Dejected KyoAni fans have been taunted by a vision of what the enormously popular first episode of Free! would have been like had Haruka been a girl…
The picture in question, posted by a fan on Twitter, has inspired plenty of comment from the substantial contingent of unrotten Free! lovers:
“I think… there may be demand for this.”
“This could work!”
“It’s better with the hero as heroine. The rest of the cast are all basically girls in character anyway as well.”
“Damn, I thought this would be no good if the sexes were all reversed but this could be interesting. Do an OVA like this please…”
“I’m a girl but I think this works. Let’s have it like this from next week.”
“What is with all you moetards…”
“Just wait for the doujinshi.”
“It actually has a lot less impact than with boys though…”
“Remake it like this!”
oh lol the poor menz not having one anime catered all to them. Even though there’s plenty of pussy in Free! if you only watched it. But no, it has to be all females otherwise it’ll be s♥♥t right? And having a genderbent fanart is not enough (and also she looks like Mio so they’d be ripping themselves off lmao) but females have to be happy to get genderbent fanart when they can, right? And that’s even bad, right? Cry me a river. And Taylor you’re pathologically insane, you need a psychiatrist, a good one.
Wonderful, but the embarrassment in the bottommost part needs to be corrected. The awesome part of the character (specifically that action) is the straight-mindedness(/unconcernedness) with which the character strips for the sake of swimming, while the people around have to go ‘Nooo!’ at the complete lack of hestitation.
Granted, embarrassed people are also wonderful, but.
Ah, that said, if the main character and the rival were both girls, /but/ the youngest character were still a boy, he would surely die of blood-loss by the end of the episode (I’m exaggerating).
…then again, the same might happen if it were exactly the same, but with the youngest character a girl. *amusement*
I bet the 2nd episode will feature them as girls,basically she wakes up from a dream thinking she was a guy, it was a troll episode one by Kyoani.
@Taylor‘s moe question
I just prefer female characters that don’t exactly fall into the “moe” category. Moe partially means “budding/sprouting” meaning early puberty, so I’m just not into that and frankly, to be honest, I’m just kinda of annoyed by the very idea of “early puberty” characteristics even being so popular and prevalent among anime and anime fans. It’s not just the age thing either, it’s the usual personalities and other characteristics of moe characters that turns me off too, I don’t care to see women I’m interested in as “cute”. For someone that likes something like “milf” characters, moe is like the antithesis of that. My think tastes in female characters might go as far as be considered “normal”, yet “abnormal” when it comes to anime, lol.
And while I try to ignore it all and keep to my own stuff and ignore the things I don’t like and the fans of those things, I feel that I do get effected by moe, like when so many shows put the youngest characters on the front and center while the type of characters I like are usually pushed to the side and get less screen time…
Well, the characters have no junk in the trunks in anime. So they pretty much girls.