[ SECRET POST #3258 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3258 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

"they only watched it for the gay shipping delusions"

But...that was the whole point of Free! It was literally just fujoshi pandering lol, and if you weren't into the gay stuff, they could at least sell girls with the hot guys. Free! isnt something like say, Haikyuu!! that actually DOES focus on the sports elements and isn't some sort of homoerotic slice of life drama. Did Haikyuu!! amass a fujoshi fandom? Sure, but you can still genuinely enjoy sports and humor elements. You...can't really say the same about Free! where I honestly didn't learn jackshit about swimming.

[(Anonymous)]

Is it anything like KNB? I have a hard time believing any real basketball fan could be into that series, half the fans must be little kids who want flashy shounen moves and the other half is yaoi fangirls.

[(Anonymous)]

Ayrt

I only watched six episodes of KNB before I dropped it, but I don't remember it being as purposely homoerotic as Free! I was disgusted with it, though because I had enjoyed anime like Oofuri and Haikyuu! and appreciated being able to watch a realistic depiction of sports games that incorporated the psychology of the players. KNB was just...stupid. Kuroko has some weird power where people can't see him, and I'm supposed to find that shit ibteresting? i also found both Kuroko and Kagami to be very boring personally-wise.

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Is it anything like KNB? I have a hard time believing any real basketball fan could be into that series

I'll admit to being a fan of KNB, but I'm no sports fan; sports by themselves bore me.

Even so at first I wasn't sure about KNB because I didn't realize going in that the characters were going to have what basically amounts to superpowers, and there was a time when I considered dropping it because it was all so ridiculous, but in the end I stuck with it and learned to laugh at it. It was a fun series for me once I got over that.

KNB IS crazy, but I think it focuses more on sports than Free! does. KNB is just...not in the least bit realistic.

[(Anonymous)]

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KnB is following the trend of fantastical sports that Prince of Tennis started (and just as PoT, it focuses a lot on the sport in the most unrealistic way), but it's not more homoerotic than the average shounen manga.

[(Anonymous)]

Free was actually pretty good about swimming strokes. It was just more focused on character drama than the sport. Also I always saw it as a show about friendship. I can understand why people with shipper goggles see it something more, but it was pretty tame.

[(Anonymous)]

From most of the episodes I saw, I agree with this comment.

[(Anonymous)]

I can understand why people with shipper goggles see it something more, but it was pretty tame.

I don't think the term "shipper goggles" applies when the show is intentionally homoerotic and is pandering to a specific audience. The fact that it focused on character drama more than the sport was how they were able to make it so homoerotic in the first place. Maybe you haven't watched sports anime outside of Free!, but they typically don't include massive amounts of blushing, crying on top of people, sharing beds, etc.

Also, that's not even mentioning the official art or the audio dramas where the boys even had convos about who they would date on the team if they were girls. (I also think there was one where Nagisa was rubbing lotion down on Rei or something).

[(Anonymous)]

I've watched Free! with two people who are not into slash shipping at all, one a woman who just prefers het and one a man who loves shows about people being friends, and they both loved it.