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❧ тнε sεмαρнσяε мεssαgε ση үσυя ℓιρs ([personal profile] utenacar) wrote in [community profile] colors_tcg2021-06-12 12:47 pm

Colors TCG Anniversary - Day 12

Since Colors Anniversary falls during Pride Month, I was thinking it would be fun to talk about our favorite LGBT+ characters! Gush about them to the class! Give us your queer anime recs. What about ships? I wanna hear about them all!!

For participating, you may claim a copy of exce11ent12 and three choice cards of a queer character! Additionally, for each thread you comment on, you'll receive 1 random card. Let's gooooo!!
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[personal profile] misheard 2021-06-13 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Replied to: Jiyu, Bunny, Lina, Lita, Pia, Jun, Raven, Cami, Jackals, Arianne, Anna, Eviantus, Lex, Alyce, Kayori, Shiranna, KJ, Sunlit, Len, Yuuka, Aru, Chives, Kari, Ouji, Lenga, Veth, Raie, A, Ana, Arc
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[personal profile] misheard 2021-06-12 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
if only one of the decks i submitted this month were out yet-

okay I'll take ryudoji02, ryudoji03, and ryudoji04 because Ryudo Issei from Fate/stay night is Not Straight. Even discounting how much he blushes around Shirou (he has four separate blushing sprites, I checked), there's the comic in Type-Moon Ace where he gives Shirou Valentine's Day chocolates, and in Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya he's all but confirmed as a romantic interest for him.

issei route when

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[personal profile] misheard 2021-06-13 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I've seen like two episodes of Utena but it sounded like it was amazing, just also too heavy for me most of the time. Alas.

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[personal profile] fall 2021-06-12 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Revolutionary Girl Utena and Sailor Moon are big ones that were important to me in my formative years, and I think the representation did go a long way in ensuring that as I grew up I was really malleable and the stigma against homosexuality didn't really harden in the same way it did for others in my family. In the long term, the Starlights were how I realized that I'm a female-learning bi (I'm still really soft for SeiUsa because it was my first "real" f/f ship, but also it's really cute??? Just let Usagi have her harem ffs.)

For more recent works, Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou have impressed me by having queer characters drop the l-word. This also happens in Umineko (Lambda/Bern represent,) but it's less jarring since I think broadcasting is still fairly more conservative than visual novels (which, obviously, are not broadcasting.) I'm especially pleased since (spoilers for Rebellion & Gou:) both characters drop the l-word, which is pretty significant in any anime. It's also the first time I've seen lesbian antagonists where they felt like real, fully formed people instead of trash-tier attempts like Kannazuki no Miko where we rape for love and that's fine because love???

Plus, the mobage Magia Record has an explicitly lesbian character who struggles with the fact that being a lesbian is "odd" and stigmatized which is extremely painful.

Though for PMMM my personal pet ship is Kyoko/Mami and I'll fight over it tbh.

Finally, Rule of Rose has explicitly lesbian kids and I think it's a really beautiful game. I have to caveat the recommendation because it comes with a lot of content warnings, but it handles it in a way that's very respectful, gut-wrenching, subtle enough that you can blink and miss a lot of it (so it's not quite as grotesque or "shocking" as it could be,) and honestly one of the few games that I'd say is really an absolute work of art. Not to mention they actually did studies and a fuckton of research before they made it, which is a crazy dedication to accurately portraying things. Mind the content warnings because it doesn't pull punches on the cruelty of childhood, nor how cruel adults can be, but highly, highly recommend.

Choice Cards: mysterious10, mysterious11, mysterious12
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[personal profile] misheard 2021-06-13 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
rule of rose is one of those games i've always thought looked interesting but i would probably never actually play myself because i would probably just cry through half of it

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[personal profile] lina_trinch 2021-06-12 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm gonna be basic but it'd be crazy to have this discussion and not mention Uranus & Neptune from Sailor Moon, especially with the history behind that entire thing. I've written so many articles about what it meant for them to be """cousins""" in the American adaptation, not to mention just cutting out the last season completely. But I digress.

Sailor Moon was definitely the number one thing that helped me realize Things(TM) about myself, even if those ideas didn't actually formulate until years later. And now, when you watch the new series or even some of the movies (like the R movie with Mamo's stalker popping in and all that), it's so much more represented. They really set a bar for media to come, I think, in no small thanks to the popularity of the show. But I digress again.

Disregarding all the other queer characters in the show (I'm pretty convinced no one's cis-straight in that franchise), Uranus & Neptune were my favorite parts when I was little. Uranus all super strong & bad ass, Neptune mega smart & talented, I love them 5ever. ;;

Anyway, this is all to say that f/f ships need to become more popular, I'm just sayin'.


Taking neptune01, neptune02, neptune03, exce11ent12
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[personal profile] misheard 2021-06-13 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't remember if I knew as a kid that Uranus/Neptune were dating, but I know one of my first crushes was Mercury before I knew what crushes felt like.

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[personal profile] needles 2021-06-12 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
My favorite canon gay character is probably C-ta from Shuuen no Shiori Project... Um, not for any good reasons lol since I'm not LGBT+. He's just a hot mess and I love his hot mess-ness. And even though ShuuPro is a dead series now (F) I have a lot for fondness for him and want him to grow as a person.

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[personal profile] jewelry 2021-06-13 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
i didn't know there was a canon gay in shuupro...i remember considering getting into that series, but when it's a multimedia type deal i never know where to start.

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the first thing that comes to my mind is Gunjou, which is absolutely one of my all time favourite manga. it's about this woman who calls upon her lesbian friend to kill her abusive husband and then they go on the lam. their relationship is absolutely fucked up, they're both extremely damaged people who cause pain to basically everyone around them. i love it! it also just got a movie adaptation on netflix i haven't seen yet because no one will watch this damn movie with me. but you should!

taking: exce11ent12, mygender02, mygender03, mygender04
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[personal profile] misheard 2021-06-13 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
that sounds like an amazing manga premise

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[personal profile] beezebeora 2021-06-13 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
I guess the real question is do we consider characters who arn't really confirmed queer or not as classifying. While I am really into a lot of chinese xianxia and wuxia series these days, and soo many the past couple years have been BL themed, a lot of my characters are never straight up confirmed anything, if your not the main, your either ambiguous or presumed straight and probably dead, esp if you get a canon relationship. Sounds silly to bring it up, but I guess with their fan communities, everyone just kind of assumes "xxx is gay/bi/demi/ace" and like no one really ever says "xxx is straight" haha. I tend to forget a lot of character arn't fully canon (esp with china, it can be kinda a trick to make more gay then the mains tbh.. but that's a whole different can of worms)

While more on the genre as a whole, I really like a lot of these series because while I want more queer representation in series, I honestly do not care for most romance series. I want action, dark themes, ect. like I see with so many characters, but hey throw me a carrot and let some be gay. So I really enjoy things like Mo Dao Zu Shi and such because of that. But, Its kind of weird to say why I like them as couples vs what I like about the characters as a whole and separate. I guess for that example, with the "canon" ship, Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji are kind of a nice mix of "extrovert" and "introvert" in personality. But, again, Its kind of hard to say what I like on the romantic side... especially since I could go on more for the non canons then I could for the canon themselves.

... Im worried this turned more into like a rant then anything. I guess recommendation wise, I recommend series like this though. Mainly for romance being a thing, but not the over all plot and focus. Same for so many of these novels, Romance is fine and all, but characters have plots and lives outside of that, and I quite like to see a series that has alot of fighting, politics, and action and then also "hey there is a scene where they get a lil freaky in a tree". Its a nice change of pace I guess I should say.

Anyways I'll grab exce11ent12, adam06, adam11, adam15
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[personal profile] misheard 2021-06-13 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I feel you on the not loving romance as a genre... I ship very easily, but if it's the focus of the canon then it feels like there's not as much room for me to expand on it, you know?

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[personal profile] nidoking 2021-06-13 02:18 pm (UTC)(link)
There are so many. First series that comes to mind is Yuri on Ice, with its wonderful LGBT characters and a legendary main ship. I also like many of Danganronpa's bi characters like Ibuki, Mikan, Junko, possibly Kaede, etc. Even though I wouldn't call some of them great representation xD. There's also Kanji from Persona 4, a classic bi character, or Erica, the trans girl from Catherine (even though the game doesn't treat her well). Oh and of course there is Neon Genesis Evangelion, where you can hc lots of characters as LGBT, but at the very least Shinji is definitely bi and he's great.

I'll take cybernetic01, cybernetic09, cybernetic18 since Motoko is bi
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Kanji's my favorite P4 and I love him so, so much.

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[personal profile] camilovesyou 2021-06-13 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I think my favorite is probably Kanji from Persona 4.
The game treats it horribly, but fans know what's up.
I do have a weird fondness for Seragaki Aoba from DRAMAtical Murder...but I think that's bc it's the first BL game I've ever played

I'll take junkshop01, junkshop02, junkshop03 because Aoba is obviously not straight.
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Kanji Deserved Better, Never Forget

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[personal profile] tothejackals 2021-06-13 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
ngl i am The Worst when it comes to figuring out and remembering when something is Actually LGBT+ and when something is Just Really Close Friends Honest Guys (mostly because I ignore the second category bc i will ship your heavily subtexted people however i want, you don't get to pull the OH NO GUYS YOU SHOULDN'T READ IT THAT WAY IT'S JUST DEEP FRIENDSHIP on me persona 5 and sk8)

a lot of my answers have already popped up in the post :D i love me a kanji tatsumi and a naoto shirogane, yuri on ice!! was a sweet watch a couple of years ago, i love the madoka girls. i'm digging fate/grand order's recent pile of nonbinary servants and characters. i'll eat somebody's hat if nobara kugisaki from jjk isn't a lesbian. my s/o keeps trying promising/threatening to play DMMD for me and watch me play Danganronpa for the first time, so maybe i'll have a bigger answer in the future xD

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[personal profile] beezebeora 2021-06-14 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
lbr, sk8 was a little more then just "deep friendship" lol. But I completely understand what you mean. But tbh a lot of that is there for the shipping. No guilt haha

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[personal profile] phibby 2021-06-14 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know that this really counts for the post since it's canonically "you can read it however you want" but Kotetsu/Barnaby from Tiger & Bunny is one of my all-time favorite ships, and I am praying to the old gods and the new that the upcoming second season doubles down on it. But as far as definitely canonical LGBT T&B goes, I loved that Fire Emblem got such a big subplot in The Rising!

Okay, so full-on canon LGBT. Gotta go with the classic: Haruka and Michiru from Sailor Moon. It tells you just how powerful of a couple this is that they're only in it for, like, a season and a half, and they totally upstage the main romance of the show lol. They have some of the best scenes in the entire series: this, the episode about how they met, the hand holding scene (you know which one I'm talking about), the rest of that episode (no spoilers!), the equivalent episode in Stars ("Hell? It doesn't suit you" yep that's me sobbing), the SuperS special where Michiru is basically like yeah, I'd destroy the world for her, ariana-grande-and-what-about-it.gif. It doesn't get any better than these two, tbh.

I also really loved Doukyuusei! Absolutely gorgeous movie, LOVED the art style, and the central pairing was just adorable. Due for a rewatch for sure. And gonna give a shoutout to Bodacious Space Pirates. Please don't be put off by that title, it is not at all what it sounds like lol. While I do totally ship (not canon afaik) Marika/Chiaki, the actual canon lesbian couple that's in it was a pleasant surprise the first time I saw it!

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[personal profile] kayoriayane 2021-06-18 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
*tries not to laugh* Tiger & Bunny! I've seen this fan-pairing so often! XD

Lord that scene! "My sweet brad, I wonder where he is today." Yeah, how about right next to you. lmao

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[personal profile] kues 2021-06-14 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
When I was a wee bab (read: 13) I read a manga called Tetragrammaton Labyrinth, which....it's not the best, I can't really recommend it, because it's super gorey and has a lot of nudity, but--it was basically about a nun named Meg and an immortal girl named Angela going around turn of the century London killing demons. Anyway turns out it was a slowburn-ish girl's love manga on top of being horror where Meg and Angela end up as a couple and reading it was one of the big triggers that lead me to realize I was bi. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'M BEING CAVALIER ABOUT IT LMAO but it's sort of an important series to me, personally, just because of that. It's difficult to get ahold of scans so I'm not able to donate full decks of them yet, but I donated a few cards of Meg and Angela to scrapbooks.



I'd also like to talk you about SUMIRE TAKAHANA, BISEXUAL DISASTER

Venus Versus Virus is one of my favorite manga series so this is mostly just me gushing........I have noticed VVV tends to spark some conversation on whether or not it can be labeled a girl's love series since the f/f content in it (especially the anime, which was really short) can be light at times, but anyway.

She really has not-platonic chemistry with the other female lead, Lucia. And she also has a canon boyfriend that until the plot comes in and fucks everything up for she is incredibly cute with so I stand by Sumire being bi as hell :V

in light of that I will take some Sumires: vaccine15, vaccine17, vaccine18, thank you!
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[personal profile] kayoriayane 2021-06-18 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
That definitely sounds like one hell of a plot. Them being in turn-of-the-century London, and one of them being a nun, is plot enough to make it challenging for both of them to be together in that way.

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[personal profile] eviantus 2021-06-15 08:18 am (UTC)(link)
I am absolutely a big fan of Yuri and Victor in Yuri on Ice!! What an iconic duo - and what I love about the show is how sweet their relationship is, and how normalised it is within the universe. It's very refreshing :D

Taking eros18, eros19, eros20, exce11ent12
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I still haven't seen this series yet, but it's recommended by almost everyone commenting. :)

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[personal profile] admiral 2021-06-17 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
ok but who HASN'T watched the utena movie at too young an age because they found the VHS at their local library and absorbed it into their psyche only to look back years later and realize oh that's why i'm Like That. and by like that i mean that soundtrack SLAPS and if you listen to it too much while repeatedly watching the juri/utena fight scene from the film it turns you gay.

if anyone wants recs for stuff that's less of a wild ride, I highly recommend Doukyuusei and Given! Doukyuusei the movie is only like an hour long so it's a quick watch but it's got a fun art style and it's a cute high school romance story. Given's a little longer, one season of the anime plus a movie, but it's worth it! It's about a group of boys in a band and there's 2 different relationships (the anime focuses on one, the movie the other). It's also very sweet but has some more serious moments (content warning for a suicide that takes place before the series starts but is part of one of the character's storylines/character development). but the characters are fun and there's drama and music and stuff!

taking exce11ent12, twirling06, twirling07, twirling08 because oh yeah mahiru revue starlight deserves better
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Doukyuusei does sound like an interesting series. I might have to look into it.

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[personal profile] ellica 2021-06-17 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)
i really enjoyed Yuri!!! on Ice! and even though i watched it a year or so after it released and have heard about it, i still was surprised that they elevated their relationship from subtext to text, especially when you usually get boys being boys and gals being pals nothing to see here haha...

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I'll need to look into watching Yuri On Ice at one point. It's been mentioned by almost everyone. XD

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[personal profile] kayoriayane 2021-06-18 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
If I remember correctly, the only LGBT+ series I've really read/watched are Earthian, Gravitaion, and Loveless. XD

Earthian was cute, and I still love Loveless. <3 Gravitation was so cute, and had a ton of my favorite seiyuu.

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if I could have cat ears i would be an old lady still with cat ears, that shit's cute

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[personal profile] kuranosuke 2021-06-20 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I have watched Junjou Romantica and some of the second season and some of the characters there that I really liked and some stories that were fine. I especially liked Kamijou and Nowaki and their relationship. Admittedly I don't remember much about the series, other than liking those particular characters.

And oh, I also watched Koutetsu Sangokushi which is basically Queer Bating the series. Not recommended even for Mamoru Miyano.


Taking my queen, Homura: mysterious01, mysterious05, mysterious14
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[personal profile] misheard 2021-06-21 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
given the usual standards of anime I'm worried about what makes it The Most Queer Baiting...

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[personal profile] itskjstyle 2021-06-21 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
LGBT Characters? Oh boy! I have a lot - some even are more recent!

Now, I love Kurita Kaoru from Wonder Egg Priority (which is a series I may have to donate some for anyway!) He's a transboy who comes out and says straight up says it. In a series that has a load of discussion about some tougher issues and has a lot of sadness (there's like 500 trigger warnings and if you want to watch it, I'd def be happy to share what to watch for, tho I do recommend it). And honestly, though he is in the series because of a bad thing that happened, the character he encounters treats him sell and they do NOT make it a joke. :)

Ikuhara always comes in clutch with queer characters. While I love Utena, and it stands alone at the top of one of my favorite series (Juri ♥♥)... I love his more recent series, Sarazanmai Reo/Mabu are in love (they say so, even) and there's characters who are clearly into other male characters. It's just loaded with great content.

And, of course - Yuri!!! on Ice is one of my favorite series of all time, and THEY ARE ENGAGED. I love Viktor and Yuuri a lot. ♥♥

And, of course...Even though it's not explicitly said in Sk8, that is def a bit more then friendship. ;)

And I forgot to claim:

keeponly03, keeponly20, 1luv20 (from Sarazanmai!)
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[personal profile] misheard 2021-06-21 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
i've heard reo/mabu is an allegory for putting lgbt relationships in work without ever being able to say it directly or get censored which ngl is like 50% of why i want to watch that someday

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[personal profile] sunlitrains 2021-06-21 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
So let's see...I'm going to go ahead and count Sailor Moon for me even though I have only ever seen the original english dub where Neptune and Uranus are.... "cousins". I am aware there is a lot more gay in that series then was originally translated though and I do love that. I look forward to the day I'm finally ready to rewatch the redub and get to enjoy it in all it's gay glory as intended.

I also loved Gravitation back in the day. At the time it was really one of the first shonen-ai series to make it over to the USA, or at least definitely the first I was aware of. I am not sure I would exactly recommend it these days but I still hold a fondness for it in my heart. I used to listen to those songs on repeat.

I watched Yuri on Ice last year and loved that. Really a beautiful series visually and thematically. Looking forward to whenever there is a second season of that (at least I think I remember there was meant to be more!).

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[personal profile] misheard 2021-06-21 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Someday I too will watch Sailor Moon in something other than the Viz dub. I gotta do it for my childhood self who had no idea.

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[personal profile] moes 2021-06-21 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
honestly a lot of the canons that i consume have a bunch of "not confirmed canon lgbt+" characters and gays

the biggest one i'm into right now is project sekai - it's a hatsune miku mobile game where one of the characters, mizuki (this one) is currently of an unconfirmed gender status; it's very likely that they're either nonbinary or trans and i'm hoping the franchise will treat them right because i actually enjoy mizuki as a character so far.

as for ships, madohomu is a big one from puella magi madoka magica, and satorika from higurashi. i've been finding a lot of stuff from the old anthologies that have been really good for satorika especially.... weeps.

i'll be taking mysterious01, mysterious02, mysterious03 /o/
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i for one am shocked that you and several of my friends like satorika

i could never have guessed

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[personal profile] yuuka_tcg 2021-06-21 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
As a child when I first encountered Touya and Yukito's relationship, I never felt like it was a "just friends" situation. Of course, when I grew up and went back through the manga and "read in" to a lot more of the story, it became more and more obvious to me that CLAMP tried to shed light on love not just being in a single form (specifically heterosexuality).

It's refreshing to know that there were people trying to introduce at least queer themes from decades ago, especially from such a conservative country as well.

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[personal profile] beelzebae 2021-06-22 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
CLAMP has a huge history of queer characters! in fact, if i recall, one of their earliest works was a yaoi egg doujinshi (don't ask) from jojo's bizarre adventure of all things. it's pretty neat!

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[personal profile] magaru 2021-06-21 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Shinji Ikari from Evangelion is my most darling bi boy and I will protect him from everything. Utena and Yuri on Ice have been already talked about here so I won't repeat myself but watching YoI week after week as it was airing was an experience I will always remember fondly. Sarazanmai was another queer series that literally had me put up prayer circles for happy ending out of my nendoroids, rainbow flags and cucumbers. Fate/ also has many queer characters and I know people tend to frown at "this character flirts with protag regardless of their gender" being shown as example of rep but just to name a few other examples Nero openly talks about her love of women and Waver never shows any interest in women and his interest in Iskandar is all but stated.

For recent fandoms, many characters in SK8 The Infinity are implied to be queer but especially ADAM and Langa would require some serious mentla gymnastics to be read as anything but queer imo. There's also D4DJ, which, being an idol franchise is probably another example of "bad rep" and we will never get an outright confirmation but let me talk about my girl Tsubaki who is strongly and constantly shown to have romantic feelings for another girl, Aoi, which is also commented on by other characters. Look at them together look how cute.

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[personal profile] beelzebae 2021-06-22 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
OH AOI IS GORGEOUS?? WOW. LOVE THAT DESIGN

also i feel like "flirts with protag" is one thing but extella definitely takes it a bit past that, nero and tamamo both talk about their romantic love for you? it feels like it crosses into "dragon age bisexual" territory rather than "haha you can read it how you want"

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[personal profile] loveberry 2021-06-22 07:01 am (UTC)(link)
the first queer character i really understood was queer was minto aizawa, from tokyo mew mew! while it's not, like, a series i'd rec for the sake of it's queer rep, seeing one of my favorite characters openly have a crush on another girl was a big thing for me in figuring stuff out later.

i of course will ALWAYS recommend anything in takako shimura's body of work. i'd say check content warnings, because they can dip into some pretty heavy topics, but everything i've read from them has been just incredibly touching and some of the most thoughtful depiction of queer people i've seen.

as for lesser known recommendations - if you like horror and also lesbians, check out otherside picnic!! i didn't particularly like the anime adaption, but the manga has spectacular visuals and incredible characters. (i haven't gotten a chance to try the LN yet.) the romance isn't "canon" yet, but it's not subtle & iirc the author themselves refers to the series as "yuri", so it's going places.

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i could talk at length about wandering son but speaking of shimura's other works: aoi hana is SO PRETTY??? god. absolutely pretty.

also i should check out otherside picnic just in case it's a reference to roadside picnic. hello russian science fiction references, i love you

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[personal profile] beelzebae 2021-06-22 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
CRACKS
MY
FUCKIN
KNUCKLES

LET'S DO THIS

Shimanami Tasogare is one of the few must-reads on my list, covering a lot of queer life - to a point that can be kind of rough! It has thorough representation of many characters, with a gay MC, a questioning trans girl, a post-transition trans man, lesbians, and an asexual landlord who jumps out windows and mystically floats down. (She rules.) A lot of the series goes into the realities of living life as a marginalized person in Japan: the main character starts to meet the others because of homophobia aimed at him in school, the trans man deals with overzealous allies that erase his identity and wishes, and an older gay man deals with the conservative attitudes of the older era and his relationship with a man that married and had a son.

It is also, and I cannot stress this enough, one of the most beautiful things I've read.

MOVING ON, we're gonna dive into Fukaboku! The art style and design of the main character really put me off initially; I was worried this was going to be a generic moe style anime with a "twist" of a nonbinary love interest, or (even worse) that it was going to fall into the trap of nonbinary characters being "girls lite." I was pleasantly surprised to find that the x-gender character is both treated completely seriously and AMAB, leading to a self-examination on the cis main character's end as to what his sexuality and "straight" really mean. Even more, though, I was surprised at how many side characters were queer and treated with the utmost respect and love. The "all boys maid cafe" concept is dropped quickly when one of them reaffirms her identity as a trans girl; characters are given their own reasons for crossdressing, ranging from being gay to being trans to just liking cosplay and clothes design; the main character's big sister is trans without the glamorization of a "full transition," often wandering the house without her breast forms or makeup. It is, in a lot of ways, the kindest-hearted approach to gender I've seen from a manga, and I'd really recommend it!

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE. If Shimanami Tasogare is about queer existence and Fukaboku is about queer affirmation, then Bokura no Hentai (read as metamorphosis, not The Other Reading) is about just how messy being queer often is. This is not a feel-good read or a read for the easily offended; it covers characters' reasons and traumas unblinkingly and unflinchingly. A topic that often comes up is the idea of cyclical abuse; that is, people learn how to hurt others by being hurt themselves. This is shown to be true for homophobia, transphobia, and even the sexual assault of a protagonist by another protagonist. It's a painful but rewarding read about fully realizing yourself as a human being, and while I won't say it's fun I will say it doesn't end on a dark note.

PAST THAT, special mention to the following queer-themed series: Giniro no Genders, Wandering Son, Double House, I Wanna Be Your Girl, Kanojo ni Naru Hi with a slight warning about it starting off weird, The Bride Was a Boy, and My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness.

Finally, in terms of more mainstream series with explicitly queer characters, I've been impressed with Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou, Serial Experiments Lain, Tokyo Godfathers, Cowboy Bebop, Steins;Gate with a warning for the main character being a cishet guy who isn't fully capable of comprehending the trans experience, and of all things Future Diary for an explicitly same-sex romantic kiss with the main character!

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Takes a lot of notes hahahaha

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