#MISCONCEPTIONS SURROUNDING THE CHARACTER OF OKAMAITACHI IN THE ONE-PUNCH MAN ANIME AND MANGA FRANCHISE

Or, the essay where I explain that Okamaitachi is a transgender woman.

##Introduction

The character of Okamaitachi, one of Atomic Samurai's three disciples and the 3rd Ranked A-Class Professional Hero in the Hero Association, is subject to one of the biggest controversies and misunderstandings within the entire One-Punch Man series. Okamaitachi is beloved by many across the international fanbase, but unfortunately due to a combination of unfortunate translations coupled with a linguistic and cultural barrier separating the fans from the original Japanese text, she is regrettably subject to a lot of misinformation and is therefore frequently misgendered in the English translation of various One-Punch Man materials, as well as its Fan Wiki.

The following essay is a study of official materials and how Okamaitachi is perceived by the Japanese fandom. It discusses and describes relevant topics such as the cultural context and definition of "Okama" as well as gendered terminology in Japanese. Altogether, these items demonstrate that referring to Kama as "he" in the English materials is a translation error that should be corrected to accurately reflect the Japanese sources.

I hope that in reading this essay you will come to understand the character of Okamaitachi not as a homosexual crossdressing man, but as a transgender woman, and in doing so agree that future translations of official One-Punch Man materials going forward should be adjusted to reflect that.

##1.0) Databook Scan & Translation

Okamaitachi’s profile in the One-Punch Man Hero Encyclopedia contains the most direct piece of evidence pointing out to the character being meant to be read as a transgender woman and not as a gay man.

Here we have Okamaitachi's profile in question. The relevant Japanese text is as follows:

>“剣豪として、類稀なる才能を示す彼…いや彼女(かのじょ)

>は、性別(せいべつ)はオトコだが心は恋に憧れる無垢な乙女(おとめ)である!!”

Which roughly translates to the following:

"As a swordsman, he shows extraordinary talent... No, she (Kanojo) does. Although her gender/sex (Seibetsu) is masculine, her heart is that of an innocent maiden (Otome) who is longing for love!!"

Note that I made sure to present tho

Did anyone here grow up in the 50s? Does anyone remember greasers?

I've always had a fascination with them. I think because my parents used to watch Happy Days reruns when I was very little in the late 90s/early 2000s. I also like rockabilly music and hot rods. They have a cool factor that's different than other subcultures.

I think for me it's a combination of them being working class/DIY types while having a fashion style that's a little bit classier/better put together compared to say a stereotypical punk rocker or metal head. (Usually clean dark blue slim fit jeans, plain t-shirts and leather jackets or flanne).

A little over 10 years ago, I saw the 1994 movie Roadracers for the first time and it always made me curious what the local underground rockabilly scenes were like in the 1950s.

However, unlike say Punk Rockers, Hippies, Metal Heads, Surfers, Skaters, Bikers, Cowboys, Methodists, Drug Dealers, etc.

There is very little info on greasers. They were kind of the first counter culture but I'm guessing they were less organized compared to other counter cultures and there really wasn't a "greaser movement" compared to say a hippie movement or a punk movement.

You can find tons of books on the 1960s hippie movement, the 1960s garage rock scenes, 1970s and 80s Punk movement, the 1980s thrash metal movement, 90s grunge, 90s hip-hop, 60s-80s drug culture, etc. But there isn't a single book on the history of greasers (the Outsiders aside but that's a novel).

The coolest detailed info you can find is info on the rockabilly revivalist from the 80s until now and the period correct Hot Rod scene/Rat Rod scene. But all of that stuff is modern

Even on Google 99% of pictures of greasers are either of Fonize, James Dean, Marlon Brando, John Travolta or staged rockabilly revivalists taking digital photos with a black and white setting.

Anyway, did anyone know any greasers back in the day? Was any body a greaser?

If you were to assign each brawler/trio a song, music genre, artist, which ones would they be and why?

Here's my current list of brawlers with genres and song examples. Let me know if you'd like me to share more 😉:

Crow: 1970s - 2000s rap, underground hip-hop; Styles of Beyond - Subculture

Junker Trio (especially Pam): Hard rock; Q5 - Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady

Brock: 70s - present funk; Bruno Mars - Treasure (Clean)

8-BIT: Wubstep, complextro w/ chiptune influences, tracker music; MDK - Space Invaders, Nitro Fun - Final Boss

Leon: Drum n' bass (the lowkey, 90s - early 2010s kind); Pendulum - Plasticworld

Rosa: Eurodance, dance-pop; Alexandra Stan - Mr. Saxobeat

Darryl: Orchestral pirate music: Pirates of the Caribbean - He's a Pirate

Penny: Polka?; SpongeBob OST - Falling Upstairs (and any other song with an accordion)

Meg: Psychedelic trance: Sonic Species $ Imagine Mars - Fly Machine

Edgar: Metalcore; Bullet for My Valentine - Her Voice Resides (and many others)

Emz: Pop; Ke$ha - Die Young

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Taken from: https://www.theringer.com/movies/2021/12/29/22851951/black-neo-noirs-1990s-deep-cover-devil-blue-dress

There were dead bodies, stolen goods, knotty plots, amoral protagonists, and irredeemable villains. And no—we’re not talking about the film noir era of the 1940s and ’50s. From late 1989 to early 2001, noir made a stunning return to Hollywood, splitting off into different subgenres and producing some of the most compelling films of the era—from The Usual Suspects to L.A. Confidential, from Devil in a Blue Dress to Basic Instinct. Join The Ringer as we revisit the surprising reemergence, unexpected fracturing, and profound impact of the neo-noir movement in the ’90s.

Because of its identifying characteristics—antiheroes, shady figures oozing with duplicity, massive conspiracies—noir is one of film’s most incisive genres, eternally striving to hold a light up to society and expose how ugly it can be. The noirs of the genre’s prime often featured specific archetypes: hard-boiled private dicks seeking the truth, cunning dames with ulterior motives, and power brokers pulling strings from the shadows. Think Eddie Mars, an enterprising goon with his hands in all of the dirt in 1946’s The Big Sleep, or the villainous Noah Cross, hoarding resources and dark secrets in 1974’s Chinatown. But even as noir established itself as an effective vehicle for examining the sociopolitical zeitgeist of the time, the genre largely avoided race and racism, two core elements of American society no matter the era. That changed in the 1990s.

After the Blaxploitation film bubble burst toward the end of the 1970s, Black cinema was scarce until the middle of the 1980s, when Spike Lee’s success sparked new interest from studio executives and gave rise to a new generation of Black filmmakers. New opportunities (however short-lived) arrived with the 1990s, as Hollywood slowly began acknowledging the financial viability of films about Black people helmed by Black directors. That led to a wide variety of approaches and results, especially as it concerns noir. “I see it as a broader awareness around Black film and Black filmmakers specifically to that time, even though [the Black noirs] don’t necessarily reflect the same thing that, say, some of the more popular movies like Boyz n the Hood and New Jack City would have represented,” says Todd Boyd, who studies the intersection of race and popular culture at the University of Southern California. “By the time you get to the ear

Apologies for redundancy and/or not being fleshed out properly.

#"To properly address a problem, you must properly understand the problem"

On to my thesis.

Yesterday I posted this article, and this portion stood out to me.

>The work ethic has another source too: a need to prove ourselves as worthy citizens in capitalist society. Those deemed worthy – of benefits, rights, privileges, entitlements – are those who can show they do legitimate paid work, or have done so in the past, and have therefore contributed to the state of the nation. This dimension of the work ethic has historically been associated with a class-wide identity of being producers.

>Aristotle argued that leisure, not work, was the sphere of life in which our true selves can be realised, where humans strive for perfection. How to fill our free time had long been the question of a purpose-driven life. The rise of capitalism gave way to a new conceptualisation of both work and the self. The rising bourgeoisie in early capitalist countries distinguished themselves from the parasitic aristocracy by focusing on their own status as a productive class. Their sense of worth, and their claim to power, was predicated on their work ethic, which they saw as generating the true wealth of society. What this means is that the work ethic, as we know it, was hardly conceived of as a capitalist shibboleth. Actually, the bourgeoisie first tried it out on themselves.

I said about that portion;

>This last part to me also helps explain the PMC mindset as the natural progression.

Natural progression from the bourgeoisie I mean. Carrying on.

Today I came across this article, (posted on this sub by /u/randomcollection 5 days ago), and this part stood out to me;

>There’s a space between that 0.1 percent and the 90 percent that’s often overlooked: the 9.9 percent that resides between them. They’re the group in focus in a new book by philosopher Matthew Stewart (no relation), The 9.9 percent: The New Aristocracy That Is Entrenching Inequality and Warping Our Culture.

>There are some defining characteristics of today’s American upper-middle class, per Stewart’s telling.

I didn’t know what flair to put this under lol…

As a transsex person I thank ALL of you for making this sub and coming up with this idea. I’m transsexual Duosex and I’m SO tired of seeing my struggle appropriated. This is a great alternative and I hope it catches on. GENIUS!! I could just cry. This is the best. Galaxy brain moment to whoever came up with this cause omg.

Tbh I love aesthetics. I’m happy that finally people are realizing that they’re not the same as being LGBT. Finally. A way to super appreciate aesthetics that don’t involve appropriation of a very life altering disorder. I actually like aesthetics too. 👌🏽✨

Tbh I’d be lying if I said I really understood integrating an aesthetic into one’s own identity, but the idea seems like a cool concept that can easily create a cool community of cool people (who respect that this has nothing to do with transsexualism or LGBT as a whole). Plus I don’t have to understand everything anyways. I have mad respect and SUPPORT for this and I’m so excited that it’s a thing. As a trans person, and as a person who enjoys aesthetics.

While I’m at it, I’ll also admit that… I don’t get why there needs to be flags for these things. Since the original concept of “the pride flag” was the rainbow flag by Gilbert Baker and the whole concept and history of the LGBT pride flag has its own significance. It’s a symbol of solidarity, community, the refusal to be oppressed, and being proud of something society makes you feel ashamed of, created in the late 1970s. (Disability pride also started in the 70s although I don’t know too much of the history. Though as a disabled person, I love disability pride as well). I feel like having flags for these aesthetic interests/identity aspects kinda still slightly relates it to the culture of LGBT pride. I’m sorry if I’m being extra nit-picky, I probably am. But maybe could there be the thing of instead of “pride flags” it could be like… tapestries? Banners? Xenoidentity banners? What do y’all think about that? Or am I being extremely petty? Y’all tell me lmao. Im not saying I don’t support this. I’m just so happy this exists. This can be it’s own subculture!

I might as well mention that… I like orbs. Colorful orbs. And jewels! I’ve always lived the concept of colorful jewels, ever since I was little. Would anyone want to make a xenoidentity out of the idea of jewels/gemstones, or orbs 💀?

1. Assorted Fan Histories (1960s-1970s) - LASFC (Los Angeles Science Fiction Society)

https://web.archive.org/web/19990203011625/http://www.smithway.org/history/hist.html

2. Also Arnie Katz's essay: The Philosophical Theory of Fanhistory. Very much 'what is it to be a fan?'

F. Cesperanza writes: "he's talking mainly about science fiction fandom, but there's a lot of applicable stuff, and in particular I love his categorization of the "seven basic approaches to fandom: Sercon, Scientism, Communicationism, Professionalism, Commercialism, Trufannishness, and Insurgentism." To wit (and paraphrasing madly):

Sercon (in it for the fiction)
Scientism (in it for the science)
Communicationism (in it for the discourse community)
Professionalism (in it for the literary training and connections)
Commercialism (in it for the money)
Insurgentism (in it for the resistant subculture)
Trufannishness (fandom is a way of life o my brothers and sisters!)

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https://web.archive.org/web/20080820021335/http://www.smithway.org/fstuff/theory/phil1.html

Or you can go to each page from the folder view

https://web.archive.org/web/20090108032925/http://www.smithway.org:80/fstuff/theory/

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Hi there. I'm Korean novel writer who writing Wuxia(Muhyeop) now. I was lived in San Francisco for few yrs, and I have a dream that translating my book as Eng someday.

This post is info of difference between Chinese Wuxia novel and Korean Muhyeop(=Muhyup) novel. So I hope you enjoy it if you have interest. Some of terms have no translated word so I translated as my likes, so consider it plz.

# What is Muhyeop?

Korean calls Wuxia novel that written in korea as “Muhyeop novel”. (So I'll call Korean Wuxia as Muhyeop from now) You can understand relations between Wuxia and Muhyeop as Itallian Pizza and American Pizza. I mean, they share a lot of same concept, but have their own personality also. Now I’ll tell you what is difference between of them, and then, I’ll tell about 4 of generations of Muhyeop.

# What’s difference?

a. The hero story. And Powerup.

Not want to be like them

Modern Muhyeop’s plot is basically like a hero story. MC bacomes powerful overlord or champion who rules wuxia world. (Not all Muhyeop does. Just mainstream.) In Xianxia or Xuanhuan, MC’s goal is immortal or becomming God. But in Muhyeop, MC does not care about immortal or God. The only interests of MC is get the physical power. You can understand it like a Force trainning in Starwars or power trainning of Dragon ball. In addition, MC is not always good guy in Muhyeop. Mainstream of Modern Muhyeop’s MC is more likely dark hero. The good MC stream was in old age(1980\~2000, 1st\~2nd genaration).

Wuxia’s common theme are chivalry, tragedy, revenge. Muhyeop’s common theme are basically same. In Muhyeop, competition of groups is also major theme also. Most of MC’s antagonist have a conspiracy of world conquest and have a huge martial group.

b. No Fantasy stuff except Qi term

never do this job

Muhyeop world has no God, no immortals, no ghost, no monster, no demon, no flying step over sword, no celestial world, no magic(sometimes little magic stuff in Muhyeop, but not a main componant). Most Muhyeop is a story of people who have Martial power. So they has only Qi term

Do your worst!

made a similar post in r/cantonese

I'm from San Jose and there it's pretty common to find families that have parents born in ho chi minh city Vietnam and are ethnically Cantonese speaking chinese. My parents were born in vietnam around 1960s-1970s and my grandparents are from HK & Guangzhou, they just told me the migration was something about government changing in south china. anyone else's family similar? anyone else know reasons for this common subculture? tryna make a wordcloud please respond!

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

BamBOO!

They’re on standbi

A play on words.