![]() Shion tends to Nezumi’s wounds, stitching him up even though he is only 12 years old. The fated encountering that would change Shion’s life, where he meets the person he would become enraptured with, is in itself the most medical of all the scenes in episode one. It soon becomes apparent that from a young age, citizens are taught to view their world through a medical lens, which turns them perfectly passive and controllable. It is obvious he is very intelligent and the viewers later finds out he is a rank A in intelligence and a future member of the gifted course. Shion is seen in a classroom, engaging with highly scientific material. The first scene in the series resembles the scenario mentioned in Foucault’s The History of Sexuality. Following the “big brother is watching” society archetype, No.6’s “Moon Drop” keeps a very close and extremely strict watch on its citizens. The first episode puts emphasis on the bracelet ID’s, often zooming in when Shion, the protagonist, passes checkpoints. Social-economic ranking depends on IQ (more specifically, a test the citizens take when they are 2 years old) and the society garners those natural abilities, structuring a hierarchy where those with more intelligence are much better off than and those who lack it. No.6 is a science fiction story that takes place in a post-apocalyptic, dystopian world. And it is into this kind of industry, one in which interactions between men have been flattened by the fans of the very genre that is trying challenge such actions, that No.6 was born.Īsano and Her Attempt to Work outside the Box: ![]() The constant search for the homosexual has done away with ideas of “bromance”, such a friendship between men has been flagged as homosexual. The issue is that though “the gender representations and sexuality in boy-love manga challenge and trouble the belief that these categories are ontologically coherent, contained, and one dimensional- something that is at the very heart of queerness”, this queer-ing project has been taken up by fans that think that two guys looking at each other for more than two seconds must be homosexual, and it has become mainstream. The female fan finds pleasure and is filled with agency when assuming the different roles, either as the viewer, the seme, or the uke. Both the seme (aggressive, masculine role) and uke (passive, feminine role) roles have subjectivity, the subject giving love and the subject receiving love, unlike the usual heterosexual set up of the subject and the object of love. And why does the usually heterosexual fan enjoy this kind of relationship? Because “BL emphasizes the pleasure felt by both the seme and the uke, juxtaposing panels of each face in a shot-reverse shot style” and “invites the reader’s identification with both partners”. ![]() Women active in writing fan fiction would be the extreme of a female paranoid fan she is so anxious for her suspicions to come true that she takes the initiative to write it herself. No.6 is a queer text because of its rejection of paranoid reading and exploration of nonsexual romance between men. In her attempt to pull the series away from the charged label BL, Asano opens up the possibility of seeing it as queer. But although No.6’s main characters are both male, and they engage in acts that may be considered homosexual, Asano adamantly refuses the BL label. BL, or boys love, is a genre of stories that depict romantic and sexual relationships between men. In the anime and manga world, there have been countless debates on whether, No.6, a series by Atsuko Asano, is considered to be BL. ![]() Yeah, I’m that girl who always finds a way to connect her assignments to anime. (In my attempt to procrastinate a Haikyuu!! post I’ve been meaning to write for months, I present to you an excerpt from a final paper I wrote for one of my literary theory classes last year.
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