Hmmm while it's really cute and light-hearted, and I really love the couple and the dynamic with the friends, I'm not really happy with the normalised homophobia. It's a recurrent theme in this category of BL (category as in art and plot wise, you know, it just falls in a group) and it's frustrating to deal with homophobia (and not the MC or his friends dealing with homophobic comments, just homophobia) in a book centered around homosexuality. I understand that in a highschool setting there's bound to be jokes about that (but even then, things are changing and hopefully little by little children will be educated enough to learn not to care about what type of person their classmates are into), but putting it in this kind of manga on a purely comedic note makes it seem like it's okay to say that it's gross to be gay, etc. so it's kind of saddening
Hmmm while it's really cute and light-hearted, and I really love the couple and the dynamic with the friends, I'm not really happy with the normalised homophobia.
It's a recurrent theme in this category of BL (category as in art and plot wise, you know, it just falls in a group) and it's frustrating to deal with homophobia (and not the MC or his friends dealing with homophobic comments, just homophobia) in a book centered around homosexuality.
I understand that in a highschool setting there's bound to be jokes about that (but even then, things are changing and hopefully little by little children will be educated enough to learn not to care about what type of person their classmates are into), but putting it in this kind of manga on a purely comedic note makes it seem like it's okay to say that it's gross to be gay, etc. so it's kind of saddening