[ SECRET POST #3155 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3155 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 039 secrets from Secret Submission Post #451.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Not anime, but related.

[(Anonymous)]

I grew up reading American and European comics and didn't discover manga until I was a teenager. Most of what I read was shoujo, and NGL, I was weirded out by how feminine the male characters looked. Sometimes I had trouble figuring out who was male and who was female, and whether or not characters were supposed to be crossdressers or drag queens/drag kings.

I also found the panel layouts confusing a lot of the time. And not just because they were read right-to-left; I didn't have any problem adjusting to that that because I already knew how to read Hebrew, which is also written right-to-left. I usually had trouble with the layouts regardless of whether the manga had been flipped. Action scenes were especially hard for me to follow.

Re: Not anime, but related.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah androgyny in manga/anime can get pretty heavy. Fruits Basket is like the ultimate game of what gender is this character.

Spoiler warning for this comment.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Ha. I never read that one, but I've heard that one of the big plot twists was that a major character turned out to be a woman disguised as a man and all the fans were totally shocked. Like, no one in the fandom ever considered that possibility because, hey, everyone looks girly regardless of gender.

I thought it was kind of brilliant. It's a plot twist no one saw coming because of the conventions of the genre!

Re: Not anime, but related.

[(Anonymous)]

NGL, the feminine dudes was my favorite thing about anime and manga. Unlike American comics, which often (though not always) think terrifyingly-beefy = attractive, and Western animation, which thinks "aesthetics? What are aesthetics?" manga and anime dudes are damn easy on the eyes.

Re: Not anime, but related.

[(Anonymous)]

In high school, one of the anime club members made a very informal game called "Dude or Chick?" that involved pictures of mostly shoujo characters. Apparently a teacher agreed to play for a bit and Nuriko from Fushigi Yugi was his breaking point.

Re: Not anime, but related.

[ketita]

Nuriko is cheating, though... I mean he dresses feminine on purpose.

Re: Not anime, but related.

[darkmanifest]

I remember when I first started watching Inuyasha, I was stunned to find out Sesshomaru was male, he was too damn pretty. Now I can spot a beautiful but male anime character from a mile away.