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To Strip the Flesh by Oto Toda
2.0

The first story (the one with the trans MC) is interesting and really heartfelt and treats the trans main character with lots of care and respect (would be 4 stars if it was just that). The rest of the collection features more misses than hits for me unfortunately. I only liked "Hot Watermelon", a touching story about the relationship between a mother and her teenage son and felt nothing for the rest. I disliked one of the two page collection stories especially, which features a character that could at best be interpreted very nicely "just" as an incredibly sexist charicature, but seems much more likely to be transmisogynistic. All of this lead to me lowering my rating.