Ookiku Furikabutte (2 out of 4)
Simply Put: Has the emotional understanding of a peepshow.
I have to scratch my head at how gay men are regarded by straight folks, sometimes. If it isn’t men doing the whole shunning and ostracizing thing, then it’s women treating them like accessories. I suppose it’s inevitable that this sort of treatment would happen when names and labels are given the ability to reach out from their ether and affect the tangible relationships of our world (in conservative America, remember, you’re deviant because you’re gay, and you’re gay because you’re deviant). To me it just looks emotionally extremist, and that was largely my perception of Ookiku Furikabutte (Big Windup! in the English release). The show is, in large part, trying to appeal to a certain type of fascination with gay people that I have witnessed but cannot claim to understand.
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