Have you ever seen a show that really wants to get you invested in one thing but you find everything else about the show outside of that one thing more interesting and humorous? That’s kind of how I feel about the first three episodes of Tomo-chan Is a Girl! The overall premise is about a tomboy, Tomo, who really wants her best friend Junichiro to see her as a girl and acknowledge her confession to him. I’m not the biggest fan of these types of premises because, on the surface at least, they seem to be informed by some dated assumptions about femininity and masculinity. Thankfully, the characters’ gender doesn’t seem to be the focus of Tomo-chan so far, but it is a bit frustrating when the show kind of implies that you can only really be seen as a girl by doing certain things. Maybe this is all…
