No Gay in my Anime
Despite the final episode of this hit mecha show from 2022 featuring its two previously engaged female protagonists wearing matching rings after a timeskip, this show's publisher put out a statement declaring that the status of their relationship was not confirmed and could be left to the viewers' interpretations.
What is Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury?
A powerful character from this shounen anime is perhaps most famously known for a line he uses a couple of times throughout the series, "Nah, I'd win."
What is Jujutsu Kaisen?
This studio is known for its distinctly styled shots, flashy, quick screen transitions, and its signature head tilt.
What is Shaft Animation Studio?
Works in this genre revolve around characters starting life in a new world, often after being hit by a bus and dying.
What is isekai?
This series featuring heroes from old legends such as King Arthur is based on a visual novel and has spawned a multitude of derivative works, including fighting games, numerous spin-off anime, one of the highest grossing gacha games of all time.
What is Fate/Stay Night?
After years of fans shipping two of the male leads of this iconic 2006 thriller anime, the manga artist who drew the source material released a new work that included a now-infamous scene featuring a character triumphantly out-debating a peer on the subject of homophobia, stating "This guy-on-guy stuff is kinda hard to take," and "Look, personal preferences and taste are not 'Discrimination'".
What is Death Note?
You thought there would be a question prompt here, but instead you found me, ____!
Who is Dio?
This studio has produced many popular anime; Sword Art Online, Solo Leveling, and Lycoris Recoil, to name just a few.
What is A-1 Pictures?
These two genres revolve around homosexual relationships, one referring to relationships between women and one referring to relationships between men.
What are Yuri and Yaoi?
This beloved series about battling, collecting, and raising diverse monsters first aired in 1997, one year after the smash-hit original duo of games released.
What is Pokemon?
This sports anime about swimming features tons of shirtless men, and if you hadn't watched it you might assume from the marketing material that they're all kissing each other, but actually, none of them are gay at all.
What is Free!?
This classic shounen anime is perhaps best known nowadays for the now-popular meme line "omae wa mou shindeiru".
What is Fist of the North Star?
This anime studio famously trains its animators in-house, and primarily produces anime based off of the winners of manga, original novel, and scenario competitions held by the company. A 2018 arson attack resulted in the deaths of many of the company's employees and severely affected its operations.
What is Kyoto Animation?
This genre typically aimed towards young girls is classically characterized by long transformation animations, themes of heroism and hope, and monster-of-the-week formatting for its episodes.
What is Mahou Shoujo (Magical Girl)?
This Netflix anime based off of a game with the same name released 2 years earlier aired in 2022 and features an opening song by the band Franz Ferdinand.
What is Cyberpunk: Edgerunners?
The female roommate main characters of this anime adapted from a manga about two people with the same name have a ton of romantically-charged scenes; they even share a kiss on screen! But, they're just roommates.
What is Nana?
With a flourish of his cape, a tophat wearing masked man exlaims "My work here is done" and turns away in a meme image from this classic anime series.
What is Sailor Moon?
Known for creating iconic series such as Love Live, Code Geass, and perhaps most notably Gundam, this veteran anime studio was founded in 1972.
What is Sunrise Studio?
(Bandai Namco Filmworks also ok)
This genre follows groups of girls, often members of a club or coworkers at a job, as they find themselves in sometimes mundane, sometimes absurd, and sometimes comedic situations.
What is Cute Girls Doing Cute Things?
What is Uma Musume?
Despite the fan interpretation of this spin-off movie from a major KyoAni series being that the two female leads were in love with each other, the director has gone on record in interviews saying that her story was about adolescence rather than romance.
What is Liz and the Blue Bird?
A dark-haired, glasses wearing man holds a book and points to a butterfly as he asks, "Is this a pigeon?" in a popular meme image from this anime
What is The Brave Of Sun Fighbird?
Its more modern works include Oshi no Ko, Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian, and Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie, but this studio was once known for pumping out tons of shows about cute girls, like New Game!, Yuru Yuri, and Himouto! Umaru-Chan.
What is Doga Kobo?
This genre typically refers to works that have to do with themes of social isolation, existentialism, and feelings of insanity related to living in modern society. Examples include Neon Genesis Evangelion, Welcome to the NHK!, and Serial Experiments Lain.
What is denpa-kei?
This mystery anime about witches, magic, family, and love, is based on a visual novel with a total word count longer than the bible.
What is Umineko When They Cry?