Of course, there's some caveats. First of all, I don't pay that much attention to anime, so I could be VERY wrong about modern trends and such. Second, a lot of "gay" anime may still be homophobic (e.g. Yaoi manga being written mostly by straight women). I still wonder anyway. (2/?)

HOWEVER, if there's any merit to this, I wonder if as anime has become more mainstream that anime studios and even individual authors(of light novels)/mangaka have decided against writing gay characters because of Japan's, or perhaps the world's, homophobia. Perhaps they're more scared? (3/?)