Nao-chan in Skip and Loafer
What’s it about: Skip and Loafer is a slice-of-life anime about an ambitious country girl named Mitsumi Iwakura and her blossoming romance with a city boy named Sousuke Shima. Mitsumi’s emotional rock and resident adult, while she attends the Tokyo school, is her auntie Nao-chan. What makes Nao-chan so captivating to watch is that she is perfectly comfortable with herself as a trans woman and doesn’t feel the need to make herself smaller for her colleagues or Mitsumi’s friends. In fact, it’s her same sure-fire sense of self that turns her into a mentor to Mitsumi’s self-conscious rival-in-love-turned-bestie, Mika Egashira. Nao-chan and Mika’s friendship is as heartwarming to watch play out as the show’s primary romance.
