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I guess it's just different cultures and what the audience expects from a production company. I mainly watch JDrama and they don't announce anything that's not already in production or even a few steps away from completion. That's why I'm genuinely confused so many Thai dramas get announced and then never happen. You'll never hear anything about a JDrama that is supposed to air in 6+ months, except maybe from the IG account of an actor/actress without any context of what the post is about. There's a new Japanese GL airing at the end of April and I (and most peole I converse with about JDrama) were really surprised they already announced everything, from plot, to cast, to date.

Why do they announce it then (companies in general)? I'll never understand this concept of telling people "we'll make Story X into a drama" and then don't communicate for several months or longer so people lose interest. Why don't Thai productions companies sort everything out first and then announce it? This is not some hate or anything, I'm genuinely curious because it doesn't make any sense to me.

It's 6 2 minute clips with nothing happening. It's not even confirmed one likes the other, just a bit of teasing. No idea what the producers/director were trying to do or say.

I usually know what a pilot is (for), I'm just always confused because the only pilots of Thai Dramas I've seen so far were 6 - 10 minute mini introduction episodes that should have content subject to change written at the beginning/end because they almost all ended up with a different setting and characters, even some of the cast was changed sometimes, like in GAP or 23.5 for example. If it's JUST for the plot, ok, even if I don't get why it's over 5 minutes long then.
I almost only watch Jdramas, and the only thing they usually do for PR is a 30 - 90 sec trailer or two sometimes and after credit previews in the drama that airs on the same slot the new one will start a few weeks later, so I'm sorry if you thought my question was dumb or uninformed.

I really hoped for a comedy or at least something light-hearted with them, but if there won't be any murderous idiots who can't see the forest for the trees and they need forgiveness from despite all that, then I'm pretty content and excited. Really don't know why you need a 6 minute pilot when half of it is them just making out, but I don't really understand the concept of those pilots in Thai dramas anyways, so that's probably on me.

The movie won an award at the Cannes Film Festival and still gets released without subs? I really don't understand the Japanese industry. Hopefully it'll get an international release on a streaming platform, I don't see any fansubber picking this up unfortunately.

Since it's on Netflix, does anyone know if it'll be weekly episodes or an all at once release?

Sooooo, it was dropped after Ep4?

I don't know if you already got your answer, but... kind of? I don't know if I'd call an unrequited all-girls school crush a "romance" though.

If we believe the Amazon subtitles then he's the most unprofessional doctor around. Where would anyone get the idea that a doctor just addresses their nurse and patients by first name? And it's not just the doctor. Everyone just addresses everyone by first name, even though they met once or it's their first meeting. I wish these translators would take their job more serious. Americanizing everything is bad enough and often comes from the streaming services, but do they need to make idiots out of the audience and characters as well?

It was a nice drama, but felt kind of like an ad sometimes. "Psychiatrists are doctors, you don't need to think you're crazy if you go to one" kind of.

Kinda sounds a bit like Affair tbh. Just a bit more messed up, even if I didn't think that was possible (haven't seen it yet, so just an assumption based on your comment)

Sounds fun, especially because at least 90% of high schools (most probably more) have a policy that girls who are pregnant have to drop out of school. And the vast majority of high schools don't even have sex-ed. So I hope there aren't too many Japanese female high school students watching that drama.

Thanks for the reply! I'll give it a shot then.

Is this one of those "I have a great career going, but I have to get married, otherwise I'll lose my worth as a woman when I'm 30" dramas? It kind of sounds like that for Kawaguchi Haruna's character and I'm definitely not watching another one of those if it's the case.

It's actually "pretty common" in Japan. When one parent leaves the household they basically give up their rights to see the children if the other parent wants to have full custody. The one that leaves has to proof they're fit to raise the kids and have enough resources to pull it off and the parent with custody can forbid the other to see the children if they don't fight for it. That's a big reason why a lot of women stay in a loveless or even abusive marriage if they have kids.

It was definitely dropped. The person who translated it even deleted their account, so there's no chance they'll continue and, seeing how the Japanese subber scene works, it'll take quite a while before someone else picks it up... if someone else picks it up.

Ep 1 & 4 only have Spanish subs. Just to let you know.

No English sub, so I more or less skipped through it because it was just a lesbian soft porn without any sex. Don't know where the nudity tag comes from, but the most nudity we see is a back with a bra on. Don't know about the Extreme sexual content either. They're just kissing the whole time and there's nothing that seems to be non-consensual or "extreme" about it. Maybe it's the "on edge music". For people who are nonetheless interested to see 2 couples kissing without anything happening, it's on the Shakeshoulder Filmmaker YT channel

Seeing the cast and after watching the first two "seasons", which I really liked, I was a bit disappointed. It was basically an 11x rinse and repeat with 5 different problematic partners and 11 murders. I usually like case of the week dramas, but those tend to have completely different settings every week and different methods of delivery. Here it was the same over and over again, a crime, Kazama knows instantly who the killer is, maximum 10 - 15 minutes later his partner knows it aswell, they try to prove it and on the way they solve the partners issues. That's the drama in a nutshell basically. Three reasons why I didn't drop and gave it a 7 in the end: I found two of the partners interesting, the acting was top notch and, like I said, I liked the sequels and wanted to know how it plays into them.

After watching the pilot I suddenly crave a purely parodic GL that makes fun of all the cliches and stereotypes in Yuri stories. Kind of seems to be half parody/comedy (or 75%) and half (or 25%) stereotypical GL drama. I'm curious what the neat Fuji-san and Sakura imagery in the poster and the Japanese song/OST is all about and how it's represented in the drama.