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the gay ass anime masterpost*

liuwdere:

*not actually a masterpost, since i give about two and a half fucks about keeping this updated or properly categorized. real loose classifications to follow. shit i haven’t seen in italics; stuff i’d highly recommend in bold. now updated w/ streaming links (some are US-only tho, sorry)

no predatory lesbians or okama joke characters or else we’ll be here all day. k? k.

LGBT-THEMED: anime that directly addresses LGBT identity as one of its primary focuses

LGBT-THEMED; LIMITED REP: anime that addresses gender or sexuality as a secondary focus, though perhaps lacking explicit representation (e.g. LGBT narratives in the secondary cast). 

  • The Woman Called Fujiko Mine (from the director of Yuri!!! on Ice)
    • One of the supporting characters is a gay man struggling w/ masculinity
    • Gay schoolgirl episode all about female sexual repression
    • did i mention the titty is good
  • Princess Jellyfish
    • Prominent focus on gender presentation
    • Kuranosuke can be read as a closeted trans woman
  • Paradise Kiss
    • Heroine’s love interest is bisexual
    • Trans woman in the supporting cast; trans identity plays a major role in her story
  • Ouran High School Host Club
    • Discusses gender + gender presentation, though protagonist isn’t explicitly stated to be nonbinary
    • Protagonist’s parents implied to be genderqueer; father definitely bi
    • Plenty of gay subtext among the male cast
  • Scum’s Wish
    • Strong focus on female sexuality; main character is bisexual
    • Central cast also includes a lesbian
  • Simoun
    • Discusses gender as more of an abstraction? Takes place in a world where everyone is born female to later choose a permanent gender. It does less to directly address gender than you’d expect, though, which is why I’m sticking it here
  • From the New World (Shin Sekai Yori)
    • Future dystopia where societal norms practically mandate bisexuality. Honestly, I dunno where to put this; the story’s more concerned with sexuality in general than with LGBT identity

LGBT REP: anime w/ positive depictions of LGBT characters, though not necessarily concerned w/ addressing queerness directly. 

  • Samurai Flamenco
    • Four words: gay naked gunpoint proposal. the show makes about that much sense but it’s a lotta fun
    • i don’t care what the director said
    • bisexual girl in a poly relationship 
  • No. 6
    • boys kissing tho???
  • Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid
    • pls ignore the manga and its magic dick nonsense
  • Haruchika
    • One of the two leads is a gay boy. He explicitly says so in the first episode. Avoid the live-action movie like the plague.
  • I should probably list Kase-san and Bloom Into You here
  • Mikagura School Suite
    • The heroine is REALLY THIRSTY for all the cute girls
  • Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo
    • Beyond the obvious homoerotic overtones of Albert/the Count, there’s Franz’s gay crush
    • Sympathetic trans girl character in the secondary cast
  • Michiko and Hatchin (from the director of Yuri!!! on Ice!!!)
    • Girls are good ok
    • Atsuko is gay
  • Macross Delta
    • two girls in the supporting cast do a hell of a lotta cuddling on screen
  • some versions of Sailor Moon
  • Tokyo Godfathers
    • Trans woman in the main cast
  • Tiger and Bunny
    • Reasonably respectful portrayal of a gay man once it gets going
    • Central relationship between two men could be read as romantic
  • Genshiken
  • Whispered Words (Sasameki Koto)
  • Psycho-Pass
    • One of the officers is a lesbian. She gets a focus episode
  • Monogatari series
    • Really just limited to Kanbaru, but she’s the most accurate depiction of the constantly horny dank meme problematic gay (e.g. me) i’ve ever seen, ironic propositioning of her straight dude friend and all. The rest of the franchise is obnoxious though, so ymmv
  • Kill la Kill?
    • i don’t know how else you interpret one girl kissing another on the mouth
  • Attack on Titan
    • If you’ve been living under a rock and somehow haven’t heard about it Ymir and Christa are all but explicitly stated to be in love with each other
  • Kino’s Journey
    • Kino asks people to use non-gendered pronouns, apparently? I haven’t seen this yet.
  • Knights of Sidonia
    • Non-binary character in the main cast
    • The manga goes some iffy places with their character tho, be warned
    • Really though, I mostly like this show for the sentient pink penis alien
  • Gatchaman Crowds
    • Several gender non-conforming characters
    • Trans girl in the main cast
  • Cardcaptor Sakura?
  • Fuuka
    • One of the dudes is canonically gay, not that it makes much of an improvement to the show
  • A Centaur’s Life
  • Rose of Versailles
    • Oscar’s debatably genderqueer, though the show goes some real questionable places towards the end
    • Gay ladies?
  • Hunter x Hunter
    • Trans girl in the supporting cast. Her story’s extremely minor in the grand scheme of things but it’s there and it’s good
  • Love and Lies
    • potato-kun gets a harem that includes his male best friend
  • Land of the Lustrous
    • non-gendered rock people searching for meaning in life
  • Bodacious Space Pirates
    • via @madscientist212​: “two explicitly lesbian characters who are lovers, and one of the story arcs involves the crew helping one of them avoid being forced into an arranged marriage to a dude by her uncle”

THE SUBTEXT IS STRONK: not textually gay (some you could argue could fall under category #2 and vice versa; not the point of this post) but can be read that way, even though these shows aren’t super concerned w/ romance in general

MADE FOR THE STRAIGHTS BUT STILL OK: the yuri, BL, etc. that’s clearly targeted at a heterosexual audience but respectful enough to be enjoyable for the people they’re about

  • Doukyuusei
  • This Boy Caught a Merman
  • This Boy is a Professional Wizard
  • Strawberry Panic
  • Love Stage??? I have some qualms about putting this here but of the trashy BL anime that exist this is probably the least offensive
  • Maria-Holic

TEXTUALLY GAY BUT BLUGHHHH: the yuri and BL that just sux

GIMME THE TRASH NOW: problematic as all hell but i sure ain’t complainin b/c i’m gay ass trash

NOT TOUCHING THIS HORNET’S NEST WITH A TEN FOOT POLE: pls,,,, save me from the Disk Horse

One of these days I might organize this a lil better. Maybe if/when Tumblr figures out how to make editing not a pain in the ass

May 11, 2018

weirdunicorn:

trichofishomania:

aquaristlifeforme:

Zoos prevent extinction. This is why I support zoos. This is why the world should support zoos.

Meme credit goes to the zookeepers at
www.facebook.com/ZoosSavingSpecies
@zoossavingspecies

Good zoos save species!!!

This is the kind of thing I tell people when they go off on me being anti-captivity towards marine amusement parks. Zoos and “amusement” parks are totally different things.

Zoos help animals by having breeding programs like those mentioned above, marine parks harm animals by treating them like circus animals and forcing them to do tricks under incredibly stressful conditions and breeding for profit not for saving the species.

Know the difference.

(via thirdchildreblogs)

May 05, 2018

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