Chaos Dragon and Gender Flips

whereismywizardhat submitted:

You know, in the adaptation from one medium to another, Gender flips happen.  Most of the time, it’s actually to balance out a mostly male cast with some female characters, which is good.

Here’s what’s not good

This is from the anime Chaos Dragon, an adaptation of the light novel series based upon Gen Urobuchi and Kinoko Nasu’s tabletop game sessions.  This is Lou Zhenjie, Urobuchi’s character.  Notice the difference, beyond the genderswap, in how the character is treated?

It’s pretty terrible.

And people tell us that the parodies we feature are too ridiculous… I tend to think they’re not ridiculous enough!

– wincenworks

While Hitman: Absolution got a lot of attention for the attack of the latex fetish nuns, the fetish nuns in question were actually a lot better clad than the female assassin from the previous title.

Eve, from Hitman: Blood Money wandered around in an outfit… can’t even be explained with paint and superglue.  Meanwhile her male colleagues wandered around in bespoke suits (47′s may look boring but it’s bespoke).

She also had the indignity of essentially being the completely incompetent rival assassin who can’t sing but disguises herself as a singer (it’s painful) and trades entirely on her sex appeal to lure you into an ambush. 

To make matters worse: This ridiculous outfit is basically the “uniform” of half the women attending the party. 

What were the men at the party wearing?  Suits.

– wincenworks

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