me personally I see 'hikaru' as a puppy attached to yoshiki and I thought it was cute
but I was definitely wondering if it was gonna go down the romance route
thank u
Yeah I think people are not understanding that nothing is being retconned. It’s just not a romance manga. A better tag would be LGBT and then romance if there was any as two separate tags. I think people don’t understand that bl isn’t only used as a romance + gay men tag in Japanese manga spheres. LGBT manga doesn’t really know where to be categorized because it doesn’t fit neatly into any bl or gl label because it’s not always romance. Like “my lesbian experience with loneliness”, so we call it gl because it’s a queer story? It’s not romance and def not focused on love but instead the authors mental health and sexuality struggles. GL/BL labels we never designed for queer people or stories. They were designed to be consumed as a genre by straight Japanese people so none of this was taken into consideration. Doesn’t help that some sites haven’t adapted to have an lgbt tag and they they use the fake term “shounen ai” which is NOT what BL is called in Japan but instead westerners doing a very literal translation of “BL”
Do y’all want Yoshiki to use ‘Hikaru’ as a replacement for Hikaru and then over time he realizes he loves the entity for what it is?????? Because that’s the only way that would go?? It’s such a tried storyline that has so much unnecessary angst. Sorry guys, Hikaru our ml has been dead since ch1 and Yoshiki began keeping ‘Hikaru’ around because of his grief and love over Hikaru, he’d rather have the spectre of Hikaru than not have him around, isn’t that tragically beautiful and poetic? The story has never changed even after the confirmation that there won’t be any romance between ‘Hikaru’ and Yoshiki, Yoshiki will forever be haunted by his love and longing for Hikaru, that’s the eerie poetic thing you guys think you’re missing because the “BL tag was removed” except it’s not missing and it’s still there, it’s still hauntingly beautiful and tragic