Diversity of gender and sexuality in Manga and Anime

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My brother's husband
“There are no wife, we both are husbands.”

    I have never read any manga that talks about LGBT in such a calm and daily way.  Many LGBT manga I read are really personal, especially high school girls. But this My brother's husband talks about how this gay husband effects a whole family. How people from different ages react to this. And how this eventually affect everyone around this family.
    The story is all about the daily life of this small family. This manga is more like a manga that universal homosexuality concept than a manga talks about gay relationships. The artist uses the view of a family that barley has any knowledge  about homosexual relationships and could not really understand this concept to show the audiences the progress of accepting.
   Homosexual manga are super popular in Japan. But many of them only talks about the thoughts of the main character or just not talk about the the relationship being homosexual.  In fact,  even if you change them into different genders the story still works. But My brother's husband actually and successfully spread out the idea of homosexual relationships to many people that did not accept it. The evidence is that the tv show it been made to got really popular.

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