I remember as I kid I was always quite perplexed that Shun was much girlier than any girl I had ever met. Even if you ignore the pink armour (seriously, a pink armour?) and the name (in the adaptation I watched, he wasn't named Shun, he was actually named Andromeda; nearly all the knights were renamed so that their battle name became their real name), his looks, voice, attitude, poses, and the ability to get constantly carried in the arms of other men (usually his brother) were pretty unusual even among bishounens.