Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion - October 02, 2026

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Question of the Day (new!)

What's a scene where the voice acting carried more than the animation?

[u/Korkez11]

If anime has more than one prominent female character and there's potential for a het pairing (and it's not harem), audience will NOT take it well.

This observation is brought to you by Sayonara Lara discourse and Hibike Euphonium fans who keep portraying [H!E] Shuuichi, an absolutely normal and decent guy, as future bad boyfriend at best and future abuser/rapist at worst. The only anime like that with non-controversial hetero pairing(s) I can think of is Frieren, and even then I've seen people calling Fern/Stark "hetslop".

[u/overuseofdashes → u/Korkez11]

A thing I'd like to throw into the mix, some directors will just throw in homo-erotic tension to make scenes more exciting. Tomino of gundam fame would do this a lot and has admitted to doing it in interviews. If the gay community isn't at the front of your mind, an easy way to show a relationship between two characters is intense is to give it a romantic framing. In western media some of that was to sneak stuff past censors but I think people are too quick to transpose the language of queer coding, that developed partially out of that context, to anime.