Quote Originally Posted by Loony BoB View Post
But yeah, back to it: If Japs aren't afriad to "go there", why do they not kiss or mentoin the word 'love' amongst each other or, you know, say anything that lovers would say to each other? If you look at all the relationships that have existed in FF games, they've always been incredibly obvious. I have no idea why, if Japanese are so unafraid to "go there", they would make it so incredibly unobvious that they are lovers.
Just to point out the fact here, but Japanese society is not the most welcoming towards homosexuality. Heck, with the exception of Tokyo, most places can, without legal repercussions, discriminate against you for being homosexual. So yeah, they are not really one of the most forward going nations when it comes to gay rights. It has never been as big of an issue there as it has been in North America and Europe.

If you take mainstream examples in anime (note, I am excluding works that explicitly homosexual such as yuri and yaoi since they are not mainstream), they never explicitly say "I love you" even when it is a well known gay relationship. Touya and Yukito from Card Captors? We all know they have a thing for each other but all they say is that the other is their "number one person" or something to the effect. Same series, Tomoyo is totally lesbo for Sakura, but she never comes right out and says it, let alone "I love you." Same thing goes for Sailor Moon's resident lesbians: Michiru and Haruka. Oh, you can tell that they are into each other but they never say "I love you".

Gay characters outside the yuri and yaoi genre are rare finds and often are implicit not explicit. :/

So to say that in a Japanese game they would come right out and say it is not true. They would never say it outright. They would come close to it but never be explicit. :/