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Officially on WeTV, but if you can't access that you will have to look on YouTube or Dailymotion. We're hoping for subs from our favourite fansubbers (Irozukusubs or Ichihachisubs), but neither of them have committed to doing it yet.

We could also start at something like 1 pm and go until 7 pm ,of course. But I still think we need a break in the middle.

Janosch was going to do it on the 29th, which is tomorrow already. So I'm thinking that there are three options:
~ we do it in one go and start early evening (like 6pm at the latest, since it will take 6 h),
~ we split it in half but do it on the same day, with perhaps an hour or two in between the sessions for dinner or whatever people may need to do,
~ we do eps 1-7 tomorrow and eps 8-12 +specials on the next day (or another day).

About the next watchparty: Janosch won't be able to host the marathon as planned, so I'm thinking of stepping in. I'm wondering if we can do it like last time - split it in two sessions, so it will be easier to host? What do you guys think? I'm in the CET time zone, so if I'm hosting it will be at a time when I'm awake and at leisure.

I think you will love ITSAY! The cinematography, the directing, the acting, the blocking, the script, the music, everything is top-notch and fits together utterly seamlessly. It doesn't look low-budget, either; it's very apparent that everyone involved were utterly committed to making this the best they could, and they were skilled and talented enough to pull it off. Do keep tissues handy while you watch, though, because it will break you (in the best of ways)!
I started watching it on Dramacool, but ended up paying for the official release on Vimeo -- sadly only a rental, so they've expired for me now. But it was worth every penny.

Yeah, it's no wonder we all love it to bits!

I certainly hope they won't just use the WeTV subs for the DVD. That would suck so much. (They should just pay Mich for use of their subs -- they are already done, after all!)

Not sure I understand what you mean... do you mean that Kurosawa is purposefully attracting all the ladies in the office just to keep them from noticing Adachi?

Neither of our favourite fansubbers has taken them on (yet?) but there are subbed versions out on YouTube and Dailymotion if you look for them. (If you, like me, cannot access CM on WeTV.)

Both Akaso Eiji and Machida Keita should be controlled substances!

It's hard to find dramas (especially BL dramas) that are so well made! I'm not a film geek, so I can't talk production process with you, but I'd like to mention a very different but also amazingly well made series called I Told Sunset About You, just in case you weren't aware of it. These two series are what saved 2020 for me! (Sadly, it's very expensive to watch legally)

I think the Philippines are doing a lot of BL lately that is more oriented toward the LGBTQ+ community than toward straight teenage women. It almost seems like the LGBTQ+ community there decided to jump on the BL train and make it theirs. A significant difference is that a lot of it is written by gay men and not by straight women. The quality varies wildly, though.

I could not get into Make It Right and dropped it a few eps in, but I loved Together With Me. That might have been due to MaxTul, though. I didn't mind the sex in TWM, probably because they made it look "real", neither forced and uncomfortable or porny and gratuitous. That's a hard line to walk. Any sexy scenes in a love story need to be there for a reason, to carry or convey character or relationship development. If you can't do it right, it's better to skip them. Mostly I want it to look real whether there is skinship or not, which is part of why I liked SOTUS and love Cherry Magic -- the chemistry is there, it's convincing. The stiff discomfort we often see between actors in some Thai BL makes me just as uncomfortable as gratuitous sexualisation does.

I loved Ae and Pete (though I heartily dislike other aspects of LBC and in fact never finished it), and I think a lot of it is because Ae also struck me as demi-ace (and such a fluffy little care dom) and the chemistry between Perth and Saint was lovely.

We don't even know if Mich is going to sub the specials. Ichihachi has said they might if the raws are available, but we don't know for sure .

I did find okay versions of the specials on YouTube. But I'm still holding out hope for Irozuku or Ichihachi to do them.

I can only recommend the usual steps -- clear cookies and history etc, restart your browser, open the links again, and see if you can turn on the subs.

I like that it almost felt as if we were watching Kurodachi in real time, since it took place during the same time of year as it was aired!

The Irozukusub for episode 12 is up!

Good luck! It's true that all the people hanging out in this comment section are biased because we're die-hard fans, but we're die-hard fans *for a reason*.

Yes, and that's because it's a BL fetish to "turn the straight boys gay", which is (a) creepy and (b) a completely different thing from realising that you are bisexual, or even that you've been gay all along, but were so deep in the closet that you couldn't even admit it to yourself. I do think there's a place for the latter instance in BL, but it shouldn't be played as the first. And yes, I also think that we need sweet, straight-up romance where we don't have to go through all the identity struggles and the homophobia once again, but just get to see more-or-less normalized love and acceptance and a happy ending. Because romance is at heart a fantasy.

Not normally my type of drama, but I will watch it for Saint!

Thank you for asking and for sharing this! She did play it safe a little, but I think her good intentions really shone through. I do understand her wish to not alienate the BL fandom, but also not just cater to it 100%, since (and I say this as a BL fan) there's a lot of issues with the BL/yaoi/danmei genre. CM is not really an LGBTQ+ drama, but it's also significantly different from other BL in that it actively tries to avoid common BL issues that are problematic for the LGBTQ+ community, and that was obviously intentional.