Gay characters in naruto
One Iconic Naruto Ethics is LGBTQ Officially Confirms Boruto
While it may be surprising that Naruto has basically no canonically LGBTQ+ characters, Borutochanged that. As potentially problematic as the choice is, the sequel series confirmed that the classic villain Orochimaru is actually genderfluid.
Orochimaru is easily one of Naruto's most iconic villains. Throughout the original series, Orochimaru is obsessed with obtaining immortality through swapping bodies with powerful ninja. This most famously occurred with both Sasuke and Itachi, though the brothers were separately able to prevent their bodies from being taken over. Despite these notable setbacks though, Orochimaru would approach back from several deaths. Orochimaru actually managed to form it to the end of Naruto alive, despite everything, and Boruto followed up on this by introducing Orochimaru's clone/son and the one ninja with a cooler sage mode than Naruto, Mitsuki.
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In Boruto chapter 3.5, readers learn more about Mitsuki and his relationship to Orochimaru. After waking up in Orochimaru's lab with his memory wiped, Mitsuki asks
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It’s always a bit difficult to admit that a character one loves is bad representation.
That said, sometimes it’s also completely fucking undeniable; and so, it is with a heavy heart that I must admit Orochimaru from Naruto and Boruto is a fairly terrible depiction of a nonbinary person. Which seems rather immediately apparent once I type it.
As gay as basically everyone in Naruto is subtextually, Orochimaru is the only traits whose queerness ever makes it into text — in Boruto, he’s asked about his gender and says quite clearly that he’s neither male nor female and doesn’t particularly care. This serves as confirmation of what has always been there — Orochimaru strives to achieve immortality by borrowing the bodies of others, and he’s never been concerned with what sex those bodies happen to be, only that they’re suitably strong. We know at least one of the bodies he’s occupied was female, and during the Chunin Exams he disguises himself as a woman. He’s androgynously charming . In the scene where he encounters Kimimaro, we see him wearing a woman’s kimono. None of this is what makes him an example of awful representatio
“whenever I see these gay clips of naruto, it is/was so popular too like how did the fans NOT see the same-sex attracted subtext”
Many fans did though. Many men were complaining during part 2 manga on how Kishi made Naruto behave too gay/thirsty for Sasuke. Currently KingChris makes funny anime shorts, including ones making fun of Sakura and Hinata marrying Sasuke and Naruto despite the fact the latters are attracted to each other and not them. They get millions of likes, and the comments are entire of fans going “yeah this is the whole show”. There’s the True Housewives of Konoha series where Sakura gets trolled all the time for marrying a queer man, and for being satisfied with a stupid poke, and there’s plenty of implications of Naruto and Sasuke having an affair behind their wives backs. One anime reviewer said when chapter 698 dropped he got enraged messages in all of his social media from people saying they are sick of Kishimoto pushing gay agenda on them. There are countless memes about the gayness like this from user shikqmaru from instagram:
Only ss/nh/other people in denial decline it. They will go “there’s no proof that they are gay”, “they are brothers”, “Sasuke and Sakura looked at eac
In the complicated dynamics of decisions to project narrative relationships into erotic relationships in the form of fanfiction, the dynamics of aesthetics and classical suitability may come to brain as a methodology for creating such relationships, however, by looking at the archetypical concept of the “trio” (two contrasting male protagonists with one sole female protagonist) in Naruto, Kingdom Hearts, and Invade on Titan, we can see that the dynamics of the duality of appropriation in fanfiction and resistive exploration and visibility define erotic relationships based upon the objectification of male bodies via robust power dynamics, narrative underdevelopment, and abusive relationships. These dynamics then subvert other relationships within the narrative. Through this phenomenon, we can get a excel understanding of the visibility of media through fanfiction and projection of personal motivations into these fictions in relation to all to common trio archetypes, and the dually appropriative, resistive-to-normaitivty creative process of fanfiction writers to construct a communally sourced narrative that projects the canon onto the new based upon the dynam