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My Sword Is Unbelievably Dull
His name is Oboro, and he is gay.
Gay guys have it rough in anime, just as they do in every other entertainment medium. Sure, same-sex attracted girls have it coarse as well, but at least they generally are portrayed as sexually attractive, get to do lots of cool things, and are occasionally sane. Gay men hold not been so lucky; Just look at broke Leeron in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
This was seriously the only image I found of him alone.
Leeron is portrayed as creepy, poorly dressed (seriously WTF), gratuitously man-hungry, and, in a show where virtually every character is given a chance to accomplish something ridiculously badass (especially in the movies), Leeron is the only one who never gets to shine on the battlefront. What a gyp for a guy who was around since episode two! Sadly, this is cute par for the course in anime, especially in anime for guys. Creators seem to think that for you to recognize a character is homosexual they need to own the tendencies of a rapist and an deathless thirst for man-flesh.
Oboro, however, is different. In Utawarerumono, an anime based off of an adult visual novel, Oboro is the hotheaded young swordsman who is driven by the desir
KurvosVicky said:
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First of all, I just want to say this - if you love Gurren Lagann and/or Leeron Littner in it, that is absolutely fine and there's nothing wrong with that. I'm sure it's a excellent anime and that Leeron is a great traits (haven't seen Gurren Lagann to date, just reviews of it and scenes from it and articles about Leeron).
But that being said... is Leeron Littner offensive? I don't want a simple "yes or no"-type of acknowledge, I'm asking this to get people's constructive aim of views on this.
Because on one hand, I am really glad they are gay-supportive enough to consent him be there and be a cool admired character... on the other hand, he's not just an exaggerated stereotype, but also designed to glance like an alien mutation hybrid. I'd be 100% okay with this if the characters looked in weird non-human ways too... but, it seems enjoy everyone else - at least among the main characters are designed to look very attractive and sexy and human-like (by anime-standards). And, I'm not sure if this is true, but I can only find
I enjoyed Gurren Lagann; I really did. It doesn’t substitute Kill la Kill in my heart, but as I’ve mentioned before, I haven’t responded to an anime the way I’ve responded to Kill la Kill. I guess it’s just the caring of story that happened to knock me at the right time in my life. But while it’s my easy pick over Gurren Lagann, that doesn’t mean that Gurren Lagann is an insubstantial story.
However, there are things in Gurren Lagann that brought me very, very near to dropping the show. In reality, I had a similar experience watching Kill la Kill’s earlier episodes for the first hour, but I stuck with it because at the close of the evening, I just vastly enjoy shows with predominantly female casts. Yet while I can point to plot and thematicreasons for nudity/fanservice in Kill la Kill, I can’t say the same for its appearance in Gurren Lagann. Episode 6 is off-putting enough, the uncensored version even more so. Yoko is a shoddy token female figure for much of the series and is often the object of Kamina’s (and every other straight man’s) ogling. She deserves better, though she does get some good character progress in the second arc. Still, it’s
Gurren Lagann was the goddamn best shit back when it aired. A supposedly dying Gainax out of nowhere dropped the single optimal super robot anime of all second, with a previously un-celebrated director Hiroyuki Imaishi making a huge splash with the show. That’s my memory of it anyway. I’ve loved some of Imaishi’s latest anime, but I’m not sure how successfully his breakout strike holds up today. Time to detect out if Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is still one of my favourite anime of all time.
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If Gurren Lagann was made today, we would be inundated by people using the chad face meme to describe Kamina. “Nooo you can’t take on the giant robot with nothing but a sword and a manly speech” – “haha impossibly prolonged katana go brrrr”. Or him insisting he knows how to use a gun, and then uses it by hitting the robot with it, accomplishing nothing but nearly blowing his retain balls off. Endorse in the olden days we called him “gar” because we were uncivilized and uncultured and used a poorly spelled “gay” for manliness, while today we use incel terminology for our manly memes. Aren’t we so much better off now?
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I’ve watched the second episode of “Gurren Lagann”. And it’s still a mecha anime with giant robots fighting other giant robots and monsters inside them (I was stupid in the previous episode and didn’t realize that there’s somebody inside that giant thing). Well, now our characters – Simon, Kamina and Yoko fight another two huge monsters then Yoko comrades come and help them and then they go to her home village to locate that everything isn’t that rosy on the surface. They also meet a character who gives me mixed feelings – Leeron Littner who’s a mechanic and a “flamboyant and openly, stereotypically gay” as his wiki says. And on the one hand, it seems homophobic, on the other hand, he seems to behave like: I’m gay and I’m so stereotypical what would you do? I signify that he’s joking and I don’t know… Am I in love? (Spoilers!) Well, the very next morning they have to fight again and Kamina decides to ride one of the “evil giant robots” – Gunman. And he manages to carry out it and together with Simon and his petty mecha they beat all the enemies. And it has an unexpectedly influential ending when Kamina finds a skeleton of his father who he consideration was somewhere on the stars.