“The story has two protagonists with their own goals that collide yet eventually work together. “This film’s main theme is the ‘fusion of two elements,’” explains Promare producer Hiromi Wakabayashi. Promare’s animation is energy itself, but the illustrations speak to much more than just aesthetically enticing action scenes. “And I believe that’s what makes the film fresh.” Koyama’s cool and pop design and colors filled the film with both parts that were easy to watch and parts that were excessive,” says Imaishi. “Expressing the high-wired characters from Mr. The award-winning Japanese animation, which grossed $17 million worldwide and was just released in a Collector’s Edition DVD August 4, jolts viewers with an explosion of vivid and electrifying abstract artwork, mixing 3D and 2D animation, and highly accelerated pop music. But for me, the queer context in the film was pretty clear, and I was personally rather happy with it.It’s been over a year since Gurren Lagann director Hiroyuki Imaishi debuted his very first, and very colorful, feature film Promare, which next month marks one year since its U.S.
I’ve heard some people say it’s not quite the same as a “real kiss,” or that the show isn’t as explicit about it or whatever. So yeah, you can judge for yourself how you feel about them. And at the same time, used an “almost kiss” between the two characters to foreshadow an actual one between Galo and Lio later on.
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She even went so far as to lean in and TRY for a kiss, but in the moment Galo sees Lio in the distance and drops her on the spot to go chase after him lmao, they literally straight baited with the “expected” (read: straight) couple for an action adventure movie like this. Sometime before this, the movie’s female lead, Aina (who I also adore!! She’s very fun and sweet ) had expressed explicit romantic interest in Galo. This moment also hits the audience especially hard, because it comes on the heels of a red herring. Instead, after the kiss, Galo has this brief comedic panic about how Lio made him “light a fire” and as a firefighter he’s like insulted by that, lmao Just to really emphasis here–since it’s what you’d expect in a show like this–the fact that they’re both guys is never the thing that’s played for laughs. People in my theatre went DEAD SILENT went that shit happened and I was over there on cloud nine digging into my popcorn, truly an amazing night
I’ve seen people try to “argue” that “magic cpr” doesn’t make you gay or whatever lmao, but the whole Kiss of Life thing is a common narrative archetype reserved pretty much exclusively for romantic partners. It’s not quick or rushed either, it’s like, this nice long sustained thing where they’re both just there in the moment, and the soundtrack goes quiet, and it’s very intimate and played completely seriously. And then, in the most tenderly animated scene, he gently gives Lio this beautiful kiss that sparks his fire again. He begs Lio to stay with him, to not disappear. Galo sees Lio attempt this to try and save a Burnish girl early on in the movie, but he’s too late, and she doesn’t make it.Īnd…I’m sure you can see where this is going, right? Towards the end of the movie, when Lio is badly injured, dying, Galo completely breaks down.
If another Burnish is dying, you can save them by transferring some of your own fire to them-which you do through a kiss. Spoilers under the cut:Īgain, big spoilers here, but-the fire magic users in promare are known as Burnish, and their fire is so integrally apart of them that at this point, it’s what keeps them alive. Without giving anything away, all I can really say is that there is also one Particular moment that you really can’t interpret as anything but gay, and it’s outright and in your face as opposed to just queer coding. So I’ll try to be as transparent about this as I can.Ī number of romantic narrative tropes are used to establish their relationship-and that relationship is absolutely the focal point the entire show hinges on. Hi! I can understand why people are always nervous as to whether or not something is actually queer, baity, or just has a popular ship, etc.
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