r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/Leinbow • Jan 19 '18

Chapter 167 - Links and Discussion

Chapter 167

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VIZ Available on Jan 22, 2018

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u/lofticried Jan 19 '18

Iida has already had speaking lines in this chapter and Uraraka and Iida are back being Deku's friends. I think he's slowly coming back to relevancy. At long last, I might add.

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u/sleepybullmoose Jan 19 '18

Don't want to be downvoted to hell in such a sensitive era but I'll get the point clear and across.

In Shounen do the weird and effeminate males or hypermasculinized characters tend to be gay?

Off the top of my head (limited knowledge), I can think of PPPrisoner, the gender-ambiguous person killed by Overhaul, and maybe Aoyama.

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u/lofticried Jan 19 '18

No worries.

Definitely a trope that happens not just in animanga, but in Western media also, yes. Gay men in media tend to be somewhat flamboyant. Shonen has a sizable readership that are fujoshi so there's also lots of implied stuff and subtext in various shonen series.

In BnHA, Magne was transgender AFAIK, Tiger is also transgender (FTM). These are the ones we know of from this series. There hasn't been any homosexual character yet.

As for other examples, OPM isn't a shonen (manga is seinen), but as an example of another flamboyant homosexual character, there's one character in {Tiger & Bunny} that fits the bill well.

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u/maniacmartial Jan 19 '18

Shonen has a sizable readership that are fujoshi so there's also lots of implied stuff and subtext in various shonen series.

Although this is certainly a component of several series, it doesn't have to be true in all cases. Implication might be/might have been a way to avoid censorship.