Okay, so in the recent livestream that they did for Tiger & Bunny 2, Episode 5, we learned that Antonio likes Agnes, but this is a secret (or like, something that shouldn’t be mentioned, I’ve seen some Japanese fans saying NG = no good or オフレコ (ofureko = off the record).
So some Japanese fans are speculating that Agnes may be pregnant with Antonio’s baby or that Antonio keeps bringing Agnes high calorie foods (b/c he likes her, so he is bringung her food, etc.).
I don’t mind the idea of Agnes gaining weight because she is pregnant. I think it is important to have media that depicts pregnant women working. My only worry is that they’ll do something like have her quit after having the baby or lose weight and suddenly be skinny again (if this does end up being the case). If she doesn’t quit though and isn’t suddenly skinny again like magic, then I’ll be more okay with that idea. We have a female director this time, so if they do go down this route, I have a bit more faith in them.
Of course, this is all just fan speculation and theorizing. Still interesting to think about and possibly something we will see being addressed in the second cour of season 2.
I’ve been thinking about this all day, so I’m going to add some additional thoughts to this in this reblog. I also posted about this over on the T&B subbreddit (and left a comment on the post with these same thoughts).
I *do* like the idea of Antonio and Agnes though, and I wouldn’t mind if the series explored that in an episode. It would be nice to get another episode with a larger focus placed on Antonio and, even more so than that, it would be *really* nice to see Agnes in a situation outside of HeroTV and work. We’ve never seen her outside the work setting before and if they did do something like an Antonio and Agnes focused episode (if it results in an actual relationship or not) it would be the perfect episode to flesh Agnes out more.
Another thing that makes this bit of information and anything possibly happening between them story wise very interesting to me, is how that would make them an official pairing in the series, and T&B doesn’t really have any of that, outside of Kotetsu and Tomoe. Kotetsu and Barnaby are heavily implied and are absolutely open to that interpretation, of course, but the stance on that (so far) is still that their relationship is open to interpretation. If we get one canon pairing in the way of Antonio x Agnes, I feel that opens the floodgates for other possible canon ships.
Okay, so in the recent livestream that they did for Tiger & Bunny 2, Episode 5, we learned that Antonio likes Agnes, but this is a secret (or like, something that shouldn’t be mentioned, I’ve seen some Japanese fans saying NG = no good or オフレコ (ofureko = off the record).
So some Japanese fans are speculating that Agnes may be pregnant with Antonio’s baby or that Antonio keeps bringing Agnes high calorie foods (b/c he likes her, so he is bringung her food, etc.).
I don’t mind the idea of Agnes gaining weight because she is pregnant. I think it is important to have media that depicts pregnant women working. My only worry is that they’ll do something like have her quit after having the baby or lose weight and suddenly be skinny again (if this does end up being the case). If she doesn’t quit though and isn’t suddenly skinny again like magic, then I’ll be more okay with that idea. We have a female director this time, so if they do go down this route, I have a bit more faith in them.
Of course, this is all just fan speculation and theorizing. Still interesting to think about and possibly something we will see being addressed in the second cour of season 2.
A recent tweet by Ueda-sensei about T&B 2, Episode 5. The translation is by me.
Text: “Since the citizens [of Sternbild] don’t know that Antonio and Origami are Heroes, the citizens in the bank were likely just thinking that these two awesome and mysterious NEXT just saved them.”
I’m currently in the process of ending my current job (last day will be on July 1st), job hunting, as well as trying to improve some skills through online classes, and brushing up my resume. On top of that, since my current housing situation is housing that was offered by my company, I’m in the process of moving back to my parents’ place for a bit until I find somewhere to rent on my own.
I’ve also picked up another side job of helping out a friends’ small business social media content and curation. So, I’m currently super busy. It’s why I’m not posting or reblogging much right now.
But I just want to say that I LOVE all of the FireSky fanart I’ve been seeing lately (and will reblog them all when I get the time + energy to do so). It was such an unexpected pair up, but after the initial surprise, and after seeing all the fanart for it, I’ve just grown to love it SO much! <3 It’s such a sweet and precious pairing, and I’m going to (hopefully) get my write up for it done this weekend.
I’m playing a game called “I wonder if this guy who calls everyone he doesn’t like a snowflake has ever seen himself in the mirror”, waiting for the results rn.
It’s really so funny. The people who say stuff like this usually have very little to no Japanese abilities and they also tend to not have any training, experience, knowledge, or learning in translation theory and how translations work, the restrictions, and etc. They are more often than not, just trying to find and use examples of any slight changes in a dub’s dialogue to push a (usually alt-right leaning, “anti-woke”) agenda. They view Japan as being some kind of apolitical wonderland that just…does not exist. They are the same people that will insist that the entirety of Japan is apolitical and that they are “anti-woke” and a-okay with everything.
The people who make videos or think pieces on this dub change are absolutely trying to push some made up agenda about “Western ideas and values corrupting anime” or something akin to that. They are always being made in bad faith. And it is honestly so funny that these fans are going for Tiger & Bunny, a series that makes a shit ton of social commentary (aka political commentary) on topics such as: capitalism, consumerism, objectifying the female body for viewership, domestic abuse, neglectful parenting (I love Kotetsu, but he has neglected Kaede and the series actually addresses that), discrimination (NEXT discrimination), homophobia and transphobia, and in this second season we have fatphobia being shut down too (both Nathan and Karina shush Ryan when he makes a fatphobic comment about Agnes’ weight gain).
There is more too: the series taking a strong stance against groping and stalking (not portraying these things as comedic and light hearted, etc.). All of these social stances are also political stances. They all overlap with each other.
In that scene with Ryan he is specifically talking about his internalized ideas on women and is realizing that those ideas are imbedded in sexist societal norms. He’s admitting that and coming to terms with that, so it fits completely with the situation and with the Japanese dialogue and context. T&B tackling sexism is also completely in-line with the series and the other issues they’ve tackled before too.
It’s also really funny because the core T&B fanbase loves that line, finds it both hilarious and endearing, and still finds the talk between Ryan and Karina to be touching and a great character development moment for the both of them. This is all I’ll likely say about the topic myself, because there isn’t anything more to add. I was actually pretty surprised that it took this long for the videos on the topic to really start popping off. Since T&B isn’t that popular outside of Japan, I was expecting it to go unnoticed. But those people probably check out like every dub of every anime to look for stuff like this, lol.
