Are they gay in sk8

are they gay in sk8

IshigamiCrisis said:
I still maintain my opinion. Obviously, it is clear that both Yuri and Victor are romantically interested in each other. That's detracting from my point. Regardless of what the YOI authors intended, it still comes off as queerbait if the romance is HINTED at but NEVER depicted.



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Are you telling me that if one of those characters were a girl, you would debate this was not a depiction of romance? What is a depiction of what, friendship????


In evidence, your claim that Given doesn't have to deal with censorship while YOI is censored does not make sense. They both broadcast on Japanese TV. Neither of them are R-rated so they obtain the same treatment. Why are they hiding it.


I explained it to you why they are hiding it lol. One is a BL manga. It's a product written by a a female on a magazine aimed at women and that existed before the anime. Every producer, director, Japanese suit and staff member involved in the anime knew that whey were going to adapt it and why.They picked a BL manga and sold it a BL product. If you do not want to adapt a BL manga you don not involve yourself with it! BL nomenclature quite

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I see Adam called "queercoded" so often and it really makes me wonder... why?Where is the line until we can consider a character actually homosexual and why the hell would Adam not cross it?

I'm sorry but there is nothing 'coded' about Adam - his character is loudly and unambiguously gay on-screen and can be called such!!

He spends the entire show looking for a male significant other and professing his devote for one of the male leads. His gestures and dialogue are overtly romantic, including physical touch. His whole storyline hinges in part on 'he is under pressue to get into an arranged marriage with a female but he is seeking a male s/o'.

And we understand the love thing is not just a meaningless gimmick - it even excludes characters he's not attracted to (like Miya, who is explicitely excluded on account of being too youthful for him)!!

In interviews about Adam falling in love, the Director of the show uses his canonical feelings for Langa as a reference point because... duh. That's his canon love interest, why wouldn't she?

And if that isn't enough, there is an episode preview in which he just comp

I Just Finished Sk8 The Infinity

I just finished Sk8 the Infinity

first off "queer subtext" my ass, it is front and center you can't NOT witness it.

second, oh my god the theme of adore and having a infatuation for something is done in a way that scratches my brain in the best way. The three main relationships, Reki and Langa, Joe and Cherry, Tadashi and Adam, whether you think they are gay or not they totally are all highlight this dynamic of loving skating versus getting lost in the match.

Reki and Langa are the clearest example of this. Reki loves skating, he may not be the best at it but he truly loves it. He understands the tricks and the skills, he knows it so well that he can make boards specifically to suit nuanced skills appreciate Reki's because he loves it. He has the passion and the soul for it which is the central thing he learns during his traits arc in the reveal. But even outside his arc, Reki embodies the spirit of skating, that love of skating. That's what makes his race with Adam so crucial and that's present in why Langa feels the way he does when he's skating with Reki other than being homosexual. Langa falls in treasure with skating

Sk8 the Infinity May Change into a Gay Romance Anime

SK8 the Infinity is the first original series by director Hiroko Utsumi. While she's been working as an animator since the mid-2000s on shows favor Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid and The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Utsumi gained a reputation over the last decade for directing Free! and Banana Fish. Over the course of its runtime, Free! exhibited plenty of homoeroticism but no canonical romance between its athletic leads, whereas Banana Fish featured multiple canon homosexual characters.

Even after the complete release of its first season, whether SK8 the Infinity will fall into Free!'s queerbaiting patterns or Banana Fish's canon queerness remains uncertain. As of right now, it's more aligned with Free! in terms of heavily needling multiple romantic pairings and failing to follow through on any of them. However, the blatant subtext and themes in SK8 the Infinity, along with the confirmed Season 2 and OVA on the horizon, suggest that the series still has the potential to go the route of Banana Fish by explicitly confirming lgbtq+ characters or relationships.

Updated on Sept. 6, 2024 by Laur

Did Langa Come Out in SK8 the Infinity's Episode 8?

Fans of Sk8 the Infinity had been wondering about a gay romance for weeks when Episode 8 came along, apparently confirming it. Looking for counsel about his impact with Reki, Langa tells his mom that he "likes" him. It didn’t seem enough, however, to convince viewers that this was a true coming-out scene.

The world of anime is occupied of what's often defined as "queerbaiting." Mainly concerning male characters, but not exclusively, it presents intense same-sex relationships that are love-related in everything but name. Characters contact each other "friends" even when their gestures and expressed feelings are openly sexual or affectionate, and their interactions would never be considered platonic if they were of the opposite sex. Apparently following in the steps of previous works, Sk8 the Infinity introduced a male protagonist duo with unreal chemistry in instruct to tease the potential of a gay romance, only to never grasp it. Even so, the tables were turned when, in Episode 8, Langa admitted to "liking" Reki.

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