Got round to watching the first episode and I'll summarise my immediate feelings on the Starlight and Frenchie changes for what its worth. I don't care what Starlight looks like, whatever she has had done if anything, is entirely up to her, and who would I be to even comment on it on social media beyond that? The Frenchie thing appears to me to have been done to create new jeopardy for Frenchie by adding a more vulnerable romantic interest. Yes it did seem to come out of the blue, but I was over it in seconds. I feel the writers either have plans for Kimiko and or Frenchie outside of simply Frenchie coming to Kimiko's aid or vice versa ad nauseam, or they realised they'd taken the Frenchie/Kimiko relationship as far as it could platonically go, and so what if it happens to be a dude?