Sensitive Boy - Ch. 62 - Hollow Young Man

[Kaiofficialone]

Man wtf is this crap.

 

[Chao_1024]

Nah I am dropping this sh!t

 

[hoshimochiko]

I really don't like BL but I am willing to give the author a chance. I'm curious to see how they're gonna tackle this.

 

[CurlyBruce]

People focusing a lot on the burgeoning (possibly) gay romance and kind of ignoring the pretty obvious hints dropped that Asahi has some hangups about his brother and possibly some abandonment issues. He mentions his brother liking that one particular book with a sad look as his face and when the new kid tries to push Asahi away so he doesn't "catch his gay" he gets a flashback to a raven haired kid (possibly himself) crying and telling someone off screen not to leave him.

So far the author always manages to throw a curve ball with a B-plot inclusion that crosses into the A-plot (the teacher who raped the first kid being a psycho stalker who comes back and tries to stab him, the fuckboy host who was taking care of Kanon turning out to also be a victim of her mother, etc).

 

[ProbablyWill]

Oh boy toxic yaoi

 

[Homuranagi]

Putting this thing after the first two heavy arcs as if homosexual curiosity is some hard deep stuff, nah this is just pandering. Author isn't going to go through with this and revert back to bromance but putting this arc in the first place is a miss

 

[ariel_haymarket]

Is "Yankee but a total goober" a new trope or something????

 

[kanoreads]

...okay, BL/GL is not really my thing, but I don't really mind this trend of introducing lgbt topics in manga as something to be taken seriously. it's too often fetishized to weird extremes, especially in shoujo (or BL as a sub genre), and I'm not sure that's all that healthy. but since this series is classified as shounen, I guess it is a bold choice. I can't think of any other shounen that featured a same sex relationship besides blue flag.

that said. I'm not entirely sure this is asahi's bi awakening. he kind of comes across as more asexual/aromantic here. kanefumi's crush was super obvious, sparkles and all, but I'm not getting the same love at first sight vibes from asahi. I'm wondering if his arc might be more about realizing how truly difficult it is to fall in love at all as he's exposed to a 'side' he'd never seriously considered before. in any case, it's way too soon to judge this arc. I'm a little sad how angry the comments are.

for a less dramatic and more realistic take on what it's like to be gay in japan, I would highly recommend reading what did you eat yesterday.

 

[Argon2409]

How to tell me you don't read that much BL without telling me you don't read much BL. You're misgendering queer men just because they crossdress. If it were like Lily from Zombieland Saga then I get it. She is trans.

You don't read much BL with the rise of muscular bottoms. How sad

Wow, and you tried to call me a twitter user... You realize they aren't real people but instead constructs of an author, one who has the ability to accidentally make a character be something.

Ok, Hiura from I Think I Turned My Childhood Friend (♂) Into a Girl goes through the whole trans experience, like ver batim to what you hear real trans people saying. When it's stated he's not trans like 70 chapters in it feels haphazard and unearned, especially considering I had just finished My Crossdressing Senpai, where it completely and wholly was. It made it feel like the author was doing damage control rather than developing a character.

 

[AdindaPangeran]

Oh fuck, it's gonna be BL arc? I'm gonna drop it if I don't like it on three chapter

 

[Cashini]

ouw noo geh but i am thinking mc friend brain sometimes still like childy look in last page in scene remembering his childhood friends but dont know he is geh or just still childy, looks like mc friends more probleam XD

 

[daichinobakudan]

Like someone else said, I feel like I can already predict how this one goes: He "tries" to be into men, because he doesn't wanna lose someone he made a real connection with. But it gradually becomes clear that it just doesn't work that way, and drama ensues.

 

[ZeroHour17]

I'm out

 

[CheesiBoye]

Anyone who can't interact with this even as fiction, be a better person, meet actual people and get to know them.
Anyone trying to crusade on a comment section, get out and do something better with your righteous indignation. If you can spend so much time here, y'all probably have enough time to find an advocacy or a local org that is going to do something for your specific view even in an online space.
Make art, be a better person, or die trying

 

[retrocognition]

Are people genuinely upset over Asahi being gay? I thought there was implications of this already with how he got more emotionally charged than usual over Kaede getting his feelings hurt by that girl, moreso than Izumi

 

[Ekki123]

 

[Hatyna]

[lots of arguing and discussion about the existence of a gay relationship in this manga]


What I wanna know is does he know Koga is a high schooler yet... i forgot how old they are
ALSO THE FLASHBACK?? ISTG IF THATS HIS LATE BROTHER

 

[pink_rabbit]

Are people genuinely upset over Asahi being gay? I thought there was implications of this already with how he got more emotionally charged than usual over Kaede getting his feelings hurt by that girl, moreso than Izumi

Nah. No one is upset at that. It's more so on who is the author and how it will handle it's "gay plot." Personally, I do like BL but it seems to me he is more aromantic

 

[pink_rabbit]

Wow, and you tried to call me a twitter user... You realize they aren't real people but instead constructs of an author, one who has the ability to accidentally make a character be something.

Ok, Hiura from I Think I Turned My Childhood Friend (♂) Into a Girl goes through the whole trans experience, like ver batim to what you hear real trans people saying. When it's stated he's not trans like 70 chapters in it feels haphazard and unearned, especially considering I had just finished My Crossdressing Senpai, where it completely and wholly was. It made it feel like the author was doing damage control rather than developing a character.

You're right on that characters are simply tools to create a story. For that, I made a mistake on my wording.

While I have not read both of those manga, I have yet to made judgement on it. Both are on my lists to read if what you are saying is correct. However, there is a lot of manga where the characters do crossdress as a form of drag queens and play around as a woman for their character. I'm a transman so I know what it's like to feel, understand in wanting to be seen as that. Then again, my trans experience is not the same as others.

Back to the main topic, it's still not heteronormative. There is a shit ton of GL manga of the girl being mistaken as a guy and they go out. One prime example is "The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All. Queer culture is going to be different in all countries. If that's how it is then maybe not read manga and look in other comics from other cultures.

 

[DerpyVenom]

hoping this gay shit is over soon enough, now the title is literally me.