Loved the first episode! Where can I find the manga?
It's online under various names, "Minato Shouji Coin Laundry", "Wash My Heart!", "Minato Shoji Koinrandori". Not sure if there is an official English translation in shops...
Apparently they just wrapped filming. According to AvenueX this drama will have pretty historically accurate costumes for the time period, which most historical C-dramas don't really bother with!
I don't have a patience for this.Kim was fine, albeit a little stuck up.The girls were funny and nice. Loved the…
I hope we can get more series like Triage, KinnPorsche, Not Me and Bad Buddy from Thailand. But a lot of production companies will go for old tired-but-popular tropes and a quick buck rather than taking the risk and investing money and skill into something new and more challenging.
The premise sounds similar to A Thousand Autumns, only rewritten to be straight romance... Also Qian Qiu Ling means "Thousand Autumns Token"... Does anyone know?
Damn, does this movie get a new wave of attention after KP. A short FAQ for those curious to check it out, pls…
This film definitely won't go on my "Non-Toxic BL Dramas For Beginners" list, haha, but I watched it fully prepared, and while I found the very explicit hardcore non-con stuff a bit hard to get through, I also found it a well-made film that was quite poignant and rather beautiful in the end. It was in fact a lot better than I thought it would be. I even tried to find out if it's available legally anywhere, but with no luck so far. [Edited to add: I did find it on GagaOoLala, for VIP members.]
I do understand what some people are saying about the very twisted messages this film is sending, but we also have to remember that this film is in no way pretending to be wholesome or "romantic"--it's about two very damaged people who struggle to find reasons to stay alive, and the things Yoden does are super messed up...and I'm still not convinced that whatever bond those two ended up with wasn't just Stockholm Syndrome. But I think you have to get in the right headspace for this movie. You can't go into it expecting or even thinking about romance or any kind of healthy relationship dynamics. It's heavy and desperate and more like a dark psychological drama, with some very intense sex scenes, tying together the themes of sex, pleasure, pain, death and the will to live (and, if you will, maybe even some kind of love in spite of everything).
I would just like to point out that the use of they/them in the singular is NOT a new thing. It has been used that way in English for centuries. Shakespeare used it that way, for example. It has maybe become a bit more widespread in recent years, but it's by no means something that the kids these days came up with.
Also there are already several proposed new nonbinary/gender neutral pronouns in English. The problem is rather that there are too many, which means none of them is likely to be adopted into the mainstream language.
Fun fact: Swedish didn't use to have a gender-neutral pronoun but decided to adopt one in the last decade, so now we have one, and because there was a general soc/media uproar about it, everybody was aware of its existence, which paradoxically facilitated its adoption, LOL.
Can someone please explain the title? I'm very curious about whether it's linked to the story or if it's just…
The title listed here is simply a google translation of the Chinese title. The person who fansubbed it changed the English title for their translation to "Has Master's Reputation Been Cleared Today?" which seems to be a more idiomatic translation.
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According to AvenueX this drama will have pretty historically accurate costumes for the time period, which most historical C-dramas don't really bother with!
Also, do read the tags before watching... just saying.
I do understand what some people are saying about the very twisted messages this film is sending, but we also have to remember that this film is in no way pretending to be wholesome or "romantic"--it's about two very damaged people who struggle to find reasons to stay alive, and the things Yoden does are super messed up...and I'm still not convinced that whatever bond those two ended up with wasn't just Stockholm Syndrome. But I think you have to get in the right headspace for this movie. You can't go into it expecting or even thinking about romance or any kind of healthy relationship dynamics. It's heavy and desperate and more like a dark psychological drama, with some very intense sex scenes, tying together the themes of sex, pleasure, pain, death and the will to live (and, if you will, maybe even some kind of love in spite of everything).
Also there are already several proposed new nonbinary/gender neutral pronouns in English. The problem is rather that there are too many, which means none of them is likely to be adopted into the mainstream language.
Fun fact: Swedish didn't use to have a gender-neutral pronoun but decided to adopt one in the last decade, so now we have one, and because there was a general soc/media uproar about it, everybody was aware of its existence, which paradoxically facilitated its adoption, LOL.