On Anime and Manga - Other Tl, a GameFAQs msage board topic tled "Do people really thk Kawo was gay for Shji ( the anime, **** the manga)" - Page 2.
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- KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
- A TRANSLATN CHANGE CAN'T MAKE THAT EVANGELN SCENE LS GAY
- 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
- FOM - VIEW TOPICSHJI HE GAY?
- 5 ANIME GUYS I'D TURN GAY FOR (WHO AREN'T SHJI)
- DO PEOPLE REALLY THK KAWO WAS GAY FOR SHJI ( THE ANIME, **** THE MANGA)
KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
Is Shji gay? Many fans argued that the more explicly romantic relatnship between the two was both an important part of the story, and of Shji's character velopment; and as such Netflix changg the scene was harmful to the story, if not also homophobic.
Do you guys thk Shji is Gay? A bunch of people the ments were sayg that if you thought this way then you're homophobic which is absolutely ridiculo to me. Netflix’s biggt and most troublg ed to the show, for which the platform created a new English-language translatn and voice track, dials back s famo homoerotic subtext.
The new Netflix translatn waters down the homoerotic nature of one of the seri’ signifint relatnships. Now, 24 years after Eva first buted 1995, the new, official Netflix translatn of the anime has signifintly altered some of Kawo and Shji’s most famo teractns to be ls, well, gay. Shji then rejects Kawo wh some good old-fashned gay panic:.
A TRANSLATN CHANGE CAN'T MAKE THAT EVANGELN SCENE LS GAY
The homoerotic nature of Kawo and Shji’s bond has been well tablished sce the seri first aired, and has been prent throughout later stallments the anchise. But -gayg the characters shouldn’t be part of the procs.
He’s Barbie’s gay bt iend. The film won’t say , but a post-creds punchle about Ken’s handwrg, plete wh hearts and stars surroundg his name, tells what we need to heavily implied nature of Ken’s gayns Toy Story 3 harkens back to Hollywood’s tradnal gay bt iend-type characters. In the Hays Co era, explic referenc to homosexualy weren’t allowed, so characters like Van Buren (Frankl Pangborn) 1937’s Easy Livg, Kip (David Wayne) 1949’s Adam’s Rib, or Addison (Gee Sanrs) 1950’s All About Eve stead were imbued wh effemate characteristics, offerg a glimpse outsi of heteronormativy whout explicly beg of the characters were the same—some were tty, others sweet.
But each of the gay bt iends was trsilly fed by their relatnships wh their straight iends. Des later, 2010, the gay bt iend was all the rage; Teen Vogue even went so far as to proclaim the GBF as the summer’s mt-have accsory.
'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
But unlike the first half of the 20th century, today’s cema, the GBF is allowed to be openly gay.
In movi like Mean Girls (2004), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Easy A (2010), No Strgs Attached (2011), and Isn’t It Romantic (2019), gay iends exist entirely the orb of their female iends. ” But Barbie do, and for Ken, that’s are plenty of reasons why the film wouldn’t outrightly state that Ken is homosexual. ), and of urse, and earrg the “gay ear”.
) Earrg Magic Ken turned Barbie’s boyiend to an out-and-proud homosexual raver. Mattel, of urse, vehemently nied any claims that Ken was gay, let alone that he had somethg as prepostero as a ck rg around his neck. As a rult, gay men bought the doll drov, and spe Mattel ultimately rellg the doll and wipg away any trace of Earrg Magic Ken, was near-impossible to see Ken as anythg but the glor homosexual he was born to be om then on.
FOM - VIEW TOPICSHJI HE GAY?
Though Mattel don’t seem to be willg to say Ken is actually gay, the Ken dolls of recent years seem to really lean to Ken’s queerns. While there is no way to “drs gay, ” there are several dolls that seem to suggt otherwise, such as:Fashnista Ken #193, who looks very exced to tell you about his new obssn, Troye Sivan;Travel Ken Doll, who has a satchel perfect for bathho and a purple overnight bag that lerally proclaims he’s “extra;”Ken Looks Doll, servg “I’m gonna give you a makeover”-type realns while sportg black pleather pants;This Ken, who wears the least heterosexual double nim I have a feelg the new Barbie movie will put the work to nvce that Ken is a hetero du who lov nothg life more than Barbie herself, the wrg’s already on the wall: Ken is, and always will be, Barbie’s gay bt obssg! Is Shji om Evangeln gay?
How tight do your "no-homo" goggl have to be?
Given how obvly gay the scene reads to my adult, fully out bisexual self, I have to agree wh the cricisms.
5 ANIME GUYS I'D TURN GAY FOR (WHO AREN'T SHJI)
At this pot, we n acknowledge that this scene is pretty homoerotic, right? My personal readg of the scene is that ’s gay as hell. Even changed om “love” to “like, ” the homoerotic subtext seems very clear to me.
DO PEOPLE REALLY THK KAWO WAS GAY FOR SHJI ( THE ANIME, **** THE MANGA)
Shji_is_gay. That episo, The Fal Msenger, to put bluntly, is very gay. It’s fe if he is bisexual, ’s fe if he’s gay.
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