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Sometimes two characters don’t need to kiss on screen for it to be blatantly obvious they want each other, and in the case of maya and claudine, I think performing an 10 minute extended swordfight with intense homoerotic undertones using faust and mephistopheles as a metaphor including multiple costume changes, romantic/wedding imagery, calling each other beautiful, passionately yelling ‘for me there is you’ in sync while surrounded by roses, promising to continue to be partners and rivals again and again for eternity even if they are physically separated, all done to the music of a gorgeous classical symphony tribute with really gay lyrics that was supposed to be titled ‘a beautiful person, or a love song?’ until that second bit was forcibly cut, and doing it all IN FRONT OF THEIR CLASSMATES who get a front row scene to this incredibly gay shit???

Yeah I think it kind of gets the point across pretty well

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backstage

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This is not the end, I will take a piece of you on my walk and one day, when we meet again, I will win

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yume-fanfare

For heroes, there are trials. For saints, there are temptations. For me, there is you.

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Art by LooksLikeVespa

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The Legend of Lara Croft Season two trailer

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kissing on the mouth would've been less gay than whatever this was

kurayamineko

Now Kiss <3

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I love that the animation team chose to give us this. It’s a slight change from the light novel and manga, but it does a far better job of showing us—visually showing us—the depth of Maomao's affection for Shisui.

The only difference between the anime and the light novel/manga is, simply, how much the two physically touch each other. How they cling so fiercely and desperately to reassure themselves that the other is safe and undamaged.

The light novel tells us, over and over, how much Maomao loves Shisui, how deeply she misses her after the events of this arc. But LN readers know that Maomao’s affections for others aren’t always clear to her. They often manifest in the way she thinks about them, and how often. Shisui is one of the people she treasures most, but she doesn’t come to terms with this until it’s too late.

And, in true Maomao fashion, in the LN/manga, she does not understand the true extent of her feelings for Shisui while she’s held captive at the stronghold. All of her thoughts and emotions are focused on survival, escape, mystery-solving—understandably so.

And physical affection is not something Maomao initiates often, if ever. She shies away from most forms of touch, and is, most certainly, not comfortable with expressing her feelings in any verbal or physical way.

Therefore, it was a conscious choice on the anime’s part to give us visual evidence of Maomao’s true feelings. Maomao doesn’t say much, but we can still see it: that relief in holding her, that reluctance to release her hand. They let us see it in the way she touches her freely, without hesitation. The viewer can see, can feel how difficult it is for Maomao to let her go, even when she, herself, hasn’t fully realized it yet.