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^^Check Pixiv. Lots of yuri fanart there, and this pair is a pretty common one.
^https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FSg_nl7XMAAJfEx.jpg
From a manga called My Secret Affection and yes, it's completely serious.
Never too old for a bit of warm milk.
^^A couple of reasons, at least for the Western audience. The anime is out during a stacked season, in particular fighting for attention against two high-quality dramedies that have the advantage of going full gay, meaning it doesn't get nearly as much as a visibility boost from it. The meat of the drama also doesn't seem to start until a good deal in, turning off both those that like it (who drop it early) and those who don't. This all compounds the traditional issues works in the genre already have with standing out. I believe a second season in a less crowded field would fare much better, letting it hit its strengths from the start without a divided audience.
^^^^Didn't the director behind Blue Reflection say that they had a male protagonist for the mobile game because "it was always supposed to be like that"?
Are their eye colors that of the trans flag?
^Hey, I've just seen what happens when people start calling artists immoral just for including specific problematic content, and don't like being called a bigot for trying to prevent it.
^^I hope that was sarcastic, because I'd assume an artist that has sometimes featured "problematic" elements in their work would know the difference between depicting content artistically and endorsing doing it IRL.
^Also, I'm not defending tagging their ship name or making art to piss people off, and explicitly called it homophobic to do so. I am talking about the general existence of the content matter itself.
^^^^The existence of homophobic comments about a work does not mean that the creator intended their work to be homophobic. If it worked like that, the conservative commentary about 1984 would make you think it was written by Ayn Rand herself. Also, you are still presuming the intentions of ALL creators based on how SOME act. Are you genuinely unable to think of why someone would make problematic content for reasons other than pure malice?
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^Part of artistic freedom means that content you don't personally like is going to exist. If the creator doesn't make a fuss and they aren't trying to push a message, then just move on like the rest of us. Otherwise, you're nothing but one of those "stop liking things I don't" killjoys that ruin fan spaces.
^First item, not inherently absent context. Second and third, that is homophobic, but that's because of the details that are not applicable to Hinghoi, which is who I'm talking about specifically. In addition, I would wager that a good many (if not most) of hetero content is just because the creators/customers get off to it. I agree that some creators do so out of hatred, but you can't use that to make assumptions about ALL of them.
^^Looking through their Twitter, I genuinely can't see anything like that. Can you point me in the right direction?
And no, I don't consider it INHERENTLY homophobic, only the artist's prerogative and freedom of expression, just like any other works considered problematic by society. If they did stuff like adding homophobic commentary or spammed it in reply to works only of the couple, that would very much be homophobic.
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^^^^^I actually saw the exact opposite. People were saying ANY straight art with them was homophobic no matter the context, and notably hated Hinghoi, calling them a bigoted exploiter that doesn't deserve to have their works featured in the community. Meanwhile, posts featuring canonically straight characters were accepted without hesitation, which honestly struck me as a double standard.
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