| I feel like this may happen a lot in older anime but I just wanted to hear some ideas and maybe get recommendations for anime with characters like this :D ----------------------------- Mod Note: Thread Locked for not adhering to Anime Discussion Rule 5. Please refrain from posting thread topics which extend beyond the discussion of anime/manga as an entertainment medium to highly-debated social and/or moral issues. This includes but is not limited to: pedophilia, gender/racial equality, sexual orientation, etc. |
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| “Knowing you’re different is only the beginning. If you accept these differences you’ll be able to get past them and grow even closer.” – Miss Kobayashi |
| Aslan from Banana Fish comes to my mind |
| I don't think Makina and Reina from macross delta ever said they liked each other (I might be misremembering here though) but all the stares and hand holding make it pretty obvious |
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| Ymir from Shinkegi no Kyojin and no one can convice me otherwise. |
Suzaku from Code Geass |
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carolina-ya said: Aslan from Banana Fish comes to my mind tbh it's way more than hinted Well, first you have the obvious and caricatural "flamboyant" characters (like in Gintama, Tokyo Ghoul, Kakushigoto, I'd also propose : - Darius from Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood (he blushed when his bottom was mistakenly grabbed by Roy Mustang in the 4-komas) - Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji (they're actually LGBT+, but because of chinese censorship it's only implicit) - literally every young man in Barakamon...according to Tamako. - some characters often use gay innuendos jokes in Fruits Basket, maybe some of them are LGBT+ indeed ? - Minare in "Nami yo Kiitekure" often jokes about marrying her coworker because she's so great - Bulat in "Akame ga kill" is explicitly gay (not that it really matters in the story anyways) - Tsugumi Aozora in "Asobi Asobase" - many characters in "Carole & Tuesday" - Azusa Hamaoka in "Grand Blue" (well, it's not hinted because she describes herself as bi) - Hisoka in Hunter x Hunter :] - Squalo and Tiziano in "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 5 : Golden Wind" - Jolyne Kujoh in "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 6 : Stone Ocean" And I'm pretty sure there are more of them |
Yes, everybody should watch megamind |
| I feel like Mikaela from OnS is EXTREMELY gay with how obsessive and overprotective he is of Yuu. xD Doesn't even like him making friends...tsk. There's also Ferid from the same series....but I think...idk he is just weird. xD Might do anything. Lmao |
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| I totally thought of Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune being "cousins" in the English Dub. Grell from Black Butler could be considered because their gender identity isn't really known. Some people think Homura from Madoka Magica is LGBT+, but I'm personally on the fence about that one. |
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| I think Hunter x Hunter have great examples of this, perhaps. Pretty sure at least 4 characters are LGBT+. |
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no96sr said: love_lain said: I think Izaya is aromantic not asexual. He said he's not interested in people romantically and love them all equally.Izaya is asexual. I'm pretty sure in one scene he either explicitly states that he is asexual, or he says something along the lines of him not being interested in people sexually. I just thought that was cool, especially as a fellow ace person. You are both wrong; everyone knows Izaya is in love with Celty's head. :D   He suffers from headophilia. :) of course I made that up |
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| Violet Evergarden Side Story: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll - Pretty sure Isabella fell in love with Violet but it's KyoAni we are talking about so... |
Yeah that's pretty clear. Often people see "lgbt+" just because two girls or boys are friends (which is annoying) but with Ymir and Historia there was definitely more. |
| I agree with Mikaela from Owari no Seraph aaaand Homura from Madoka because at the end she kinda said that ''its love'' so... |
| Every CGDCT or CBDCT character to be short, except the ones that are explicitly given hetero love interests (my current avatar is an example of the latter xD). Some cases are more clear than others and some are tackled in universe, but these shows tend to be very homoerotic in general. |
jal90May 27, 2020 11:40 AM
Mattinator95 said: olajuwon20 said: I would say Kill La Kill. It's a shonen anime but with a female as the main protagonist. Even though she was tomboyish, I didn't expect her to be LGBT+ until I reached the end of the show. It also has some fanservice too. must of missed it who did she fall for I personally don't think she fell for anyone. She and Mako agree to "go on a date" but they don't do anything romantic and even Satsuki comes along. It was just a girls' outing. Girls do this. |
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| There are still a lot of them. It is often never explicitly mentioned but rather obvious, just look at "Free" where it was never mentioned that any of the characters are in fact gay but they are slashed madly. YURI!!! On Ice! is 100% BL and Victor and Yuuri quite obviously gay but so far the show has never made it official and plays it coy (which is fine as long as they don't fuck it up in the movie). Michiru and Haruka from Sailor Moon were obviously a couple but it was never really made official. Then there is also Kaworu from EVA who was also never explicitly gay but totally was. Then there is Kuroshitsuji (if Grell is not gay then I don't know who is). Ciel and Sebastian IMO are at least bi. Other shows: Tsurune, Hibike! Euphonium and Haikyuu! |
huntress1013May 27, 2020 11:50 AM
SouthRzVa said: Um, you talk about the same KyoAni who made Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon, Liz to Aoi Tori and Free!? That particular studio certainly never had problems with LBGT content, at least at the baiting level.Violet Evergarden Side Story: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll - Pretty sure Isabella fell in love with Violet but it's KyoAni we are talking about so... |
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| miyamura from yamada and seven witches radiate bisexual energy |
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But she doesn't act like she has romantic feelings for her? |
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| @olajuwon20 Oh yeah, girls actually do make "girl dates" without it meaning more than 'friends outing'. :D And Satsuki joined them too so if it was a serious date-date, you don't normally invite another person. xD |
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| Sakura's best friend from school in Cardcaptor Sakura comes to mind. Although I am rather ignorant as to how applicable this term is for children under 10 years of age. |
KreatorX said: Sakura's best friend from school in Cardcaptor Sakura comes to mind. Although I am rather ignorant as to how applicable this term is for children under 10 years of age. Tomoyo is confirmed, though. I think it was explicitly stated in the series at some point, and by the end of the show there was undeniable evidence. All the LGBT characters in Sakura in general are quite explicitly so, and there's many of them, including the mains. |
inim said: SouthRzVa said: Um, you talk about the same KyoAni who made Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon, Liz to Aoi Tori and Free!? That particular studio certainly never had problems with LBGT content, at least at the baiting level.Violet Evergarden Side Story: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll - Pretty sure Isabella fell in love with Violet but it's KyoAni we are talking about so... Not sure if I can consider "baiting" as being LGBT supportive. Anyways, I simply named Isabella because I watched the movie recently. Gotta agree with "Maid Dragon" tho. Tohru herself already established she likes Kobayashi both romantically and sexually speaking. |
| I'm surprised no Haikyuu, Free, or My Hero stans have started to invade this thread by listing every single character in the show |
carolina-ya said: Aslan from Banana Fish comes to my mind In the anime, yes, the in the manga, no, the author confirmed he was bi. Megamind is one of the best western-animated movies that came out in the 2010s you cannot change my mind |
SeijatachiiiiMay 27, 2020 12:45 PM
| Reina from Hibike! Euphonium Sanae from Chuunibyou Homura from Madoka Magica Mika from Owari no Seraph |
bluffinieOct 5, 2020 1:34 PM
guych said: I'm surprised no Haikyuu, Free, or My Hero stans have started to invade this thread by listing every single character in the show If you actually read the thread you would have seen that I already mentioned both Free and Haikyuu! Explicitly. Most sports animes are very LGBTQ friendly. |
guych said: I'm surprised no Haikyuu, Free, or My Hero stans have started to invade this thread by listing every single character in the show I mean, I explicitly wanted to mention Free in my CBDCT comment. Haikyuu as well, but slightly less blatant. |
| I don't do 'hints'. Unless someone's sexual orientation is made explicit I work under the assumption that there is a reason the show is focusing on other things, namely that those things are what the show is trying to do and why I watch it and if it wants to do something with romance or sexuality, it'll let me know. I don't have to look for it until it manifests itself out of thin air, like most of the mentions in this thread. No point in slapping sexuality labels onto every character under the sun as far as I'm concerned. I treat sexuality and sexual orientation in fiction as something that is irrelevant to the point of not existing in a lot of shows and I'm baffled how people project sexual orientations and fantasies onto a lot of these 'asexual' shows and their characters when they often focus on literally everything aside from romance/sexuality. And then selling it back to the rest of us as if the show aggressively hinted at it and I'm in denial for 'not seeing it'. "I mean obviously that guy was nice/an asshole to this other guy so that's a definite hint (either way) that they are hot for each other..." My point is that I don't believe in hints, that's just a word people use to make what they project onto a show sound more 'official', more like canon, when it just isn't. It makes sense to talk about hints AFTER something was confirmed, when you go back and watch the episodes before the confirmation whether they are hinting at what is to come. But it's not a hint to me, when there is never any confirmation and it's basically just someone interpreting too much into a scene/character. Because the truth is that if you keep looking you'll eventually find even things that aren't there, and this is how these 'hint' narratives come into existence, at least most of them. But I don't like to make assumptions when the show doesn't require me to do so (which they almost never do when it comes to sexual orientation - if it's relevant, the show will let you know. So as long as it's not explicit I usually just don't think about it, don't make assumptions, don't slap labels onto characters - because I simply don't care and I don't understand why almost everyone else seems to care so much to the point where labeling characters based on their assumed sexual orientation with as little valid information as possible is basically the modus operandi of the entire anime community. I could also rant about how annoying I find the obsession with sexuality labels IRL, where it's gotten so far that anyone who doesn't find a label they like is compelled to choose one or make one up, because people simply can't process reality, sexuality, themselves or other people without everything having a clear-cut label... But this is not the thread for that. |
| I probably regret this post by now. |
| Uhm, it is not really far-fetched to talk about "hints" when every aspect of Ash and Eiji's relationship in Banana Fish is romantic except the name itself, when the characters in Free constantly end up very close looking at each other's eyes, when Rin from Yuru Camp blushes at every instance Nadeshiko interacts with her and keeps observing her amusingly, when the main girls in Harukana Receive say that they are like a married couple or Ayasa backhugs Narumi. Not mentioning shows where characters directly state their sexuality because that's no longer a hint, it's fact and this thread is not about that. I understand your personal lack of interest in this kind of speculation, @Pullman, but you are making it look like it's pulled out of nowhere and honestly you don't need to even be a shipper to feel that yes, maybe they want to hint those interpretations, from body language to intimate aspects of their friendships to the way the series frames their encounters. Hinting is not, of course, the same as affirming canon. Nobody says that these shows and characters are factually LGBT. But they would certainly make sense to be, and the shows are perhaps plentily aware of that. |
jal90May 27, 2020 2:10 PM
jal90 said: Perhaps you are right. I just recalled something off memory since I had watched that show some 20 years ago.KreatorX said: Sakura's best friend from school in Cardcaptor Sakura comes to mind. Although I am rather ignorant as to how applicable this term is for children under 10 years of age. Tomoyo is confirmed, though. I think it was explicitly stated in the series at some point, and by the end of the show there was undeniable evidence. All the LGBT characters in Sakura in general are quite explicitly so, and there's many of them, including the mains. |
huntress1013 said: guych said: I'm surprised no Haikyuu, Free, or My Hero stans have started to invade this thread by listing every single character in the show If you actually read the thread you would have seen that I already mentioned both Free and Haikyuu! Explicitly. Most sports animes are very LGBTQ friendly. Yes, you so far are the only person that mentioned it. You are not multiple people was the point I was making. I was coming into this thread expecting something else but what I saw was different, which was why I left what I left |
| Kinda surprised no one has said it, but I guess Shinji from Evangelion. Especially in that episode with the white haired dude, it definitely seemed like something was going on there. Although now I'm prepared to be completely proven wrong about that. |
jal90 said: Uhm, it is not really far-fetched to talk about "hints" when every aspect of Ash and Eiji's relationship in Banana Fish is romantic except the name itself, when the characters in Free constantly end up very close looking at each other's eyes, when Rin from Yuru Camp blushes at every instance Nadeshiko interacts with her and keeps observing her amusingly, when the main girls in Harukana Receive say that they are like a married couple or Ayasa backhugs Narumi. Not mentioning shows where characters directly state their sexuality because that's no longer a hint, it's fact and this thread is not about that. I understand your personal lack of interest in this kind of speculation, @Pullman, but you are making it look like it's pulled out of nowhere and honestly you don't need to even be a shipper to feel that yes, maybe they want to hint those interpretations, from body language to intimate aspects of their friendships to the way the series frames their encounters. Hinting is not, of course, the same as affirming canon. Nobody says that these shows and characters are factually LGBT. But they would certainly make sense to be, and the shows are perhaps plentily aware of that. Your interpretation of Yuru Camp is delusional. OMG she smiled at the other girl that means she's totally gay! |
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| ^idk man...smiling is one thing but iif a character is blushing ALL the time in the presence of another....I too would call that "very gay". xD I haven't seen Yuru Camp though so I can't say for sure. Oh and I've gotten crap for this before but Mitsuba from Hanako-kun seems rather LGBT. From his design to his voice to his behavior. I think he's very girly and has a crush on Kou. xD Secretly taking photo of another boy? THAT IS SO GAY. lmao |
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EmiiTT said: I feel like this may happen a lot in older anime but I just wanted to hear some ideas and maybe get recommendations for anime with characters like this :D Banana Fish....... if you haven't seen it!! While I was watching the series I almost screamed at the screen "Tell me you're gay already!'' because of the protagonist's behavior. And the well known Yuri on Ice..for something with that appeal on a more extreme level. |
DoruCatanaJun 21, 2020 2:29 PM
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guestkun said: soooo every androgynous boy who ends up being a ship fantasy for fujoshi fans? Not for me unless he is acting like a schoolgirl with a crush lol ...course a fujoshi I am not. Most of my ships are het ones. |
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Chiibi said: ^idk man...smiling is one thing but iif a character is blushing ALL the time in the presence of another....I too would call that "very gay". xD I just finished watching that series the other day. Rin does not blush when interacting with Nadeshiko. I guess I should not be surprised the guy who says "EVERY CGDCT anime is homoerotic" would misinterpret their friendship this way. |
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| In "Mao Dao Zu Shi" the fact that the protagonist and his partner are gay is just hinted (you know, chinese censorship). I felt the "gay vibe" in "The case files of Jeweler Richard" - again, both of the main characters -. Also Mikaela from Owari No Seraph (but maybe we can consider him canonically gay after the release of the last chapter). And maybe Kakegurui for some hinted lesbians (?) |
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