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May 14, 2023 7:05 PM
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raymond holt gay?

or yaoi gay?
May 14, 2023 7:15 PM
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pretty gay, not yaoi gay tho. the gay relationship isn't the main focus of the show
May 14, 2023 8:45 PM
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Gay vibes are strong and there are some gay characters in the supporting cast (Ash himself is at least bisexual), but their sexuality is not relevant to the context of the story, so this show did not received a gay tag. Overall, it's a fujo bait with a very strong bromance.
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May 14, 2023 9:14 PM
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it's pretty gay but it also has a great story and action so u can focus on what you want. If you want gayness , it's there. If you want story and action, it's there.
May 14, 2023 9:42 PM
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it is gay but not in a way screaming gayy its like we know its there and its better i think
May 14, 2023 10:02 PM
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KuroudoAkabane said:
raymond holt gay?

or yaoi gay?

tbh 5.5/10 gayness
May 15, 2023 12:41 AM
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5.5/10 gay.

How I experienced it, It's quite one-sided gay love from Aslan Jade's side. Okumura sees Aslan Jade more as a very good friend.
May 15, 2023 1:20 AM
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Besides being gay, it's not really focused on the intensity between the couple, but more of on the deep story and characters. That is what made me love this anime more than everโœจ
May 15, 2023 1:45 AM
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There's some gayness but not that much tbh.
May 15, 2023 2:33 AM
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yeah I agree on that point
but the story was quite good
May 15, 2023 3:59 AM
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Piromysl said:
Gay vibes are strong and there are some gay characters in the supporting cast (Ash himself is at least bisexual), but their sexuality is not relevant to the context of the story, so this show did not received a gay tag. Overall, it's a fujo bait with a very strong bromance.

doesn't the manga directly deal with Ash's struggles in prison as a queer young man in the 80s๐Ÿ’€ height of the aids epidemic? Yk the "gay disease"
The fact you call this fujobait and that it's a "bromance" is honestly insane. Do you kiss your bros and feel up their ass๐Ÿ’€? Do you kill yourself for your bros? Do you longingly stare at your bros while they're in the air? If this is a "bromance" to you I have a feeling you do some real freaky shit with your bros
May 15, 2023 4:12 AM

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a0t3a said:
Piromysl said:
Gay vibes are strong and there are some gay characters in the supporting cast (Ash himself is at least bisexual), but their sexuality is not relevant to the context of the story, so this show did not received a gay tag. Overall, it's a fujo bait with a very strong bromance.

doesn't the manga directly deal with Ash's struggles in prison as a queer young man in the 80s๐Ÿ’€ height of the aids epidemic? Yk the "gay disease"
The fact you call this fujobait and that it's a "bromance" is honestly insane. Do you kiss your bros and feel up their ass๐Ÿ’€? Do you kill yourself for your bros? Do you longingly stare at your bros while they're in the air? If this is a "bromance" to you I have a feeling you do some real freaky shit with your bros

I know what you are trying to say and what you problems are, but this ain't Twitter.

Everyone is gay in prison, no matter how hard they try to deny it, if you know what I mean.
Also, I don't think someone being continuously and methodically raped and groomed as a kid by older men as a proper gay representation.
And I call it fujo bait, because it literally has a shoujo tag.
PiromyslMay 15, 2023 4:35 AM

May 15, 2023 4:19 AM

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How much teen angst and general homophibia do you wanna use, when creating your Thread?

OP: YES!



Dude, we get it - YOU'RE DEFINETLY NOT GAY(!!!). So you NEED to know how gay shit gets, before watching something xD
Are you really this degenerate or just young?^^
May 15, 2023 7:22 AM

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The main focus is how they influence eachother's lives but not in a sexual way. The show doesn't explicitly tell you that they're gay, that's up to you to interpret
May 15, 2023 8:14 AM
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The manga has the gay intimate vibes, the anime has a bit of fanservice. You will not see a romantic relationship between them, and it's definitely not the Mangaka's purpose for you to focus in romance in this story.
May 15, 2023 9:16 AM
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its really gay but Still being a good anime for general public
May 15, 2023 10:34 AM
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Salamiii said:
The main focus is how they influence eachother's lives but not in a sexual way. The show doesn't explicitly tell you that they're gay, that's up to you to interpret

hardly a show says the characters are straight either, the people who understand it that way most of the time. This is called heteronormativity :)
May 15, 2023 10:43 AM
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I like banana fish exactly because the anime doesn't insist on saying they're gay, it simply leaves it as part of the story and doesn't treat it like it's a strike thing to be gay or not. The anime treats this naturally, as it should be in life.
May 15, 2023 2:24 PM
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It’s gay to the point they don’t need to say they’re gay.


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May 15, 2023 2:32 PM

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If you don't like gay then a lot and if you like gay then a lot.
I recommend you not to watch it if you don't like this type of content, because the bl is not the focus, but the feelings of the protagonists are explicit in some moments.

May 16, 2023 4:37 AM
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When I was was watching it I did not realize it was gay
May 16, 2023 11:51 AM
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It's gay, but not in a scream it at your face way. It knows it's gay, but doesn't make that it's whole personality. Compelling plot, good characters, literally no women
May 16, 2023 4:14 PM
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Infernalization said:
5.5/10 gay.

How I experienced it, It's quite one-sided gay love from Aslan Jade's side. Okumura sees Aslan Jade more as a very good friend.

… simply not true ash and eji both have a relationship of people who love each other, maybe not sexually but they do have more than a friendship. Eji feels this way to, you can see that in the aftermath and also throughout the show itself.
May 16, 2023 4:17 PM
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Gay as fuck
there is a tongue kiss between 2 men

main character (the japansese dude) is a twink

I gave it an 8 because didn't like the ending at all and could have been 3-4 episodes shorter.
Still a good anime tho



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May 16, 2023 7:29 PM
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It is not gay just that Mc got raped as a child and there is bromance.If being raped by men is gay then it is gay but in my opinion it is not gay.
May 16, 2023 9:30 PM
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Hexz_33 said:
Infernalization said:
5.5/10 gay.

How I experienced it, It's quite one-sided gay love from Aslan Jade's side. Okumura sees Aslan Jade more as a very good friend.

… simply not true ash and eji both have a relationship of people who love each other, maybe not sexually but they do have more than a friendship. Eji feels this way to, you can see that in the aftermath and also throughout the show itself.

It was a while back that I watched Banana Fish. So I did some research. According to sources Ash and Eji were framed as asexual in Banana Fish while in Garden of Light, the mangaka confirmed that they were romantically connected.

So, whether true or not, that might be why I experienced the love as one sided from Aslan Jade's side.
May 19, 2023 8:53 AM
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Infernalization said:
5.5/10 gay.

How I experienced it, It's quite one-sided gay love from Aslan Jade's side. Okumura sees Aslan Jade more as a very good friend.

I disagree at the beginning of the series I would say so but some of the things they went to together and some of the dialogue later in the show makes me believe it's more than just a friendship
May 20, 2023 6:25 AM
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Protagonist is gay and the show doesn't hide it, but that's about it. It honestly doesn't effect the story too much
May 20, 2023 6:40 AM

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Juzypotato said:
Protagonist is gay and the show doesn't hide it, but that's about it. It honestly doesn't effect the story too much
Ash has always been at least bisexual, and the second guy's sexuality never came up. But the show has never been a show about romance and the author even avoids labeling it BL for a number of reasons.
May 20, 2023 7:13 PM
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Why can't two bros save and depend on each other its a criminal but when the girl kisses their other friends no one bats in the eyes
May 20, 2023 7:14 PM
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Yuri on ice is gay ๐Ÿ’ฏ
Jun 4, 2023 11:26 PM
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Hmmmm kinda? Is more of depression
Jun 8, 2023 7:29 AM
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RobertBobert said:
Juzypotato said:
Protagonist is gay and the show doesn't hide it, but that's about it. It honestly doesn't effect the story too much
Ash has always been at least bisexual, and the second guy's sexuality never came up. But the show has never been a show about romance and the author even avoids labeling it BL for a number of reasons.
Isn't bi sexual still gay? Or I guess queer is more accurate? Either way the romance is at the very least heavily implied despite being separate from the story
Jun 15, 2023 1:15 AM

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Juzypotato said:
RobertBobert said:
Ash has always been at least bisexual, and the second guy's sexuality never came up. But the show has never been a show about romance and the author even avoids labeling it BL for a number of reasons.
Isn't bi sexual still gay? Or I guess queer is more accurate? Either way the romance is at the very least heavily implied despite being separate from the story
Depends on the context. But the author herself admitted that this is not a romantic story, regardless of the sexuality of the characters.
Jun 15, 2023 1:16 AM

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Why can't two bros save and depend on each other its a criminal but when the girl kisses their other friends no one bats in the eyes
Because men and girls have different degrees of intimacy, and any person over 10 years old knows this. Second, you can always sell yuri to straight girls, but not to BL for guys.
Apr 12, 9:55 PM
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Reply to Merve2Love
How much teen angst and general homophibia do you wanna use, when creating your Thread?

OP: YES!



Dude, we get it - YOU'RE DEFINETLY NOT GAY(!!!). So you NEED to know how gay shit gets, before watching something xD
Are you really this degenerate or just young?^^
@Merve2Love how gay is the show tho I wanna know. 1 - 10
Apr 13, 1:54 AM

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@Merve2Love how gay is the show tho I wanna know. 1 - 10
@MackynnnCheese

I guess the younger and more insecure you are, the more "gay" this will feel to ya :)
Mix that with your general level of homophobia and lack of education and there you go - this is the formula to find out.

Hope it helps.
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There are gay elements deliberately inserted in every episode.

It's not hardcore, but kissing, touching, flirting and seeing the aftermaths of assault is par for the course.

I actually like the story, it's interesting enough, but I don't like Yaoi. Had to stop watching all of it after the 3rd episode. Sped through more episodes and it was more of the same. More Yaoi.

I think the justification back then was that it was for the girls. Which doesn't really jive with the rest of the themes, the brutality.

@Merve2Love
It's more like the more you've convinced yourself that conforming to radical liberal standards is the right thing to do. The more you can delude yourself that this isn't extremely gay.
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AtotehZ said:
There are gay elements deliberately inserted in every episode.

It's not hardcore, but kissing, touching, flirting and seeing the aftermaths of assault is par for the course.

I actually like the story, it's interesting enough, but I don't like Yaoi. Had to stop watching all of it after the 3rd episode. Sped through more episodes and it was more of the same. More Yaoi.

I think the justification back then was that it was for the girls. Which doesn't really jive with the rest of the themes, the brutality.

@Merve2Love
It's more like the more you've convinced yourself that conforming to radical liberal standards is the right thing to do. The more you can delude yourself that this isn't extremely gay.

Soooo... an Anime deliberateley tackling homosexuality is bad and Im just a lieberal, because Im not automatically condescending and against these kind of things?^^

Hm. Interesting. Thanks.
You're so wise.
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That is not what you nor I said.

You said it was not a homoerotic anime and you'd only think that way if you were uneducated. That's the nonsense I responded to.
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It isn'a shit, it is a masterpiece!!
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That is not what you nor I said.

You said it was not a homoerotic anime and you'd only think that way if you were uneducated. That's the nonsense I responded to.
@AtotehZ

She is a woke smartass karen keep that in mind while talking to her.

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