So, Fujimaki likely doesn’t even know autism exists, he just thinks it’s a weird personality some kids have, and gave it to Murasakibara for variety, without realising his character actually has a medical condition.Įxample two. There’s nothing wrong with them.” I assume this view is the same in Japan (especially going by Fujimaki’s opinion of LGBT culture - which we’ll get to later). She mentioned that she had students she was convinced were autistic, and when she brought this up to the other teachers they responded “No they’re just a troublemaker. Martina from EatYourKimchi has spoken about her experiences as a teacher in S.Korea. I honestly do not have much knowledge of the way such things are treated in Japan, but in South Korea these things are barely acknowledged. Things such as autism and mental illnesses are not understood well in Asian countries. Murasakibara is essentially described by characters as to be ‘just weird’. However, when Kuroko describes Murasakibara and his personality, he makes no mention of this condition. He likely would be aware that Murasakibara is autistic. First, the way other characters talk about Murasakibara.
He doesn’t know it is a thing that exists. And by that I mean, Fujimaki does not know what autism is. However, I don’t think Fujimaki intended for him to be autistic. The topic is that Fujimaki knows jack shit.Įxample one. I would believe either, that Kagami is gay or bi, but personally I think it’s entirely possible that he’s gay judging by his interaction with female characters. Reo for example uses a gender neutral term in his answer, but we know he’s canonically gay. That he’s bisexual, and wanted to use a neutral term to say he likes both girls and guys. So I think in that moment he realised “wait I do like guys” and thus changed his answer. My theory is that he started saying girl because most people default that everyone is straight (shitty but true), and since Kagami doesn’t think about this he just automatically began to say girl. All he cares about is basketball, not who he’s going to date. He doesn’t seem the type to think about that kind of thing. My personal theory is that he just doesn’t think about his sexuality. However that Kagami felt the need to specifically change his answer is very strange. Why did he feel the need to stop saying a female term and change to a neutral term? Plenty of other characters in Kurofes say gender neutral person instead of girl (male characters) or boy (female characters) but that’s a normal response and they most likely are still straight. The change from female to neutral seems significant. He starts saying the word girl, and then stops and changes to a gender neutral term. So, Kagami responds that he is attracted to “an elegant gir- person”. I have spoken to other people who speak Japanese and they also agree his answer is very strange. In Kurofes, his answer to ‘what is your type (as in romantic partner)’ is very odd. You could explain this as ‘maybe Kagami is just a prude’, and yeah, maybe he is. This implies he’d be fine for her to kiss him if they were back in America.
When she tries to kiss him, he stops her and says people don’t do that casually here. Himuro is not bothered by her behaviour at all, he just seems amused. And I don’t believe it’s that she’s a mentor/parent/older sister figure, because of Himuro’s interactions with her. The Seirin members also go gaga over her similar to Momoi. First of all this is odd for a teenage boy. Kagami seems thoroughly disturbed by Alex when she does things such as try to kiss him or when she walks around naked. You can be aesthetically attracted to someone but not romantically or sexually. Kuroko agrees she’s cute, but we know he isn’t interested in her at all. He says to Kuroko that she’s cute, but that doesn’t mean he’s interested in her. One is the fact that Hyuuga has said he doesn’t like girly girls, yet even he salivates over Momoi. There are plenty of things that make this odd. He, along with Kuroko (but that’s another story), are the only male characters on the Seirin team who show no interest in Momoi. To begin with, I’m going to talk about Kagami. This is going to be a very long post so grab a snack and get comfy. I take issue with the title statement, and I’m going to explain why. I know I said I was leaving for today but this is something that has bothered me for a long time and I would like to say this.