@robonencel He. He says it in the 12th episode. How he didnt even expect anything more than friendship yet hes still heartbroken. He has a crush, but his intentions with Hirose are to just make friends?
@robonencel Hey, he isnt pursuing anyone right. He just wants to make friends. He didnt even expect them to become romantic since the start. Its not a bl. Boys LOVE is a romance, this is slice of life. Im just saying that if they used genres correctly they wouldn't experience a backlash.
@robonencel Genres work the same way everywhere, if they cant comprehend a queer comic as simple slice of life genre and must call it a bl thats not an issue of genres.
@robonencel He's a creep. He asked a girl to draw a comic about him and a boy he barely knows. Takes secret pics of the boy etc. It isnt shown as negative bc he doesn't have any bad intentions of course but denying that hes antisocial is the weird take here.
@robonencel Ig if it was published in a shonen magazine it would be a shonen then...
As long as they end up being together until the end of the manga, it makes sense. If its just a bunch of Nakamura living through his life its slice of life not bl. And him being gay shouldn't matter.
@skysvnder Yeah, youre right. But its not Boys Love. They made a mistake by calling it such, unless Nakamura and Hirose end up together in the finale (and it gets animated bc were talking about the anime). If they dont, this is blatant queerbait.
I agree Nakamura is a good watch. I also dont think it should be called romance or BL but slice of life.
It shouldn't matter that the mc is gay, this isnt romance thus its not BL either.
They lied to people about the genre so the backlash has its rights.
as someone who literally went through a crush phase like Nakamura's, ts is so realistic and that makes it so worth the watch.
this is not about how they ended up together, but how it was like to live in Nakamura's POV
@robonencel Nakamura is antisocial to a painful degree, which IS relatable to a person growing up as queer. Hes so antisocial he doesn't keep a conversation with his crush even tho he has plenty of chances to ask about him in exchange. Hed rather stalk on Hirose instead????
@robonencel Its not a romance since its lacking the romancing. A gay kid doesnt immediately change the genre into bl. It should be called slice of life and comedy and thats it.
Ill take it back if they ever end up together. For now calling it a bl is misleading.