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taotrooper) wrote2006-11-14 10:53 am
taotrooper) wrote2006-11-14 10:53 am
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My thoughts on yaoi... in shounen manga
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clamp_rants was going about how a manga being shounen =/= no gay in it. Of course, it's ridiculous. Hell, my first shounen manga had a very blatant gay guy as one of the baddies. I never shipped him with his crush because I liked the other guy's canon pairing, but there was no way in hell (heh) any fanboy could deny that one-sided gayness anyway. Then again, Kamatari of the scythe was a poster boy for the Aerosmith song "Dude looks like a lady".
So, let's do some meta discussion.
1) What shounen manganime (or any other fandom that, if it were Japanese, would be classified as shounen) from the ones you like have canon gay/lesbian/bi characters? And when I say canon gay, I mean actual love/crushes/flirts to people from the opposite sex. Not androgynous or reeeeeally suspicious character traits or strong subtext.
2) What canon gay couples in shounen do you ship?
3) What non-canon pairings do you slash in shounen?
For me:
1) There's Rurouni Kenshin (for Kamatari), Evangelion (for Kaworu), and FMA (for Garfiel XD). There's probably more, but from the top of my head... Oh, and I used to like Bleach, in which there were a couple of lesbians.
2) I like Kaworu/Shinji, but in manga. Damn you Sadamoto, you bought me!
3) I'm so going to be laughed at XD This is crack, okay? I know it. Ryoga/Mousse in Ranma 1/2 (blame the Herb saga) and Soujirou/Kamatari in RK (what? it WOULD be hot if Kamatari gets over the Shishio jealousy!)
A post in
clamp_rants was going about how a manga being shounen =/= no gay in it. Of course, it's ridiculous. Hell, my first shounen manga had a very blatant gay guy as one of the baddies. I never shipped him with his crush because I liked the other guy's canon pairing, but there was no way in hell (heh) any fanboy could deny that one-sided gayness anyway. Then again, Kamatari of the scythe was a poster boy for the Aerosmith song "Dude looks like a lady".So, let's do some meta discussion.
1) What shounen manganime (or any other fandom that, if it were Japanese, would be classified as shounen) from the ones you like have canon gay/lesbian/bi characters? And when I say canon gay, I mean actual love/crushes/flirts to people from the opposite sex. Not androgynous or reeeeeally suspicious character traits or strong subtext.
2) What canon gay couples in shounen do you ship?
3) What non-canon pairings do you slash in shounen?
For me:
1) There's Rurouni Kenshin (for Kamatari), Evangelion (for Kaworu), and FMA (for Garfiel XD). There's probably more, but from the top of my head... Oh, and I used to like Bleach, in which there were a couple of lesbians.
2) I like Kaworu/Shinji, but in manga. Damn you Sadamoto, you bought me!
3) I'm so going to be laughed at XD This is crack, okay? I know it. Ryoga/Mousse in Ranma 1/2 (blame the Herb saga) and Soujirou/Kamatari in RK (what? it WOULD be hot if Kamatari gets over the Shishio jealousy!)