Like the american guy from ping pong club....LOL now that was hilarious!Originally posted by: SDShamshel
I thought I should point out that the Japanese stereotype for a gay man is a muscular man wearing very little and perhaps sporting some kind of facial hair.
Agreed. There is the idea of a father and son relationship as well.
There is also that of a man and a woman, which comes across more strongly than that. (which is why the debate why Haku should be a girl or a guy - confuses ppl) What a man is supposed to be and a woman supposed to be. These I feel, are character roles between the two; Haku and Zabuzza. Haku is seen as the gatherer, herbs, flowers. Inner quiet strength which often is what men like to see in women. The ideal role.
Quoting Fabik-X below as I think a good pt is made. They don't want it to get overly stereotypical of a woman in love.
Quote: Fabik-X: if haku would of been made female I think it would of taken away from his loyalty and made it look more like a girl in love, altho you do get the homosexual overtones this way. But, for the story it is prolly better this way then making it look like some girl all in love with her master...
And in this case Haku felt as if Zabuza was a father. Since he was abandoned and such and no one else cared about him Zabuza took him and taught him everything he needed to know.
If you're running away from a bunch of hunter nins, and they're looking for a man and a boy. Wouldn't you avoid suspicion if you were dressed up as a girl. That's part of being a ninja. Hell, Oro looks like a girl.
...haku is a hemaphrodite
Lets see wha tthe judges have to say.............................
Buzz that is incorrect
the correct answer is not a stupid one
or possibly pirate
p.s.
Oro looked liek a girl when he turned youthful again, i guess its like innocence or something?
I was pissed off, when I saw Haku I was like...translation must be wrong, that's gotta be a girl, I thought Haku was hot
Weren't actual ninjas trained to disguise themselves as regular peasants? Posing as a woman might help a lot...does anyone know historical references?
I really really don't think it has anything to do with any deeper meaning or storyline. Virtually EVERY anime/manga has a character like Haku, who could be either a guy or girl. Look at Yashamaru for example in Naruto, or that Director girl in Hellsing (who looks like a guy for most of the series), or that He-She thing in Cowboy Bebop, or the badass but uber-feminine Dr. Jackal from Get Backers ..
It's actually a challenge to find an anime that DOESNT have at least one sexually ambiguous character.
Absolutely... Even among us chinese, cross-dressing as a form of infiltration is quite common.
Madame Butterfly is one such dude. I heard they (i.e. the sensei's) even taught them how to fake a <fill in the obvious blank> besides how hard is it to fake an orgasm.
BTW in the old days, it was quite common to do the dirty without the lights.
Actually I'd say that Kazuki would be the female looking character of GB, but Jackal does too, hehe [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img] GB has two of them! Well, 3 if you count Makubex. Or 4 if you count Ren looking like a boy.Originally posted by: MemnochTheCaT
or the badass but uber-feminine Dr. Jackal from Get Backers ..
I think I know precisely what I mean
when I say it's a schpadoinkle day
You're right, I had kind of forgot about the other femme guys in GB [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img] Lol I thought Ren was a guy too! That was a very gender-bending series, but I still liked it, Midou and Ginji and Dr Jackal were just too cool .. the only thing I DIDN'T like was the meandering and repetitively ambiguous 'infinite castle' stuff .. it just didn't make any sense. Oh well, every episode outside of I.C. rocked [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]
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