The characters have chemistry but damn I'm happy they didn't make it a BL because a minor and a 50 yr old, hmm..
Aging up the character would've been a simple and elegant solution to the soul age gap. Hold the minor back a few grades or postpone the romance until after the character's graduation. Then the romance would've developed between two consenting adults, each with a mature soul
The producers swapped souls between characters, they could've also added candles to a "birthday" cake. Why didn't they? They were lazy and more interested in censoring the source material than in improving it
"Dramas like this are necessary"They're not necessaryNot all of us women are wandering around in your or society's…
Being a "grown ass" adult means I get to decide what I find empowering, and I don't find women letting men violate their bodies or vice versa empowering
My definition of empowerment involves women removing themselves from the clutches of men and the sex-focused narratives that reduce women's bodies to marketable goods for purchase and media consumption
Do you want to be a "grown ass" adult? Start by respecting other people's perspectives on "sex" instead of pushing yours on them
If you are prude and like plain romance with a peck of cheeks, THIS IS NOT FOR YOU. drama is all about sexuality,…
"... it’s candid and not so hidden"
Displaying something doesn't elevate its quality
The mouldy contents of a neglected refrigerator are candid/open in their presentation, and nonetheless unappealing. The same can be applied to "sex" scenes. They're unappealing
Scrap this half-baked, half-straight adaptation and hand over the source material to Taiwan, Thailand, or Japan. They're more likely to treat it with the respect it deserves. Unlike Korea, they won't take forever to film or release it, and they won't sacrifice the few friendships between men and women to pacify the homophobes who'll sit through half of the adaptation
Imagine being a historical city, and your main purpose now is hosting celebrity "proposals." I feel bad for Paris, and the Eiffel Tower stuck in the background of these two
Omegaverse is the sad result of what happens when you take the gay out of a gay romance, straightwash it, slap a BL tag on it, and call it a day. It's a ploy to package "straightness" and gender conformity as progressive storytelling
"Omegas are men," they aren't. Omegas are man-looking women, or caricatures of women, complete with a non-human female heat cycle and a human female ability to get pregnant. There’s nothing male about their femaleness
Taiwan and Mainland China had the chance to give me a raw, uncensored BL masterpiece. They instead gave me omegaverse, sanitized, straightwashed, and painfully safe for the homophobic majority to consume. They let me down
"Mpreg" in BL ... That’s where it stops being BL. Omegas are women in men’s clothing, and "mpreg" is female pregnancy trying to pass as something else to indulge the ignorant masses
I read somewhere that it will be 24 x 45 min episodes? THANK GOD. The novel is pretty long and even though it…
"... real BL omegaverse"
If "BL" were a code word for "straightness playing dress-up and pretending to be gay," then "real BL omegaverse" would be fitting. But BL deserves better than that
"An introduction is needed"
Omegaverse has infiltrated more minds than it should have. It's a plague upon fiction and there’s no need to make it a pandemic. Keep it locked down
Weird, annoying commenters unable to distinguish reality from fiction insist on labeling us as weird and annoying for wishing the adaptation had remained true to its source material. Their "reason?" An older man's soul inside a minor's body falling in love with another minor is illegal and immoral, because, of course, real-world laws and morals concerning minor-adult relationships apply to fictional metaphysics. At this rate, they’ll be asking ghosts to pay taxes, lobbying for contract law protections for enchanted talking furniture, and prosecuting vampires for statutory offenses
If legalities and morality were their concern, the concept of transplanting an older man's soul into a teenager's body would've raised their red flags before the romance did. The older man's soul gaining access to a body below the age of consent is a spiritual form of violation and identity theft. The teenager's body, a symbol of youth and innocence, is tarnished by the older man's soul, symbolizing the loss of innocence
The teenager's soul is displaced. He's robbed of the right to his own body and life trajectory twice. One, he was bullied past the breaking point for his sexuality (he's gay in the source material) and driven to suicide. Two, his body became an instrument for another soul's continued existence. The merging of two different life stages generates an inappropriate, unsettling dissonance between the physical and spiritual dimensions of the characters. I wouldn't have written such a story, or adapted it
Soul-swapping makes me uncomfortable, and it wasn't censored. Other people's discomfort over the difference in soul ages shouldn't have been a valid reason to censor the source material's romance either. The adaptation had the perfect opportunity to address the soul age difference responsibly. It could've saved the romance by relocating it to a university setting or the male characters' university years, and didn't do that. It instead clung to the teenage setting to capitalize on the source material's appeal while dodging responsibility for its "uncomfortable" implications. We should blame the production team's laziness
"... last time i checked, it illegal for a minor to be with an adult" "... but the fans who think this and pushed this are hella are weird/ perverts"
You're weird and annoying, sorry not sorry
If legalities and morality were your concern, the concept of transplanting an older man's soul into a teenager's body would've raised your red flags before the romance did. The older man's soul gaining access to a body below the age of consent is a spiritual form of violation and identity theft. The teenager's body, a symbol of youth and innocence, is tarnished by the older man's soul, symbolizing the loss of innocence
The teenager's soul is displaced. He's robbed of the right to his own body and life trajectory twice. One, he was bullied past the breaking point for his sexuality (he's gay in the source material) and driven to suicide. Two, his body became an instrument for another soul's continued existence. The merging of two different life stages generates an inappropriate, unsettling dissonance between the physical and spiritual dimensions of the characters. I wouldn't have written such a story, or adapted it
Soul-swapping makes me uncomfortable, and it wasn't censored. Other people's/your discomfort over the difference in soul ages shouldn't have been a valid reason to censor the source material's romance either. The adaptation had the perfect opportunity to address the soul age difference responsibly. It could've saved the romance by relocating it to a university setting or the male characters' university years, and didn't do that. It instead clung to the teenage setting to capitalize on the source material's appeal while dodging responsibility for its "uncomfortable" implications. We should blame the production team's laziness
The producers swapped souls between characters, they could've also added candles to a "birthday" cake. Why didn't they? They were lazy and more interested in censoring the source material than in improving it
My definition of empowerment involves women removing themselves from the clutches of men and the sex-focused narratives that reduce women's bodies to marketable goods for purchase and media consumption
Do you want to be a "grown ass" adult? Start by respecting other people's perspectives on "sex" instead of pushing yours on them
Displaying something doesn't elevate its quality
The mouldy contents of a neglected refrigerator are candid/open in their presentation, and nonetheless unappealing. The same can be applied to "sex" scenes. They're unappealing
They're not necessary
Not all of us women are wandering around in your or society's metaphorical maze of immature horniness. I don't need explicit content to keep me going
If you can't stand hearing other people grumble about "sex," scroll past our comments or tune them out. That's what earplugs are for
"Omegas are men," they aren't. Omegas are man-looking women, or caricatures of women, complete with a non-human female heat cycle and a human female ability to get pregnant. There’s nothing male about their femaleness
Taiwan and Mainland China had the chance to give me a raw, uncensored BL masterpiece. They instead gave me omegaverse, sanitized, straightwashed, and painfully safe for the homophobic majority to consume. They let me down
I'm not okay with that
If "BL" were a code word for "straightness playing dress-up and pretending to be gay," then "real BL omegaverse" would be fitting. But BL deserves better than that
"An introduction is needed"
Omegaverse has infiltrated more minds than it should have. It's a plague upon fiction and there’s no need to make it a pandemic. Keep it locked down
If legalities and morality were their concern, the concept of transplanting an older man's soul into a teenager's body would've raised their red flags before the romance did. The older man's soul gaining access to a body below the age of consent is a spiritual form of violation and identity theft. The teenager's body, a symbol of youth and innocence, is tarnished by the older man's soul, symbolizing the loss of innocence
The teenager's soul is displaced. He's robbed of the right to his own body and life trajectory twice. One, he was bullied past the breaking point for his sexuality (he's gay in the source material) and driven to suicide. Two, his body became an instrument for another soul's continued existence. The merging of two different life stages generates an inappropriate, unsettling dissonance between the physical and spiritual dimensions of the characters. I wouldn't have written such a story, or adapted it
Soul-swapping makes me uncomfortable, and it wasn't censored. Other people's discomfort over the difference in soul ages shouldn't have been a valid reason to censor the source material's romance either. The adaptation had the perfect opportunity to address the soul age difference responsibly. It could've saved the romance by relocating it to a university setting or the male characters' university years, and didn't do that. It instead clung to the teenage setting to capitalize on the source material's appeal while dodging responsibility for its "uncomfortable" implications. We should blame the production team's laziness
"... but the fans who think this and pushed this are hella are weird/ perverts"
You're weird and annoying, sorry not sorry
If legalities and morality were your concern, the concept of transplanting an older man's soul into a teenager's body would've raised your red flags before the romance did. The older man's soul gaining access to a body below the age of consent is a spiritual form of violation and identity theft. The teenager's body, a symbol of youth and innocence, is tarnished by the older man's soul, symbolizing the loss of innocence
The teenager's soul is displaced. He's robbed of the right to his own body and life trajectory twice. One, he was bullied past the breaking point for his sexuality (he's gay in the source material) and driven to suicide. Two, his body became an instrument for another soul's continued existence. The merging of two different life stages generates an inappropriate, unsettling dissonance between the physical and spiritual dimensions of the characters. I wouldn't have written such a story, or adapted it
Soul-swapping makes me uncomfortable, and it wasn't censored. Other people's/your discomfort over the difference in soul ages shouldn't have been a valid reason to censor the source material's romance either. The adaptation had the perfect opportunity to address the soul age difference responsibly. It could've saved the romance by relocating it to a university setting or the male characters' university years, and didn't do that. It instead clung to the teenage setting to capitalize on the source material's appeal while dodging responsibility for its "uncomfortable" implications. We should blame the production team's laziness