Also, Japan itself is a very conservative country, with a mindset that homosexuality is ‘a phase’ that one goes through. For example, Boys’ Love is a lucrative genre, but it’s made with women, not gay men in mind, and most of the same sex couples we’ve seen were mostly created by (presumably) heterosexual males and females. However, if you look deeper into it and happen to know Japan’s history, you’ll realise that most of these examples are either anomalies or not exactly what they seem. If you’re briefly looking from the outset, you’ll think that that media is overflowing with it, considering that yaoi (Boys’ Love genre) is extremely popular and there’s lots of anime from as early as the 90s that were not afraid to show gender-queer characters (like several villains and the Sailor Stars in the Sailor Moon franchise) or even happy same-sex relationships ( Cardcaptor Sakura having a developing male-on-male relationship on screen, with a happy ending no less, for Toya and Yuki). Representation of LGBT+ people in Japanese animation and comics has a strange history.
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