#all japan women's

[joseigamer]

Patalliro! is fascinating to me because of stuff like this. It's unapologetically gay - even within its anime which aired during primetime hours in 1982 - in a way that many later BL manga would never be, like the ones from the early 2000s which would never dare to call their characters actual homosexuals. Patalliro has actually aged quite well in this regard, there's something comforting about how campy it is.

#i still dont really understand how they got away with this kind of thing honestly #female VAs i get that - but first m/m kiss in an anime in episode THREE????? #theres also the maraich/thomas episode where they are *Both* voiced by women....advanced yuri #patalliro #i love how bancorans gender expression is pretty much explicitly to attract only bishounen #you blushed - so you must not be a girl #etc #i also love how joyful it all is #theres never anything sad or tragic about being gay - only that bancoran is forced to kill the bishounen spies/assassins/etc #when bancoran finds out that gay sex feels good after demian; in the manga he is elated. its basically a positive thing #he awakens to his true power...lol #also notable is that while bishounen youth is glorified maraich is 18 #this means it portrays being gay as an adult as normal; not a phase relegated to nostalgic adolescent periods of time #according to the NYT japan's psychiatric body called homosexuality a mental illness until 1995 #im NOT going to say patalliro changed that or anything lmao but its just significant to me that banmara get to live their lives happily #even raise children together in the manga....??? #especially contrasting that with kaze to ki no uta and other manga of the time (no shade intended) #yaoi #<- for tagging purposes #obviously it also got away with a lot by being a gag manga. but still! #months later edit: want to say im not intending to moralize BL manga from the 2000s either. like gen. no hate on them. #as a gay person i just appreciate when characters who act gay are considered gay textually #and its kind of disheartening how gay-as-identity was treated as something incredulous in those manga a lot of the time #even the mere suggestion of attraction to men as a whole and not just the other male lead...yknow #this post is meant to praise patalliro for being unique in its approach to gay content compared to other titles #ive enjoyed plenty of 2000s yaoi titles despite their shortcomings lol #joseiposting #shoujo

[jasvvy]

JESUS CHRIST

#ajw #all japan womens #joshi wrestling #all japan womens pro wrestling #Kyoko Inoue #bull nakano

[ponchaka]

Aja Kong

#aja kong #ajw #all japan women's pro wrestling #wwf #puroresu #pro wrestling #women's wrestling #strong women #roman trevisiol #roman_henshin #fan art #artists on tumblr #posca marker #posca pens #posca #poscaart #joshi puroresu

[allfortzu]

what if i EXPLODE

#the most basic and classic kpop queerbait pose but i still love it youre right #the lyrics during these scenes too this is a song for women and sapphics #they did this for the gay closeted church girls #i literally had a hand over my mouth gasping shocked shaken the entire mv GAOWD im giving the japan division a big kiss rn #momos wolfcut too IM GONNA GJRKDUWP38RBJ #the bridge was so good mina always serves she has given and she has never disappointed! #i LOVE the way sana sang the mmm humming part in the beginning it reminds me of her lines in wallflower and YEAH SHES STILL THE BEST AT IT! #and momos rapping OHHHHHH she has truly never not killed a rap her deep raspy voice is so perfect omg #them turning into paintings in the end YEAH POETIC CINEMA #so glad they made this a littke gay bc all art is inherently gay no im not elaborating #yes obv i saw minas back they had no business putting it there not even 30 secs into the song what if i actually combusted #having this AND oec air force one in one week if god hates the gays why do we always win 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

[lau-ginx]

Heard your boyfriend a lame, hold on…

#made with tumblr #beauty #follow #gif #sexy #followme #me #wish me luck 🍀 #call me by my name #tumblrgirls #black #nigth #Japan #Osaka #dad #sad #may all who come against black women rot #energy #black energy

[veritphoto]

Wakaba Higuchi — Practice at Challenge Cup 2019

#wakaba higuchi #i wanted to post more waka for her birthday but i was without computer & busy bc of new years... so now <3 hbd light of my life #figure skating #fsphoto #team japan #women #challenge cup 2019 #smiley wakaba is all we need after all

[elendsessor]

btw i’m sure at least one person has seen this thread bc of the raidou being interested in men compilation post

but has anyone actually read it since it has some of the actual worst but hilarious takes ever

i’m not saying you have to hc raidou as gay but like considering earlier in the thread they mentioned the fact that he’s a blank slate character, immediately contradicting this and stating like it’s a fact that he’s 100% straight and that he can’t be even slightly gay and that it was the dev’s intention for him to be super straight is hilarious.

i also appreciate this

“i mean wtf is wrong with him?” is the best thing that could’ve been written here and i want people to ask a variation of this whenever any character in anything is revealed to be not cishet

let’s be real tho there’s no fucjing way he’d ever be more of a “pimp” than p3 or p4’s protags (and later joker p5). i think they meant ladies man but even then like. nobody ever will match that level.

#to me raidou ain’t straight. i hc him as gay but he also comes across as ace/aromantic #don’t have to agree with me at all but like he’s not confirmed straight either. 2000s internet had a lot of homophobia #and japan is very traditional plus atlus shut down some gay shit during this period #so the jabs at raidou’s potential sexuality are welcome lol let us have this #bisexual people exist too btw for all we know he’s into both men and women #heck maybe he’s not romantically interested in anyone that’s 100% okay too :) #shantien rambles #devil summoner #dsrk

[blizzardsuplex]

Kyoko Inoue does a ~39-rotation giant swing on Cuty Suzuki from Kyoko Inoue & Takako Inoue versus Cuty Suzuki & Mayumi Ozaki, AJW All Star Dreamslam ~25th Anniversary~, 04/02/1993

[thanks to @coquinaclutch and @limbreaper for watching this match with me last night! <3 Also, WATCH THIS MATCH.]

#kyoko inoue #takako inoue #cuty suzuki #mayumi ozaki #ajw #all japan women's pro wrestling

[hekatekun]

What if they make an anime about rival idols who engage in increasingly more homoerotic circumstances with each season up until the point their current functioning dynamic is being a wrestling duo who raise a baby together. But this was actually just a b plot. The shows about six men who do terrible things but with the most based yuri representation in the meantime.

#i would like to thank all of the self insert fans in japan for ensuring these men would stay pathetic and single forever #they did not care enough about the women so the showrunners got to have their yuri too !

[lightlykos]

There's nothing inherently queer coded about tamaki specifically but like moving to a new school and immediately being drawn to these specific people, for some reason

Is def queer experience

#ouran high school host club #ohshc #tamaki suoh #He really just moved to japan clocked the nearest queer kids and then went all women should be queens #icon behaviour

[jasvvy]

#ajw #all japan womens #joshi wrestling #all japan womens pro wrestling #manami toyota #akira hokuto

[ponchaka]

Bull Nakano

#bull nakano #ajw #all japan women's pro wrestling #fan art #wwf #wwe #roman trevisiol #roman_henshin #artists on tumblr #illustration #posca marker #posca pens #posca #poscaart #women's wrestling #joshi puroresu

[always-a-joyful-note]

What I love about comparing Idolish7 and Ensemble Stars is the fact that i7 has realistic storylines with intricately carved characters grounded in a mildly-supernatural (and, like, canonically, too) world with the worst timeline there ever was while enstars has somewhat unrealistic storylines with the most insane characters grounded in a Definitely Realistic No Supernatural Things Here (lying voice but nothing is ever confirmed) world where people are normal heights and age normally

#im sorry to ryu 190 cm but the tallest guys in enstars are rinne and kiryu at 181 cm #like part of the reason i love enstars so much is admittedly that they have normal heights when all the other shoujo manga... #...had middle school kids at like...180 cm with the expectation that theyd grow more and come on #ok to be fair asides from ryu everyone else does have more or less normalish heights....very tall for japan if i know right? #yup average height in japan is 170 cm for men and 158 cm for women #rip mitsuki tho #also im not saying enstars doesnt have good characters because they absolutely do #<-is still suffering from eccentrics brainrot #but they have....49 idols to i7s 16....not counting side characters #also no i will never get over i7 having tamaki and iori be stuck in senior year of high school for 3 years straight #also let nagi drink fdfsiejoiwere #idolish7 #fandom spamdom #enstars #ensemble stars #note's notes

[ozymandiasdirge]

i really do like oda i feel like i have to preface this that im chomping at the bit to get the actual plot with ace's execution moving since its been like 25 chapters and luffy STILL doesnt know somehow but im two and half chapters into amazon lily and some of this feels like its so comically misogynistic that star trek the original series in 1966 would have been like okay we need to rethink some of this

#i know this was written by a gen x man in 2009 in japan but #cmon now #maybe i shouldnt be reading this on only four hours of sleep because bro i am slogging right now #one piece #look normally when it gets into oda's woman crimes im just like #im reading a shonen manga and pull up the ''im sorry women'' screenshot and move on but so far this really isnt great #i really hope i like boa hancock and she makes up for all this because i have heard....mixed opinions

[arcadebroke]

#北斗 晶 #Akira Hokuto #AJW All-Star Dream Slam #全日本女子プロレス #1993 #All Japan Womens Pro-Wrestling #AJW #April 2nd 1993 #女子プロレス #プロレス #90s wrestling #pro wrestling #wrestling #wrestler #joshi wrestling #joshi wrestler #90s #1990s #gif #my gif #wrestling gif

[prettyboykatsuki]

i have deep desire to write for demon slayer (and by write for it im specifically talking about zenitsu currently.) but the story is so deeply impacted by it's setting that its gonna take at least two weeks of research to do it any justice so the plans r Delayed

#aristotle.txt #writing for my hero = easy because im insane and know every inch of it #writing for anything else = impossible #i figured trying to find fic for it was going to feel like this in the first place #from my limited understanding the story takes place in the events directly after japans first industrial revolution #which means that the advent of technology is not only integral to the story telling but there's also like an unreal #amount of sociopolitical context for most of the major details #writing for my hero is easy because a society post tech is very easy to imagine. we live in it lol #demon slayer in particular takes place during the emergence of industry #what makes zenitsu an interesting character to me is that his narration is influenced directly by his class and proximity to modernity #he has a specific level of cynicism i can only describe as post industrial. whether that be his sense of cowardice over tanjiro/inosuke #or his attitude towards women. the way he behaves and how he critically analyzes certain kinds of behavior #like im currently watching the entertainment district arc and i think inosukes reaction vs zenitsus pretty much exactly covers it #where inosuke is overstimulated and tanjiro is reserved - zenitsu recognizes the district for what it is. that quality makes him stand out #a lot among them at least to me. i love hearing him talk sooo much lmfao. #anyways. all that to say. i want to write zenitsu but i need to do more reading to make it any good so . pray for me i suppose #zenitsu the embodiment of men used to chop trees and go to war fr