#jsyk there has been literally a single high profile example of actual queerbait rather than censorship in anime in the past decade

[the-descolada]

Beyond tired of holier than thou traveling wlw animation fans who insist that any level of “canoninity” short of an onscreen kiss is “not rep” while simultaneously acting like representation is the be all and end all in importance for the queer community

It’s also very interesting how this outrage is basically solely reserved for non usamerican (or frankly, non western) media, and they are perfectly willing to discuss the internal censorship artists and writers in big media projects have to push back against (and not always successfully) when it comes to cartoons like legend of korra