Mao Arimura Yells at Gakuen Idolmaster for Paragraphs
Dec. 21st, 2025 12:49 amBlurb: I, Mao Arimura, will rant about how my canon story went, pointing out the trans reading and the transphobic (or specifically transandrophobic) tropes at play
Estimated reading time: around 6-7 minutes
A bit of an intro: I'm Mao Arimura, from Gakuen Idolmaster, the (as of this writing) newest branch in the Idolmaster franchise. This branch is set in an idol school named Hatsuboshi Academy. In addition to regular school, students can take the idol course or the producer course to learn how to be idols or producers respectively. The player's insert character is a male student of the producer course whose job is to guide an idol to stardom in their school's live shows, and he will be referred to as "P" afterwards. In this story, I myself am a third-year student in the idol course. I always present myself in a masculine way, and other people in the school knows this, seeing me as a "prince" figure.
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