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The history of anime traps, these types of characters, why they look the way they look and more will be shared in this post.Īnd a ton more.So.I've been watching anime for a LOOOOONG time, as you guys can see, I joined MAL in 2008 but I started watching anime around 2005 or 2006. The history goes back longer than most anime fans think or realize.Īn anime trap is a crossdressing anime character found in various shows. You tend to find them in school anime or comedy, but it’s not exclusive. It’s not exclusive to crossdressing but they tend to be. And of course they’re feminine so they’re mistaken to be women.Īn androgynous male is another way of describing traps in anime, but they can be both genders (reverse traps). Some romance anime and less commonly Police series, action, fantasy, or Shounen can feature TRAP characters as well. People confuse trap characters with trans, but that’s 99% of the time NOT what a trap character is. It’s a crossdresser or a feminine character who’s usually male. There is no “transformation” stage where a man becomes a woman, with the exception of anime shows like Zombieland Saga.īeing crossdressing characters DOES allow trans fans to relate to these characters though as there are obvious similarities. It officially started with Osamu Tezuka’s manga in 1949, believe it or not. The character in this panel is a TRAP by definition, though the word was nowhere near catching on during this time in history. The manga has parallels to real life with a scientist talking about how Dinosaurs became extinct because they could no longer adapt, and wonders if humans will ever reach that point in future. One of those reasons is the anime Ranma 1/2. This anime is about Ranma Saotome, a martial artist from China who ends up falling in a hot spring that curses whoever falls in.
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This “curse” makes it so when Ranma is splashed with water or falls into it, his gender changes, becoming a woman with red hair in particular.
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You can think of it as his “other half” since this effect remains, though he can become a boy again through the same method.
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You can clearly see how Ranma 1/2 is responsible for the eventual future of anime traps since it influenced the trope to a more “mainstream” level, even if not in the same way it ended up being portrayed years later. This “trend” of anime traps, and especially the more common feature of crossdressing continued in anime shows like You’re Under Arrest.
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This police series based in Tokyo released in the 1990’s and is considered an underrated classic today. In the anime you have main characters like Miyuki Kobayakawa and Natsumi Tsujimoto who work for the Tokyo police force. But within that police unit there’s a character called Aoi.Īoi as they’re called is the definition of a TRAP. He cross-dresses as a female police officer, to the point where Aoi is referred to as a “she”. There’s also no bias and others accept Aoi as they are. It’s not a judgmental anime in that way, despite the time period. The real trigger that turned “TRAP” into an internet slang term Rurouni Kenshin is another anime with a TRAP character from the 1990’s, and Sailor Moonas well.