#boy's love

[yunosho-sho]

Them when alone:

Them when together:

[miser-of-miscellaneous]

From 'Inukei no Kareshi'

[nullavoiid]

Chapter 20 messed me up man, once I saw that gorgeous muscular back I HAD TO DRAW IT 🤧💘💝❣️💞💗💞💘❣️💝💕💓❤️🩷💓💞💘

[remys-r]

[kaliandra]

calm down viktor, no one is stealing your man 🫰

[oursini-dibuja]

🦀🐙

[mintaikkcorpse]

One thing I love about the "Go For It Nakumara!" anime is that it's able to show the awkwardness and horniness teens feel without sexualizing them ONCE (the bar is in Hell, I know). Like, I remember getting into it and being so scared that I'd get random tits to the face or weird fetish scenes, but I didn't. The show is about an awkward gay 15 year old boy with a crush on his classmate, and he doesn't know how to handle it. And oh my god, they get that point across so well

-Everyone acts and looks like regular teenagers

-There isn't the "same and uke' stereotypes. Hirose and Nakumara are just regular kids. They look and act like people you would know in real life; just more exagerated

-Shows hormonal teens without sexualizing them ONCE, which some shows DON'T REALIZE YOU CAN DO (*cough* Euphoria* *cough*). I remember seeing the octopus scenes for the first time and being so scared I'd see some weird tentacle stuff, but then they bond over how cute the octopus were, and the little suction marks (THEY CALLED THEM "KISSES" 😭) they left and I was pleasantly surprised.

-THEY EVEN CHANGED ONE OF NAKUMARA'S FANTASIES INVOLVING THE OCTOPUS. Found out that, in the manga, there is the weird sexualization of teens, but, in the anime, Nakumara just imagines him and Hirose being super domestic and cheesy and gross. It's so goddamn cheesy, but I think a lot of people could relate to having fantasies about them and their crush living domestic lives, lol. Also, he still gets horny; we as an audience just aren't supposed to be horny with him. Does that make sense???

-Back to the "horny without sexualization" stuff. The scene where Hirose puts his hand up Nakumara's shirt to catch the roach (long story) doesn't focus on the "sexual tension" but instead on the overly dramatic ways Nakumara feels and it hides it with a bunch of background colors and roach drawings . Nakumara literally almost CRIES tears of joy, lol. He describes the touch too but, since it goes off descriptions that are kinda vague, we instead focus on his feelings and not the (nonexistent) sexual tension

-Nakumara sniffs Hirose when he fell asleep on his shoulder. Again, horny, but it focuses on how peaceful Hirose is and not on his body and all of that. Also, it leads to a funny scene where the gym teacher is just like, "BTW don't sniff people without their consent" (he's right) and Nakumara has a mini panic attack about being clocked

- "And I'm a closeted fujoshi!" 😭😭😭😭. Okay, I don't think anyone irl talks like that, but still funny to me. Anyways, Kawamura and her friends talk about shipping the boys and class and "top and bottom dynamics" but, since its just voiced and never shown in detail (minus the incredibly tame drawings of kabedon) it's more just to show, "this is what the girls think about and how they talk about their crushes" instead of, "lets have horny fantasies about teenage boys with them."

-Nakumara's crush on Hirose. Oh my fucking God. He's so fucking awkward and pathetic and sadly, as someone who has heard their friends talk about their crushes and has had crushes described to them, I fear he is accurate. I can't with this kid. He's so fucking dramatic.

-This one is subjective, especially since I know Japan is very conservative when it comes to LGBT+ stuff, but I like that no one in the series (at least in the first 3 episodes we have) is homophobic. Nakumara's obviously afraid of being found out, and his fears almost come true when he drops his yaoi manga and Hirose finds it. But, other than Hirose thinking the genre is interesting and the other boys in class calling it corny and not really understanding it, they don't make fun of whoever the comic is owned by. They even, non judgmental might I add, wave the BL Manga around the front of the class and ask whose it is (I laughed so hard at that scene). Nakumara's teacher finds it and he reads it and, while he thinks it's corny, he also thinks it's cute and can see the appeal. The gym teacher didn't care he was gay; he just wanted him to understand consent. Kawamura, even though she had a crush on him, seemed to realize that Nakumara had a crush on Hirose, and she smiled and accepted him in the car ride. It's nice seeing a series where a character being gay obviously effects them, but they're not in any direct danger because of it

-I think it's also supposed to convey that teenagers tend to worry about things that most people wouldn't care about. Nakumara is terrified of people finding out he reads yaoi, but no one seems to care, and Hirose even ends up showing an interest in the genre at the end of the episode, and even being a bit offended when he Nakumara claimed he [Hirose] was accusing him of liking yaoi ("No one's accusing you of anything 😠"), which shows that he isn't homophobic and doesn't like it when other people are. Nakumara was scared that people would think he was weird for talking about how cool octopuses (IT CAN BE OCTOPUSES OR OCTOPI, FUCK YOU 🖕) were, but, instead, they used his knowledge to try and sneak away the octopuses so they wouldn't have to eat them. I think Nakumara is more liked than he realizes, or at least they don't care much about his weird trairs, but his social anxiety is so bad that he doesn't even know. You know, like how a lot of teenagers feel

-Anyways, this anime shows teen hood and crushes in a really corny, funny, and adorable way, and I totally recommend it