I think something I've been wanting but struggled to put my finger on for a long time is the lack of gay romance in shounen-type series. Even just the non-joking allusion of it.
In fact the lack of it kinda strikes me as odd considering how heavily shounen these days actually panders to the
gaze of the female audience, and we know that the audience for publications like weekly shounen jump is damn near 50/50 on the gender ratio. For some it's actually a
majority female, like with most of their sports series and series like
Gintama, and ya'll
know shipping is a huge aspect of the fan culture.
And recently I've been reading the manhua
Latna Saga: Survival of the Sword King, and despite it having no romance in general it sure as heck makes me want to see the male leads
smooch.
Kishimoto opened pandora's box on the shounen genre when he made Naruto and Sasuke accidentally kiss, I swear.
I wish there would be a series that could committ to it.