Show is Yoru no Kurage wa Oyogenai - Jellyfish can't swim in the night

Probably spoilers. Last warning.

spoiler

Here: https://yorukura.fandom.com/wiki/Kiui_Watase

I did this based on this scene from episode 11: https://streamable.com/oq226r

Comrade Kiui is FtM.

Not only that but his name "Watase" splits into "Wata" which means "crossing" or "ferry," often used in Japanese names to imply traversing a river or similar feature, hinting at transitions or change. While "se" meaning "rapids" or "change" is also another blatantly huge clue.

I haven't worked out what Kiui might reference, it's written in Katakana and some think it's the Kiwi bird. I don't know if this is related or not, someone else might.

QED

EDIT: Edit war has begun.

  • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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    5 months ago

    Damn I almost called that out in my post after episode 7 telling people to watch Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night, because Kiui so clearly had top dysphoria in the scenes at the motorcycle school, but I genuinely didn't expect the show to follow through with that like it did so I second guessed myself and cut it before posting.

    Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night has been consistently so good overall and I hate that I keep feeling the need to temper expectations that it will keep being good.

    • Awoo [she/her]M
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      5 months ago

      I think it will keep being good if the official art is anything to go by

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      • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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        5 months ago

        I swear if they manage to make Kano calling up Mahiru in the middle of the night "just to hear her voice" and breaking down sobbing reminiscing about the time she kissed her after they had a pointless fight not gay I'm going to scream.

        Which is an unhealthy level of emotional investment in a cartoon, hence the existing in a superimposed state of foolishly getting my hopes up and cynically not getting my hopes up.

      • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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        5 months ago

        It's like you can't even kiss your really good friend and tell them they're what gives your life meaning anymore without people saying it's romantic. Smh.