#gay!!!!!!!!!!!!

[fieamarket]

if you think you're the number one Ellie fan you're wrong it's me

[naysaltysalmon]

Guys I'm only 24 episodes into Hajime no Ippo and I am losing my goddamn mind over how queercoded Ippo is:

Bullied for being different

Doesn’t have friends before becoming a boxer

His main motivation for improving early on is so he can fight Miyata and become friends with Miyata

Ippo and Miyata make a promise to each other to get to the rookie finals and push themselves to the brink of exhaustion to keep that promise

Spoiler: I haven’t progressed past this part yet but how angry Ippo gets at Mashiba when he beats Miyata in the semifinal

Ippo getting all giddy over the thought of Miyata thinking his boxing is cool after their second sparring match

when Ippo fucking mimics Miyata’s voice and expression as he says “It was awesome!” to himself to imagine Miyata’s response asdjfaskl

Ippo loses motivation to box when he doesn’t see Miyata for a few days

How suave Miyata always seems to Ippo when his back is facing him and he’s wearing that homosexual purple-and-red jacket

Takamura joking that he always thought Ippo was a “homosexual” after Ippo slipped and hugged Miyata’s ass, and Ippo only laughs good-naturedly and says, “You’re such a kidder!”

Miyata’s coy avoidance of him after that as if to say, “dude, you’re so gay” (and Ippo still doesn’t deny it)

The classic sexual panic of “what the fuck do I do?!” when Takamura, Aoki, and Kimura go scouting for girls at the beach and Ippo’s initial horror fades to be replaced by “oh well I guess it’s nice to be out with friends”?!?!

Ippo’s distant interest in some random aloof girl he’s seen and spoken to, like, twice, which basically SCREAMS “I’m not gay, see, guys? Look, I like a girl! I swear I like this girl!;;”

Other boxers (Takamura and co., as well as Ippo’s opponents) remark how weirdly polite and wimpy-looking Ippo is for a boxer when he’s not fighting, since the sport tends to attract men who are all about petty intimidation, bravado, and “macho” masculinity -- basically Ippo being a “special case” in terms of his personality in the boxing profession

In conclusion, I’m sure if I bothered to search up the author he’s probably said some heteronormative bullshit at some point along the lines of, “these boys are all straight; it was just a joke,” but so far it’s like... SO QUEERCODED IT FEELS ON PURPOSE, Y’ALL.

[ragtimebanshee]

Non so piu

[bisexualshrug]

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