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Although this topic may not seem very serious, I'd like to take an objective approach to it. Ever since I saw Lain, my experience with ABe has been wonderful. I think his attention to fundamental questions of life is unparalled. But also, since then, something has been nagging me (not in a bad way), and I think I've figured out what it is. In everything I've seen from him, there seems to be a very subtle homosexual undertone to some of the female relationships. It's never anything all that obvious, and I don't think I'm imagining things. If there are lesbian undertones, I think it just adds to loveliness of his work. What does everything think about this?

>> No.2  

What's wrong with platonic love?

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Why not?

>> No.4  

...perhaps no one understood my question?

>> No.5  

I like to think of the relationships as essentially platonic, and physical interaction therein as familial or humanistic rather than sexual.

This is only personal opinion/preference, however, since as with many of the great ideas in ABe-involving projects, it is left open to interpretation. The mystery can be more interesting than the answer.

This does make me wonder, do the androgynous characteristics often present in ABe characters make them seem more asexual, homosexual, both, neither?

>> No.6  

>>5 You're probably right about them being strickly platonic. I think I've been on 4 (and 7) chan for too long.

>> No.7  

I think I agree; but the attraction is always one-sided. I'm not talking as a sexual attraction but it's more than just wanting to be friends; it's almost a need to be in a familial relationship, almost like a big sister complex. It's the same with Lain liking Alice, and Rakka liking Reki. To a lesser extent you see it in NIEA_7. It's always the protagonists of the story who fall into this; and what do the protagonists have in common? Alone, few friends, troubled (or no) family.



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