Yaoi, Yuri, Shounen ai, Shoujo ai, and transgender – these LGBT anime recommendations cover same-sex romances and gender identity in all their many forms.
Despite his mother’s disapproval of his love for cute things and dressing in cute clothes, Makoto Hanaoka secretly dresses like a girl at his high school. While his days are mostly peaceful as he successfully keeps his secret school life from his mother, the lively freshman Saki Aoi throws his world into chaos when she […]
Despite a somewhat rocky start, Mao Tsuchiya and Hisashi Ootomo have found a way to co-exist in their shared dorm room. They made three simple promises for happy coexistence – to not out Ootomo as gay and having a boyfriend, Ootomo must not fall in love with Mao, and the two must respect each other’s
After watching the band performance of an older student named Yoru Asanagi, Himari Kino falls in love. After the show, Himari confesses her love to Yoru, who is inexperienced in romance. After mulling it over, Yoru decides to return her feelings, but it turns out that Himari was in love with Yoru’s music rather than
Anime has always been, if we are all being honest, a bit gay. However, for the longest time when an anime was being about LGBT stories, it was all about the LGBT elements, as if they can’t be in any other type of story as characters. It was either full gay or no gay for
While yuri is the term widely used to define girl’s love anime depicting the romantic relationship between two women, the term “yuri” isn’t actually traditionally reserved for romance alone. It is a term that has more than a little nuance to it, which makes what is and is not yuri anime such hotly debated subject.
Masaki Fujiyoshi is an omega, a secondary gender that allows one to give birth regardless of if they are male or female. While he struggled with the discrimination that omegas face from alphas, he has been able to accept the feelings of his loving husband Hiromu and settle into domesticity with their son, Hikari. Moving
After 30 years of life passed him by, Kiyoshi Adachi discovers that the old saying that if you remain a virgin until you are 30 you will gain magic powers is actually true! However, instead of anything magnificent, the only power that Adachi has is to read the thoughts of anyone he is touching. Thinking
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Hiiragi Utena has always been a fan of magical girls and the Tres Magia magical girl trio that defends her city. With such admiration, it is only natural that she perked up with excitement when a magical being approached her one night, claiming she has dormant magical powers within her. However, after receiving the magical
Overworked office worker Rei Oohashi is thrilled when one day she wakes up as the protagonist in her favorite otome game, Revolution. She is thrilled, not to meet the three handsome princes that serve as the love interests in the game, but rather she sets her sights on Claire Francois, the villainess! Instead of romancing
“Yuri bait” is a term thrown around perhaps too often that is used to describe an anime relationship between girls that are closer than friends, but never have any explicitly stated or concretely shown romantic feelings for each other. Yuri-baiting in anime is particularly common given the still-heavy stigmatization of homosexuality in Japan. This means
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