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>>11929772
Early Bleach is peak 00s culture, and the author had a slick sense of /fa/.

Maybe it’s just my Zoomer brain mixing things up, but I always associate the Ichigo vs Ulquiorra fight during the show’s high point with webcomics, the late 7th gen console wars, and the early DeviantArt era. It felt like a time when it was still cool to dive into nerdy stuff without it being as mainstream as today.

>>11929778
Anime and anime-related media definitely lean into a gynocentric angle.

In Miyazaki’s movies women are usually more competent than men, and you’ve got grown adults playing games like Nikke, running around as teenage girls shooting stuff with their assets jiggling out in the open. So yeah I get why some people call it “tranime.”