Yaoi, Yuri, Shounen ai, Shoujo ai, and transgender – these LGBT anime recommendations cover same-sex romances and gender identity in all their many forms.
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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With a cute face, good grades, and a flawless friendly facade, Hime Shiraki hopes to land herself a rich husband by being the picture of perfection. However, after she takes a tumble down some stairs, she lands on Mai Mikoshiba, injuring the girl’s arm. It turns out that Mai is the manager of a cafe,
As the conversation around gender issues has grown complicated if not outright contentious, it seems the wiser course to perhaps stay away and just focus on talking anime, but the thing is, anime has always had – at least some – representation for those of different gender and sexual identifications. While representation has grown in
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Just like any other realm of entertainment, anime can be separated into a wide array of genres. These genres range from very broad to almost hyper-specific in order to describe the wide number of anime available to the world today. While you can pick another anime series to watch based on a picture or a
Escapism and wish fulfillment knows no sexual orientation. Reality is often terrible no matter who you are attracted to. So isekai, as such a popular genre of anime, can often appeal to a wide variety of anime fans. That said, isekai is firmly entering a phase where it covers not just being sent to another
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