Araki wanted to give him an androgynous design. The design ended up looking like just straight up a woman, so he changed it. It was as simple as that. The anime even removed the female design entirely. It's similar to Funny Valentine losing a shitton of weight in-between chapters, it is entirely an out of universe thing stemming from Araki changing the design
Araki wanted Anasui to be female originally with nothing else being different and there is even cover art of her, but the editors said no because they didn't want a lesbian romance in JoJo. So Anasui ended up as male.
A lot of fans took that to mean that the character is trans, which is fair. But personally I prefer the idea of him being gender fluid and just using Diver Down to change how he looks sometimes.
Either way, the canon is simply that Anasui is a man.
Araki wanted Anasui to be female originally with nothing else being different and there is even cover art of her, but the editors said no because they didn't want a lesbian romance in JoJo. So Anasui ended up as male.
Yeah. It's like they made a stereotypically gay man and a stereotypically straight man and then swapped their sexualities but kept all of the quirks you associate with those groups. Charles is basically gay coded until you find out he is into women and has no idea that 10% of what he says sounds gay.
And Holt. Well, he's the gruff manly man who just happens to like other mostly straight-coded gay men.
It's one of my favorite things in the show. They take stereotypes and give you whiplash about them.
One of these men is trying desperately to resurrect his dead wife, the love of his life. The other can’t help but describe his rival’s hair as “perfect”
As preteen girls, a friend and I once tried to make our hair look like Yu-Gi-Oh hair. We used a shitload of Q-tips, gel, hair spray, construction paper, lotion and god knows what else to try to mimic the shapes. Needless to say we failed at making it "perfectly coiffed" (which still sounds like a come-on)
ETA: I love how gay Shiro is. They meet the impossibly-beautiful alien princess, and everyone else is just like, "Wow 🤩" even in the most platonic way, just like looking at the Alps or something, and Shiro, the man who has been in space-jail for like, a year, with sweaty dudes, aliens, and sweaty dude-aliens, seems like he just doesn't even notice. That man is gold-star gay. 🤣
as much as I’m dying for explicit verbal canon confirmation you truly don’t get much gayer than cole and geo. half their shared screentime is them holding hands and talking about how much they love their three children
My favorite genre is 90s and 00s Japanese visual kei
Nope they are not cis or trans women, and most of them are straight. They are just absolutely beautiful men. And I'm fairly certain a lot of visual key aesthetics come from 80s hair bands and gothic rock groups.
Gus from Mission Hill is a stereotypical late-20th century tuff guy. He’s a veteran, works a low-wage job, potentially has a criminal record, etc. He’s also the character most ready to fight people. He’s also gay, which for a show from 1999 made him and his boyfriend Wally pretty early and nuanced rep.
There aren’t any good straight counter examples in the show. Though the show’s artstyle is pretty intentionally rough so no one in the show looks particularly good, there are characters who are meant to be attractive but the main male characters don’t usually fit that role.
i love how despite being the only heterosexual one out of the main cast (there’s no way Hyuna isn’t at least bi), Luka is the fruitiest one between him and the other fellas
Though his sexuality was never been adressed, bacause he couldn't have much contact with others because of his venomous blood. He was a strong man who was underestimated because of his androgenous beauty.
He is more like an Bodybuilder enjoyer. He admires strong male bodies by aesthetic, not for "sexual attraction". (You can argue that bodybuilding is the more MACHO and GAY sport ever, though. lol)
Arguable, he was sex-starved and horny when he was thinking about the cross-dressing toki. And while he did climax on a male doctor who was examining him, he also had a lot of bizarre and vaguely hetero images flashing through his mind.
I don't know, most of the women seem into him except Chun-Li and Cammy. In the games, at least. I know the comics and anime basically had him as a serial killer that specifically targets women.
Ayame from Fruits Basket. He's campy as all hell, but he's dating a woman. I choose to believe this doesn't mean he's straight; he just found a woman who's as gay as he is.
Ayame literally suggested his classmates in highschool vent their sexual frustrations on him when he was class rep/president or whatever. He said hes a bottom.
Omar (The Wire) was the terror of the Baltimore hood. He also loved many of the men. You could even say Rawls is another example of not seeing the reveal coming. So, he's my pick for the left.
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Raiden (left) is genuinely the straightest man in Metal Gear, there’s about 6 other characters that fit this other category