Applies to lots of anime. I've been really disappointed by Dragon Maid. Lots of LGBT+-themed anime in general, I'd want to see them remade in an environment that lets them be more explicit about the LGBT+ themes instead of dancing around the issue with that "just really really good friends" stuff (or just cancelled before the story gets there).

[–] Ashtear@piefed.social 8 points 22 hours ago

Dancing around queer romance is a problem in Japanese games as well, and it's so very disappointing. It's plain as day to everyone's what's going on but they won't go there.

Tangentially, sanitizing romance in general is also a problem with Japanese games (and games developed abroad that borrow their concepts). Some studios are outright afraid of offending men by having a woman character express a love interest in anyone, so it's just absent entirely from swathes of the cast, if not everyone.

With gaming having become such a big footprint in entertainment, I worry that sort of thing is going to feed back into TV.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

That was my thought on Nina. Like, very, very close to just nailing it. Then folding entirely on what they had been setting up.