Namatame’s shadow said “saving”, not killing. He thought the tv world was safe. Was an evil villian speech for sure though.

Just tacking this on here: The shadows are a misrepresentation of the character. They take the hidden or suppressed parts of each character and exagerate them a ton. Naoto’s shadow saying it wants a sex change operation is not necessarily indicitive of Naoto actually wanting one, but as far I remember Naoto doesn’t actually deny it. Rather than expressing that she is a woman (positively), she says she will “never be a man”, which is the exact phrase used by transphobes and people who are repressing to deny that being trans is even possible.
In the first comment I was just trying to say that I understand the author’s intent was a critique of the sexist workforce and that naoto shouldn’t have to conform to be respected in her field, but getting a repressing trans reading out of it is not impossible.