I'm watching the new season of that Wind Breaker show, it's pretty mediocre but I like fighting anime/manga and school shit so it's ok.
In one of the fights the pink haired metrosexual guy tells the guy he's fighting that being graceful and feminine aren't synonymous anymore or something like that. Pretty minor, but also pretty gay.
But I remembered that one of the school's team captains or whatever looked like a tranny and decided to look it up. And yeah he is. I don't know if they used the word tranny, the wiki says the author says he's a man. But it's kind of jarring to me to see this shit in a mainstream shounen show. I know Japan has always had some weird sexual shit, but I'm curious how common this has become now. I remember a couple times where gays or cross dressers were played for laughs, but I don't remember much of it being normalized, but I don't watch or read as much as anime/manga as I used to.
Hard to say as look at series like JoJo, it's the most straight gay looking show. And then you got characters like Felix from Re Zero who is a guy dressed up as a cute cat girl.
They're quite open to mixing up aesthetically with cross dressing, they just don't go down the degenerate path the West has gone down with it, they leave that for the tentacles..
in like 90% of the trashy isekai theres a comic relief character that is a big muscly and possibly even hairy man but they wear a dress and have a womans hairstyle
i'm thinking the authors are trying to say something
More comedy than anything as remember puri prisoner from One Punch?
They've touched on the subject WAY better than the West have, in Log Horizon, because the players were put in the bodies of their avatars, some women looked like men and men as women. They dealt with that better than the shit I've seen in games especially.
Idk I know JoJo is flamboyant, but it's not literally gay (that I remember, I didn't finish it) and it's definitely not telling trying normalize faggotry from what I saw.
Rezero is newer, I never saw it but I do see this happening more lately. It's not like there's never been queers or crossdressers in anime, I'm just worried about the western style preaching and normalizing into mainstream Japanese culture. It's very obviously become less masculine to me lately, but it's held off the gay shit for the most part
I think one of the things that halts is that every western venture into anime tends to be lackluster or outright shit. .
Remember Suicide Squad? It was just boring even though it was made by WiT studios compared to the OTHER thing they made by them in the same season My Deer Friend Nokotan which was a giant shitpost.