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You didn't explicitly say it, but your comment seemed to suggest a disapproval towards the person who called the drama "terribly mediocre"

An 8.6 rating is too high for this drama. Ratings in the 8.5/10 to 10/10 range should be reserved for something that's exceptional, going above and beyond what is expected, not something that's "alright" or "fine." Most content doesn’t rise to that level of quality

Why should that person apologize to you for calling this terribly mediocre drama "terribly mediocre?"

The people expressing a wish for something to be different might not be doing it out of fear of judgment. It could be that they would've preferred to see BL in the story, and are expressing their personal preference

Take my upvote

It's a sad and all too common occurrence in the entertainment industry for actors to leverage the popularity of BL as a springboard for their careers and abandon the genre once they've achieved success. The other commenters are refusing to accept that you're right

"All the popular BL is the same tropey straight romance but with 2 male leads"

Some popular BLs might have tropey elements, that's because tropes are popular and exist for a reason. They are the potato chip of storytelling, crispy, salty, and satisfying

"Relies on the very taboo that keeps it from becoming more accepted"

What taboo? That gay people or relationships exist?

The BL stories that employ tropes or gender roles typically associated with "straight" relationships still center around a romance between two men. They are a powerful challenge to the societal belief that a relationship is between a man and a woman. The real obstacle to the widespread acceptance of BL isn't BL or its target audience, it's homophobia and the misogynistic attitudes that dismiss anything popular with women as unhinged, frivolous, or unimportant

"Straight young women's knickers all curled up so they'll binge watch episodes"

BL is another form of entertainment. Women are allowed to enjoy things, you know. They have always been the most prominent demographic of romance consumers, this is hardly breaking news

I wasn't trying to pull a fast one on you like some huckster selling magic beans

You sheep hung your hats on secondary sources, assuming they were gospel, and got hotter than a tamale when we didn't have all the right answers. We can't be responsible for your eagerness to jump to conclusions without doing your own research

Your last name should be "Pot," because you're sure calling the kettle black

It's not pedo, and I'm not happy that the drama removed the romance part

It's not pedo, and some high school students are mature and capable of making sound judgments. They've had to mature quickly, due to circumstances

BUSTED? More like BOGUS!

The photo is no evidence that I created a mess. I shared information that was available, novel readers claiming the romance would be at the end of the novel, and I offered a source for verification. You chose not to click on the link or use it. You should take some responsibility for not doing your due diligence. Consider it a lesson in fact-checking

Considered "pedo" by whom? A teen isn't a pre-pubescent child

An adult "dating" an elementary schooler is weirder than a 47-year-old's soul in a teen body falling for another teenager

I didn't make anything up, I was just the town crier of the book-reading world. Readers claimed this or that would happen, and I shared the message. Don't shoot the messenger and blame me for your naïveté. You believed other people's words without reading the novel yourselves. Rookie mistake

"Gives feeling of soulmates vibes this is much beautiful than romance"

Romance and soulmate vibes can coexist. The two can make for a powerful connection. More powerful than, "I don't want to be your lover, I just want to vibe with your soul"

You're the ones getting bent out of shape over a fictional story with a 47-year-old's soul in a teen body falling for an 18-year-old. Meanwhile, you're A-OK with an adult "dating" an elementary schooler (If My Wife Becomes an Elementary School Student)

You're weird

Hold the phone, did I stumble into the Twilight Zone?

It's hunky-dory for a grown man to be with a little girl, but if a middle-aged man's soul ends up in a teen body and falls for another teen, we're supposed to clutch our pearls and scream "yikes?" Since when did we elect you to be in charge of the BL community?

People are cool with an anime that makes a grown woman relive her elementary school years for a family do-over. This gay novel? "It's problematic, gotta censor that!"

We need to have a chat about priorities and double standards

The infuriating part is that you're a broken record stuck on a loop of nonsense

The author didn't complain, why wouldn't we? Why roll over and accept the changes?

Opposing censorship isn't the same as condoning problematic content. We wanted the adaptation to be faithful to the source material, warts and all

Will you start a petition to censor "Romeo and Juliet" because the man was old enough to be Juliet’s math tutor (Juliet was 13-14, Act I, scene 3, Romeo was 21, according to William Painter and Pierre Boaistuau)? What about "Beauty and the Beast?" Will you censor it because the beast was like a million years old (exaggerated), and the story romanticized Stockholm syndrome and bestiality (Belle developed feelings of loyalty or affection towards her non-human captor)? Why did children grow up watching something so problematic? Or "The Diary of a Teenage Girl" (2015), the story of a 15-year-old girl who starts a "relationship" with her mother's 35-year-old "boyfriend?" Why wasn't it censored?

If you're going to censor everything "predatory" or "problematic," throw out your entire library and stick to watching "My Little Pony"

Admit that you're hypocrites. You ignore age gaps or problematic elements in straight stories and immediately become suspicious of them when they involve a gay pairing

The welcome increase in LGB representation in recent years is nowhere near half the characters on TV. It's 4-5%. Even if half of all characters were LGB, what of it? Fiction isn't obligated to be a perfect mirror of real-world demographics or statistics. We don't have to be a minority in fiction

No homophobe's up in arms about the absence of dragons, vampires, werewolves, superheroes, zombies, ghosts, etc, in the real world, and their overrepresentation in fiction goes without complaint. The issue you have isn't accuracy, it's discomfort with the presence of LGB characters

"It's just so annoying"

What's annoying is homophobes complaining and telling LGB people to sit down, shut up, and be happy with the scraps of representation they're given. Take your advice and quit complaining

"Everyone is already walking on their tiptoes just not to offend you"

Most people don't accept the LGB community. They must be walking in stilettos because we can hear the sound of homophobia. They might as well be wearing high heels and stomping around. We're not buying their act

"Korea is conservative and there's nothing wrong with it"

The LGB Korean people who are treated like second-class citizens would disagree with you

Accepting ourselves and living our lives, we're doing that. It's the rest of the world that needs to catch up