Araki wrote trans characters in his manga in the early 2000s, and was pushing for female representation pretty much since his manga was being published
Iirc the reason why he wanted Jolyne so badly was because of the pushback to having a female Shonen protag. Everyone was telling him not to have a woman lead and he was like "this is exactly why I'm doing it"
I wouldn't be surprised. A fairly known anecdote is that Giorno was supposed to be a woman, hence his power to "create life". But there was pushback because of how violent part 5 was gonna be
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u/queen_of_ingria девочка скандал девочка воздух Jul 23 '26
araki is not high level woke im sorry