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While Word of Honor was praised for telling a moving love story, its production team was careful to avoid explicit mentions of homosexuality during the show’s promotion. Just as the genre thrives, homosexuality remains taboo in China.
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Priest, author of Guardian and Word of Honor, will see at least four more of her novels adapted into dramas. Meanwhile, production houses and streaming sites have snapped up the adaptation rights of other popular boys’ love novels. Some diehard fans are still fantasizing about an actual relationship between the two actors - currently one of the hottest fandom topics on microblogging site Weibo. The Untamed, with a viewership of more than 9 billion in China, remains popular today. The overseas popularity of these romantic sword-wielding heroes is often highlighted in Chinese media coverage of boys’ love period dramas, zooming in on epic overseas streaming numbers and the charm of Chinese culture. “By showing the beauty of Chinese culture, The Untamed has conveyed our cultural confidence and established positive values,” communist mouthpiece People’s Daily wrote at the time, in a surreal piece tying President Xi Jinping’s political buzzword to a boys’ love show.Īnd so, boys’ love period dramas seem to have nestled into official endorsement as a mascot of Chinese soft power. But the show’s promotion focused on its portrayal of Chinese traditional culture - a push consistent with Chinese Communist Party propaganda.
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The potential for serious profits encourages companies to continue queerbaiting while trying to please censors by incorporating elements from official state ideology. The 2019 fantasy series The Untamed, featuring an unlikely bond between a cheeky magic-wielder and a stoic ice prince, started an online craze over the pair’s implicit romance. But the demand for boys’ love was clearly insatiable - before it was banned from Youku, Guardian had already racked up over a billion views.
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In 2018, the sci-fi drama Guardian went offline on video hosting site Youku two months after its release, even though the original gay romance storyline was rewritten as friendship. In 2016, the hit teen series Addicted (also known as Heroin), a drama with explicit gay scenes, was pulled from online streaming platform iQIYI before it could release its last three episodes.
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For those three reasons, it seems like a good time to update this list with five more anime trios.Making and showing boys’ love dramas in China is a cat-and-mouse game between the profit-driven entertainment industry and the homophobic censorship regime. But more than that, there are some great anime trios that did not get included before because a “top 10” list is just too short to contain them all. Beyond that, a number of fan-favorite anime trios have since been split up and are worth looking back at. Some of the anime already listed here have new seasons coming out in the near future, notably Attack on Titan and My Hero Academia.
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Updated by Theo Kogod on October 23rd, 2020: The trope of three friends teaming up to go on an adventure is as old as time and it has become a classic staple of anime. All these trios have one thing in common though: they made the story unique and became truly memorable. Some are strong and determined main characters, others feature shy and quiet protagonists. There are many iconic trios in the anime world, some composed entirely of villains, others of heroes, or a mix of the two. In a trio, however, there are ongoing tensions, a strong sense of competition, and rivalry that can also become jealousy which makes the whole group that much more interesting. RELATED: 10 Best Anime Duos Of All Time, Ranked There is always a sense of co-dependency, a need for the two characters to continue on together and it makes their relationship stronger. In a duo, characters either complete one another or challenge each other. The relationship dynamics in a trio are more complex and delicate than in a duo which makes them, according to the 'Rule of Three', more humorous and effective.