Knock Knock, Boys! (2024)

Educación sexual y diversión

Cualquier historia que busque hacer educación sexual me parece un acierto. Creo que podemos hacer narrativas disfrutonas mientras buscamos un fin que no solo sea expresivamente artístico, sino también de contenido social.

Hay varias escenas que, si estuvieran en castellano, usaría sin dudar en talleres de educación sexual.

- La escena del grupo de educación sexual con los distintos tipos de juguetes y hablando de consentimiento.
- La escena de Lukpeach hablando de cómo difundir contenido sin consentimiento es mezquino y un delito.
- La escena de sexo entre Almond y Latte, siendo divertida, pero mostrando cosas que pueden pasar.
- Los momentos de Almond preguntando a Peak y Thanwa sobre cómo tener sexo la primera vez y cómo centran toda la discursiva hacia el consentimiento y cómo este se puede retirar una vez dado.
- Latte mostrando que una plurisexualidad no implica acostarse con cualquier persona.

Hay tantas escenas que me quedaría una lista super larga.

En cuanto al guion, pues eso, una narrativa disfrutona. Siento que muchas veces Jaonine y Nokia se cargan la serie a sus espaldas, lo cual es una pena para los personajes de Seng y Best, pero es que Peak llega a ser insufrible muchas veces.

En cualquier caso, si deciden tocar a la puerta de estos chicos, quiero su opinión.

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mostly quirky fun

Overall: though I enjoyed the funny/sweet parts, they needed to reduce the episode count to really make it quirky awesomeness. 12 episodes about 45 minutes each. Aired on WeTV https://wetv.vip/en/album/89w1vvkv6zpo6wf and GagaOOLala everywhere except Japan, https://www.gagaoolala.com/en/videos/4297/knock-knock-boys-2024-e01

Content Warnings: non con touching/voyeurism, dub/non con kiss, non con video taking/sharing, unwanted public outing, beginning/attempted sexual assault, punches, past death/grief

What I Liked
- finally we had a character who was inexperienced and also very interested in romance/sex
- supportive friends
- showing instead of telling i.e. they showed a character was rich and naive instead of just saying it right away
- laughed several times
- characters established as queer, pansexuality was explained
- good dreams
- sweet moments
- glad they talked about consent but not sure why they needed actual toys at the club meeting (and fyi petroleum jelly degrades toys)
- calling out invasion of privacy/posting pictures online and there were actual consequences
- Thanwa's friend/boss had great advice
- good apologies
- good consent with Latte stopping on 2 different occasions
- Almond's mom
- lack of episode 11 curse
- well done final episode
- 2 characters from Monster Next Door had cameos in ep 12
- production value (some nice camera shots like with the wall in episode 6)

Room For Improvement
- need to reduce the episode count as things felt dragged out, I was tempted to write out to skip episode 11 but this does really explain a character's previous actions (or inactions)
- how they started the episodes with a flash forward and then moved to the present so the episode didn't pick up where it left off from the previous week
- a character told his female friend something that he had no right to tell her
- I couldn't root for a character to be in a romantic relationship until they cleared up what happened in the past, they mostly cleared it up but wanted this information sooner
- Peak and Jane could have easily explained things to Thanwa much earlier, definitely 'because the writer said so' stuff
- not a fan of what Almond did at the end of episode 2 and then again later
- too many near kisses
- toilet humor
- drunk driving after a party
- that the playboy character who was pansexual didn't believe in love due to his past, this played into stereotypes
- didn't make sense that neither Almond or Latte suggested trying something different, waiting until the final episode definitely felt like 'because the writer said so'

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