The Burden of Reality on BL Anime | Twilight Out of Focus & Queer BL Fans (Patreon)
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Summer 2024's new anime selection has come in HOT with the arrival of the latest Television length BL anime: Twilight Out Of Focus (Tasogare Out Focus), and with it a plethora of things to discuss both good and bad. While the content of Tasogare Out Focus itself is generally inoffensive, one key aspect of the story signals a triumphant return to the TV BL Anime of yesteryears with the displays of physical intimacy between male characters that's been sorely missed. However inversely the series along with Senpai wa Otokonoko (Senpai Is An Otokonoo) has been at the center of a controversy involving homophobic bot usage on a well known anime streaming platform. And just when you thought things couldn't get any more unnecessarily dramatic, in this video bare witness to a tedious back and forth spurred on by a casual review of the series containing misogynistic and ironically homophobic sentiments that spiraled into broader discussions around political sentiments towards "problematic" media, queer experience gate keeping done for the sake of fictional simulation and even a passionate defense of an anime you NEVER would think to be covered on this channel. All in all despite being a piece of fiction, several aspects of Reality have come to burden the Twilight Out of Focus anime in many more ways than one.