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Please don’t take me talking about Iyami’s canon fondness for feminine clothing as me lauding it as LGBT+ representation! While I do think that he’s a pretty neat early example of a GNC manga character (Osomatsu-kun started being published in 1962!) and probably one of the first to achieve so much recognition and popularity in Japan, Fujio Akatsuka was a very progressive man for the time he was born and raised in and there was no shortage of other cool early LGBT+ themes and characters in his work, even in other aspects of Iyami’s character!

For example, Iyami has married another one of Akatsuka’s characters, an openly gay man, in at least two separate stories from the 70s and has shared what might very well be the first kiss on the lips between two men in manga history with him!