WHOO! I can't pass this thread up! I myself have always been wondering what the deal with that is.
Thankfully, I am not the only one who doesn't quite get it.
Evil Josh & Billy
Dangit, just trying to find that thing kept me from remembering the witty reply I was thinking of.
ANYWAY! There are some people that REALLY should not be making out with other people. Note the lack of UGLY characters that are featured in these fanfictions and fanarts.
See my thread
here
But what gets me is that it REALLY makes for twisted thinking about characters in a serious series. Ed and Al... NO!!! It takes the whole brotherly love thing, consisting of mutual respect, trust, and family, and warping to something REALLY WRONG! Simply put...
NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!
As for fangirls spotting that hidden tension, sometimes I think it's just girls being batshit crazy, but other times I have to admit that they are on to something. Berserk for example.
When Gatts was fighting the leader of the group of mercenaries, whose name I can not remember right now for some reason, he was defeated and left sprawled on the ground. The bishonen dude then leans in close, almost enough to kiss him, using ambiguous dialogue where you don't know what he's going to do next. Turns out he just proclaims Gatts as a new member of his group.
In a situation like that, the anime producers are CLEARLY playing on the warped fantasies, or horrors, of the viewers. They PURPOSELY leave these "clues" that lead NOWHERE for fangirls to find and obsess over.
Not to say that the same isn't done for fanboys when it comes to two female characters. Believe me, it's there alright.
So this leaves me to one final question. If all this homo-erotic fanfiction is due to a fangirl's horniness, then WHY DO THE FANBOYS RECEIVE NONE OF THAT LOVE?! Why is it that when a fangirl and a fanboy are together, the boy may fall for the fangirl, but the fangirl will retain her lust for her fiction over real people.
Are fanboys REALLY that bad!? Are we?
~Otaku-Man