Anima Yell is this season’s obligatory low calorie slice of moe series, but then it did this:
It’s not often you have a proper coming out scene in an anime series at all, let alone one not directly aimed at an LGBT audience. And though you could quibble over the fact that the high school girl coming out here is in love with a woman who’s a second year college student, this is still a step forward for LGBT representation in anime. Not treated as a joke, not done as subtext, no tittelation, just a girl gently correcting her classmates’ assumption that she’s in love with a boy. And slightly worried doing so. A nice moment of seriousness in a series that so far has been almost exclusively gag orientated, especially managing to do this without over dramatising it.
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