I mean, what people forget when shipping same-sex Anime characters together is that there is still so much stigma around homosexuality in Japan. Gay marriage isn’t even legal. Just because Yaoi/BL/Bara/Yuri exists doesn’t mean the majority of Japan is accepting of queer people. It kind of bugs me when there is so much hype around queer ships in Anime/Manga, but the fanworks surrounding the ships fail to address homophobia and stigma. Not all Japanese people are homophobic, obviously, but many are, and queer people definitely don’t have the same rights...