it might've been completely misogynistic at its core, but shonen anime did kinda pop off when they accidentally wrote the most aggressively homoerotic rivalries known to humankind and then made the case that you actually can love a man you've stabbed to death more than your wife.

like I know it doesn't forgive the vicious sexism, but like many aspects of homosexual culture, it's sort of the best you can get, at the expense of cishet women everywhere. so.

sorry, ladies, but uh. at least there are more trans men, gay men, lesbians, and other queers in the world because they got hooked on sasunaru high school aus! if it's any comfort.