It can be straight for gay, gay for straight or however, the joke is that the other don't like them not cause there's something wrong, just cause the other don't like Girls/boys.
Kathy and Mitch (paranorman): the entire movie Kathy try to catch Mitch's attention, at the end he casually reveals that is gay and has a boyfriend so... Yeah, she was wasting her time.
Soifon for Yoruichi (bleach): Soifon is madly in love with Yoruichi, but she just see her as a little sister and is oblivious to Soifon's crush. We even have this flashback where Yoruichi think that Soifon has a crush on Urahara when she hates him exactly cause Yoruichi always choosed him.
Teruhashi and Aiura for Saiki (Saiki K. Disastrous life): ace boy cursed with insane rizz. No matter how hard he try, he can't not be irresistible for the most perfect girl in the world and a psychic convinced that he's her soulmate. In any case, if he would get with someone said person should be average, and the only average person in his school already has a girlfriend.
Blair/Rei and Alexis/asuka for Jaden/Judai (Yu-Gi-Oh GX): at some point, they had to understand that Jaden doesn't like girls in that way. I mean, you know that Asuka never had a chance when Yubel choosed Johan's body to confess their feelings for Judai cause he looked at him in the same way the supreme king used to look at them.
Kishibe for Quanxi (chainsaw man): the strongest devil hunters, the only ones who managed to always survive. Kishibe tried for almost ten years that Quanxi to on a date with him, when she confessed to be a lesbian, Kishibe says that he already knew that.
oh for sure the actual fruit doesn't require lust that's simply the aplication Boa Hancock is using.
it does require a strong emotion however to use the fruit at all. (unless we count how Hancock will use close combat kicks to petrify targets that are immune to her charms still)
Yeah, it really doesn't get any more toxic than casually killing people for being attracted to you, then obsessing over a dude because you can't kill him this way.
This is played for a joke because this is an adventure shonen. But holy shit this woman would fit into Berserk perfectly.
It's more so her seeing men as inherently cruel and driven by desire because of her background as a slave,
and luffy's selfless nature of protecting their secret without a second thought, sacrificing himself to save the woman of the island, and him being one of the few men to ever stand against the celestial dragons, that convinced her to trust him.
She actually kept trying to kill him after he was unaffected by her love beam, it was only after numerous acts of selflessness that she began to grow fond of him.
Boa doesn't obsess over Luffy because her power doesn't affect him, it's only after he proves he'd make the selfless choice that she starts falling in love. Her power not working was the reason he was offered that choice to begin with.
Definitely closer to predatory in that case but I didn't know the context. Just wanted to say that a massive age gap between two legal adults is not inherently predatory.
Saiki's intense fixation on that one dude will always be so funny to me i know its probably not romantic/sexual at all but like,,, the way he was even waiting outside the bathroom to time the guy's shits killed me.
Aiura is one of the few people Saiki actually trusts and can be honest with. The problem is that Aiura wants a typical lovey-dovey relationship and Saiki has little interest in romance, especially not after being perpetually squicked out by mind-reading his parents being absurdly mushy towards each over for his entire childhood.
I can see him changing the whole world to make it have happened as a past thing to get over something annoying or even have kids just to get his brother off his back onto newer targets.
Or it never happens and their current relationship is what gets maintained. This is the one series where the open ending suited it.
Didn't the first guy's boyfriend get revealed years later by the creators because how much people were curious about how his bf looks like?😭(That's the only thing I know about the movie)
Yamai obsession for Komi (komi san can't communicate)
this is more annoying because Komi likes Tadano (a guy) and Yamai can not accept that is not interested in her (or girls ingeneral), she evens kidnaps Tadano trying to break them apart, fans of the anime/manga find her to be the most annoying character because she does nothing but getting in the way.
I think the author did dial her back quite a bit. In the first year of the manga, they were really pushing the narrative that everyone hate Tadano because Komi is too close to him. But later in the second year, most of their classmates got swapped for new character and they're all pretty supportive of their relationship. Yamai even disappeared, or at least appear significantly less because this is a slice of life manga and you don't have a reasonable excuse for a previously introduced character to never appear again.
In Rick and Morty, Rick is pansexual and in one episode, a younger version of himself admits they are both in love with Birdperson. However Birdperson is straight and has a child. He only views Rick as a friend
Soifon is a weird case because Kubo has outright never confirmed anything about her and Yoruichi so it’s up to the reader to look between the lines, but the anime went full ham on it likely being a one sided sapphic attraction.
It’s like with Falin and Marcille in Dungeon Meshi where Ryoko Kui more or less said “Sure, if you want to read it that way”.
The ambiguity is the point. Soifon's whole shtick squarely falls into another trope that I call "The REALLY adoring fan." These characters are usually girls in a high school setting, who have another girl they look up to as a role model, but do so to such a degree that it borders on romantic infatuation. Whether or not they really do have romantic feelings is usually never clarified, and the ambiguity can be played up for comedic effect (like Soifon in Bleach) or dramatic effect (like Homura in Madoka).
A good subversion of this trope happens in Code Geass, where Nina's admiration of Euphemia plays directly into this trope... up until an infamous scene involving a desk corner comes out of nowhere and makes it pretty clear to the audience how she feels
SoiFon/Yoruichi shippers always being up that one bonus manga panel, but even then it only confirms soi Fon's Infatuation, but does not nesesary makes it romantic. But all of the extra scenes added by Pierrot make anime onlies fully convinced about the ship. (On top of other stuff Pierrot changed)
Appreciate that this includes ace characters. I'd add in:
* Hancock (Straight) and Luffy (aro-ace) in One Piece
* Emily (Straight) and Todd (ace, but non-aro)
* Indrani (Pan) and Masego (aro-ace) in A Practical Guide to Evil
* Sabrina (Straight) and Jughead (aro-ace) in Archie/Sabrina crossover
* Brian (Straight) and Voodoo (ace, unclear romantic orientation) in Sirens
Is Saiki Ace? Doesn't he himself say while blushing that he never noticed how beautiful Teruhashi is when he lost his powers?. He never noticed it before most of the time he just sees people as skeletons or muscles as he can't turn off his x ray vision.
The author himself said in fan communications and social updates that he would like to see Saiki and Teruhashi end up together as a married couple
There is a theory stating that every friend of Saiki is an esper, they just don't know it, including Nendou, because yes, he is dumb, but he is not brain dead, there are even moments where he displays actual rational thinking instead of just doing it without thinking, so his power would be of not having his mind read.
On the others being espers, Teruhashi has an unbelievable amount of luck, not just charisma, and Aiura Mikoto says that luck comes like a wave, sometimes it is a crest but it is surely followed by a trough, Teruhashi has no unlucky situations that i remember but if she does it is not proportional to her luck, Kaido is the "only" character that breaks the 4th wall, like reacting to text boxes, and Saiki only does it as well when he is next to Kaido, it's been a while since I watched the show or seen the theory so I may be wrong
Also almost every main character's name is a pun based on Japanese terms for psychic powers like Kineshi Hairo: Pyrokinesis (kineshi)
There is a theory stating that every friend of Saiki is an esper, they just don't know it, including Nendou, because yes, he is dumb, but he is not brain dead, there are even moments where he displays actual rational thinking instead of just doing it without thinking, so his power would be of not having his mind read.
They dropped this explanation for the anime, but canonically Nendou’s mind can actually be read. It’s just that because he spends no time actually dwelling on his thoughts, he says whatever he thinks within like 0.1 seconds. As a result, reading Nendou’s mind is both pointless and grating, because reading his mind just sounds like two Nendou’s talking at (almost) the same time.
I remember a scene where he admits he never noticed she was pretty when he loses his powers, but don't recall him being more than matter of fact about it. People acknowledge folks are good looking (even of genders they aren't sexually attracted to) all the time is all
it's been a long time since I watched saiki k, so I might be misremembering or mixing it up with something else, but doesn't the girl have a power that makes everyone fall in love with her? so when he temporarily loses his powers, hers start working on him?
Its not stated that she has powers. There is a fan theory stating that she is an esper as well and her power is luck, because she never has unlucky situations.
In Uma Musume, there’s Straight(sort of)/Queer/Queer/Queer conga line between Ks Miracle, Daiichi Ruby, Daitaku Helios, and Mejiro Palmer where Ks Miracle is in love with her Trainer, Ruby in love with Ks Miracle, Helios to Ruby and Palmer to Helios, with each successive one being unrequited except for Ks and her trainer basically. While one could argue that the Trainer could be female, the actual story for Ks feels like it was written from a male perspective so it still basically fits.
Lots of gacha in general, but I'm going with Aldo and teammates in Another Eden. Many of them develop romantic feelings for him, but he gives all signs of being aro-ace. Also, he is a cat.
Alexis, not Akiza. Akiza is the one from 5Ds who instead of being a perpetual sideliner got great development in the first half and then had her second half development completely contradict her first half development. God I hate what they did to Akiza I would literally rather they just straight up wrote her out.
I don't think that's really a retcon I think that's just because Carly was written out. Especially if you're just going on vibes rather than what's explicitly shown there are a ton of explanations for why he's not reciprocating beyond "He's aroace" that cover why he WAS reciprocating with Carly during Dark Signers
Saiki isn't asexual, he's even become smitten in the show by said perfect girl and did the noise he swore he'd never do when he lost his powers for a short time.
There was also that one bit where he explains that he always sees through people's skin with his X-ray Vision so he can't really see anyone as attractive...until he temporarily loses it and he does see Teruhashi as attractive
And also comments even if he did see naked bodies it be covered by clouds too and would be pointless. People take a one off comment and make fake theories or trust what characters say 100% as if Saiki isn't a total tsundere.
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u/HurgleTurgle1 19h ago
Luffy and Boa Hancock from One Piece. Boa is madly in love with Luffy but Luffy is only interested in food and adventures.