Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-174.101.116.82-20130729125737/@comment-184.167.240.114-20150113224719

I don't watch this anime much, but from what I've seen, it does a lot of queer baiting. For one thing, most animes are made specifically to get money. And if there was a petition to get it turned into an anime by a bunch of fan girls, well, then it's obvious that there is going to be a little bit of homosexual tension there. Like, I remember a moment where the guy with the red haired guy sort of slammed Ren was it? Against the fence and they got really close. Perhaps it was a intimidating tactic, but hell, the creators are fucking clueless if they don't think the fan girls were interpreting this a different way. Kind of like in Black Butler with Sebastian and Ciel. The creator acknowledges the fangirls, but doesn't quite give them what they want. It's obvious that there's something there, but it's not canon. That's how I think it is with Free!. A, will they or wont they situation.

Bottom line is, the creator of Free! obviously knows that there's a lot of fan girls wanting it to be yaoi, and he or she uses that or her or his advantage by giving them fan service and attracting more viewers. Face it, whether you all like it or not, there will be fanservice. And whether it's canon or not, it is there, and no one can really deny it. I myself would be ok with it becoming a thing, but saying that it wont ever be a thing is sort of stupid. And saying the creators don't know it's there would also be stupid. So I say, fuck it, you interpret it how you want to. You analyze evidence how you want to, because this is a fictional story. A story that can be remade. Freight trains of fan fiction. So in the end, it doesn't matter whats canon, or what's not canon, because nobody really cares.