#hidive

I find it so disheartening that animelab is now just a footnote on the Crunchyroll store wiki. ONE MILLION USERS. At the time Australia had 25.2 million people and New Zealand had 4.89 million. So out of the combined estimated population of 30.09, roughly 1 in 30 had animelab. Unless I'm doing the math way off, which some part of me hopes that given how much my internals sank just thinking that.

FUCK FUNIMATION, FUCK CRUNCHYROLL.

Rant bellow the cut.

Some of the series in this list are shown in this image. Top row, from left to right: Mono, Mitsuboshi Colors, and Witchy Pretty Cure!! Future Days. Bottom row, from left to right: Anne Shirley, Sorairo Utility, and Lycoris Recoil. Series not pictured: Maebashi Witches, Flower and Asura, Bodacious Space Pirates, and Asteroid in Love In mid-August, queer media critic Kira Deshler wrote on her…

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Feel free to add examples in the replies if you know of any other Manga/Anime creators who have made comments or done things implying they support the LGBT community and I’ll add them to the OP (note this moreso applies to assumed heterosexual creators or creators who have not stated their personal sexuality rather than out gay creators, basically it’s an Ally list)

Kunihiko ikuhara: vehemently hates straight romance and is pushing for more and gayer romance in manga and anime

hiro mashima: deleted an offensive character in his own manga and replaced him with a more positive gay coded one

Satoru Noda: reads Bara and his manga is incredibly homoerotic

Hirohiko Araki: see Satoru Noda

Yoshihiro Togashi: has made multiple attempts to make a manga with a gay protagonist and has basically called out his publishers as homophobes for not letting hin

Hiroyuki Takei: included a Gay romance arc in his collab manga with Stan lee(that stan lee had himself alan smithee’d off of because he was a homophobe) and has a canon trans man character in Shaman King’s spin offs

Atsushi Ohkubo: became aware that Fire Force had a large gay male fanbase and started adding more fanservice of the male characters specifically for that side fanbase, has also made many comments implying other progressive personal views (and calling out other mangakas for the racist way they depict black characters)

shirahama kamome: her Manga Witch hat Atelier has several openly LGBT characters