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Will Sk8 the Infinity Become a Male lover Romance?
SK8 the Infinity is the first original series by director Hiroko Utsumi. While she's been working as an animator since the mid-2000s on shows like Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid and The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Utsumi gained a reputation over the last decade for directing Free! and Banana Fish. Over the course of its runtime, Free! exhibited plenty of homoeroticism but no canonical passion between its athletic leads, whereas Banana Fish featured multiple canon queer characters.
Even after the complete release of its first season, whether SK8 the Infinity will fall into Free!'s queerbaiting patterns or Banana Fish's canon queerness remains uncertain. As of right now, it's more aligned with Free! in terms of heavily needling multiple romantic pairings and failing to follow through on any of them. However, the blatant subtext and themes in SK8 the Infinity, along with the confirmed Season 2 and OVA on the horizon, suggest that the series still has the potential to go the path of Banana Fish by explicitly confirming queer characters or relationships.
Updated on Sept. 6, 2024 by Lauren Y Fans of Sk8 the Infinity had been wondering about a gay romance for weeks when Episode 8 came along, apparently confirming it. Looking for tip about his result with Reki, Langa tells his mom that he "likes" him. It didn’t seem enough, however, to convince viewers that this was a true coming-out scene. The world of anime is entire of what's often defined as "queerbaiting." Mainly concerning male characters, but not exclusively, it presents intense same-sex relationships that are lovey-dovey in everything but name. Characters dial each other "friends" even when their gestures and expressed feelings are openly sexual or quixotic, and their interactions would never be considered platonic if they were of the opposite sex. Apparently following in the steps of previous works, Sk8 the Infinity introduced a male protagonist duo with unbelievable chemistry in direct to tease the potential of a gay romance, only to never discover it. Even so, the tables were turned when, in Episode 8, Langa admitted to "liking" Reki. RELATED: What Should Fans Expect For SK8 the Infinity Season 2? I see Adam called "queercoded" so often and it really makes me wonder... why?Where is the line until we can examine a character actually queer and why the hell would Adam not cross it? I'm sorry but there is nothing 'coded' about Adam - his character is loudly and unambiguously gay on-screen and can be called such!! He spends the entire show looking for a male significant other and professing his love for one of the male leads. His gestures and dialogue are overtly romantic, including physical handle. His whole storyline hinges in part on 'he is under pressue to get into an arranged marriage with a gal but he is seeking a male s/o'. And we know the love thing is not just a meaningless gimmick - it even excludes characters he's not attracted to (like Miya, who is explicitely excluded on account of being too young for him)!! In interviews about Adam falling in love, the Director of the show uses his canonical feelings for Langa as a reference point because... duh. That's his canon love interest, why wouldn't she? And if that isn't enough, there is an episode preview in which he just completely blat When I was a fresh-out-of-the-closet young teen, I used to be all in on that gay shit™ that is anime trading on queerbaiting – as I only just realised I was gay at the time, those were a perfect excuse for me to stare longingly at pretty anime boys doing pretty anime male child things. However, as I continued to cluelessly consume the works in this medium, I began to feel increasingly dissatisfied with all their teasing and erotic tension that never amounted to anything, and realised I was wasting my time with them. At some point in my journey of self-discovery, nominally attractive 2D men stopped being special to me, and once that was out of the equation, what I was left with – painfully slow and full of vapid tropes stories about people getting over themselves – miserably failed to spark enthusiasm in me. I learned that beautiful boys weren’t the be-all and end-all of everything and that something more substantial was required to satisfy my needs there, so I moved on to the next sensible step – porn. And for a while – many years, in proof – I stopped watching anime altogether, and it was only this year that I reluctantly started looking into it again – first with the Shaman King retelliDid Langa Come Out in SK8 the Infinity's Episode 8?