Throughout the first few episodes I just thought it was a well made show with super weird ideas and nebulous character motivations that served only to make me go ‘bro how the fuck am I even supposed to digest all of this considering a I see neither a reason for why this genderbend is happened in the first place nor a reason to suspect that this will evolve into something more profound than the face value fetish dream of suddenly turning into a little girl’.
At a certain point I thought up a possible progression of the story where it is revealed that our MC ended up as he did (a depressed and isolated NEET), not because of his unsuccessful school/social life specifically, but rather because every time he looked at his sister and saw a girl who was content and happy, he himself got the desire to be exactly that. But not content and happy specifically, but rather the being of a girl himself. His depression and discontent would then be a side-effect of him struggling with his feelings of gender dysphoria, a struggle only amplified by seeing his sister be exactly what he could not be (a solid, heavy, and tragic explanation for his situation in the beginning of the show which could tug at anyone’s heartstrings if presented well) and that his sister had somehow noticed the discontented jealousy she had caused him to feel and then devised her plan in the hopes of giving her brother the happy and wonderful life he had always wished he could’ve experienced (which would’ve been really fucking wholesome and sweet). But instead the show seemed to drift on in this nebulous state of ‘just because is the only explanation you’re getting, now watch this guy/girl do cute or inappropriate things’, and my realization of the probably missed potential of such a well crafted show made me drop it lol. Kinda stupid reason because I was kinda enjoying it too, I got folded by my own headcannon 😂
But seriously, from what I can tell, him suddenly being a girl made him flourish as a person, and the fact that the tone is comedic and lighthearted doesnt change the fact that I really wanted there to be a solid and non-confounding reason for that.
Therefore I ask, did the show ever evolve into something more narratively satisfying and emotionally poignant?
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