Īnime tropes can be benign, like high school students running with toast in their mouth. They’re in every anime, from Dragon Ball Z, to My Hero Academia, to Yu-Gi-Oh. Nearly all shounen-ai anime has the same issues and problems, thanks to their reliance on tropes.Īnime fans are well aware of how prevalent tropes are. On the surface, boy love anime are presented as flowery love stories about young men discovering their feelings for one another, but all too quickly these stories take dark turns. Popular shounen-ai titles: Love Stage!!, Super Lovers, World's Greatest First Love
It’s part of a sub genre of anime called shounen-ai or “boy love.” Crunchyroll, and other anime streaming services are full of these shows, and they all have similar names: Love Stage, Super Lovers, World’s Greatest First Love. Nothing in the pink and flowery opening title sequence or key art implies that Love Stage is a story about sexual abuse.
It’s an incredibly shocking scene for an anime that promotes itself as a saccharine sweet love story. When he realizes he has feelings for another man, Ryoma goes to Izumi’s house to confront him, forces Izumi to undress… and ultimately tries to rape him. Thanks to a cross dressing mishap, handsome celebrity Ryoma discovers his childhood crush, Izumi, is actually a boy. The film has grossed $1.8 billion worldwide.In the anime Love Stage, Izumi and Ryoma are two star crossed lovers. In contrast, Spider-Man: No Way Home earned $260 million in its opening weekend and has currently earned $804.3 million at the domestic box office. The box office tracking website also predicts the film will earn between $450 million and $560 million total at the domestic box office.
NEW: Disney production coordinator Allen March, who says his team is committed to “exploring queer stories” and promoting “trans,” “bisexual,” and “gender nonconforming” characters, says kids are “getting all this information from the media” and “there’s a lot of power to that.” /rgxXgcIEwAĭoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is expected to release on May 6th in the United States.īox Office Pro currently predicts the film will earn between $190 million and $210 million in its opening weekend at the domestic box office. And even if they are in a household like Heath that has supportive parents they’re still getting all of this information from media of what is normal There’s a lot of power to that and it just needs to be acknowledged.” He stated, “All this content is going to kids who don’t know any of this. Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur production coordinator Allen March also noted they were directly trying to target kids and influence them through their various pieces of programming and content. SCOOP: I’ve obtained video from inside Disney’s all-hands meeting about the Florida parental rights bill, in which executive producer Latoya Raveneau says her team has implemented a “not-at-all-secret gay agenda” and is regularly “adding queerness” to children’s programming. If you see anything queer in the show - no one would stop me, and no one was trying to stop me.”
She further elaborated, “Maybe it was that way in the past, but I guess something must have happened in the last, they are turning it around, they’re going hard, and then like all that momentum that I felt, that sense of ‘I don’t have to be afraid to have these two characters kiss in the background.’ I was just, wherever I could, just basically adding queerness. Meredith Roberts and our leadership over there has been so welcoming to my not-at-all-secret gay agenda.” RELATED: Disney Executives Admit They Are Pushing “Not-At-All-Secret Gay Agenda,” Actively Removing Gendered Greetings, And A Whole Lot Moreĭisney employees have made it abundantly clear that including these scenes no matter how small or short is part of their “not-so-secret gay agenda.”ĭisney executive producer Latoya Raveneau revealed, “In my little pocket of Proud Family Disney TVA, the showrunners were super welcoming. Pictures’ FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE. Mads Mikkelsen as Gellert Grindlewald in Warner Bros.