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[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago (3 children)

How many of these are queerbait? berdly-smug

[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Bottom right (Whisper Me a Love Song) is explicitly gay, but...yeah lea-sad

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

I take no joy in this either, shit sucks obama-sad

[–] pooh@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Probably most, if not all them sadness

I'm gonna take the bait anyways tbh

[–] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The bottom center one does have a very obviously gay couple in the main cast, but they're basically background characters and their exact relationship is never mentioned, they just live together, are literally never apart, interact with one another in a way that's entirely distinct from how they interact with any of their friends, and quietly comfort one another with very non-friend-like embraces:

But they're not the focus of the show, the absolute trainwrecks Nina and Momoka (the two in the picture in the meme) are and despite people memeing them as a couple they have terrible chemistry and seem to barely interact directly with one another past the first few episodes, like they're friends but not even particularly close friends.

It's not particularly good overall and I wouldn't recommend it. I wrote a somewhat spoilery comparison between it and Jellyfish yesterday since they're rather similar shows to the point of more or less having literally the exact same ending.

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

That was a good post, that Jellyfish comparison =) This thread has not changed my opinion regarding the job of my coffee maker

[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Left-to-right, top-to-bottom:

they're putting chemicals in the exclamation marks that turn the frickin' girls gay! (see also: Hibike! Euphonium)

[–] Aradina@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm not an anime person so I don't even know where to look, would you know where i could watch Girls Band Cry? Ideally english subtitles. I keep seeing cute gay stuff in it and need that in my life.

[–] BynarsAreOk@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Nyaa torrents

or some streaming site like 9anime make sure you have ublock origin.

[–] Aradina@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago
[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

I heard only nakayubisubs is gay. Other translators censored it. Also

spoilerNothing gay happens after the confession, right?

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago

This one was gonna be so good

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago

Can't be me with the whole Bocchi the Rock soundtrack on my phone >.>

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago
[–] bubbalu@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Are there any popular anime where the characters aren't children?

[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Spy x Family is extremely popular and is centered on adults, and all the children that are in the series aren't sexualised in any capacity. Refreshing tbh

[–] bubbalu@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

Thanks! I don't mind the presence of children characters, but I don't feel comfortable with the sexualization of children, and prefer narratives with adult protagonists.

An important exception to this is like the movie 'the Florida Project' which beautifully used children's perspective to tell the story.

[–] pooh@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

May favorite anime, Princess Jellyfish, is entirely about adults.

[–] bubbalu@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

This looks cute! I'm going to check it out.

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I would probably mention these first and foremost, excluding ones already mentioned:

  • Sakura Quest β€” basically about this woman accidentally getting roped into a small town's tourism micronation gimmick. This one's the GOAT honestly. Super strong recommendation from me.
  • Barakamon β€” about a calligrapher who gets exiled to a small island. Really relaxing vibes. One of my favorites.
  • Cells At Work β€” it's like Once Upon a Time... Life, except way better. It's also like Osmosis Jones except better, because apparently personifying the cells of the human body is not actually a particularly unique idea. Anyways, point is that 9/10 doctors recommend Cells At Work. It's great.
  • Lupin III β€” super long-running series about the grandson of the famous master thief ArsΓ¨ne Lupin. Part II is the most classic and has a great dub. It's episodic and fairly formulaic so you can jump in at any point.
  • Aggretsuko β€” Netflix x Sanrio furry office comedy-drama basically, where the main character basically has this death metal persona. It's a lot of fun.
  • Library War β€” takes place in an alternate timeline where local governments in Japan have established basically militias tasked with protecting libraries from raids conducted by the central government trying to ban books.

I could go on, but I think that's a good amount of very safe choices, though I don't know how many of these would be considered to be "popular" as such. You can of course also use something like Anilist to find anime with the tag "primarily adult cast" and sort by popularity, but I dunno how reliable that is, like if it includes or excludes things it shouldn't.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

There aren't a lot, and most of them are older. A few that come to mind are Delicious in Dungeon, Ghost in the Shell, Odd Taxi, Baccano!, and Redline. Three more with one child in a cast of adults (and for all of them, they aren't standard cutesy anime children) are Cowboy Bebop, Golden Kamuy, and Vinland Saga.

One Punch Man technically counts except for Child Emperor (who barely shows up) but Tatsumaki is probably over the line for sexualization of a character who looks like a child.

Less popular but still good: Planetes, Tatami Galaxy, Shirobako, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Patlabor, Black Lagoon, Welcome to the NHK.

Less popular and not great: Akudama Drive, Way of the Househusband.

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I mean, it feels strange to me to say that there aren't a lot. I would sooner say that there are fewer rather than that there are strictly few. Just looking at the top 100 anime on Anilist, I'd say that there are actually quite a lot that seem to have primarily adult casts, although I suppose appearances and plot descriptions can be deceiving β€” as can outright searching by the tag "primarily adult cast".

And then even of anime and manga that normally depict teenagers, there are a handful which have movies or spinoffs or whatever that depict the characters as adults. The YuruCamp Movie from 2022 stands out, that was a great movie. And Lucky Star has now an ongoing spinoff manga called Konata 30 which depicts all the characters in their 30s, that started last year.

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago
[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 11 months ago
[–] booty@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

ok but which ones are actually gay because I've seen Bocchi and that one is not

[–] Tomboymoder@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago

Bocchi isn't explicitly gay, but the show is pretty gay.

[–] yuritopia@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago

Bottom right. Whispering You a Love Song. It's an actual lesbian romance story. The anime is not the most well done anime in the world (I still find it watchable though) so if you're interested the manga is more recommended.

[–] ProgAimerGirl@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

girls band cry is a whole lot of implicit gayness and one good shot of explicitly lebsbiblianism in episode 8. it also just ended this week so it's fresh for the binging niko-wonderous

[–] booty@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

lebsbiblianism

Bless you

That sounds fun though

[–] Tomboymoder@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] ProgAimerGirl@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

i use aniwave (aniwave dot to) and the subs are fine there

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I feel like we need a coffee machine yuri undertones emote...

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago

The gay (band mecha) one:

spoilerMacross Delta - it's ok, I'd recommend other Macross shows before this one

[–] magi@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The only one I've watched is K-On it's a nice slice of life and light hearted, no gays in it though just cute girls

[–] pooh@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You haven't seen Bocchi the Rock???

[–] magi@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No I don't watch much anime, is it good? comrade-raccoon

[–] pooh@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's fantastic. One of my favorite anime series, and generally pretty popular.

[–] magi@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

If Ash wants to watch it I'll watch with ^^

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

kelly more like bad anime smuglord

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

Many years ago, I remember watching one called something like Detroit Metal City. I remember it being problematic and kinda edgelord (not always in a satirical way sadly) but liking the music and the kind of farce, old school sitcom, double life light comedy aspect.

Is it worth revisiting? Is there something better that might be kind of similar?