don't take this as me gatekeeping i'll gnaw out your scapula. I'm incredibly happy it's getting animated and i'm happy more people are gonna see it, just afraid people will ignore the obvious stuff
Dw I get you I feel the same way, I’d feel immense disappointment if the queerness of the manga got lost in the anime. I feel like it’d also make it less interesting. (￣∇￣")
Ngl while the monster clearly has a romantic interest, they’re not actually two guys so even I hesitate to call their relationship queer. Unless nonhuman/human falls under the queer umbrella.
Assuming his "love" meant romantic. Idk what the original Japanese is. Also haven’t caught up so maybe it’s confirmed it is lol
Basically I think any interpretation of this is valid
i mean the way i look at it is its not really the "monster" that has feelings for yoshiki rather its hikarus emmotions unfilltered due to the thing inside him not knowing norms or like how to bottle up things. is my take looking at shit too deeply??
The story is literally a metaphor for internalised homophobia.
"Whatever the genre tag is, and even if this story isn't a romance, as the author, I guarantee that it is a queer story.
There seems to be a persistent false rumor going around that "the author suddenly removed the BL tag from the official website by the 3rd volume," but the truth is that there was never an official BL tag from the beginning. (This is not to deny any queerness.)"
Words of the author from bluesky.
This is literally a bl. Its a horror bl. Yes the romance is just hinted but its still bl/queer literature. Its a yes and no situatuon like killing stalking lol
While “Hikaru” is not human there’s an obvious theme that indicates him as “otherness” to the people around him. This outright horror and unknown nature he shows could be a representation of queer people who are often labeled as ‘abnormal’ and ‘non-human’ in culture as homogeneous and homophobic as Japan, not to mention in rural town too.
Yoshiki’s disgust and fear towards ‘entering’ this “Hikaru’s” insides, and his conflicting emotions towards Hikaru in general gives me the vibe that Yoshiki has some indication of internalized homophobia. Him “entering” Hikaru is also a very good representation of fear and horror of intimacy and sex to me. At least that’s how i understood it.
Lord i am not ready for this to be animated cause i'm already seeing a bunch of people on twt deny that there's anything queer about this sure it might not be explicitly BL but please it's as clear as day that there's a bunch of queercoding in this