5 Updates to Know About Queer Eye: We’re in Japan! Coming to Netflix Nov. 1 blog.gaijinpot.com

By Victoria Vlisides Oct 4, 2019 5 min readNetflix recently dropped the teaser to the new Queer Eye: We’re in Japan!
Though we’re still a month out, this is huge news for Queer Eye fans who have been anticipating its release since January when the cast of Queer Eye, aka the Fab Five, were spotted all over Tokyo.
In case you’ve been living under a rock, the Emmy-Award-winning Queer Eye is a reboot show in its fourth season.
Queer Eye will contribute to queer representation in media in JapanNot only are queer topics not often talked about but queer representation in mainstream media is also close to none.
Alex Rickert, a queer culture writer for GaijinPot, said Queer Eye coming to Japan has potential positives and negatives in terms of gay representation in Japanese media.