the detective adopts thr kid not the coupleand the man that was found dead is the gangster taiho i think his name
Wait, if the detective adopted the kid what was the point of showing that other couple who was going to adopt him? That makes no sense, as they'd have no reason to remain in the child's life once.
Ending they could have made with bit more complete, killing that loan shark is fine, however that mother would…
The subtitles on Dramacool (which was only version I could find), were so bad that I could not tell who the hell ended up with that baby. The detective said that she took him for 3 years like they "talked about in the car that day." However, she also says that she could not be "a formal adoptive parent." We next see her handing the kid to that couple who was going to adopt him in an earlier scene.
But if the baby was going to go to that couple anyway, what the hell was the point of having the detective and her husband serve as foster parents? Isn't it bad for a kid to bond with one set of parents in those crucial first 3 years only to be torn away and switch parents? Or did the detective hand the kid over to its biological mother after she was released from prison in 3 years? If so, then what was the point of the scene showing that adoptive couple from earlier in the movie? It made no sense.
The subtitles were dreadful on Dramacool, which was the only version I could find online. Thus, it is unclear exactly who the hell ended up with this baby. I mean, all the 3 prospective parents were shown in the final 2 minutes of the movie, so it could be any of these 3:
1)the biological mother 2)the detective who's already had the kid for 3 years 3) the couple who wanted to adopt the child in an earlier scene
If the detective adopted him, then it makes no sense to have shown the other couple as they'd have no reason to remain in the child's life. If it was that couple who adopted him then, likewise, it makes no sense to have shown the detective because she'd have had no reason to remain in the child's life. Either way, something does not make sense here.
Also, Ha-jiin is shown being picked up by a car service at the end, and the subtitle said it was the name of some corporation. Was it the name of the orphanage and thus meant he was being picked up by the orphanage? Or was that the name of just some random taxi-company?
I thought the best thing about that was the hot blonde with the wing tattoos on his back. I know you're not a fan of Asians who go blonde but, man, was it ever working on this guy!
I don't know what MBS is. So which four do you mean?
I agree that "The Pornographer" featured heavy kissing, but not "Old Fashioned Cupcake." That was a quick, closed mouth kiss that Nozue did not even return. A proper kiss means your mouth is open and your lips move. The time for a proper kiss in that show was at the end when, instead, the men pulled apart because of a noise in the alleyway. I thought it was a copout to what was, otherwise, a perfect show.
Just discovered that there’s a spin off airing in Japan besides the series? And it seems it’s about a relationship…
Is it a BL about 2 of the bandmembers who become a couple? Or is it a drama about the personal and professional relationships between all 4 of the bandmembers?
Am I the only one who thinks Tsubasa resembles Kiyoi from "My Beautiful Man"? It's not a precise resemblance, but more about how their faces share a similar quality.
I don't know what MBS is. So which four do you mean?
Yes, I did point out that they were "lame" kisses (ie, clamped shut mouths with mere lip touching). Although I also thought that "Senpai, This Can't Be Love" had no kiss all. At any rate, I do not recall there being a kiss, but I'll take your word for it. I suppose you are also correct that the lame kisses are a creative choice rather than about the BL's being on TV. After all, that J-BL about the mistaken eraser was not on MBS, yet there was definitely no kiss in that one.
Frankly, the J-BL's are the worst in the business at portraying a proper kiss. I am not saying that I need to see guys deep tonguing each other, but it is fair to expect a tender, sensual kiss in a gay romance since, of course, we see them in hetero romances all the time. In fact, basic human attraction is universally manifest by the act of kissing. This is why it is realistic to see kissing in a hetero romance, while the lack of kissing in all these J-BL's feels patently unrealistic. In short, people who are in love kiss each other in real life.
I must say, it is ironic that J-BL's have the worst kissing scenes in the business when BL's had originated in Japan over a decade ago. Meanwhile, BL's are much newer in Korea, yet all the K-BL's this year have had wonderfully tender, romantic, sensual kisses. It's also rather ironic because Korea is far more homophobic than Japan. All in all, I simply do not get why J-BL's are so uptight about portraying a gay kiss. To be clear, I mean J-BL series, not Japanese feature films like "Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese," "No Touching at All," "Dangerous Drugs of Sex," etc. Indeed, the fact that such Japanese feature films have sensual kissing scenes is the reason I had thought the lame kisses in the J-BL series were due to them airing on TV.
It depends on what you consider "happy." On the one hand, it will be happy insofar as the boys fell in love and succeeded in becoming an official couple. On the other hand, it will be unhappy because one of them is, well, dead. Thus, they cannot be together for the rest of their lives. But I am just happy that they got to experience their true love for a period of time, however short, because that's what makes the drama so satisfying as a love story.
Uhm.... the whole Novelist / Pornographer series, Utsukushi Kare, The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese. There are…
Here's how I describe the distinction between BL and LGBT works. A BL traces the steps of 2 teens, or 2 young men, falling in love and ends with them being together. A good example is the 1st "His" wherein we saw 2 teens slowly falling in love and ended with them being together. An LGBT work, instead, involves the politics of gay life. Thus, an example would be the 2nd "His," which involved the politics of a gay couple gaining custody of a child. In short, the 2 different "His" dramas give a perfect contrast to describe the difference between a BL and an LGBT drama.
Most Western movies about gay life fall under the LGBT umbrella because most involve the politics of gay life in one way or another. Indeed, this is why I (personally), prefer Asian stories of gay life. They are simply more romantic. Although, it must be said, Western critics are highly critical of stories about gay life that do not touch on the politics of gay life and do not allude to the oppression of minorities in some way or another. This is why a lot of Western academics who study the Asian BL phenomena criticize it (many academics studying "Queer Theory" in Western Universities are currently writing dissertations on the Asian BL phenomena).
They critique the way the Asian shows avoid alluding to the actual discrimination that gays still face in Asia -- which is much worse than in Western countries, although one wouldn't know it by watching Asian BL's. I have read some of these dissertations and they are interesting. They all seem to appreciate the Asian BL phenomena as a way of making Asians more aware of the existence of gays in their own counties but, on the other hand, they still think that BL's portray gay life in Asia as a fantasy by avoiding the politics of discrimination.
Frankly, I think these academics miss the point that BL's are not supposed to be LGBT works. I've also noticed that most of the authors of the dissertations I've read have not seen many BL's. One should be a fan of a genre and seen tons of them before writing a dissertation. But, hey, you know academics.
I don't know what MBS is. So which four do you mean?
Thank you! And you are right, this is the best of the four. And now that I know these 4 aired on regular TV rather than an equivalent of our cable tv or streaming channels, I get why the kisses have been so lame. Or why there were no kisses at all in some of them. Eternal Yesterday has had the best kiss so far and it was right before they had sex! Whereas the other BL's had no allusions to sex at all.
episode 7 was so bad and the unnecessary confusion about ''liking'' him is so odd to me
In Japanese the verb "to like" also means "to love." So they use "I like you" in the same context that we use "I love you." Therefore, whenever you see a subtitle in a Japanese show that says "like'" just translate it in your head to mean "love" because that's how they use it. And then remember that just like us, they do not always mean "love" in the romantic sense.
For example, when Issei was saying, "I love that photographer" and "I love my bandmates" it was the way we sometimes say "I love ice cream" or "I love that movie star." We're saying "I love" in a non-romantic context. But we are still using the word "love." Thus, it made sense for Mamoru to be confused and wonder, wait, does he mean "love" in the casual sense, or does he mean it in the romantic sense? That's why Mamoru screamed, "Your love is not the same as my love." In short, Mamoru's "love" means romantic love, and that's why he was saying Issei's "love" was not the same. Even though, of course, it is.
Mamoru's blindness to Issey's love has grown irritating at this point. I mean, Issey showed up to his comic-con not once, but twice -- and even brought an enormous bouquet of roses the 2nd time. He tracked him down that time he disguised himself under the trash can (lol). He visited him at his family's house and told him it was because he knew he'd be there. Then he shows up at his apartment twice. When he showed up in this week's episode and Mamori still rejected him out of insecurity and blindness, I just groaned. In short, the plot is not progressing and it's grown repetitive. And now that I realize there's been no plot progression with the leads, that digression about the bandmate's brother seems even more like just plain filler.
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But if the baby was going to go to that couple anyway, what the hell was the point of having the detective and her husband serve as foster parents? Isn't it bad for a kid to bond with one set of parents in those crucial first 3 years only to be torn away and switch parents? Or did the detective hand the kid over to its biological mother after she was released from prison in 3 years? If so, then what was the point of the scene showing that adoptive couple from earlier in the movie? It made no sense.
The subtitles were dreadful on Dramacool, which was the only version I could find online. Thus, it is unclear exactly who the hell ended up with this baby. I mean, all the 3 prospective parents were shown in the final 2 minutes of the movie, so it could be any of these 3:
1)the biological mother
2)the detective who's already had the kid for 3 years
3) the couple who wanted to adopt the child in an earlier scene
If the detective adopted him, then it makes no sense to have shown the other couple as they'd have no reason to remain in the child's life. If it was that couple who adopted him then, likewise, it makes no sense to have shown the detective because she'd have had no reason to remain in the child's life. Either way, something does not make sense here.
Also, Ha-jiin is shown being picked up by a car service at the end, and the subtitle said it was the name of some corporation. Was it the name of the orphanage and thus meant he was being picked up by the orphanage? Or was that the name of just some random taxi-company?
Frankly, the J-BL's are the worst in the business at portraying a proper kiss. I am not saying that I need to see guys deep tonguing each other, but it is fair to expect a tender, sensual kiss in a gay romance since, of course, we see them in hetero romances all the time. In fact, basic human attraction is universally manifest by the act of kissing. This is why it is realistic to see kissing in a hetero romance, while the lack of kissing in all these J-BL's feels patently unrealistic. In short, people who are in love kiss each other in real life.
I must say, it is ironic that J-BL's have the worst kissing scenes in the business when BL's had originated in Japan over a decade ago. Meanwhile, BL's are much newer in Korea, yet all the K-BL's this year have had wonderfully tender, romantic, sensual kisses. It's also rather ironic because Korea is far more homophobic than Japan. All in all, I simply do not get why J-BL's are so uptight about portraying a gay kiss. To be clear, I mean J-BL series, not Japanese feature films like "Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese," "No Touching at All," "Dangerous Drugs of Sex," etc. Indeed, the fact that such Japanese feature films have sensual kissing scenes is the reason I had thought the lame kisses in the J-BL series were due to them airing on TV.
Most Western movies about gay life fall under the LGBT umbrella because most involve the politics of gay life in one way or another. Indeed, this is why I (personally), prefer Asian stories of gay life. They are simply more romantic. Although, it must be said, Western critics are highly critical of stories about gay life that do not touch on the politics of gay life and do not allude to the oppression of minorities in some way or another. This is why a lot of Western academics who study the Asian BL phenomena criticize it (many academics studying "Queer Theory" in Western Universities are currently writing dissertations on the Asian BL phenomena).
They critique the way the Asian shows avoid alluding to the actual discrimination that gays still face in Asia -- which is much worse than in Western countries, although one wouldn't know it by watching Asian BL's. I have read some of these dissertations and they are interesting. They all seem to appreciate the Asian BL phenomena as a way of making Asians more aware of the existence of gays in their own counties but, on the other hand, they still think that BL's portray gay life in Asia as a fantasy by avoiding the politics of discrimination.
Frankly, I think these academics miss the point that BL's are not supposed to be LGBT works. I've also noticed that most of the authors of the dissertations I've read have not seen many BL's. One should be a fan of a genre and seen tons of them before writing a dissertation. But, hey, you know academics.
For example, when Issei was saying, "I love that photographer" and "I love my bandmates" it was the way we sometimes say "I love ice cream" or "I love that movie star." We're saying "I love" in a non-romantic context. But we are still using the word "love." Thus, it made sense for Mamoru to be confused and wonder, wait, does he mean "love" in the casual sense, or does he mean it in the romantic sense? That's why Mamoru screamed, "Your love is not the same as my love." In short, Mamoru's "love" means romantic love, and that's why he was saying Issei's "love" was not the same. Even though, of course, it is.