anime question [are there gay anime characters?]

agelesslorg · Post by **agelesslorg** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 2:49 pm

are there any gay anime charaters?i mean i have a friend who is and i want them to be able to relate to an anime charater so they can like anime more.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 2:53 pm

Plenty. Heck, there's even a genre of anime called shounen-ai/yaoi that is specifically focused on gay relationships between male characters

But, I'll leave it to the expert yaoi fangirls around here to point out the specific characters - where are you ladies?

angelx03 · Post by **angelx03** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 2:59 pm

Subaru/Seishiro - Tokyo Babylon/ X TV series
Suichi/Yuki - Gravitation
Touya/Yukito - Cardcaptor Sakura

I can't remember the couple's names, but I know FAKE, Yami no Matsuei, and I believe Angel Sanctuary has one.

Moonlight Soldier · Post by **Moonlight Soldier** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 3:20 pm

Otohiko wrote: But, I'll leave it to the expert yaoi fangirls around here to point out the specific characters - where are you ladies?

Lurking >.>

But yes, there are many many animes dedicated to solely homosexual relationships. Yaoi/Shonen-ai refer to male/male relationships, while Yuri/Shojo-ai refer to female/female.

Then you have the series that are focused on different themes but may have relationships mixed in. Cardcaptor Sakura for example, is not about Yukito/Touya's relationship, but its there, while Gravitation deals primarily with Suichi and Yuki's relationship among other things.

Then you could take Subaru and Seishiro's relationship as another example. In Clamp's Tokyo Babylon, everything is very cute/bubbly (so far) between the two and the pairing is obvious, while in X, from what I've read/seen so far, you can't really tell unless you already know their background. (Do tell Angelx03, if they're relationship is actually explored in X, I've yet to see it ;_; )

angelx03 · Post by **angelx03** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 4:38 pm

Well, I remember in the X TV series when

before Seishiro died, he whispered something in Subaru's ear which I intepreted as a confession, but it sort of ambiguous.

But yea, you need background in Tokyo Babylon in order to better understand this.

TheKorovaMilkbar · Post by **TheKorovaMilkbar** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 4:46 pm

Gundam Wing. I heard that the characters are actually gay. Though it might have been just some Yaoi thing by fangirls.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 5:40 pm

TheKorovaMilkbar wrote:Gundam Wing. I heard that the characters are actually gay. Though it might have been just some Yaoi thing by fangirls.

No, they're just ambigous bishounen that suggest the somewhat-unobvious but suggestable to the more suggestible types of yaoi fangirls

There is nothing in the actual series to prove they are; but the possibility that they could be is surely one of the ploys by the creators of the show to get the female audience into the Gundam franchise - which they certainly did there...

TheKorovaMilkbar · Post by **TheKorovaMilkbar** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 5:47 pm

There is nothing in the actual series to prove they are; but the possibility that they could be is surely one of the ploys by the creators of the show to get the female audience into the Gundam franchise - which they certainly did there...

That's what I thought.

Moonlight Soldier · Post by **Moonlight Soldier** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 5:54 pm

Otohiko wrote:
TheKorovaMilkbar wrote:Gundam Wing. I heard that the characters are actually gay. Though it might have been just some Yaoi thing by fangirls.
No, they're just ambigous bishounen that suggest the somewhat-unobvious but suggestable to the more suggestible types of yaoi fangirls

That's quite possibly the best way to describe it

oldwrench · Post by **oldwrench** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 9:09 pm

Tokyo Godfathers - an interesting story centered around a homeless trio, a bum a young girl and a homosexual, who find a baby in the trash and decide to return it to it's mother. The story shows tgeir lives and how they ended up homeless. Subtitled, no dub, but a very good story, humorous and at times a tear jerker.

two thumbs up, as they say