The constant moral panic being whipped up in this country (I'm in the US) and in other parts of the world about trans people existing is super fucking upsetting, but I have to say:
I first came out as trans in early 2009, so I've been watching the average cis person's understanding and general mood around trans issues evolve for almost fifteen years, and nowadays I regularly see my cis friends (and also cis content creators I follow) go on passionate pro-trans-rights rants and get genuinely furious about the transphobes and their bullshit.
And it is honestly so heartwarming to see because let me tell you, in 2009 the bar for cis people in my life was "just don't say anything flagrantly bigoted and demonstrate some attempt, no matter how half-assed, at getting my new name and pronouns right and we're cool, okay?" I would have sobbed tears of joy in 2009 to see any cis person I knew get that worked up about protecting my rights.
Like...shit is scary right as hell right now but also humanity is evolving. It's something that allows me to hold onto the belief that we're ultimately going to win out over the bigots.
I’m sure you’ve answered this before but I can’t seem to find the response (Tumblr gets weirdly hard to navigate sometimes), so sorry about the repetition! But where do you read TRC? Getting the paperback mangas is way too difficult for me, but there are too many internet sources to choose from it seems. Or too little, if you consider how shady some can be. Thanks!
Don't worry, I never mind getting the same question - Tumblr is hell to navigate, even with all the tags in place, and I'm always happy to help!
I have all the physical volumes of Tsubasa, but if we're talking online options I've also purchased almost all of the ebook volumes through Comixology. Comixology is now dead, but! It was eaten by Amazon! So you can also purchase the ebook versions through the Amazon website and read them on the kindle app if you want to spend the money on it. The app... is not optimised for reading manga, but you can zoom in with pretty good quality!
This option isn't for everyone though so I've hunted down a past post with the same question to see what the other suggestions were in the notes. I personally haven't tried any of these websites so I can't vouch for how they work, but the options suggested by others are: batoto, mangakakalot.to, mangadex, tenmanga, and manganelo.
Libraries sometimes will also let you borrow the ebook versions of manga, if they don't have the physical ones, but the availability of that varies wildly depending on location.
Can we talk about the time skips in Season 1 for a moment:
My personal head-canon is that Five is having A Whole Heap of flashbacks because we see him stalking Lance for hours before finally blinking into the car to threaten him, at which point it seems to take them hours to get back to the lab for it to blow. I like the idea that at some point on that Drive Lance was just sitting in the car sweating as this psychotic child who is obsessed with eyeballs is just fully zoned out next to him, possibly drunk, holding a knife to his neck just to be like 'uh, we're here, have been for an hour' when he finally comes around.
Also how long was there between him ditching Klaus at Medi-tech and that night when he finally goes to find Dolores? Was Five just riding around in that taxi all day? Swapping taxis and doubling back on himself to make sure he's not being followed? Did he have special errands to run (get alcohol, get coffee) in between zoning out. Was he just lurking outside Gimbel Brothers for the perfect moment? I choose to imagine he was just struggling to even keep track of reality without necessarily knowing, what else was his fevered little mind doing? We know he doesn't like to waste time. I imagine he walks towards Gimble Bros, has a black out, thinks 'I must get coffee and be well presented for my wife this won't do' gets coffee, gets alcohol too because why not at this point he's having a rough week, goes back to Gimbles, balks at all the people there, hides in an alley, drinks, blacks out, goes to get more coffee, realises it's midnight and finally goes to pick her up. Meanwhile Hazel and Cha Cha have been lurking around outside for hours waiting for him to show up just so they can ruin his reunion.
At least Five's absences are explainable in this way. Because then were have these two: Luther and Diego.
They turn up, find Five's van as Hazel and Cha-Cha are in the building setting fire to the joint, and ramble off to the library.
They arrive what seems like hours later (its then dark out when they leave)
Five in this time has: arrived shortly enough after they leave to be there when the building blows up, gotten his spare alcohol stash and mannequin from the back of said van, gotten TO the library, gotten smashed and had the time to write all over the walls.
What were Luther and Diego even doing? Could they not find the library? Go to the wrong one? Stop for burgers? Or did Five accomplish all of the above in a blind fevered speed following the Meritech incident? I don't think so, because we also have time for Patch to show up, investigate, follow a trail to the motel, wait there at least ten minutes where it's dark. At least an hour has to have passed.
All of this is wildly hilarious to me, and I love it, I love to think of why; Five zoning out at least makes sense, he's got to be on the mental edge of capability at this point. But what were Diego and Luther doing??? Someone should write that side quest where they're both incapable of finding the library but too stubborn to get a cab so they just walk in circles snarking at each other.
Shigeo used to love color, but one day he stopped and everything became gray. Muted. But as
time went on, color seeps back into his life, tinted by the people he meets along the way.
Or
A series of little vignettes of Shigeo rediscovering his love of color and life after the accident with Ritsu.
Whelp I decided to just go for it on this one. I've wanted to share it for awhile, and it's been sitting in my drafts and yea. I really like the ending.