PPBongi

This is another one of those absurd series that if you take at “face value”, it is cute, adorable, sweet, and fluffy. Someone, cleverer than I, used the term ‘buttery’ and that is very apt. But you can use whatever descriptive adjective you want. For me, it just became endless pedantic dribble. I have watched Japanese BLs for lo these many years and in my honest opinion, they get dumber, less postpubescent, more immature, and certainly less evolved. They paint and present Japanese males, especially gay ones, as infantile, vastly insecure, and simply inefficacious of ever fully enjoying the pleasures of the flesh. And I KNOW that is NOT true. Yet, as of late, studios insist on presenting gay relationships as nothing more than an exercise of two pre-pubescent boys playing in a sandbox at the local park. However, these series simply do not know how or simply care to advance a GAY story. That saddens me. The reinforcement of characters who are insecure, unsure of who they are, or are unlovable are the main themes. That would not be so bad IF there were lessons learned from that; but there are none. I struggled with how to rate this series because it had creative entertaining milestones and I found the three supporting characters essentially ‘stole’ this series and were admirable. I could watch them banter and jostle around all day long. They were just so cute and adorable. But overall, this series is so disappointing to me; but I am guessing others were taken in by the theatrics of it all. I thought of it as a ruse and found it wanton, however.