Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25034020-20181114071230/@comment-26491804-20181114203118

Griffguy26 wrote: Pikapika200 wrote: Griffguy26 wrote: first of all don't you mean happy? and second I'd highly doubt that because what I see them are best friends. the word gay meant happy originally. Also, unless you mean happy, gay is not the right word for females. Gay describes homosexual males. the term for a homosexual female is lesbian,which also means from or relating to the island of Lesbos. I have to agree with that besides why on earth will toei has that kind of an idea? Lol, I mean, you may be blind to all the LGBT themes Toei has implemented in HUGtto (probably homophobia on Griffguy26's part) but let's be real here: Lulu and Emiru are romantically involved. They have to be. People don't drop "I love yous" that casually amongst friends; they are the Precure of LOVE, they are in LOVE, deal with it.

To get back on topic, as was said in the previous thread, with Toei's affinity for LGBT themes in the current series, I wouldn't be surprised if one or two of the Cures next season are LGBT, whether lesbian or trans. It just seems to be the way things are going. Even Cure Sunshine from 2010 can be seen as a metaphor for the experiences trans kids face; do I think they'd go as far as to have the main Cure (pink) as an LGBT hero? I do, because if they're willing enough to have Henri (who is no doubt genderqueer or at least gay), recurring characters as LGBT, they've already done it with mains in this series with Lulu and Emiru. There's no reason why they couldn't or shouldn't in 2019 when in 2018 the World Health Organization ruled that transgenderism is no longer considered to be a mental illness. It's a good thing. We should be clamoring for this representation in Japanese children's media; it makes for a more tolerant society in the future. Every person has a place in society. Even "the gays", and that includes media, even if it is an anime meant to sell toys to little girls.

Frankly, I'd love to see a lesbian or trans Cure as the "wow, i didn't expect that" factor from Toei. It would be timely and would make for interesting character dynamics storywise.