The Case Study of Vanitas
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Jul 4, 2021 4:52 PM
#1
why is everyone acting like this is gonna be some yaoi shit, read the author's previous works, there is literally NO yaoi at all, just like in the end of Pandora hearts where the protagonist ends up with no one. the author simply writes like this lol. characters act very kind to one another and some how Americans assume any form of closeness is apparently a sign that two males are gay. also i hope the anime doesn't end up like pandora heart's anime, and have a changed ending and unfinished ------------------ Mod Note: Thread Locked This thread was bumped multiple times, but was missed and should have been locked long before. Additionally, this thread treaded many times into Anime Discussion Rule 5 territory. This includes but is not limited to: -gender/racial equality -sexual orientation, homophobia -sexual assault -pedophilia, lolicon/shotacon, incest, teenage-adult relationships |
dipItFooSep 15, 2021 7:40 PM
Jul 4, 2021 5:00 PM
#2
Neostorm-X said: why is everyone acting like this is gonna be some romance shit, read the author's previous works, there is literally NO romance at all, just like in the end of Pandora hearts where the protagonist ends up with no one. the author simply writes like this lol. also i hope the anime doesn't end up like pandora heart's anime, and have a changed ending and unfinished Umm, did you read the manga? Because you should. |
Jul 4, 2021 5:10 PM
#3
meyve said: Neostorm-X said: why is everyone acting like this is gonna be some romance shit, read the author's previous works, there is literally NO romance at all, just like in the end of Pandora hearts where the protagonist ends up with no one. the author simply writes like this lol. also i hope the anime doesn't end up like pandora heart's anime, and have a changed ending and unfinished Umm, did you read the manga? Because you should. fuck i misworded that, i meant NO YAOI not romance, since they do have love interests. fuck now i need to edit the title |
Jul 5, 2021 12:53 AM
#4
uhm.... I don't want to burst your bubble but Gil and Oz's romantic feelings for each other are canon in the novel lol (and the novel is canon) Like, MochiJun loves writing tragedy, but them and Elliot & Leo are proof that she isn't afraid of including queer characters in her stories. Same goes for Dominique, who openly flirts with men and women all the time |
Jul 5, 2021 1:31 AM
#5
VelCake said: uhm.... I don't want to burst your bubble but Gil and Oz's romantic feelings for each other are canon in the novel lol (and the novel is canon) Just saying, Jun didn't write the novel, she drew the pictures. And I think if she ships someone, i.e. they are canon, she goes all out. There's no bait. Same sex or not, she'll freaking progress their 'plot' faster than 90% of the romance manga out there. They might not have a happy ending, but she'll ship them to the end <3 |
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Jul 5, 2021 10:18 AM
#6
I won't elaborate on VaniJeanne, but I wouldn't really go as far as say Dominique is Noé's love interest since her feelings remain one-sided and currently seem to mostly derive from a response to her trauma rather than genuine feelings like when they were younger Also, not trying to stir any controversy (I really like the way this discussion is progressing these last posts and agree re: Mochijun deliberately coding and/or writing her characters as queer both in PH and VnC, which would not automatically turn her work into BL or yuri Elliot and Leo being the strongest example of this in PH and, most recently, Johann being an effeminate gay man, Dominique flirting/being implied to have relationships with women and Luna outright saying they're neither a man nor a woman This is an excerpt from Wakamiya Shinobu's afterword in volume 3 of Caucus Race: |
coalasJul 5, 2021 10:27 AM
Jul 5, 2021 11:26 AM
#7
coalas said: I'm pretty sure Noe also loves Domi, but unfortunately Noe is someone that isn't heedful, some scenes in the manga also indicate that Jun hints Domi is Noe's love interest, but for Vanitas x Jeanne I won't elaborate on VaniJeanne, but I wouldn't really go as far as say Dominique is Noé's love interest since her feelings remain one-sided and currently seem to mostly derive from a response to her trauma rather than genuine feelings like when they were younger Also, not trying to stir any controversy (I really like the way this discussion is progressing these last posts and agree re: Mochijun deliberately coding and/or writing her characters as queer both in PH and VnC, which would not automatically turn her work into BL or yuri Elliot and Leo being the strongest example of this in PH and, most recently, Johann being an effeminate gay man, Dominique flirting/being implied to have relationships with women and Luna outright saying they're neither a man nor a woman This is an excerpt from Wakamiya Shinobu's afterword in volume 3 of Caucus Race: it's obvious when they show their mutual interest in each other and they have some kissed. |
Jul 5, 2021 1:16 PM
#8
VelCake said: Gil and Oz dont have romantic feelings??..i can say for certan if you read the novel you misinterpted it.In one of interviews i read that author said if Oz wanted to persude any kind of romantic reletionship he would choose Echo.I dont want to say you are wrong... but it what you said really doesnt seem right.uhm.... I don't want to burst your bubble but Gil and Oz's romantic feelings for each other are canon in the novel lol (and the novel is canon) Like, MochiJun loves writing tragedy, but them and Elliot & Leo are proof that she isn't afraid of including queer characters in her stories. Same goes for Dominique, who openly flirts with men and women all the time |
Jul 5, 2021 1:39 PM
#9
Delete this part, it's spoiler |
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Jul 5, 2021 2:56 PM
#10
Lguanlin92 said: I'm pretty sure Noe also loves Domi, but unfortunately Noe is someone that isn't heedful, some scenes in the manga also indicate that Jun hints Domi is Noe's love interest, but for Vanitas x Jeanne it's obvious when they show their mutual interest in each other and they have some kissed. Vanitas literally uses a word with heavy sexual connotations to describe the way Noé and Dominique act and drink each other's blood and Noé's only reaction is to go "hey, don't say stuff like that, you'll damage her reputation", which means he realizes the implications. He's just not in touch with his own feelings, whatever they end up being, but he's an adult and he's not stupid. It's obvious he cares about Dominique's wellbeing, enjoys her blood and wants to see her happy, but it is not portrayed as a romantic thing for him, which is exactly why he does not perceive her affections - like I said previously, just because she has feelings for him doesn't mean they'll be reciprocated in the end. I'm not saying things can't change and I honestly think these two would be cute if they got together, but as far as we've been shown (in multiple occasions), Noé doesn't see her that way at all. Not to mention... if there was any strong enough hint of him actually being in love with Dominique in-text then she herself wouldn't need to project her insecurities towards thinking he's in love with Jeanne? Which is in itself such a funny thing to think since we as readers follow Noé's POV and we see no trace of Jeanne in his mind. He has interacted with her for a total of like... six pages over the last 40+ chapters and they were just fighting in all of them, lol. As for VaniJeanne, yes, they have feelings for each other, but this is a Mochizuki Jun manga after all so don't expect them to be alive or together by the end of it, what with their massive death flags. She's setting them up for a bad ending. It's worth noting that 1) lots of people have simply used the most recent developments in their relationship as an excuse to pretend the darker, unhealthier aspects of it have disappeared, as if it hasn't started off on sexual assault and blackmailing + Vanitas' active promise to execute her, and 2) several characters have stated in-text that the progression of Jeanne's "love" for Vanitas, at least, is odd and misguided, stemming from the fact that she would naturally latch onto anyone that treated her kindly due to her shameful standing in vampire society. As for the novels, I don't think you understood what I said, so let me rephrase it: I meant that, since the novels are tie-in material that has been supervised and approved by the author herself, with the writer having received her direct creative input, they are a valid part of the Pandora Hearts canon and should be treated as such the same way you would with, say, extra stories from the volumes. I wasn't really talking about treating pairings as official when they were never outwardly confirmed when I said that, only that the text in them should be taken in consideration when talking about additional scenarios and characterization. I didn't attack anyone; I'm keeping my cool here and I won't really take it as a derogatory thing if you call me a fujoshi just for stating that simple fact lmao. |
coalasJul 5, 2021 8:00 PM
Jul 6, 2021 12:27 AM
#11
Because people think two boys team = yaoi. Idk why they, its pretty dumb thing to think. |
Jul 6, 2021 1:28 AM
#12
VelCake said: uhm.... I don't want to burst your bubble but Gil and Oz's romantic feelings for each other are canon in the novel lol (and the novel is canon) Like, MochiJun loves writing tragedy, but them and Elliot & Leo are proof that she isn't afraid of including queer characters in her stories. Same goes for Dominique, who openly flirts with men and women all the time thats completely false, the author stated many times that oz has a very strong friendship with gil and has no romantic feelings whatso ever. and eliot and leo aren't in a relationship ether they are literally very good friends who feel indebted to one another, you are literally making up shitty headcanons next you will say that gon is gay for killua, and naruto loves sasuke. |
Jul 6, 2021 8:35 AM
#13
Neostorm-X said: VelCake said: uhm.... I don't want to burst your bubble but Gil and Oz's romantic feelings for each other are canon in the novel lol (and the novel is canon) Like, MochiJun loves writing tragedy, but them and Elliot & Leo are proof that she isn't afraid of including queer characters in her stories. Same goes for Dominique, who openly flirts with men and women all the time thats completely false, the author stated many times that oz has a very strong friendship with gil and has no romantic feelings whatso ever. and eliot and leo aren't in a relationship ether they are literally very good friends who feel indebted to one another, you are literally making up shitty headcanons next you will say that gon is gay for killua, and naruto loves sasuke. I am begging you to do some reading on the concept of coding in fiction instead of just claiming every argument towards a different interpretation is a delusional fan's ramblings, seeing Elliot and Leo have quite enough subtext and parallels to other relationships in canon for that interpretation to arise. This phenomenon tends to happen when studying literature and, most recently, cinematographic media, so I do not see why that could not apply to a manga as well. There are scenes in the novels where Gilbert explicitly says he thinks Oz would make a nice wife after seeing him in an apron tending to an ill Alice or him and Oz talk about how nice it would be to live and grow old together, and that's merely the tip of the iceberg. There's one particular chapter where Gilbert pretty much states disinterest in women. You could argue about all of it being romantic or not (I'll delve on such interpretations below), but VelCake is not making these things up. Now, about Elliot and Leo: it's actually a very, very common point of view across most PH fans exactly because so many people relate to them and have that understanding. One of the most obscure yet possibly telling things is that Mochijun is clearly into floriography and symbolism and, under these circumstances, it is curious that she has assigned them a flower and a color that have historical ties to same-sex relationships (on the color lavender being associated with homosexuality in Victorian Britain, the main inspiration for PH; on Statice being a flower in the same genus and also known as "sea-lavender"; the fact that Statice naturally occurs in many other colors like yellow, magenta and white but she specifically chose that one). Elliot and Leo are dancing as a pair in the back cover of the 24+1 guidebook surrounded by characters that are romantically involved to some degree (Vincent and Ada, Rufus and Sheryl, Break + Sharon and Reim), Echo and Noise being the only exception. Their respective volumes' inner covers are the only ones to match and they are always portrayed as halves of a whole, as two people who must be together, separation being particularly tragic and painful. Even the fact that their covers are for volume 14, representing the age they first met, and volume 16, representing the age they were when matters went awry. Levi describes Leo as being just as selfish as Jack and Oswald (both of them acting out of some form of love, no matter how twisted it is) when he decides to keep the world as it is in order to preserve the memory of the life he shared with Elliot - instead of saving him and potentially facing the risk of their paths never crossing, as Leo would probably not have been chosen to be Glen Baskerville in those circumstances. There is constant and marked focus on their intimacy and how they're always touching each other, which is not a common choice for other characters, not to mention we're shown as early as their first appearance that Leo simply does not bother to remove that huge pile of books from his bed (my point being, he does not need to use it) and, if you've read the novels, you'd know that they only got to share a room in Lutwidge very recently. Leo teases Elliot a lot on his apparent feminine interests and yet partakes in them. Every single detail has a meaning. I could spent a lot of time listing things in the canon that could point to that. Mochizuki Jun is a greatly skilled writer and her characterization is fascinatingly complex; I've reread Pandora Hearts many times over the last ten or eleven years, since it is my favorite manga, and I feel like I discover new facets to these fictional people she has fleshed out every single time. My point is - yes, they are "very good friends", but a) people tend to be friends with the people they love (what would even be the point if they weren't?), and b) there are several other intense friendships in this same manga where people don't go to the lengths these two are willing to go for each other. From an article published in SyFy about this topic: Remember, when we say “code” we do not necessarily mean that they are meant to be gay, or even that they are meant to appear that way. Coding does not need to be an intentional act. It is as much a part of the relationship between the work and the audience as it is part of the relationship between the creator and audience (or even the creator and their work). (Of course this is mostly from an analysis on US American media, considering the history of repression in the form of the Hays Code, but similar processes occur abroad everywhere, to this day.) Hell, Leo kisses the Nightray rapier when he's asking for Elliot's strength near the end. It is not a far-fetched reading of their bond at all. The thing about coding, whether it's intentional or not, is that is tends to leave room for plausible deniability. I don't mind if you read the manga and only saw them as friends, but given all these factors, you have to understand that people who read them that way are not incorrect regardless of authorial intention being present or not. Now, why does that bother you so much (whether it's someone stating their interpretation that's based on a valid reading or the fact that these characters could be seen as anything other than heterosexual by a random stranger on the internet) to the point of acting aggressive while everyone else is being respectful is something else entirely. |
coalasJul 6, 2021 9:08 AM
Jul 6, 2021 9:15 AM
#14
coalas said: Bruh, it's the kind of people like you that make Pandora Hearts considered BL bait by many people, because you're pushing too hard that they're canon and they have interest in each other, eventhough it's clearly just Fujo bait.Neostorm-X said: VelCake said: uhm.... I don't want to burst your bubble but Gil and Oz's romantic feelings for each other are canon in the novel lol (and the novel is canon) Like, MochiJun loves writing tragedy, but them and Elliot & Leo are proof that she isn't afraid of including queer characters in her stories. Same goes for Dominique, who openly flirts with men and women all the time thats completely false, the author stated many times that oz has a very strong friendship with gil and has no romantic feelings whatso ever. and eliot and leo aren't in a relationship ether they are literally very good friends who feel indebted to one another, you are literally making up shitty headcanons next you will say that gon is gay for killua, and naruto loves sasuke. I am begging you to do some reading on the concept of coding in fiction instead of just claiming every argument towards a different interpretation is a delusional fan's ramblings, seeing Elliot and Leo have quite enough subtext and parallels to other relationships in canon for that interpretation to arise. This phenomenon tends to happen when studying literature and, most recently, cinematographic media, so I do not see why that could not apply to a manga as well. There are scenes in the novels where Gilbert explicitly says he thinks Oz would make a nice wife after seeing him in an apron tending to an ill Alice or him and Oz talk about how nice it would be to live and grow old together, and that's merely the tip of the iceberg. There's one particular chapter where Gilbert pretty much states disinterest in women. You could argue about all of it being romantic or not (I'll delve on such interpretations below), but VelCake is not making these things up. Now, about Elliot and Leo: it's actually a very, very common point of view across most PH fans exactly because so many people relate to them and have that understanding. One of the most obscure yet possibly telling things is that Mochijun is clearly into floriography and symbolism and, under these circumstances, it is curious that she has assigned them a flower and a color that have historical ties to same-sex relationships (on the color lavender being associated with homosexuality in Victorian Britain, the main inspiration for PH; on Statice being a flower in the same genus and also known as "sea-lavender"; the fact that Statice naturally occurs in many other colors like yellow, magenta and white but she specifically chose that one). Elliot and Leo are dancing as a pair in the back cover of the 24+1 guidebook surrounded by characters that are romantically involved to some degree (Vincent and Ada, Rufus and Sheryl, Break + Sharon and Reim), Echo and Noise being the only exception. Their respective volumes' inner covers are the only ones to match and they are always portrayed as halves of a whole, as two people who must be together, separation being particularly tragic and painful. Even the fact that their covers are for volume 14, representing the age they first met, and volume 16, representing the age they were when matters went awry. Levi describes Leo as being just as selfish as Jack and Oswald (both of them acting out of some form of love, no matter how twisted it is) when he decides to keep the world as it is in order to preserve the memory of the life he shared with Elliot - instead of saving him and potentially facing the risk of their paths never crossing, as Leo would probably not have been chosen to be Glen Baskerville in those circumstances. There is constant and marked focus on their intimacy and how they're always touching each other, which is not a common choice for other characters, not to mention we're shown as early as their first appearance that Leo simply does not bother to remove that huge pile of books from his bed (my point being, he does not need to use it) and, if you've read the novels, you'd know that they only got to share a room in Lutwidge very recently. Leo teases Elliot a lot on his apparent feminine interests and yet partakes in them. Every single detail has a meaning. I could spent a lot of time listing things in the canon that could point to that. Mochizuki Jun is a greatly skilled writer and her characterization is fascinatingly complex; I've reread Pandora Hearts many times over the last ten or eleven years, since it is my favorite manga, and I feel like I discover new facets to these fictional people she has fleshed out every single time. My point is - yes, they are "very good friends", but a) people tend to be friends with the people they love (what would even be the point if they weren't?), and b) there are several other intense friendships in this same manga where people don't go to the lengths these two are willing to go for each other. From an article published in SyFy about this topic: Remember, when we say “code” we do not necessarily mean that they are meant to be gay, or even that they are meant to appear that way. Coding does not need to be an intentional act. It is as much a part of the relationship between the work and the audience as it is part of the relationship between the creator and audience (or even the creator and their work). (Of course this is mostly from an analysis on US American media, considering the history of repression in the form of the Hays Code, but similar processes occur abroad everywhere, to this day.) Hell, Leo kisses the Nightray rapier when he's asking for Elliot's strength near the end. It is not a far-fetched reading of their bond at all. The thing about coding, whether it's intentional or not, is that is tends to leave room for plausible deniability. I don't mind if you read the manga and only saw them as friends, but given all these factors, you have to understand that people who read them that way are not incorrect regardless of authorial intention being present or not. Now, why does that bother you so much (whether it's someone stating their interpretation that's based on a valid reading or the fact that these characters could be seen as anything other than heterosexual by a random stranger on the internet) to the point of acting aggressive while everyone else is being respectful is something else entirely. |
Jul 6, 2021 9:26 AM
#15
coalas said: Neostorm-X said: VelCake said: uhm.... I don't want to burst your bubble but Gil and Oz's romantic feelings for each other are canon in the novel lol (and the novel is canon) Like, MochiJun loves writing tragedy, but them and Elliot & Leo are proof that she isn't afraid of including queer characters in her stories. Same goes for Dominique, who openly flirts with men and women all the time thats completely false, the author stated many times that oz has a very strong friendship with gil and has no romantic feelings whatso ever. and eliot and leo aren't in a relationship ether they are literally very good friends who feel indebted to one another, you are literally making up shitty headcanons next you will say that gon is gay for killua, and naruto loves sasuke. I am begging you to do some reading on the concept of coding in fiction instead of just claiming every argument towards a different interpretation is a delusional fan's ramblings, seeing Elliot and Leo have quite enough subtext and parallels to other relationships in canon for that interpretation to arise. This phenomenon tends to happen when studying literature and, most recently, cinematographic media, so I do not see why that could not apply to a manga as well. There are scenes in the novels where Gilbert explicitly says he thinks Oz would make a nice wife after seeing him in an apron tending to an ill Alice or him and Oz talk about how nice it would be to live and grow old together, and that's merely the tip of the iceberg. There's one particular chapter where Gilbert pretty much states disinterest in women. You could argue about all of it being romantic or not (I'll delve on such interpretations below), but VelCake is not making these things up. Now, about Elliot and Leo: it's actually a very, very common point of view across most PH fans exactly because so many people relate to them and have that understanding. One of the most obscure yet possibly telling things is that Mochijun is clearly into floriography and symbolism and, under these circumstances, it is curious that she has assigned them a flower and a color that have historical ties to same-sex relationships (on the color lavender being associated with homosexuality in Victorian Britain, the main inspiration for PH; on Statice being a flower in the same genus and also known as "sea-lavender"; the fact that Statice naturally occurs in many other colors like yellow, magenta and white but she specifically chose that one). Elliot and Leo are dancing as a pair in the back cover of the 24+1 guidebook surrounded by characters that are romantically involved to some degree (Vincent and Ada, Rufus and Sheryl, Break + Sharon and Reim), Echo and Noise being the only exception. Their respective volumes' inner covers are the only ones to match and they are always portrayed as halves of a whole, as two people who must be together, separation being particularly tragic and painful. Even the fact that their covers are for volume 14, representing the age they first met, and volume 16, representing the age they were when matters went awry. Levi describes Leo as being just as selfish as Jack and Oswald (both of them acting out of some form of love, no matter how twisted it is) when he decides to keep the world as it is in order to preserve the memory of the life he shared with Elliot - instead of saving him and potentially facing the risk of their paths never crossing, as Leo would probably not have been chosen to be Glen Baskerville in those circumstances. There is constant and marked focus on their intimacy and how they're always touching each other, which is not a common choice for other characters, not to mention we're shown as early as their first appearance that Leo simply does not bother to remove that huge pile of books from his bed (my point being, he does not need to use it) and, if you've read the novels, you'd know that they only got to share a room in Lutwidge very recently. Leo teases Elliot a lot on his apparent feminine interests and yet partakes in them. Every single detail has a meaning. I could spent a lot of time listing things in the canon that could point to that. Mochizuki Jun is a greatly skilled writer and her characterization is fascinatingly complex; I've reread Pandora Hearts many times over the last ten or eleven years, since it is my favorite manga, and I feel like I discover new facets to these fictional people she has fleshed out every single time. My point is - yes, they are "very good friends", but a) people tend to be friends with the people they love (what would even be the point if they weren't?), and b) there are several other intense friendships in this same manga where people don't go to the lengths these two are willing to go for each other. From an article published in SyFy about this topic: Remember, when we say “code” we do not necessarily mean that they are meant to be gay, or even that they are meant to appear that way. Coding does not need to be an intentional act. It is as much a part of the relationship between the work and the audience as it is part of the relationship between the creator and audience (or even the creator and their work). (Of course this is mostly from an analysis on US American media, considering the history of repression in the form of the Hays Code, but similar processes occur abroad everywhere, to this day.) Hell, Leo kisses the Nightray rapier when he's asking for Elliot's strength near the end. It is not a far-fetched reading of their bond at all. The thing about coding, whether it's intentional or not, is that is tends to leave room for plausible deniability. I don't mind if you read the manga and only saw them as friends, but given all these factors, you have to understand that people who read them that way are not incorrect regardless of authorial intention being present or not. Now, why does that bother you so much (whether it's someone stating their interpretation that's based on a valid reading or the fact that these characters could be seen as anything other than heterosexual by a random stranger on the internet) to the point of acting aggressive while everyone else is being respectful is something else entirely. Dude, I think you just live in a fantasy world. you magnify small details and think what you want to think. Has the author confirmed that there is something between them? No. So stop spreading false information to people. They are not gay. |
Jul 6, 2021 9:53 AM
#16
coalas said: I'm just going to say just look at the next chapter I'm pretty sure Noe's feelings for Dominique are also romantic feelings, no need to explain too long because I'm not great at that. and also why I said you might be the kind of Fujoshi who will attack people who disagree with them. because you are pushing your fantasies too much, what you say will only make people think of Vanitas no Carte and Pandora Hearts as BL bait when clearly they are not. Also romantic interest doesn't mean they have to end up together in the end, if you think all romantic interests always end up together then you are very wrong. romantic interest is a person who is considered to have an attraction to someone. So I'm just begging you to stop making these two shows look like BL bait, because I see you're kind of pushing it that way.Lguanlin92 said: I'm pretty sure Noe also loves Domi, but unfortunately Noe is someone that isn't heedful, some scenes in the manga also indicate that Jun hints Domi is Noe's love interest, but for Vanitas x Jeanne it's obvious when they show their mutual interest in each other and they have some kissed. Vanitas literally uses a word with heavy sexual connotations to describe the way Noé and Dominique act and drink each other's blood and Noé's only reaction is to go "hey, don't say stuff like that, you'll damage her reputation", which means he realizes the implications. He's just not in touch with his own feelings, whatever they end up being, but he's an adult and he's not stupid. It's obvious he cares about Dominique's wellbeing, enjoys her blood and wants to see her happy, but it is not portrayed as a romantic thing for him, which is exactly why he does not perceive her affections - like I said previously, just because she has feelings for him doesn't mean they'll be reciprocated in the end. I'm not saying things can't change and I honestly think these two would be cute if they got together, but as far as we've been shown (in multiple occasions), Noé doesn't see her that way at all. Not to mention... if there was any strong enough hint of him actually being in love with Dominique in-text then she herself wouldn't need to project her insecurities towards thinking he's in love with Jeanne? Which is in itself such a funny thing to think since we as readers follow Noé's POV and we see no trace of Jeanne in his mind. He has interacted with her for a total of like... six pages over the last 40+ chapters and they were just fighting in all of them, lol. As for VaniJeanne, yes, they have feelings for each other, but this is a Mochizuki Jun manga after all so don't expect them to be alive or together by the end of it, what with their massive death flags. She's setting them up for a bad ending. It's worth noting that 1) lots of people have simply used the most recent developments in their relationship as an excuse to pretend the darker, unhealthier aspects of it have disappeared, as if it hasn't started off on sexual assault and blackmailing + Vanitas' active promise to execute her, and 2) several characters have stated in-text that the progression of Jeanne's "love" for Vanitas, at least, is odd and misguided, stemming from the fact that she would naturally latch onto anyone that treated her kindly due to her shameful standing in vampire society. As for the novels, I don't think you understood what I said, so let me rephrase it: I meant that, since the novels are tie-in material that has been supervised and approved by the author herself, with the writer having received her direct creative input, they are a valid part of the Pandora Hearts canon and should be treated as such the same way you would with, say, extra stories from the volumes. I wasn't really talking about treating pairings as official when they were never outwardly confirmed when I said that, only that the text in them should be taken in consideration when talking about additional scenarios and characterization. I didn't attack anyone; I'm keeping my cool here and I won't really take it as a derogatory thing if you call me a fujoshi just for stating that simple fact lmao. coalas said: You also made Pandora Hearts looks like BL bait, please don't mess this up and make people who hate BL not read it just because they misunderstood that it was BL bait. it's clearly just Fujo bait.I am begging you to do some reading on the concept of coding in fiction instead of just claiming every argument towards a different interpretation is a delusional fan's ramblings, seeing Elliot and Leo have quite enough subtext and parallels to other relationships in canon for that interpretation to arise. This phenomenon tends to happen when studying literature and, most recently, cinematographic media, so I do not see why that could not apply to a manga as well. There are scenes in the novels where Gilbert explicitly says he thinks Oz would make a nice wife after seeing him in an apron tending to an ill Alice or him and Oz talk about how nice it would be to live and grow old together, and that's merely the tip of the iceberg. There's one particular chapter where Gilbert pretty much states disinterest in women. You could argue about all of it being romantic or not (I'll delve on such interpretations below), but VelCake is not making these things up. Now, about Elliot and Leo: it's actually a very, very common point of view across most PH fans exactly because so many people relate to them and have that understanding. One of the most obscure yet possibly telling things is that Mochijun is clearly into floriography and symbolism and, under these circumstances, it is curious that she has assigned them a flower and a color that have historical ties to same-sex relationships (on the color lavender being associated with homosexuality in Victorian Britain, the main inspiration for PH; on Statice being a flower in the same genus and also known as "sea-lavender"; the fact that Statice naturally occurs in many other colors like yellow, magenta and white but she specifically chose that one). Elliot and Leo are dancing as a pair in the back cover of the 24+1 guidebook surrounded by characters that are romantically involved to some degree (Vincent and Ada, Rufus and Sheryl, Break + Sharon and Reim), Echo and Noise being the only exception. Their respective volumes' inner covers are the only ones to match and they are always portrayed as halves of a whole, as two people who must be together, separation being particularly tragic and painful. Even the fact that their covers are for volume 14, representing the age they first met, and volume 16, representing the age they were when matters went awry. Levi describes Leo as being just as selfish as Jack and Oswald (both of them acting out of some form of love, no matter how twisted it is) when he decides to keep the world as it is in order to preserve the memory of the life he shared with Elliot - instead of saving him and potentially facing the risk of their paths never crossing, as Leo would probably not have been chosen to be Glen Baskerville in those circumstances. There is constant and marked focus on their intimacy and how they're always touching each other, which is not a common choice for other characters, not to mention we're shown as early as their first appearance that Leo simply does not bother to remove that huge pile of books from his bed (my point being, he does not need to use it) and, if you've read the novels, you'd know that they only got to share a room in Lutwidge very recently. Leo teases Elliot a lot on his apparent feminine interests and yet partakes in them. Every single detail has a meaning. I could spent a lot of time listing things in the canon that could point to that. Mochizuki Jun is a greatly skilled writer and her characterization is fascinatingly complex; I've reread Pandora Hearts many times over the last ten or eleven years, since it is my favorite manga, and I feel like I discover new facets to these fictional people she has fleshed out every single time. My point is - yes, they are "very good friends", but a) people tend to be friends with the people they love (what would even be the point if they weren't?), and b) there are several other intense friendships in this same manga where people don't go to the lengths these two are willing to go for each other. From an article published in SyFy about this topic: Remember, when we say “code” we do not necessarily mean that they are meant to be gay, or even that they are meant to appear that way. Coding does not need to be an intentional act. It is as much a part of the relationship between the work and the audience as it is part of the relationship between the creator and audience (or even the creator and their work). (Of course this is mostly from an analysis on US American media, considering the history of repression in the form of the Hays Code, but similar processes occur abroad everywhere, to this day.) Hell, Leo kisses the Nightray rapier when he's asking for Elliot's strength near the end. It is not a far-fetched reading of their bond at all. The thing about coding, whether it's intentional or not, is that is tends to leave room for plausible deniability. I don't mind if you read the manga and only saw them as friends, but given all these factors, you have to understand that people who read them that way are not incorrect regardless of authorial intention being present or not. Now, why does that bother you so much (whether it's someone stating their interpretation that's based on a valid reading or the fact that these characters could be seen as anything other than heterosexual by a random stranger on the internet) to the point of acting aggressive while everyone else is being respectful is something else entirely. |
Lguanlin92Jul 6, 2021 10:08 AM
Jul 6, 2021 10:00 AM
#17
Nobara98 said: Bruh, it's the kind of people like you that make Pandora Hearts considered BL bait by many people, because you're pushing too hard that they're canon and they have interest in each other, eventhough it's clearly just Fujo bait. meyve said: Dude, I think you just live in a fantasy world. you magnify small details and think what you want to think. Has the author confirmed that there is something between them? No. So stop spreading false information to people. They are not gay. Did the two of you conveniently skip the part where I clearly stated that these are points that people take as base for reaching such an interpretation and it does not necessarily mean it is canon or was Mochizuki Jun's intention after all? Literally just search these characters up and see what is people's reading of them and why they think the way they do. I assure you not everyone is just a "delusional fujoshi" but, like I said, people who feel their personal experiences are very similar to these characters. "They are not gay" well, they weren't ever clearly stated to be straight either. Stop assuming this is the default and keep in mind just having LGBT+ characters (which VnC already does, by the way) doesn't automatically turn something into a BL or yuri manga. 🤷 |
Jul 6, 2021 10:01 AM
#18
Lguanlin92 said: Also romantic interest doesn't mean they have to end up together in the end, if you think all romantic interests always end up together then you are very wrong. romantic interest is a person who is considered to have an attraction to someone. You're literally repeating what I said. That was exactly my point. |
Jul 6, 2021 10:54 AM
#19
coalas said: Nope, that's a lot different from what you're trying to stating before, my view is pretty clear you're trying to make sure that "hey this is BL", how you go into detail on small details even about Gil and Oz having a romantic interest doesn't make sense to me. Oz confirmed by the author to be with Echo if Echo is still alive. while Elliot and Leo their relationship looks more like Bromance. to me you are just pushing and making people misunderstand that Pandora Hearts was BL bait. though it was obviously just a Fujo bait like I said before.Nobara98 said: Bruh, it's the kind of people like you that make Pandora Hearts considered BL bait by many people, because you're pushing too hard that they're canon and they have interest in each other, eventhough it's clearly just Fujo bait. meyve said: Dude, I think you just live in a fantasy world. you magnify small details and think what you want to think. Has the author confirmed that there is something between them? No. So stop spreading false information to people. They are not gay. Did the two of you conveniently skip the part where I clearly stated that these are points that people take as base for reaching such an interpretation and it does not necessarily mean it is canon or was Mochizuki Jun's intention after all? Literally just search these characters up and see what is people's reading of them and why they think the way they do. I assure you not everyone is just a "delusional fujoshi" but, like I said, people who feel their personal experiences are very similar to these characters. "They are not gay" well, they weren't ever clearly stated to be straight either. Stop assuming this is the default and keep in mind just having LGBT+ characters (which VnC already does, by the way) doesn't automatically turn something into a BL or yuri manga. 🤷 |
Jul 6, 2021 10:55 AM
#20
I wrote a similar topic about this matter. People can say whatever they want, but Vanitas no Carte won't become a BL and this comes from someone who ships Vanitas and Noé ö-ö It is clarified that Vanitas and Noé have their canon female love interests already. |
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Jul 6, 2021 11:18 AM
#21
TheOneOfSeven said: Nice to hear that, I'm proud of you, don't let you be like Mikayuu shippers from Seraph of the End, they are very delusional, they don't accept when I said Mika and Yuu relationship is just like Bromance they have no romantic feeling at all and they attack me. they insisted that Mikayuu was Canon.I wrote a similar topic about this matter. People can say whatever they want, but Vanitas no Carte won't become a BL and this comes from someone who ships Vanitas and Noé ö-ö It is clarified that Vanitas and Noé have their canon female love interests already. |
Jul 6, 2021 11:44 AM
#22
Nobara98 said: Nope, that's a lot different from what you're trying to stating before, my view is pretty clear you're trying to make sure that "hey this is BL", how you go into detail on small details even about Gil and Oz having a romantic interest doesn't make sense to me. Oz confirmed by the author to be with Echo if Echo is still alive. while Elliot and Leo their relationship looks more like Bromance. to me you are just pushing and making people misunderstand that Pandora Hearts was BL bait. though it was obviously just a Fujo bait like I said before. First things first, please tag your spoilers like I did. Not everyone that clicks this thread will be familiar with Pandora Hearts. Now, let me quote myself: (...) It is not a far-fetched reading of their bond at all. The thing about coding, whether it's intentional or not, is that is tends to leave room for plausible deniability. I don't mind if you read the manga and only saw them as friends, but given all these factors, you have to understand that people who read them that way are not incorrect regardless of authorial intention being present or not. 1) I listed the points that, if analysed together, would lead to this interpretation, that being the keyword. If said bait is elaborate enough to give people content to feel that way, then you can't really blame them for running with it. Personally, I know much more people that share this particular point of view than yours, so I'm not making it up as I go or being delusional - this is a very common take on Elliot and Leo. 2) Those scenes are still in the novels, whether they're meant to be romantic or not. Look them up and read them if you don't believe me, there's a lot more. I'm left wondering whatever would be the difference between "BL bait" and "fujo bait" because that separation makes no sense whatsoever, lmao. And for the last time: an eventual portrayal of a same-sex relationship would not turn any manga not specifically marketed as a BL or yuri into one. It's weird as hell how just saying something as simple as "hey, there's enough basis for people to see this relationship as more than friendly if they want to" gets so many people mad, especially because I'm not trying to force anyone to think the same way I do or say you're wrong to see things from a platonic perspective. Both of us are allowed to have our takes on the original text based on personal experiences and neither is more "correct" than the other. If you have a problem with accepting that, that's on you. I'm out. I said what I needed to say. Lguanlin92 said: Nice to hear that, I'm proud of you, don't let you be like Mikayuu shippers from Seraph of the End, they are very delusional, they don't accept when I said Mika and Yuu relationship is just like Bromance they have no romantic feeling at all and they attack me. they insisted that Mikayuu was Canon. I mean, it is one-sided. |
coalasJul 6, 2021 11:53 AM
Jul 6, 2021 12:20 PM
#23
coalas said: Lmao, Are you Mikayuu shippers?? so does the word i love you mean same as have romantic feelings?? well i love you has many meanings in this case it could mean it is love as family.Lguanlin92 said: Nice to hear that, I'm proud of you, don't let you be like Mikayuu shippers from Seraph of the End, they are very delusional, they don't accept when I said Mika and Yuu relationship is just like Bromance they have no romantic feeling at all and they attack me. they insisted that Mikayuu was Canon. I mean, it is one-sided. |
Jul 6, 2021 12:35 PM
#24
Jul 6, 2021 12:44 PM
#25
yes, i did (Characters limit) |
Jul 6, 2021 12:45 PM
#26
Lguanlin92 said: coalas said: Lmao, Are you Mikayuu shippers?? so does the word i love you mean same as have romantic feelings?? well i love you has many meanings in this case it could mean it is love as family.Lguanlin92 said: Nice to hear that, I'm proud of you, don't let you be like Mikayuu shippers from Seraph of the End, they are very delusional, they don't accept when I said Mika and Yuu relationship is just like Bromance they have no romantic feeling at all and they attack me. they insisted that Mikayuu was Canon. I mean, it is one-sided. I'm not. I don't really care about Owari no Seraph, last time I read this was years ago, but I have friends who are very invested in the manga. As soon as I sent it I was sure you'd claim this scene was platonic because of course it was and you just proved my point, lol. Since "I love you" has many meanings, why is it such an issue for you if this is understood as romantic by some people? You should really stop and think why your first impulse is to try and shoot such an open display of affection from a guy to another guy down while you're also claiming another guy who has never demonstrated any romantic feelings towards a girl is undeniably in love with her but too slow to realize. Like I said to the person before you: I'm out. This is fruitless. |
coalasJul 6, 2021 12:49 PM
Jul 6, 2021 12:49 PM
#27
coalas said: it wouldn't matter if it wasn't from Mikayuu delusional shippers, but as you know Mikayuu shipers are very toxic, I once told them it's impossible Mikayuu become canon, because they Mika and Yuu are brothers eventhough they're not blood related and they only care about each other because they're brothers, but they attack me instead with absurd reasons and accuse me of homophobia. they are the most annoying and delusional Fujo shipers. just my problem with some of toxic Mikayuu shippers.Lguanlin92 said: coalas said: Lguanlin92 said: Nice to hear that, I'm proud of you, don't let you be like Mikayuu shippers from Seraph of the End, they are very delusional, they don't accept when I said Mika and Yuu relationship is just like Bromance they have no romantic feeling at all and they attack me. they insisted that Mikayuu was Canon. I mean, it is one-sided. I'm not. I don't really care about Owari no Seraph, last time I read this was years ago, but I have friends who are very invested in the manga. As soon as I sent it I was sure you'd claim this scene was platonic because of course it was and you just proved my point, lol. Since "I love you" has many meanings, why is it such an issue for you if this is understood as romantic by some people? You should really stop and think why your first impulse is to try and shoot such an open display of affection from a guy to another guy down while you're also claiming another guy who has never demonstrated any romantic feelings towards a girl is undeniably in love with her but too slow to realize. Like I said to the person before you: I'm out. This is fruitless. coalas said: Both are clearly very different, the usual BL bait for a show that doesn't have the Yaoi/Shounen Ai tag but has that element to the story for example like No.6, while Fujo bait is usually to baiting the Fujoshi to watch the show more like queerbaiting. from this alone the two are very different. tbh I just don't like how you kind of push the two and make Pandora Hearts look like BL bait, in fact you wrote a very long post just because someone said these two don't have romantic feelings and are just very good friends. both of them have the feeling of just Fujoshi interpretations when you see two men so close it means they are gay, why spend your time writing that long if you don't try to push and convince it's BL, it's pretty clear seeing your motives here.I'm left wondering whatever would be the difference between "BL bait" and "fujo bait" because that separation makes no sense whatsoever, lmao. And for the last time: an eventual portrayal of a same-sex relationship would not turn any manga not specifically marketed as a BL or yuri into one. I just don't want people who don't like BL/Yaoi to get the wrong idea because your post clearly pushing it's BL bait. thus preventing people who don't like BL/Yaoi from reading or watching Pandora Hearts. |
Lguanlin92Jul 8, 2021 12:32 AM
Jul 6, 2021 3:36 PM
#28
Lguanlin92 said: I have nothing to say about the MikaYuu ship to be honest, people can believe whatever they want, same goes with Langa and Reki in SK8. As long as people can come on respectful terms, then we have nothing to worry about.TheOneOfSeven said: Nice to hear that, I'm proud of you, don't let you be like Mikayuu shippers from Seraph of the End, they are very delusional, they don't accept when I said Mika and Yuu relationship is just like Bromance they have no romantic feeling at all and they attack me. they insisted that Mikayuu was Canon.I wrote a similar topic about this matter. People can say whatever they want, but Vanitas no Carte won't become a BL and this comes from someone who ships Vanitas and Noé ö-ö It is clarified that Vanitas and Noé have their canon female love interests already. |
TheOneOfSevenJul 6, 2021 3:42 PM
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Jul 6, 2021 7:53 PM
#29
Lguanlin92 said: ons has cursed fandom lol i wonder why i got involved with the fandom i didn't realize these things while watching seraph until i got involved with discussions on their fandom.i doubt they watched other shows without these things.TheOneOfSeven said: Nice to hear that, I'm proud of you, don't let you be like Mikayuu shippers from Seraph of the End, they are very delusional, they don't accept when I said Mika and Yuu relationship is just like Bromance they have no romantic feeling at all and they attack me. they insisted that Mikayuu was Canon.I wrote a similar topic about this matter. People can say whatever they want, but Vanitas no Carte won't become a BL and this comes from someone who ships Vanitas and Noé ö-ö It is clarified that Vanitas and Noé have their canon female love interests already. |
Jul 6, 2021 9:01 PM
#30
No yaoi. But there is some yuri/ girl on girl action. |
Old_School_AkiraJul 6, 2021 9:14 PM
HACKs! 🤢🤮 |
Jul 6, 2021 10:40 PM
#31
This one isn't about what you said at all. |
Jul 7, 2021 11:44 PM
#32
coalas said: Neostorm-X said: VelCake said: uhm.... I don't want to burst your bubble but Gil and Oz's romantic feelings for each other are canon in the novel lol (and the novel is canon) Like, MochiJun loves writing tragedy, but them and Elliot & Leo are proof that she isn't afraid of including queer characters in her stories. Same goes for Dominique, who openly flirts with men and women all the time thats completely false, the author stated many times that oz has a very strong friendship with gil and has no romantic feelings whatso ever. and eliot and leo aren't in a relationship ether they are literally very good friends who feel indebted to one another, you are literally making up shitty headcanons next you will say that gon is gay for killua, and naruto loves sasuke. I am begging you to do some reading on the concept of coding in fiction instead of just claiming every argument towards a different interpretation is a delusional fan's ramblings, seeing Elliot and Leo have quite enough subtext and parallels to other relationships in canon for that interpretation to arise. This phenomenon tends to happen when studying literature and, most recently, cinematographic media, so I do not see why that could not apply to a manga as well. There are scenes in the novels where Gilbert explicitly says he thinks Oz would make a nice wife after seeing him in an apron tending to an ill Alice or him and Oz talk about how nice it would be to live and grow old together, and that's merely the tip of the iceberg. There's one particular chapter where Gilbert pretty much states disinterest in women. You could argue about all of it being romantic or not (I'll delve on such interpretations below), but VelCake is not making these things up. Now, about Elliot and Leo: it's actually a very, very common point of view across most PH fans exactly because so many people relate to them and have that understanding. One of the most obscure yet possibly telling things is that Mochijun is clearly into floriography and symbolism and, under these circumstances, it is curious that she has assigned them a flower and a color that have historical ties to same-sex relationships (on the color lavender being associated with homosexuality in Victorian Britain, the main inspiration for PH; on Statice being a flower in the same genus and also known as "sea-lavender"; the fact that Statice naturally occurs in many other colors like yellow, magenta and white but she specifically chose that one). Elliot and Leo are dancing as a pair in the back cover of the 24+1 guidebook surrounded by characters that are romantically involved to some degree (Vincent and Ada, Rufus and Sheryl, Break + Sharon and Reim), Echo and Noise being the only exception. Their respective volumes' inner covers are the only ones to match and they are always portrayed as halves of a whole, as two people who must be together, separation being particularly tragic and painful. Even the fact that their covers are for volume 14, representing the age they first met, and volume 16, representing the age they were when matters went awry. Levi describes Leo as being just as selfish as Jack and Oswald (both of them acting out of some form of love, no matter how twisted it is) when he decides to keep the world as it is in order to preserve the memory of the life he shared with Elliot - instead of saving him and potentially facing the risk of their paths never crossing, as Leo would probably not have been chosen to be Glen Baskerville in those circumstances. There is constant and marked focus on their intimacy and how they're always touching each other, which is not a common choice for other characters, not to mention we're shown as early as their first appearance that Leo simply does not bother to remove that huge pile of books from his bed (my point being, he does not need to use it) and, if you've read the novels, you'd know that they only got to share a room in Lutwidge very recently. Leo teases Elliot a lot on his apparent feminine interests and yet partakes in them. Every single detail has a meaning. I could spent a lot of time listing things in the canon that could point to that. Mochizuki Jun is a greatly skilled writer and her characterization is fascinatingly complex; I've reread Pandora Hearts many times over the last ten or eleven years, since it is my favorite manga, and I feel like I discover new facets to these fictional people she has fleshed out every single time. My point is - yes, they are "very good friends", but a) people tend to be friends with the people they love (what would even be the point if they weren't?), and b) there are several other intense friendships in this same manga where people don't go to the lengths these two are willing to go for each other. From an article published in SyFy about this topic: Remember, when we say “code” we do not necessarily mean that they are meant to be gay, or even that they are meant to appear that way. Coding does not need to be an intentional act. It is as much a part of the relationship between the work and the audience as it is part of the relationship between the creator and audience (or even the creator and their work). (Of course this is mostly from an analysis on US American media, considering the history of repression in the form of the Hays Code, but similar processes occur abroad everywhere, to this day.) Hell, Leo kisses the Nightray rapier when he's asking for Elliot's strength near the end. It is not a far-fetched reading of their bond at all. The thing about coding, whether it's intentional or not, is that is tends to leave room for plausible deniability. I don't mind if you read the manga and only saw them as friends, but given all these factors, you have to understand that people who read them that way are not incorrect regardless of authorial intention being present or not. Now, why does that bother you so much (whether it's someone stating their interpretation that's based on a valid reading or the fact that these characters could be seen as anything other than heterosexual by a random stranger on the internet) to the point of acting aggressive while everyone else is being respectful is something else entirely. "this [character] is gay because [headcanon] and this [headcanon] is why your wrong about [headcanon] and how they are actually gay because [headcanon] is actually up for interpretation" "Now, why does that bother you so much (whether it's someone stating their interpretation that's based on a valid reading or the fact that these characters could be seen as anything other than heterosexual by a random stranger on the internet) to the point of acting aggressive while everyone else is being respectful is something else entirely." it does not bother me at all, what bothers me is when people try to mislead people by giving false information based on their own conjecture. you are literally trying to confuse people by making your own interpretation to be what the author said which is completely false. and the only person worked up about this is you. my initial post is made to stop people from worrying about this adaptation containing bl and not watching it because of this due to stupid rumors circulating, which is only added by people like you. its like me recommending jojo to some one as a gay romance series, and telling them yeah theres gonna be lots of romance when its not, the entirety of jojo is more of a mystery action adventure series which practically no romance its misleading and can get people to turn away from your series. |
Jul 7, 2021 11:49 PM
#33
meyve said: coalas said: Neostorm-X said: VelCake said: uhm.... I don't want to burst your bubble but Gil and Oz's romantic feelings for each other are canon in the novel lol (and the novel is canon) Like, MochiJun loves writing tragedy, but them and Elliot & Leo are proof that she isn't afraid of including queer characters in her stories. Same goes for Dominique, who openly flirts with men and women all the time thats completely false, the author stated many times that oz has a very strong friendship with gil and has no romantic feelings whatso ever. and eliot and leo aren't in a relationship ether they are literally very good friends who feel indebted to one another, you are literally making up shitty headcanons next you will say that gon is gay for killua, and naruto loves sasuke. I am begging you to do some reading on the concept of coding in fiction instead of just claiming every argument towards a different interpretation is a delusional fan's ramblings, seeing Elliot and Leo have quite enough subtext and parallels to other relationships in canon for that interpretation to arise. This phenomenon tends to happen when studying literature and, most recently, cinematographic media, so I do not see why that could not apply to a manga as well. There are scenes in the novels where Gilbert explicitly says he thinks Oz would make a nice wife after seeing him in an apron tending to an ill Alice or him and Oz talk about how nice it would be to live and grow old together, and that's merely the tip of the iceberg. There's one particular chapter where Gilbert pretty much states disinterest in women. You could argue about all of it being romantic or not (I'll delve on such interpretations below), but VelCake is not making these things up. Now, about Elliot and Leo: it's actually a very, very common point of view across most PH fans exactly because so many people relate to them and have that understanding. One of the most obscure yet possibly telling things is that Mochijun is clearly into floriography and symbolism and, under these circumstances, it is curious that she has assigned them a flower and a color that have historical ties to same-sex relationships (on the color lavender being associated with homosexuality in Victorian Britain, the main inspiration for PH; on Statice being a flower in the same genus and also known as "sea-lavender"; the fact that Statice naturally occurs in many other colors like yellow, magenta and white but she specifically chose that one). Elliot and Leo are dancing as a pair in the back cover of the 24+1 guidebook surrounded by characters that are romantically involved to some degree (Vincent and Ada, Rufus and Sheryl, Break + Sharon and Reim), Echo and Noise being the only exception. Their respective volumes' inner covers are the only ones to match and they are always portrayed as halves of a whole, as two people who must be together, separation being particularly tragic and painful. Even the fact that their covers are for volume 14, representing the age they first met, and volume 16, representing the age they were when matters went awry. Levi describes Leo as being just as selfish as Jack and Oswald (both of them acting out of some form of love, no matter how twisted it is) when he decides to keep the world as it is in order to preserve the memory of the life he shared with Elliot - instead of saving him and potentially facing the risk of their paths never crossing, as Leo would probably not have been chosen to be Glen Baskerville in those circumstances. There is constant and marked focus on their intimacy and how they're always touching each other, which is not a common choice for other characters, not to mention we're shown as early as their first appearance that Leo simply does not bother to remove that huge pile of books from his bed (my point being, he does not need to use it) and, if you've read the novels, you'd know that they only got to share a room in Lutwidge very recently. Leo teases Elliot a lot on his apparent feminine interests and yet partakes in them. Every single detail has a meaning. I could spent a lot of time listing things in the canon that could point to that. Mochizuki Jun is a greatly skilled writer and her characterization is fascinatingly complex; I've reread Pandora Hearts many times over the last ten or eleven years, since it is my favorite manga, and I feel like I discover new facets to these fictional people she has fleshed out every single time. My point is - yes, they are "very good friends", but a) people tend to be friends with the people they love (what would even be the point if they weren't?), and b) there are several other intense friendships in this same manga where people don't go to the lengths these two are willing to go for each other. From an article published in SyFy about this topic: Remember, when we say “code” we do not necessarily mean that they are meant to be gay, or even that they are meant to appear that way. Coding does not need to be an intentional act. It is as much a part of the relationship between the work and the audience as it is part of the relationship between the creator and audience (or even the creator and their work). (Of course this is mostly from an analysis on US American media, considering the history of repression in the form of the Hays Code, but similar processes occur abroad everywhere, to this day.) Hell, Leo kisses the Nightray rapier when he's asking for Elliot's strength near the end. It is not a far-fetched reading of their bond at all. The thing about coding, whether it's intentional or not, is that is tends to leave room for plausible deniability. I don't mind if you read the manga and only saw them as friends, but given all these factors, you have to understand that people who read them that way are not incorrect regardless of authorial intention being present or not. Now, why does that bother you so much (whether it's someone stating their interpretation that's based on a valid reading or the fact that these characters could be seen as anything other than heterosexual by a random stranger on the internet) to the point of acting aggressive while everyone else is being respectful is something else entirely. Dude, I think you just live in a fantasy world. you magnify small details and think what you want to think. Has the author confirmed that there is something between them? No. So stop spreading false information to people. They are not gay. exactly these delusional fujos keep spreading lies and rumors that scare people off from this amazing series. hell I can't even tell my friends or recommend them black butler and pandora hearts because of the stupid fanbases that keep making them out to be BL which they ARE NOT IN ANYWAY, BOTH of them are soft seinen series with tragedy and mystery and lots of action scenes. they are IN SHOUNEN MAGAZINES AS WELL, |
Jul 8, 2021 12:05 AM
#34
@Neostorm-X this dude's motive is very clear, the thread you made is correct so people don't misunderstand the BL bait, but he seems to force his interpretation as if Pandora Hearts and Vanitas no Carte are Yaoi and when they are not. tbh I just don't like how he kind of push the two and make Pandora Hearts look like BL bait, in fact he wrote a very long post just because someone said these two don't have romantic feelings and are just very good friends. both of them have the feeling of just Fujoshi interpretations when you see two men so close it means they are gay, why spend his time writing that long if him don't try to push and convince it's BL, it's pretty clear seeing his motives here. |
Jul 8, 2021 1:32 AM
#35
Lguanlin92 said: @Neostorm-X this dude's motive is very clear, the thread you made is correct so people don't misunderstand the BL bait, but he seems to force his interpretation as if Pandora Hearts and Vanitas no Carte are Yaoi and when they are not. tbh I just don't like how he kind of push the two and make Pandora Hearts look like BL bait, in fact he wrote a very long post just because someone said these two don't have romantic feelings and are just very good friends. both of them have the feeling of just Fujoshi interpretations when you see two men so close it means they are gay, why spend his time writing that long if him don't try to push and convince it's BL, it's pretty clear seeing his motives here. actually the user is a she in their profile so I would assume their just some fujoshi getting triggered that their headcanon ship isn't canon |
Jul 8, 2021 9:07 AM
#36
I've already stated I left this discussion two days ago but, since you insist on misinterpreting what I wrote either out of bad faith or true incomprehension, I'll say my last on this matter. I did not want to resort to this because I usually hate when people pull this card in discussions, but: First, you cannot tell me I'm "ruining" anything or being unhelpful when I've convinced at least twenty to thirty acquaintances to read PH and VnC throughout the years, constantly put out fanworks and posts promoting both series and financially support Mochizuki's stories. I've been a fan of her work for over a decade now and reread it multiple times. My "nitpicking" of small details is not limited to the relationships between her characters, since I do enjoy trying to find hints and foreshadowing in her worldbuilding and dialogue along with friends, same as I would with any piece of media that strikes my interest. Every creation of hers is an intricate puzzle and trying to put these pieces together is a very pleasurable experience. These things are not mutually exclusive; rather, they're enriching since no one enjoys a story with characters they don't care about. Second, I've received several private messages over the last days in support for speaking up, far more people than there are in this thread feeling validated because they're going four against one. Make of that what you will. I know this has, unfortunately, been a very common attitude both online and offline for the past few years, but you really need to develop better argumentation skills than saying everyone that disagrees with you on the internet is either hallucinating or in acute mental distress. The usage of the word "triggering" is quite telling in this context. I've remained levelheaded throughout all my posts, cited sources and gave in-depth explanations for my points and why people might reach similar conclusions to the ones I've listed and never said they were an absolute truth; yet, you keep answering me with "you're crazy and there's no way something like this would ever happen because it was never openly stated" (as if fiction has never been nuanced before). And for the last damn time: even if there were an actual canonically stated relationship between any same-sex characters it would not turn the story into BL - yes, I do have a hard time thinking of a proper reason why anyone would find the idea of reading a story with non-heterosexual characters abhorrent enough to avoid it. I am a lesbian and therefore have no desire to engage romantically with men in real life, but have no problem whatsoever reading or watching a fictional love story between a man and a woman as long as it's well developed, same as I would with BL or GL. Once again: I'm out. I have no obligation to spend any more of my time exchanging words with someone who's disrespectful. |
coalasJul 8, 2021 2:35 PM
Jul 9, 2021 5:36 AM
#37
VelCake said: uhm.... I don't want to burst your bubble but Gil and Oz's romantic feelings for each other are canon in the novel lol (and the novel is canon) Like, MochiJun loves writing tragedy, but them and Elliot & Leo are proof that she isn't afraid of including queer characters in her stories. Same goes for Dominique, who openly flirts with men and women all the time Gil doesn't love Oz I mean, its supposed that the jury repeatedly brainwashed Gilbert to be loyal to his master (Glen and Oz). I don't understand why u put your lgbt things, only the characters are written that way. It does not mean that they are queer, they are only characters with certain characteristics I hope the people of this movement don't screw up my favorite manga with their commercial garbage |
Jul 9, 2021 11:04 AM
#38
Have you even read the novels? More specifically, the story "Black Widow", and specially the epilogue part (pg. 155 onwards). Because it sounds like you haven't AND you didn't understand Pandora as a whole. It isn't anywhere as simple as Gil only being loyal to Oz due to his "brainwashing" - if it were, he would have simply stopped working with Oz and caring about him or shifted his attitude towards him like he did with Vincent after remembering his past. I am apalled that you are so evidently against "people of this movement" without even paying attention to the story itself. |
Jul 9, 2021 11:46 AM
#39
VelCake said: Have you even read the novels? More specifically, the story "Black Widow", and specially the epilogue part (pg. 155 onwards). Because it sounds like you haven't AND you didn't understand Pandora as a whole. It isn't anywhere as simple as Gil only being loyal to Oz due to his "brainwashing" - if it were, he would have simply stopped working with Oz and caring about him or shifted his attitude towards him like he did with Vincent after remembering his past. I am apalled that you are so evidently against "people of this movement" without even paying attention to the story itself. No part of the novel explicitly states that they love each other, and the author has not confirmed this. You can think what you want but you have to stop spreading false information that they are gay. This is getting annoying |
Jul 9, 2021 12:32 PM
#40
meyve said: VelCake said: Have you even read the novels? More specifically, the story "Black Widow", and specially the epilogue part (pg. 155 onwards). Because it sounds like you haven't AND you didn't understand Pandora as a whole. It isn't anywhere as simple as Gil only being loyal to Oz due to his "brainwashing" - if it were, he would have simply stopped working with Oz and caring about him or shifted his attitude towards him like he did with Vincent after remembering his past. I am apalled that you are so evidently against "people of this movement" without even paying attention to the story itself. No part of the novel explicitly states that they love each other, and the author has not confirmed this. You can think what you want but you have to stop spreading false information that they are gay. This is getting annoying I'm not sure why that seems to make you so mad but... whatever you say. |
Jul 9, 2021 1:08 PM
#41
VelCake said: meyve said: VelCake said: Have you even read the novels? More specifically, the story "Black Widow", and specially the epilogue part (pg. 155 onwards). Because it sounds like you haven't AND you didn't understand Pandora as a whole. It isn't anywhere as simple as Gil only being loyal to Oz due to his "brainwashing" - if it were, he would have simply stopped working with Oz and caring about him or shifted his attitude towards him like he did with Vincent after remembering his past. I am apalled that you are so evidently against "people of this movement" without even paying attention to the story itself. No part of the novel explicitly states that they love each other, and the author has not confirmed this. You can think what you want but you have to stop spreading false information that they are gay. This is getting annoying I'm not sure why that seems to make you so mad but... whatever you say. Still it doesn't mean they wanna fck eachother you know? As I said again, open statements such as "I love you, I like you, I want to go out with you" were not used. None of this means they have romantic feelings for each other. |
Jul 9, 2021 4:00 PM
#42
VelCake said: meyve said: VelCake said: Have you even read the novels? More specifically, the story "Black Widow", and specially the epilogue part (pg. 155 onwards). Because it sounds like you haven't AND you didn't understand Pandora as a whole. It isn't anywhere as simple as Gil only being loyal to Oz due to his "brainwashing" - if it were, he would have simply stopped working with Oz and caring about him or shifted his attitude towards him like he did with Vincent after remembering his past. I am apalled that you are so evidently against "people of this movement" without even paying attention to the story itself. No part of the novel explicitly states that they love each other, and the author has not confirmed this. You can think what you want but you have to stop spreading false information that they are gay. This is getting annoying I'm not sure why that seems to make you so mad but... whatever you say. Hey kid look, i get that you never had friends las a kid and stayed in your parents basement all day so you would assume any kindness shown to friends = they fucking. But you realize sometimes close friends act like this towards each other right? Its extremely common in asian and some european cultures, Lots of europeans kiss each other to greet friends, you and your amerifats with your progressive agenda is cancer to the anime community, EVERY character needs to be gay to you eh? |
Jul 9, 2021 8:27 PM
#43
Y'all mad bc Vanitas and Noé are fucking And elliot and leo were fucking too And Gil and Oz were fucking and every single character is gay bc no straights are allowed Also every straight hxh character ends up dead so... If they're alive, they're gay too. Same with naruto and sasuke, classic example of gay behavior. And your favorite Shonen characters are also gay. I am gay. You are gay. Your mom is gay too and guess what? We're fucking |
Jul 9, 2021 8:32 PM
#44
Neostorm-X said: VelCake said: meyve said: VelCake said: Have you even read the novels? More specifically, the story "Black Widow", and specially the epilogue part (pg. 155 onwards). Because it sounds like you haven't AND you didn't understand Pandora as a whole. It isn't anywhere as simple as Gil only being loyal to Oz due to his "brainwashing" - if it were, he would have simply stopped working with Oz and caring about him or shifted his attitude towards him like he did with Vincent after remembering his past. I am apalled that you are so evidently against "people of this movement" without even paying attention to the story itself. No part of the novel explicitly states that they love each other, and the author has not confirmed this. You can think what you want but you have to stop spreading false information that they are gay. This is getting annoying I'm not sure why that seems to make you so mad but... whatever you say. Hey kid look, i get that you never had friends las a kid and stayed in your parents basement all day so you would assume any kindness shown to friends = they fucking. But you realize sometimes close friends act like this towards each other right? Its extremely common in asian and some european cultures, Lots of europeans kiss each other to greet friends, you and your amerifats with your progressive agenda is cancer to the anime community, EVERY character needs to be gay to you eh? I also love to kiss my homies and I tell them that I love them on the regular and we sometimes fuck too |
Jul 10, 2021 12:00 AM
#45
Neostorm-X said: VelCake said: meyve said: VelCake said: Have you even read the novels? More specifically, the story "Black Widow", and specially the epilogue part (pg. 155 onwards). Because it sounds like you haven't AND you didn't understand Pandora as a whole. It isn't anywhere as simple as Gil only being loyal to Oz due to his "brainwashing" - if it were, he would have simply stopped working with Oz and caring about him or shifted his attitude towards him like he did with Vincent after remembering his past. I am apalled that you are so evidently against "people of this movement" without even paying attention to the story itself. No part of the novel explicitly states that they love each other, and the author has not confirmed this. You can think what you want but you have to stop spreading false information that they are gay. This is getting annoying I'm not sure why that seems to make you so mad but... whatever you say. Hey kid look, i get that you never had friends las a kid and stayed in your parents basement all day so you would assume any kindness shown to friends = they fucking. But you realize sometimes close friends act like this towards each other right? Its extremely common in asian and some european cultures, Lots of europeans kiss each other to greet friends, you and your amerifats with your progressive agenda is cancer to the anime community, EVERY character needs to be gay to you eh? @meyve What do you expect from her though She's probably a Fujoshi she probably thinks every male friendship is somehow ''gay'' and I wouldn't be surprised if she's one of those people who complain about the sexualisation of girls in Shonen then goes on to read Yaoi ''rape'' manga/fan-fics e.g killing stalking |
Jul 10, 2021 5:29 AM
#46
Neostorm-X said: VelCake said: meyve said: VelCake said: Have you even read the novels? More specifically, the story "Black Widow", and specially the epilogue part (pg. 155 onwards). Because it sounds like you haven't AND you didn't understand Pandora as a whole. It isn't anywhere as simple as Gil only being loyal to Oz due to his "brainwashing" - if it were, he would have simply stopped working with Oz and caring about him or shifted his attitude towards him like he did with Vincent after remembering his past. I am apalled that you are so evidently against "people of this movement" without even paying attention to the story itself. No part of the novel explicitly states that they love each other, and the author has not confirmed this. You can think what you want but you have to stop spreading false information that they are gay. This is getting annoying I'm not sure why that seems to make you so mad but... whatever you say. Hey kid look, i get that you never had friends las a kid and stayed in your parents basement all day so you would assume any kindness shown to friends = they fucking. But you realize sometimes close friends act like this towards each other right? Its extremely common in asian and some european cultures, Lots of europeans kiss each other to greet friends, you and your amerifats with your progressive agenda is cancer to the anime community, EVERY character needs to be gay to you eh? lol, this is hysterical. you're having a hissy fit over whether two fictional guys are fucking each other. in another manga. |
Jul 10, 2021 5:34 AM
#47
Holy shit people in this are reallly close minded, aren't they? Using fujoshi as if it's an insult and not the word japanese BL shippers have recclaimed for themselves. Coalas meta is very insightful, clear and respectful, only saying that there are valid reasons some people see lgbt+ coding and ships in Jun Mochizuki's manga, but that equally you could see it all platonic and hetero if that's what floats your boat, so the fact that you people are getting so incensed and offended about it says more about your lack of good, respectful interactions with other kind of fans than any imagined slight against you. Especially as you demostrate an inability or unwillingness to interact in good faith with her and what she has written, repeating yourself and saying she is a fujoshi ruining-mangas when in no moment it's been so. But then, it's obvious that if someone can't listen or won't listen to reason it's useless to insist. Then you get someone trolling you about your ridiculous insistence that everybody must see and interpret a manga and its characters exactly as you do, invalidating other people fundamented meta and perspectives. I'm out. |
Jul 10, 2021 6:13 AM
#48
nagi_akuma said: Neostorm-X said: VelCake said: meyve said: VelCake said: Have you even read the novels? More specifically, the story "Black Widow", and specially the epilogue part (pg. 155 onwards). Because it sounds like you haven't AND you didn't understand Pandora as a whole. It isn't anywhere as simple as Gil only being loyal to Oz due to his "brainwashing" - if it were, he would have simply stopped working with Oz and caring about him or shifted his attitude towards him like he did with Vincent after remembering his past. I am apalled that you are so evidently against "people of this movement" without even paying attention to the story itself. No part of the novel explicitly states that they love each other, and the author has not confirmed this. You can think what you want but you have to stop spreading false information that they are gay. This is getting annoying I'm not sure why that seems to make you so mad but... whatever you say. Hey kid look, i get that you never had friends las a kid and stayed in your parents basement all day so you would assume any kindness shown to friends = they fucking. But you realize sometimes close friends act like this towards each other right? Its extremely common in asian and some european cultures, Lots of europeans kiss each other to greet friends, you and your amerifats with your progressive agenda is cancer to the anime community, EVERY character needs to be gay to you eh? @meyve What do you expect from her though She's probably a Fujoshi she probably thinks every male friendship is somehow ''gay'' and I wouldn't be surprised if she's one of those people who complain about the sexualisation of girls in Shonen then goes on to read Yaoi ''rape'' manga/fan-fics e.g killing stalking I just can't stand people spreading misinformation about this manga. I'm not a homophobic I'm okay with the shounen/shoujo ai series but this manga isn't like that and it's so annoying that some people think it is and tell people it is. |
Jul 10, 2021 7:16 AM
#49
I just can't stand people spreading misinformation about this manga. I'm not a homophobic I'm okay with the shounen/shoujo ai series but this manga isn't like that and it's so annoying that some people think it is and tell people it is.[/quote] Same here a few of them take things to far and act like their ships are canon not to forget how they push away potential fans, though I hope a moderator can delete any irrelevant comments. |
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