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INTEREST: All Out!! Rugby Anime Adds 3 More 'Sexy' Figures


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lebrel



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 11:41 am Reply with quote
Not a fan. I'm all for manservice, but these guys are too weirdly muscly and lumpy.

Sobe wrote:
Bara incoming! OH YEAH! Very Happy


1. The term "bara" is considered offensive by Japanese gay men (it's an anti-gay slur). Call it "gei comi" or gay manga (or in this case "gei anime", although I don't think that's an existing term...)

2. Gei comi, by definition, is aimed at gay men. If this series is aimed at gay men I will print this post out on cardstock and eat it with mustard. It is pretty clearly aimed at fujoshi (with a side order of female otaku in general). The body type here is more buff than typical female-oriented stuff, but that is irrelevant to the genre designation: for girls = not gei comi.
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championferret



Joined: 15 Jan 2004
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 24, 2016 8:11 am Reply with quote
lebrel wrote:

Sobe wrote:
Bara incoming! OH YEAH! Very Happy


1. The term "bara" is considered offensive by Japanese gay men (it's an anti-gay slur). Call it "gei comi" or gay manga (or in this case "gei anime", although I don't think that's an existing term...)


Somehow tumblr got it in their collective heads that 'bara' is a noun that means 'muscular manly dude', it's something that causes me endless facepalms. I know tumblr has a terrible track record of readapting japanese words (I cant wait for the 'senpai' meme to die already) but this one always stood out to me as particularly annoying.
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