How Chobits Taught Me I Was a Gray Lesbian (Pt. 2)
Alice Scarlet Death
Last time, we discussed how Chobits taught me to be gray asexual. Today we explore further how anime made me super gay. Please enjoy!
DISCLAIMER: I will be spoiling major Chobits plot points. Go read the manga and come back if you’re really that invested in my story about anime shit making me gray gay.
In the manga, there was a comic book called “A City With No People” that Chi read. And in this book, was a story about two very clitoris-like creatures exploring what it means to be in love, and how to enjoy life. Eventually they begin to love each other.
Although the story is about Chi and another persocom (android); rather, Chi’s sister.
And every time I see those clitoris-like creatures, and I remember the journey they took together and the bonds they shared the more I realized it felt like a lesbian romance. The clitoris-like creatures are featured in the above picture that was right after the jump.
They have some representation in the anime, but naturally the manga fleshes out the story more.
I can’t claim to know the author’s intentions with this. But considering CLAMP is an all female manga collective, it is more likely to be about friendship than lesbian romance. Japanese culture treats female-female relationships a little differently, and there’s not a lot of visibility for gender non-conformity or lgbtqia+ identities.
And no, the effeminate men you see in shows, or visual kei is not gender noncomforming. Gender is a social construct, and Japan has a different view of gender constructed than the West does. Effeminate men IS manly. There is evidence of this going back to very early periods.
