Yeah, that's what I was getting at. They're not made into phallic imagery any more than swords are in real life - as opposed to about a bazillion examples from any other manga with swords in them.
This is the first real case where the link seems both noticeably there and probably intentional - and you're v. right that it's in a negative portrayal, unlike any other case I can think of in a shounen manga.
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Date: 2009-09-07 02:30 pm (UTC)This is the first real case where the link seems both noticeably there and probably intentional - and you're v. right that it's in a negative portrayal, unlike any other case I can think of in a shounen manga.