[ SECRET POST #3686 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3686 ⌋

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

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02.
[Ai no Kusabi]


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03.
[Weiss Kreuz/Knight Hunters]


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04.
[Parks and Rec]


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05.
[Okane ga Nai]


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06.
[Death Note]


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07.
[Queer Eye for the Straight Guy]











Notes:

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I have such a hard time believing people took a story about a magical pheromone wafting bug-eyed uke in a land full or creepy semes and the creepiest seme of them all who insists he's straight and fell in love over being randomly given an umbrella once and is literally so socially idiotic that he reads books about hamsters or something then tries to apply the principles to the uke because they're both cute animals so surely it must work, right? based on the advice of his trans friend (best girl for sure) who calls him her husband to troll him, seriously.

And yet so many people took it seriously enough to rabidly hate. Oh 1999, what a time.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, the show is clearly not played straight (err..) or seriously, though it will occasionally dip into that territory only to pop back up into comedy.

I wouldn't say the show is deliberately a caricature of the genre, though. I think lots of BL just wants to have dramatic scenarios and rape, but balance it with fluff so it's not too deep and can still be kawaii.

[(Anonymous)]

This is Nakamura Shungiku's entire foundation, and she's got one of the best-selling BL series of all time, so it's clearly working for her. Unfortunately.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I never said it wasn't. Lol Taking dramatic scenarios and making them fluffy absolutely sells in the BL world.

Me, personally, I think I would've been more interested in the story if it had been played seriously and more dramatically, but I'm not much for fluffy romance no matter the gender of the characters.

[(Anonymous)]

You don't have to be a deliberate caricature to end up being a knowing self-parody by pushing everything to ridiculous levels though. Spaceballs vs Galaxy Quest. The former is an outright parody, the latter is pushing the genre to the ridiculous while laughing at itself but not an outright parody. You know at some level it legit likes the things it's poking fun at, but it still knows how ridiculous it is. OGN is like that.