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Content Warning: transphobia, queerphobia, gender essentialism
Spoilers for all of Fruits Basket
Fruits Basket is one of my favorite anime of all occasion. I adore its exploration of how people who’ve suffered incredible trauma can put themselves back together. I adore its portrayal of the radical healing power of kindness as an active choice in a world full of misery. I adore how it showcases the complexities of love and how it can be your greatest salvation if you work to nurture and cultivate it. This demonstrate makes me laugh, it makes me cry, but more than anything, it makes me hope. It makes me hope that no matter how awful things get, there will always be a second chance waiting just around the corner. Even two decades after the imaginative manga began publishing, it shines just as brightly.
But I’m not here to talk about how much I love Fruits Basket. Today, I’m here to explore one of its most under-discussed problems: its portrayal of queerness.
There are many characters in Fruits Basket who we can read as falling under the LGBTQ+ umbrella. Unconventional gender expression and same-gender attraction are actually quite common among the show’s core cast. However,
10 Most Controversial BL Anime
Boys' Love, or Shōnen Ai, is a genre of manga that has traditionally existed in a bubble all to itself. For a long day, most fans of the genre kept their interest confined to their carefully curated internet spaces and reading groups. By now, Boys' Love has develop more mainstream, as seen with series like Hyperventilation, to the point of being referenced in other genres. Many boys' love stories are even overtaking more traditional unbent love stories in terms of popularity. The genre's history, however, extends much further back into the history of manga than most casual readers would think.
Boys' Love first came into prominence in the 1970s and went by several different names over the years. Terms like Yaoi, Shōnen Ai, and June covered this subsection of the shojo genre. Most of these stories were written by women, for women, and are not reflective of the experiences of gay men. There is also the reality that, for many anime fans, the female characters are often underwritten and aren't as absorbing to imagine in a relationship. As with any genre of fiction that is most trendy among women, however, there are a l
7 Gay Manga Titles We’d Love to See Get an Anime Adaptation
It’s about period we get more gay anime on our screens. Queer anime and gay manga titles (the terms for Japanese animated series and comic books, respectively) possess been on the rise in the past few years. Thanks to the juggernaut anime Yuri on Ice, animation companies own realized they can make a pretty penny (or yen, in this case) by creating and distributing gay-themed anime. Just the past few years, popular manga like Given have earned an anime adaptation.
But what other manga titles should be given the animation treatment? What are widespread gay stories that deserve recognition by animation companies and anime fans? Here are a limited manga titles for you all to discover. Then maybe they’ll get an anime adaptation sometime soon.
Here are 7 gay manga titles we’d love to view get an anime adaptation:
1. Ganbare! Nakamura-kun!! By Syundei
Synopsis: “Nakamura is a shy boy who falls in love at first sight with another boy — his dreamy high school classmate Hirose. But there’s a problem: they haven’t met yet. And Nakamura is a total klutz who might bungle things before they even begin! In this endeari
10 Best LGBTQ+ Anime Series
With such a diverse range of content, anime bids audiences the chance to connect with all kinds of stories and characters. There are many anime series and movies that enclose LGBTQ+ characters. However, much like with Western media, these characters and their stories tend to be either not explicitly part of the LGBTQ+ collective or not a significant aspect of the anime.
While there are plenty more anime series and characters that provide wonderful representation for audiences, these are the LGBTQ+ anime series that aren't afraid of creature open and proudly focusing on their queer content.
Princess Knight
The oldest and one of the longest-running anime series, Princess Knight started as a manga in the 1950s. The manual grew popular enough to launch an anime adaptation that first aired in 1967.
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As one of the first examples of queer manga/anime, this series tells the story of a baby born with two hearts, one male and one female. Throughout the series, the Princess Knight expresses both male and female gender identities, dressing in usual gendered clothes to rep