BL needs more mainstream normalization
Tuesday, May 24th, 2022 19:21On the one hand, I'm glad to see mainstream sites start to recommend BL anime as part of their "best of 20XX-year" lists. And don't get me wrong, Sk8 Infinity is really good. Absolutely adorable, well paced, and genuinely sweet with an interesting skating-as-metaphor-for-queer thing going on.
On the other hand, come on your wusses, make BL anime about adult men. It's all fine and well to explore the confusing times as an adolescent and the discovery of sexuality and romance and the teenage angst of trying to figure out if like means like or like-like.
But where's the BL with salary men who already know what they want and have established themselves in society? Where are my sexy CEOs who are sweeping unsuspecting secretaries off their feet? Or high profile politicians going to VIP clubs for expensive male escorts? How about horny gay teachers banging in the school infirmary because 35-year-olds still have plenty of libido?
C'mon, Japan, gimme the adult BL romances! (All the titles I know about were made waaaaaay back when. It seems the recent stuff is almost exclusively about first loves.)