So why was everyone pretending to be a lesbian?

They were all stumbling their way into understanding love, like most teenagers. They all end up being straight at the end of the day

This show was a very accurate portrayal of the mindset of females. You would do well to learn from it.

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based incel freak

>pretending

You disagree?

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Rei is the only certified lesbian.

Why not?

>10/10 visuals and soundtrack
>unique blend of a gothic and SoL atmosphere unlike anything else seen in the medium
>extremely well written and memorable characters, on par with RoV and Joe in terms of overall depth
>May have some of the best direction ever seen in a TV anime
>paved the way for Evangelion and Utena by doing what they did first

It’s comfortably in Dezaki’s top 5 and easily one of the best anime ever made in general.

Women just be like that sometimes, my coworkers used to go drinking after work and they’d make out while crying and whatever

I always wondered if the originla intent of the manga was to have all of them end as straight or it was something that Ikeda had to do since it was a shoujo magazine, not a yuri one.
Nanako is also ambiguous.

Personally, I find Treasure Island and Cobra to be his best works.

With the exception of Mariko and Kaoru, all the characters are ambiguous as to whether or not they get a yuri end. Even in the anime, Nanako is left ambiguous since she uses gender neutral language to refer to whoever she gets with in the end. The fact the subs assume her partner is male is a mistranslation.

Ikeda has never really shyed away from LGBT themes in any of her works. The fact that the gay characters usually have a bad end is probably a coincidence since Ikeda seems to have a fetish for tragedy in general.

Apples and Oranges comparison really. You can’t compare two action-adventure series with a gothic SoL drama.

>You can’t compare two action-adventure series with a gothic SoL drama
Maybe if you are a plotfag you can't.

I miss them. Especially Tomoko.

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Is there any girl in the show more underrated than Tomoko?

She’s cute and an absolutely based friend and I love how the anime gave her so much more focus.

whats this show called

You literally just need to google OP's picture to get your answer.

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A man's mind in a woman's body WITHOUT any kind of tranny shit would be ideal.

Dear Brother
2 words
vs 12 in your reply
thanks anyway.

Honestly, if I was a girl, I’d want to be have the same kind of comfy but melancholic existence as an Oniisama e character.

The Sorority bullying would suck, but it’s not so bad compared to all the benefits of being a cute girl who spends her days going to coffee shops and questioning her sexuality.

It isn't hard to criticize the show. It's even more grandiose and melodramatic than Rose of Versailles, despite the fact that it isn't about some of the key players in one of the most important historical events of western civilization, no, it's about a few retarded teenagers in a girls school in Japan instead. The series is at constant risk of involuntary comedy. The lives of some of these characters are absolutely unbelievable, starting with Saint Just, an edgelord that dresses like a man, is addicted to painkillers and always drugged out of her mind, plays with knives in secluded areas of the school, lives all alone in a run down apartment downtown and has a bizarre sadomasochistic relationship with her stepsister that she attempted a lover suicide with. And she's just some 17 year old schoolgirl! Absolutely ridiculous, especially since characters like these out of a gritty european novel live side by side with typical shoujo characters like the protagonist and her best friend.

Not sure about Ikeda's intentions but Oniisama is homophobic as fuck.

>dude FUCK over the top shoujo drama
lol just go watch oshii films then.

It was literally a phase. In Mariko's case, a sympthom of her mental illness.

Oshii films are unrelated to the discussion and come with their own set of problems.
But talking of shoujo exaggerations, I did mention how they work perfectly fine in Rose of Versailles, given the magnitudes of the characters and events portrayed, and the series is a bona fide classic that anyone can enjoy. I can't say the same about Oniisama e, it has to come with a disclaimer, yes this over the top and excessively melodramatic, but if you can get into the mindset of an hormonally insane teenage girl, you can make sense of this mess.