Please look up the definition of pedophilia. It means the attraction to prepubescent children. This is a teenager with adult sexual characteristics such as fully grown pubic hair and fully grown genitalia. You are clearly a fucking idiot who just wants to spout alarmist jargon without even understanding what the jargon means.
I love how the MDL profile described the 30 yr old lead as a "middle aged former corporate drone." If 30 is middle aged, does that mean we're all considered old and senile by time we're 40?
I recommend REPORTING. I reported the profile as homophobic and disruptive. Behaves like a child that wasnt loved…
You might be right. He claimed to be gay, but anyone can say that online. It's a way to sneak in homophobic comments while making everyone else afraid to contradict him.
Um, because it contributes nothing meaningful to the conversation about the show. Moreover, "Who farted?" is an infantile comment. We are not in the 3rd grade. Are you?
I recommend REPORTING. I reported the profile as homophobic and disruptive. Behaves like a child that wasnt loved…
Great idea! I am going to do the same thing. But I shall add that he's ageist. Because his comment that Nozue at 39 "can't get it up because his dick can't work" really burned me.
Good to see you on this page! Fans of "My Beautiful Man" must have similar taste, because I also love this show.…
Yep, I also loved how in My Beautiful Man neither Hira nor Kiyoi were worried about being gay. Their bridge toward each other was huge because they were just so different from each other. One was the class star and the other was the class freak. On the outside, it was inconceivable for these two to be a couple. They could barely conceive of it themselves. Especially Hira, whose obsession blinded him to Kiyoi's signals.
I thought it's similar to Cupcake insofar as the 2 characters had a journey toward to each other that started of with them far away because one of the characters thought the relationship was inconceivable. In MBM, it was Hira. In Cupcake, it's Nozue. They each think it's inconceivable for different reasons, but watching them take the journey toward their beloved is compelling in both dramas.
That's what I meant when I said both dramas are compelling in the same way even though MBM has a dark sensibility with flawed characters, and Cupcake has a healthy sensibility with well adjusted characters. It's why we MBM fans would love both shows.
Good dramas can have any kind of sensibility and any kind of character. It all comes down to how compelling the dramatic conflict is. Critics of MBM did not get this and that's why those idiots just kept calling MBM "toxic." The missed that the show did a brilliant job of conveying dramatic conflict.
It still burns me that MDL gave MBM a 7.9 rating, but then again, who cares when the show got tons of awards in Japan. Cupcake got a higher rating here, but that's out of very few viewers and it got even less viewers on Viki. Yet I just heard that Cupcake is #1 on Rakuten in Japan. It's so funny how Western viewers ignore the shows that the Japanese (and I) love the most.
Good to see you on this page! Fans of "My Beautiful Man" must have similar taste, because I also love this show.…
Yep, I saw Ximmich here too.
What's interesting is that its sensibility is utterly different from My Beautiful Man, which featured dark themes about obsession and deeply flawed characters.
This show features 2 perfectly well adjusted salarymen. Yet I love it just as much because the journeys the characters take is similar. In both My Beautiful Man and Cupcake, we have 2 guys who start off very far apart. In Cupcake, one thinks of himself as the boss, old, and straight. He has a HUGE mental bridge to cross before he could ever conceive of himself as the lover of someone who's younger, his subordinate, and a man to boot.
That's like Hira. Hira also had a HUGE bridge to cross before he could conceive of himself as the lover of someone as beautiful as Kyioi. Both characters had these huge bridges to cross. That's what's so cool about both shows.
i have absolutely no words to describe how in love with this show I am, just the whole colour scheme, the early…
Good to see you on this page! Fans of "My Beautiful Man" must have similar taste, because I also love this show. In fact, I rank "My Beautiful Man" and "Old Fashioned Cupcake" as my Top Two favorite BL's. I don't mean my fav BLs of this year, or my fav J-BLs, but my 2 fav BLs of all that I've ever seen. And trust me, I have seen every BL out there.
Yep. There's been some guy sort of spamming on this page who admitted that he has not even watched the show. He just heard it's about a 29 yr old in love with a 39 yr old, and then proceeded to make crude ageist jokes. I told people to ignore and/or block him.
LOL, the guy I told everyone to block. Good for you. I mean, the irony of him making an ageist joke about how a 39 yr old "can't get it up" when the whole show is about a man's low self esteem about aging. Ugh.
They did the standart Japanese roll out just like any other jBL out thereIt’s just that Japan doesn’t care…
The beauty of the Japanese vis-a-vis being black, is that they regard you as a foreigner no differently than a white foreigner. We just ain't Asian and that's that. They are purists in so far as they don't want ANY other race in their country.
I am a professor and whenever I hear one of my students make some comment about America's lack of diversity, I tell them to watch a movie set in some Eastern country, because they will see that everyone there is the same race. I tell them to then go watch a movie set in America (or to just look around their own damn campus), because they will see Whites, Blacks, Latinos, Asians, Native Americans, and Indians all walking in the same city streets. It always causes the students to rethink their flippant, fashionably anti-American comments.
Now, I am not advocating that the Japanese be less isolationist. As I've said, that's been their cultural mindset for centuries. It's just who they are, and in many ways it's the source of their culture's beauty. Likewise, America was founded on diversity -- a new country less than 300 years old comprised of immigrants from around the world. And that, of course, is the source of our culture's beauty. I just wish I didn't have to constantly remind my students that our country has this positive quality because, man, young people really do think it's cool to trash their own country these days.
I just left a comment telling everyone here to ignore him because he's a troll. He's been leaving tons of comments while admitting he never watched the show. I asked him why he's here if he never watched the show. His reply was , "Because it's fun." Huh?
Guys, please ignore comments by "rievr." He has been leaving comments while admitting that he has not even watched the show. When he found out the show was about a 29 year old and a 39 year old, he asked if the 39 old guy's "dick still works." In another comment, he said he's gay and apologized if he said anything homophobic here. Because, you know, it's wrong to be homophobic, but ok to be ageist. Well, I for one, was disgusted by his ageism. After all, a primary theme of this show is Nozue's low self-esteem due to his aging.
He's been leaving a string of nonsensical comments down the line. In one comment he asked, "Who farted?" That's all he said. It made no sense. In another comment he copied/pasted lyrics to a song. He's the only person who said negative things about this show, yet admits that he NEVER watched it!
This person is just a troll. Please block and/or ignore him.
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I thought it's similar to Cupcake insofar as the 2 characters had a journey toward to each other that started of with them far away because one of the characters thought the relationship was inconceivable. In MBM, it was Hira. In Cupcake, it's Nozue. They each think it's inconceivable for different reasons, but watching them take the journey toward their beloved is compelling in both dramas.
That's what I meant when I said both dramas are compelling in the same way even though MBM has a dark sensibility with flawed characters, and Cupcake has a healthy sensibility with well adjusted characters. It's why we MBM fans would love both shows.
Good dramas can have any kind of sensibility and any kind of character. It all comes down to how compelling the dramatic conflict is. Critics of MBM did not get this and that's why those idiots just kept calling MBM "toxic." The missed that the show did a brilliant job of conveying dramatic conflict.
It still burns me that MDL gave MBM a 7.9 rating, but then again, who cares when the show got tons of awards in Japan. Cupcake got a higher rating here, but that's out of very few viewers and it got even less viewers on Viki. Yet I just heard that Cupcake is #1 on Rakuten in Japan. It's so funny how Western viewers ignore the shows that the Japanese (and I) love the most.
What's interesting is that its sensibility is utterly different from My Beautiful Man, which featured dark themes about obsession and deeply flawed characters.
This show features 2 perfectly well adjusted salarymen. Yet I love it just as much because the journeys the characters take is similar. In both My Beautiful Man and Cupcake, we have 2 guys who start off very far apart. In Cupcake, one thinks of himself as the boss, old, and straight. He has a HUGE mental bridge to cross before he could ever conceive of himself as the lover of someone who's younger, his subordinate, and a man to boot.
That's like Hira. Hira also had a HUGE bridge to cross before he could conceive of himself as the lover of someone as beautiful as Kyioi. Both characters had these huge bridges to cross. That's what's so cool about both shows.
I am a professor and whenever I hear one of my students make some comment about America's lack of diversity, I tell them to watch a movie set in some Eastern country, because they will see that everyone there is the same race. I tell them to then go watch a movie set in America (or to just look around their own damn campus), because they will see Whites, Blacks, Latinos, Asians, Native Americans, and Indians all walking in the same city streets. It always causes the students to rethink their flippant, fashionably anti-American comments.
Now, I am not advocating that the Japanese be less isolationist. As I've said, that's been their cultural mindset for centuries. It's just who they are, and in many ways it's the source of their culture's beauty. Likewise, America was founded on diversity -- a new country less than 300 years old comprised of immigrants from around the world. And that, of course, is the source of our culture's beauty. I just wish I didn't have to constantly remind my students that our country has this positive quality because, man, young people really do think it's cool to trash their own country these days.
BTW, Thank you for your son's service!
And it is well deserved!
Guys, please ignore comments by "rievr." He has been leaving comments while admitting that he has not even watched the show. When he found out the show was about a 29 year old and a 39 year old, he asked if the 39 old guy's "dick still works." In another comment, he said he's gay and apologized if he said anything homophobic here. Because, you know, it's wrong to be homophobic, but ok to be ageist. Well, I for one, was disgusted by his ageism. After all, a primary theme of this show is Nozue's low self-esteem due to his aging.
He's been leaving a string of nonsensical comments down the line. In one comment he asked, "Who farted?" That's all he said. It made no sense. In another comment he copied/pasted lyrics to a song. He's the only person who said negative things about this show, yet admits that he NEVER watched it!
This person is just a troll. Please block and/or ignore him.