Are SJWs Taking Over Anime?
As any anime fan can tell you, anime fans love to argue about almost anything. I don’t think it’s too surprising, therefore, that the most recent forest fire in the anime fandom was started by a transgendered zombie.
In the anime Zombieland Saga, there is a character named Lily. If you, like I, never watched this series or heard anything about it before a few days ago, congrats. But by this point, you’ve probably heard that Lily is, in fact, a trans girl.
The initial response to this, as you can imagine, was mixed. On one hand, many LGBTQA fans, especially trans fans, greeted this news with excitement and joy. Representation in anime, especially fair representation, is hard to come by. Many fans are willing to take what they can get.
However, a subset of fans were less than enthusiastic. They believed that Lily wasn’t really trans at all, that she was actually a he. They claimed that anime streaming service Crunchyroll deliberately mistranslated the original Japanese in order to make Lily sound like a trans girl, when, as they believed, Lily was really a crossdressing boy.
Now, these fans might have been onto something. There was a “fan translation” floating around that contradicted Crunchyroll’s translation and companies like Funimation and Crunchyroll had, in the past, deliberately altered dialog to insert more…
