That’s what we in the business call “queer baiting”. They just felt stale, drifting through scenes waiting for yaoi to happen to them.īut perhaps most importantly, the show succumbs to that one and only great trope of homosexuals in anime, which is a lack of emotional pay off. I know people did get attached to the characters, but I didn’t. Hell, the entire appeal of the show from its inception is the characters themselves and how they interact – that and the art style is what drew people to it in the first place. Not inherently bad, but this is supposed to be something a little different – something unique. What’s more, the other characters feel like placeholders for. He’s emotional and passionate but keeps it to himself, so the audience has to struggle to see it too. Sure, he’s funny with how water is like a religious experience to him, but with his robotic approach to life, it sort of takes away from it. I get Haru’s appeal, as someone emotionally closed off that opens up slowly, but it’s hard to relate to him. The show has a slow startup, not inherently bad, but it takes a while for things to get even a little intense or emotional. “Greyson, you’re thinking way too hard about an anime about buff high schoolers mostly naked and all wet.” An excellent observation, but I do this Daydreaming thing for a living, and thus, I can imagine something I would like to see. Go ahead and finish the comment you were typing. Instead, there are a lot of repeating tropes that a lot of these type of anime suffer from. I understood the implications of the show and that it even existed at all, but that seemed to warrant the creation of something we hadn’t seen before. However, despite its incredible production story, I still felt like there was something missing when I was watching Free. That could have been a terrible mistake, but it turned out all right for the anime. Hell, there were established characters and traits before anything was official, and as far as I’m aware, the studio looked at the feedback and inspired their characters off of what they saw on Tumblr. It was a product of the will of the fans, more theirs than just something a studio released hoping that people would like it. That’s pretty impressive, and it gave the anime a unique identity. The people collectively decided on something they wanted, and a studio made it happen, more or less to their specifications. The implications of a fanbase creating something out of essentially nothing is interesting on its own.
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A twelve episode series was announced shortly after. Already, it was mainly about the fan service, but there was enough of a tidal force to get the attention of Kyoto Animation. Intricate and detailed back stories, names, character bios, and fanfics emerged – mainly on Tumblr, as people started to work with the characters. The ad was only 30 seconds long, but when the internet discovered it, it was love at first back stroke.
Legend has it that Japan had released a commercial with the characters that would later come to the show.
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Follow me on a sensuous slow smolder as we get hands on with Free and Yuri.įor those out of the loop, Free becoming a series was a bit of a phenomena. Their can only be one champ in the Gay Sports arena, and I think I know which one is going to leave with their glove in the air. Insert rival and some fan service, and you have a recipe for Tumblr fame and fortune.īut I submit to you, my very small readership, that the two shows are vastly different, and that one is significantly better than the other. Take a emotionally shy person, pair them with an outgoing person, give them a genderfluid sport to compete in. On the surface, the two shows might be identical. In the other corner, the rising star with a dream, Yuri on Ice. In one corner, you have the previous heavyweight champion of gays, Free!. We’re all complicated people, and I stopped caring what strangers think of me a long time ago, so take it or leave it.īut besides the getting my fan serviced, I think there’s a distinction to be made, specifically between what I feel are the two top contenders for the “Gay Sports Anime” genre that’s all the rage. Like I’ve said before, sometimes we’re talking politics and getting heavy, other times we just want to see two boys kiss in costume. You never really know what you’re going to be into when you’re younger, but here we are, watching gays in anime and loving it.