It's just a big parody of the typical shounen genre that essentially skips everything except for the "intro episode" "train to level up" "mini boss fight" "real boss fight" "closing episode that opens up the plot for the next arch". So for example, a character's been cut in half but they're still alive for as long as the protagonist or evil guy talks. The gay stuff is... over the course of the episodes the fighting poses and costumes get progressively more suggestive (hugging, or like "sexy female models" only it's crazy muscular men; a few episodes ago I saw Tentacle Monster). And there's been 1-2 times so far where they've thrown in suggestive lines between (male) main characters.

So far I've seen two archs:

1. A mask turns the main character's evil adopted brother into a vampire, who then creates a horde of zombies; main character learns how to use "energy waves" as an attack, kills him and destroys the mask. Setting is 1800's England.

2. 50 years later another mask turns up; the creators of the masks (an ancient species of super-strong beings, weak only to sunlight) revive from being petrified and are looking for a jewel that will make them immune to sunlight. Main character who could already use "energy waves" even better than arch 1's main character from birth, has to train his waves and defeat the 3-4 creators. Setting is early 1900's America and Italy, mostly. No zombies to be found.

I assume that each timeline involves descendants of the original cast and that's why it gets so confusing. The second arch has the grandkid of the main character + the grandkid of a guy who accompanied him, but relatives of the other first arch characters haven't been mentioned at all.

Yeah exactly! It's like they're spurting out their detailed headcanon into a blog post and then publishing it as if it were fanfic. I've started reading pixiv fanfic recently but some are still waaay over my head! And no one writes in any other language I know *sniff*

I've also noticed that people are actually coming to comment on people's fics JUST to insult them now. I almost never saw flames in the past unless it was obviously a person who just hated yaoi or who was crazy about correct grammar/spelling or something. But now it's just like... really mean people, absolutely everywhere, who don't understand that this is a "by fan for fan" and "entertainment-only" kind of thing. My wife even saw one where a flamer thought that fanfic writers PAY people to beta read! I'd never gotten a flame in my life until the past 2-3 years, where out of nowhere I got like two in the same week.

I never got many likes / comments but recently even if I write for a popular series I get absolutely NOTHING. Meanwhile self-insert Tumblr crap fic has 3,000 comments. It's depressing...