This one-shot, Ashita no Sora wo Miru Hito Yo, by the same mangaka is about a lesbian meteorologist in 1945, and marriage equality now. It was released close to the 80th anniversary of Japan's surrender.
ourfeel.jp/episode/2550...

Title is あいすくう人 but I can't decide how to romanize it because I think it's wordplay on アイス食う and 愛掬う, and maybe even (同舟)相救う.

At 3:42 it's her saying "Kuzushiro desu, yoroshiku onegai shimasu." Her contributions to episode are kind of scattered. At 5:53 Natsuyoshi invites her to answer a question about where a line came from.

Then someone thought it was genuine and tweeted in 2011 about it being unfair compared to fujoshi. That went viral with people reacting to it, such as to say they'd not heard of it. That spread awareness.

Gist of it is that himedanshi (princess boy) existed as uncommon gay slang. Some people joked about it could be a term for boys who liked yuri.

The apparent origin is weird. A Japanese investigation into it: posfie.com/@babanshika/...

It wasn't astroturfed. The magazine doesn't use those terms.

This was the original MariMite story. So it was doing its own thing, standalone. And it wasn't really Yumi, Sachiko, Rei and Yoshino at that point. They didn't even have names. It took on a different tone when it became a prequel series with a new protagonist.

It's using human biology but has replaced human nature and our potential with its own nature. Beyond the near term goal of fixing Carol & co, and the essentials for existing, I imagine it will just dedicate Earth to things like sending the signal out further.

It has effectively ended human culture. Although it recalls the value of experiencing stories, art, etc. the show implies that its current understanding of those memories is at a remove and I expect it has no drive to pursue such fields.

I'm someone who started watching it due to your posts. I don't normally know what American TV is doing.

Yeah, I expect that's where it's going: Pneby jvyy gerng vg nf n uhtr tbgpun, ohg gur uvirzvaq vf whfg abg frrvat n qvfgvapgvba sbe uhzna obqvrf if bgure navznyf.