land of the Lustrous, Parasyte. A lot of popular western Seien Manga come from this magazine. A lot of the manga from the magazine also got an anime.
-Welcome to the NHK Manga: In one chapter Yamazaki, one of the main Trio, meets a MTF. The Manga ran in a monthly Shonen magazine. The MTF doesn’t appear in the Anime or the Novel.
-Mahou Shoujo Site/Magical Girl Site: One member of the large main cast is a MTF. Kind of funny cause at the very end they to defeat the ultimate evil they have to use a device that only a man can activate, and the other main male character can’t activate it cause he was anally raped and thus lost his manhood. Instead, the MTF activates it. Has an Anime.
-Wind Breaker (The Manga, there is Manwa with the same name): MTF, just take a look at the 9. Volume Cover. Runs in Magazine pocket. Nagataro, the Fairy Tail (Has 72 million copies sold) Sequel Manga Fairy Tail 100 Year Quest and a Spinoff of Rental Girlfriend, Rent-a-(Really-Shy)-Girlfriend run in the same magazine.
-Honourable mention to Shuuzou Oshimi, pretty famous in the west for creating ''psychological'' works about BPT woman and the effeminate males they fuck over (almost all of his works licensed in English/multiple western languages), Creator of:
Aku no Hana/Flower of Evil (got an Anime)
Chi no Wadachi/Blood on the Tracks
Happiness (Manga)
Boku wa Mari no Naka/Inside Marie
Okaeri Alice/Welcome back Alice
In the Afterword of Boku wa Mari no Naka/Inside Marie he revealed that he is the typical incel/effeminate Male to troon guy, basically felt out of place as a man cause he didn’t live up to masculine Stereotypes and thus began to think that he was really meant to be a woman.
This brings us to his newest work Okaeri Alice/Welcome back Alice which is about the love triangle between a insane BPT High school Girl an effeminate faggy High school Boy and his (male) childhood friend that he meets for the first time since childhood in high school but who is back as a crossdresser and goes by they/them pronouns now. In the latest chapters the effeminate High school Boy starts ranting about wanting to cut his dick of. It’s pretty obvious that he is a stand in for the 40 years old author who never got over his butthurt caused by not living up to the masculine ideals espoused by Japanese society, oh yeah, he is also married (to a woman). Can’t imagen how she must feel reading it.
I think by now I have proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that tranny stuff is accepted and gets published in many different famous/prestigious manga magazines regardless of the Demographic it targets. Again, this is just the tip of the Iceberg and there are a lot of smaller/unknown manga that either focus on Tranime or feature trannies.
Tranime (Tranny shit in Anime)
WIP
General Thoughts
Tbh there aren’t a whole lot of anime that feature trannies and most are just adaptation of manga I already listed. Main new one would be Steins Gate which is a huge deal cause of its popularity in the west and the fact that it has an entire arc about a MTF side character. Still wanne list for example on what the Director, Producer… who worked on the Wandering Son Anime worked on otherwise cause it had a pretty top tier production behind it with a lot of influential industry vets who worked on much more famous anime.
About maybe just crossdressing/maybe actually a tranny characters in anime in general, per example of Zombieland Saga: This is a general point, but this series is the one I have seen the most ''debates '' about whether the crossdressing, 10-year-old, boy is just a crossdresser or a MTF. Regardless of the actual intent, you do realize that A) both is pretty degenerate and B) the creators of the series are probably pro trans. The kind of people that would include a constant crossdresser probably don’t have much of a problem with ''alternative'' sexualities since they already include something akin to that.
Or to say it in simpler terms do you really think that the creator believes: ‘‘Ah yeah, a boy that crossdresses 24/7 is okay, but a boy that says he actually is a girl that is degenerate, that is where I draw the line.’’
I’d like to create a infographic that shows the Tranime manga, the magazines and the other important manga that ran it but I have zero talent for graphical design.
