Wild Mass Guessing about Itsuki, Sensui, or ItsuSen
Post any theories you may have about the individual men or the pairing here! (As a reply to this post)
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I'll start off with one I recently thought of:
Itsuki and Sensui are deconstructions of the "uke" and "seme" archetypes, respectively.
Togashi-sensei knew what he was doing. He probably asked himself, "What would it really be like if we threw the common BL stereotypes into the "real world", or at least the world of YYH?"
Sensui is a deconstructed seme; sure he's a head taller and insanely powerful, but, despite his physical strength, he's emotionally fragile, not to mention insane and not very knowledgeable about the world in general past his ideals and his madness.
Itsuki twists the concept of the devoted, girly-looking uke and puts it on its head. He loves Sensui and is really devoted to him; this isn't really played out as a positive thing as it would in BL manga, but rather as unhealthy and twisted. Plus he's really the one that's more manipulative overall, as he uses Sensui's broken emotional state to his own ends.
TV Tropes Links welcome!
I'll start off with one I recently thought of:
Itsuki and Sensui are deconstructions of the "uke" and "seme" archetypes, respectively.
Togashi-sensei knew what he was doing. He probably asked himself, "What would it really be like if we threw the common BL stereotypes into the "real world", or at least the world of YYH?"
Sensui is a deconstructed seme; sure he's a head taller and insanely powerful, but, despite his physical strength, he's emotionally fragile, not to mention insane and not very knowledgeable about the world in general past his ideals and his madness.
Itsuki twists the concept of the devoted, girly-looking uke and puts it on its head. He loves Sensui and is really devoted to him; this isn't really played out as a positive thing as it would in BL manga, but rather as unhealthy and twisted. Plus he's really the one that's more manipulative overall, as he uses Sensui's broken emotional state to his own ends.