Spring of 2013 is now the confirmed season of premiere for a female targeted homoerotic action series confirmed as upcoming earlier this year, “Karneval” – a work renowned for its bishounens in glittery outfits.
Whilst this season, or to be more specific, Tonari no Kaibutsu, has gone to show that categories of gender are no solid barrier in determining what audience will enjoy a series, not all shoujo series can be treated equally – simply as this is already a case dependent subject to begin with. Tonari is a heartwarming tale of love – something either gender can enjoy if such fits their taste.
On the other hand, regardless of what “Karneval” is about, it will be immensely difficult for a fair slice of the general 2-D fanbase to appreciate it seeing as most of the characters it carries are feminine males – each coming clad in a sparkly rainbow ensemble, complete with exuberant posture to complete the look.
This may have been mentioned in the past, although it’s not even entirely certain if a typical female anime viewer would admire male characters with such finesse – and on that note however, the sub-sector of otaku who will definitely, and undeniably, be enjoying this series are fujoshis.
Nonetheless, this will be a series certainly most amusing to watch – be it for legitimate entertainment, or simply to shower it with ridicule for sake of ridiculousness.
Oct 20, 2012 @ 7:53 CDT
When will the Sping 2013 anime list come out?
Oct 20, 2012 @ 20:10 CDT
I never see these types of series as shoujo just because the characters may be beautiful there isn’t any romance in main focus.
Oct 20, 2012 @ 20:16 CDT
If you don’t see this types of series as “shoujo”, it seems hypocritical why you would then jump to the assumption that a shoujo series is a romance series.
FYI, Karneval is serialized in a shoujo magazine – and I’m not sure what you mean by “beautiful”, although the characters have obvious effeminate traits, and perhaps even homosexual ones for that matter as well. Not to say there’s anything wrong with either, I don’t intend to get into a discussion over such – although the reason you would even go so far as to call the characters “beautiful” essentially goes to show the character design is certainly pleasing its target audience.
Oct 20, 2012 @ 23:12 CDT
I think russel brand is beautiful does that mean i want to ship him with another male because of that?
Why is it that when a male is considered pretty or beautiful it means he’s gay?
I’d rather have them with a girl if it comes to it but like i said there isn’t any strong overtones of romance in this.None of the male character generate towards each other in that way its the same for the few female character it has (well discounting the obvious yuri woman).
Oct 20, 2012 @ 23:19 CDT
“Why is it that when a male is considered pretty or beautiful it means he’s gay?”
You should tell me, since you’re the one making that assertion – I’m saying there’s an essence of homoeroticism based on the “vivid sparkly rainbow outfits and effeminate postures” which I have to keep describing to you every comment.
If you consider a male wearing “vivid sparkly rainbow outfits and effeminate postures” to be something “pretty and beautiful”, that’s great for you – I don’t, so you should address the specific reality of the matter instead of continually avoiding it with vague terms.
Oct 20, 2012 @ 23:45 CDT
I don’t use the words handsome and i don’t like the gender boundaries we’ve set up in society ill say hot pretty beautiful for both genders.
Just because i think males can be pretty or beautiful doesn’t mean i like shipping them with other males.
Plus you and other people keep using the term fujoshis which if i recall correctly is a term used on and by yaoi fans that are female.
So using that would mean you either a group all female otakus into one group based yaoi or you feel these males leaning towards the yaoi spectrum.
Oct 20, 2012 @ 23:49 CDT
And this is relevant how? What is your point?
Oct 21, 2012 @ 0:01 CDT
Let me add, you’re likely unsurprisingly misunderstanding my statement made in the article:
“the sub-sector of otaku who will definitely, and undeniably, be enjoying this series are fujoshis.”
Thinking it to be saying that everyone who enjoys this series will be a fujoshi – which is, in fact, incorrect. I’m saying that regardless of who enjoys this series, fujoshi will definitely be amongst those who do.
Oct 20, 2012 @ 20:15 CDT
Just because the main characters look pretty doesn’t mean that the only fans that generate towards those kinds of guys are rapid yaoi fan girls since yaoi fan girls can put even males from jojo together.
Oct 20, 2012 @ 20:23 CDT
You’re changing the focus by saying they “look pretty” – although at least it shows the design is pleasing the audience as I’ve already told you.
See here:
http://seventhstyle.com/2012/04/24/karneval-confirmed-as-upcoming-anime/
A predominance of male characters with sparkly multicolor outfits, exuberant poses, and tight revealing outfits – the intended audience is blatant.
Oct 20, 2012 @ 23:08 CDT
Theres one of those characters that does any kind of posing and their outfits are something that you can see even in shounen anime.
So like i said just because they look pretty doesn’t mean they are designed for that audience since even that audience will go for styles like jojo.
Oct 20, 2012 @ 23:10 CDT
Please enlightenment me on which shounen series you have seen with male characters outfitted in cropped vivid sparkly rainbow outfits and effeminate postures since you proclaim yourself knowing.
Oct 20, 2012 @ 23:38 CDT
http://c.mfcdn.net/store/manga/4533/01-001.0/compressed/score_1s.c2.jpg
http://c.mfcdn.net/store/manga/4533/03-013.0/compressed/jc01.jpg
http://c.mfcdn.net/store/manga/4533/01-002.0/compressed/p02.jpg
http://c.mfcdn.net/store/manga/4533/01-004.0/compressed/p001.jpg
http://c.mfcdn.net/store/manga/4533/02-007.0/compressed/c01.jpg
http://c.mfcdn.net/store/manga/4533/01-003.0/compressed/p00.jpg
Yeah rainbow outfits and tight clothing.
http://files.fullanime11.webnode.cz/200000023-11ba1132e6/yuyuhakusho1.jpg
http://static.zerochan.net/BLEACH.full.638859.jpg
http://media.animevice.com/uploads/1/17986/287586-yuyu.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2XmXVisSUt0/TohUZ72ZX1I/AAAAAAAAFA4/8yV1pHFmGpI/s1600/1243414035_1024x768_fairy-tail-wallpaper.jpg
http://stuffpoint.com/naruto/image/78097-naruto-naruto-sacura-sasuke.png
http://cdn.myanimelist.net/images/anime/6/26138.jpg
http://s4.mangareader.net/cover/bakuman/bakuman-l2.jpg
http://i03.animea.net/6303%2F13_2_RUCHY%2F2-AWZKR.jpg
I guess all you see is gay in these photos
Oct 20, 2012 @ 23:47 CDT
Please tell me what similarities you see in this:
http://c.mfcdn.net/store/manga/4533/03-013.0/compressed/jc01.jpg
Compared to this:
http://files.fullanime11.webnode.cz/200000023-11ba1132e6/yuyuhakusho1.jpg
And no, none of the other images you’ve included look anywhere near similar either.
Oct 21, 2012 @ 6:37 CDT
Yeah because a casual torn teeshirt and pants looks no where near normal.
And he is the only who has any kind of sparkles or poses and if thats the only indicator for “homosexual indicators” then you’d have to like at armstrong from fma
Oct 21, 2012 @ 6:51 CDT
You didn’t tell me any similarities?
If you don’t know any, that’s fine – cause it’s obvious there aren’t any.