r/MarriageToxin

This anime is great. In just a few episodes it managed to become one of my favourite animes. The Characters are great, the Action is surprisingly good and the exploration of relationships seems very genuine.

Alright onto the Kinosaki section. I don't know what the fandom interpretation of Kinosaki is and i honestly don't really care. I read Kinosaki as a trans woman or someone genderfluid with a preference for feminine presentation, as such i will be using she/her pronouns when referring to Kinosaki.

Kinosaki is the fucking GOAT. i have to admit i kinda only started the anime because of a post about her in this subreddit. She is everything i would have wanted from her character and more. I recognized her japanese VA quite quickly as the same voice as for one of my other favourite anime characters (nanahoshi shizuka), so hearing her voice more was very pleasant.
As a trans woman, seeing Kinosaki in this anime really inspired me to show up for myself more. to actually let myself be pretty and work on myself.
There are probably a million more thoughts i have about this Anime and about Kinosaki, but i am not really all that good with putting my thoughts into words.

Lastly, a little ranking of my top 3 characters from this anime

1. Kinosaki Mei (duh, you read the post)
2. Gero Hikaru (good sign when both of the main characters are at the top of my list. just a good man)
3. Bug Master (forgot his name. he is such a positive presence in the lives of his friends. very lovable)

honorable mentions:
the little hamsters (hamu)

Just opened the chapter. WHY tf is he here🙏

#175 breakfast scene starts with the clock hands opposite of when Gero first asked for Kinosaki's help.

Saw these two models available and immediately bought them! Too bad Gero is not available.

I gave in to my curiousity ​and edited some official kinosaki pics to see how he looks without the wig and makeup hehe​​​

New chap was definitely something. Kinda surprised that barely anyone is talking about it in here

Grandma is hot as always. Nasu is also hot tbh, that snatched waist and that fabulous hair he always flaunts around

Don't know how deep their relationship are but there's definitely hella tension.... LOOK at how they're looking at each other

And also in the spread, tell me they aren't flirting there. They're basically telling each other that they're the best thing that happened in their lives ...from my understanding of course...

Ugh. I need both their backstory NOW. Yes, Joumyaku, I want 20+ chapters of flashbacks and more fuel for my shipping addiction. At minimum. Definitely

I may be jumping the gun here but why not. I see old heads flirting and I immediately get diabetes. I'm just that easy yo😹

he never read the manga or watcched the anime

I’d like to hear from the people who think that Gero was trying to kiss Kinosaki. What makes you see it that way?

I really, really mean this when I say this: I’m not criticizing that interpretation at all. If anything, as a Gerosaki shipper, I’d be thrilled if that really was what was happening.

It’s just that no matter how many times I go back and look at that legendary scene, I don’t see it as a clear depiction of Gero trying to move things toward a kiss.

Kinosaki wakes up, Gero gets startled, loses his balance, and ends up falling over him, right? From there, though, wasn’t Gero actually not moving his face any closer…???

I understand that Ch. 82, Ch. 88, Ch. 100, etc. show Kinosaki putting up a wall between himself and Gero. So I’ve wondered if this could also be one of those cases where Gero wasn’t trying to kiss him at all, and Kinosaki was simply the one putting up that boundary.

And Gero is shy and a cherry boy, too. (Especially at this point in the story.) Even if he accidentally ended up on top of someone, and even if that someone happened to be an absolutely gorgeous person, Gero just doesn’t strike me as the kind of character who would make a move toward a kiss in that situation.

I’ve seen people point out that Gero’s face is actually closer in the panel where Kinosaki stops him with his finger than it is in the panel where Gero first ends up on top of him… but even that just seems like a small difference in the manga’s staging/artwork to me. I don’t feel like it’s enough to clearly say that Gero was trying to kiss him.

That said, there’s one thing I really don’t want to be misunderstood on.

There are plenty of scenes in Ch. 88, Ch. 131, etc. where Gero seems to be conscious of Kinosaki in that sense, so I’m not trying to deny the possibility that Gero might have romantic feelings for Kinosaki.

I’m just saying that I don’t think the thing in Ch. 77 necessarily falls into that category.

I’ve been thinking about this for a long time whenever I see people treat “Gero was trying to kiss Kinosaki” as a given, so I figured I’d finally put my perspective out there today.

If there’s anything I’m overlooking in this interpretation, or anything about it that you think can be disproved, I’d genuinely like to hear it.

And again, I’m a Gerosaki shipper too. If Gero really was trying to kiss Kinosaki there, I’d be just as happy about it.

So did Gero live his whole life traumatized and controlled by a stranger guy who made a doll out of his grandma? 😭

Just as I thought it couldn't get more messed up

With what we have so far about him, would you consider Nasu a good villain? In my opinion he is, due to the fact he goes against everything the manga is about as well as what he is symbolically for Gero. Along with his utterly depraved motivation and actions.But I can understand why he can feel pretty cheap with the whole "master-planner" trope thats been done to death in previous shonen. I would like to hear some opinions on this.

I knew well anime characters and real person are completely different

In anime media was easy draw beautiful female char with having girl voice and told everyone this is male char

But unfortunately not irl... and not for me with the ugly face and horrible voice and living with gender inequality society...

Now day I'm feel traumatized, depressed and suffer so much like a not brave enough to look at myself on mirror anymore, lost ability to smile and laugh for long time ago

I knew Kinosaki he just do this for trick and manipulation and didn't want or have real woman face and body... but i'm truly jealous on him

I have nothing like him even one bit, Kinosaki doesn't change anything and dressed like a gal and still looking good... if i did that i would be something worse and uglier than i imagine

I just wish I'm rich enough and had a chance for transformation surgey... or at least i hope ways to changing gender are easier

I ever feel like this with Mahiro in "Oniichan Wa Oshimai" before about gender swap drug plot

That's all of it.

Gero’s glasses frames are supposed to be black, right? But in some of the color illustrations, they’re black, while in others they’re red.

I’ve looked through quite a few of them, but I can’t really find any pattern to it. If I had to point to anything, the glasses are red in most of the color illustrations featuring Kinosaki.

Is this just a coloring mistake?

https://x.com/Guy1nTheCorner/status/2087102588852289764