Anime with canon same sex relationships

[sqbr]

This isn't a deep post. just an off topic tangent from this discussion.

So, ones I can think of off the top of my head (my brain has of course gone blank):

• Revolutionary Girl Utena
  
• Card Captor Sakura
  
• Sailor Moon? (I haven't seen it)
  
• Check the comments for many more!
  

It doesn't have to be the main characters, my point was that sometimes in anime (unlike mainstream western tv) you can think "Those two have such good chemistry, wouldn't it be great if they got together!" and they do.

EDIT: Obviously I'm not the best judge of this myself but the aim is stories one can enjoy as representations of queerness not unrealistic yaoi etc, and relatively mainstream anime that a typical sff geek might easily encounter and enjoy.

There's also lots where the subtext never quite becomes text but isn't actively contradicted either, like (as I recall) "Read or Die".

Comments

[polyserena]

There are whole entire genres devoted to this for animanga (just yesterday I bought a regular anthology devoted to comics involving girls who like girls but aimed at (presumedly) straight women). It's huge big business and it's usually much more comparable to shows like Queer As Folk where the main audience knows exactly what they're getting into from the start. Or... some kind of category that doesn't exist that isn't focused on gay relationships but where gay relationships are perfectly normal and expected. I guess viewing it from a perspective outside of the target fandoms it must be nice to see subtext and then have it made text, but the audience it was designed for were already expecting it. And it doesn't cross over to real life tolerance at all.

I'm not saying it's not a good thing, cause it is, I think it's an improvement on mainstream western TV and it's really nice to have entire genres to pick from if I want to read something not heteronormative. It just seems a bit pointless to start listing them when there are hundreds (thousands?) of relevant titles.

[sqbr]

Fair enough. I didn't think through what I meant by this post super deeply. Hmm..

I guess..that I'm talking about relatively mainstream anime that a typical sff geek might encounter and enjoy. But I didn't say that!