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Kabukicho Sherlock was the most painful betrayal in my life. The anime should be called ‘We Use Transphobic Jokes and Harmful Stereotypes: The Anime’

As a longtime Sherlock admirer, this anime was a disappointment. Seeing your favourite character having to deal with the old transphobic trope of the killer being the implied trans woman is sickening.

This was sure a disappointment since the concept of putting the greatest detective in modern Japan was fun. His way of performing the explanation was interesting and the humour was sometimes funny, except when they used another trans woman as the joke! Making Mrs Hudson not cis-passing was not the ... problem, the problem was that her being strong and having a deep voice was just for laughs… let’s not forget they made her a walking transphobic stereotype and having her sexually assault men that were probably straight was weird.

Even Ayumu’s performance was outshone by how disgusted I was about the cheapest and most harmful trope they used to solve an interesting real case. I wish transphobia wasn’t such a big part of the plot, it seriously made it unwatchable. Seeing it was made not so long ago makes it even worse. Are we still stuck in the same transphobic and homophobic humour and plot twists from the 90s? It is disgusting AND lazy.

This show deserves to be my only review, seriously, do not watch this show! So disappointed that Sherlock hasn’t gotten a good anime adaptation.