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The manga craze, gender, and sexuality
Dec. 31st, 2018 11:19 amGoing through some of my manga and manwah, and kinda blown away by just how much of what got licensed early anyway involved cannon genderfuckery.
Ouran High School Host Club has a girl forced to pass as a boy as an integral part of the premise.
W Juliet has a boy, Makoto, passing as a girl deliberately, who becomes close with tomboy Ito. They eventually become romantically involved, but since their relationship will either be seen as a lesbian one, or will expose Makoto's gender, it too must be kept a secret.
Satisfaction Guaranteed starts with this exchange between the two male leads: "I was expecting a girl" "You thought Kaori was a girl's name..." "Well, most of the time it is."
In multiple shonen-ai or shojo manga focused on the relationship between two cute boys, one is possessed by a woman, the reincarnation of a woman, or turns into a woman (Les Bijoux), possibly even like a werewolf turns into a wolf (Until the Full Moon).
Ouran High School Host Club has a girl forced to pass as a boy as an integral part of the premise.
W Juliet has a boy, Makoto, passing as a girl deliberately, who becomes close with tomboy Ito. They eventually become romantically involved, but since their relationship will either be seen as a lesbian one, or will expose Makoto's gender, it too must be kept a secret.
Satisfaction Guaranteed starts with this exchange between the two male leads: "I was expecting a girl" "You thought Kaori was a girl's name..." "Well, most of the time it is."
In multiple shonen-ai or shojo manga focused on the relationship between two cute boys, one is possessed by a woman, the reincarnation of a woman, or turns into a woman (Les Bijoux), possibly even like a werewolf turns into a wolf (Until the Full Moon).
