Yaoi, Yuri, Shounen ai, Shoujo ai, and transgender – these LGBT anime recommendations cover same-sex romances and gender identity in all their many forms.
It must be a strange time to be a gender bending anime. It is a topic often portrayed with some levity in anime fiction, but has become a rather contentious issue in reality. Perhaps that is why creators simply don’t make so many gender-bender anime anymore. However, even with many mixed opinions of it, some […]
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For years, the Lost Ones have come from the distant world of Japan to a fantasy land. Not even these Lost Ones know how or why they arrive there, but their immense powers only bring destruction. In order to secure the safety of their world, Executioners are charged with exterminating these Lost Ones. While on
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After a crushing defeat at the Grand Prix finale, Yuuri Katsuki returns home no longer as Japan’s most promising figure skater. With his window for skating success closing, he assesses his options. After a video of Yuuri performing a routine by five-time world champion Victor Nikiforov goes viral, he suddenly finds the champion on his
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Much of his life at his all-boy’s school for Miyano is worrying about how girly his face looks and hiding his secret love of boy’s love manga. However, after witnessing a fight, he has a clandestine meeting with an older delinquent student named Sasaki. Afterwards, Sasaki seems to jump at every opportunity to be around
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After accidentally entering, Sorao finds herself in the desolate, and as she discovers, dangerous Otherworld. As she ponders whether to just die or not, she is saved by a girl named Toriko who is looking for her friend Satsuki who she believes is somewhere in this world. After meeting, a friendship and partnership springs up
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Both yuri and yaoi have a few unique problems with their genres when it comes to the depiction with same sex couples. In yaoi, they do enjoy their predatory relationships. However, yuri has a different problem – how they end the series. For some reason, there is a love affair among yuri creators in Japan
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Out-performed by the girls’ club and facing disbandment, team captain of the soft tennis club Toma Shinjou is desperate to recruit members. He immediately targets new transfer student Maki Katsuragi for his solid reflexes. After a few rejections, Maki joins and quickly shines. This causes complicated feelings among the rest of the team who feel
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While both yaoi and yuri anime series share a few problems in the depiction of same sex couples. In yuri, they enjoy ending their series with either a tragedy or the girls just “growing out” of liking other girls. Alternatively, yaoi has a problem that is unique to its own genre – predation. The yaoi
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On one particular day, Ritsuka Uenoyama decided that two things he loved – playing guitar and playing baseball – had become boring to him. However, when he encountered Mafuyu Sato holding a broken guitar, he fixes it. Upon fixing it and hearing him sing, it leaves a huge impression. While there are tons of boy
Here at Recommend Me Anime, we don’t do manga series in our recommendations, just anime. However, that doesn’t mean that anime fans don’t also like to lie in bed and read a few good chapters of manga every now and then. And besides, where do many good anime series come from in the first place
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