Post #590490

2026-03-09 00:29 UTC

Tangent about the suspect: TP cops say he's a crossdresser [not that politely, either]. SS cops just refer to him neutrally as a guy. I'm guessing this was a TP innovation. It would explain the femme appearance and perfume-y scent...and by PSOH:Tokyo, Akino is very overt about including LGBTQ side characters...but there's nothing femme about this guy in the one panel he's in. And the SS dialogue has been more overt about "this character is being racist right now." If you're being this blunt about the racism, why soften the transphobia? ("Well, why *add* the transphobia?" Because it's the '90s/early '00s, when this is overwhelmingly treated as a low-stakes funny thing to joke about. Including by people who would be embarrassed to be racist on purpose.)

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@ErinPtah@universeodon.com 2026-03-09 01:13

The *very* end of the chapter gives us the obligatory "animal all along" reveal: The Empress wasn't a human asking D to stop another human from having the artificially-inseminated baby of her deceased human husband, she was a rare bird asking him to stop a zoo from hatching the artificially-inseminated egg of her deceased bird husband. Look, I'm fine with "the bird who needs D's help" having an exactly-parallel situation to "the human case Leon is dealing with." That level of coincidence is a twist PSOH runs on. But if D is out stealing the artificially-inseminated egg, don't show him sneaking away from the building where the artificially-inseminated human just got blown up! At that point it's not a satisfying well-done misdirect, it's just contrived. (Would've given it partial credit for "D was sneaking away from the zoo with the egg, and just happened to be walking past the bombing"...but he's not carrying anything, let alone anything egg-sized. I went back and checked.)

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