• xkbx@startrek.website
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    I still can’t get over how homoerotic it is. You’ll always get layers of that in anything that centres on hyper-masculine sports or fiction, but Baki is so heavy with it I can’t tell if it’s intentional as some kind of commentary or if the author is just a severely repressed gay guy.

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      I mean, if his daughter (Paru Itagaki), the author of Beastars and Sanda is any indicator, dude is just goofy like that.

      • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneM
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        hmm, I’ve heard of Beastars, but what’s this Sanda?

        The story takes place in the future, where the birth rate in Japan has been rapidly declining. The main character, Kazushige Sanda, is found to be the descendant of Santa Claus by his classmate, Shiori Fuyumura. Together, they attempt to find Fuyumura’s missing classmate, Ono Ichie.