[ SECRET POST #2971 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2971 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

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If a show like the one you describe was created by Western media, then there would be someone, somewhere, who would realize that a subsection of their audience (sometimes a pretty damn big subsection) would be LGBT and would identify with the relationship and the innuendo. If that was then not addressed, or worse, completely negated in favour of the straight relationships, then that's queerbaiting.

Japan as a whole does not cater to an LGBT audience in any way we would recognize as progressive. When shows like this are created, then no one stops to think how any potential LGBT audeince would interpret things. They stop and think how fujoshi interpret things, because as you say they make up a huge proportion of their marketing machine revenue. They think about how the otaku who get off on yuri fanservice will buy all the figures the company licenses on the back of the show/manga.

But the fujoshi and the otaku are largely a straight market. Or at least they're considered as such, because Japanese entertainment only caters to LGBT as a joke or a parody. They are not baiting the queer audience because they don't even think there is a queer audience. That's the cultural difference.