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Hello. These contracts exist, and future idols are forced to give up their lives or success. These frequent scandals are part of the entertainment industry. Unlike the industry in other countries, such as the United States, magazines cover and spread rumors about artists in order to entertain. However, in countries like South Korea, Japan and others, news about the private lives of their favorite artists is always perceived almost as a tragedy.
The Japanese portal Oricon News published an article in 2021 commenting on the "rule prohibiting romance between idols", which is currently still applied in many of the renowned groups in Japan and other nations.
One of those cases occurred in 2021, when it became known about the relationship between Sayuki Takagi, from the idol group “Juice=Juice”, and the singer and songwriter Yuuri. Entertainment outlet Bunshun Online reported, and Sayuki Takagi was “judged for her lack of self-awareness as a member of “Hello! Project” and was determined to lack self-awareness as a member of both “Hello! Project” as “Juice=Juice”, and later announced that he was leaving the group.
This led to a series of discussions on social media. Many claim that "it is an inevitable result if you look at how big idols have ended up in similar situations in the past," but others say that "a dismissal for a single mistake is too unjustified" and "it is a violation of human rights."
This causes other problems. For example, many idols have grown tired of being subjected to this type of persecution and/or ban and have left the idol world at an early stage to become independent artists or actresses. Male idols remain idols even after marriage, and aging of idols is becoming more accepted than in the past, but it doesn't seem to be the case for female idols yet. With current standards, idols are unlikely to be a long-lasting profession. Fans don't realize that by raising the level of female idols, they are shortening their professional lives.

'Only Boo! It delves into its plot and puts its finger on the sore spot when it addresses a very controversial topic: either being human or being an Idol. Everything seemed to be going very well for the protagonist couple, until the moment when they must face a reality: many music agencies stipulate contracts with artists so that they do not have romantic relationships while the engagement lasts. As we all know, some idols have had to quit their groups when it is discovered that they are in a relationship.
The argument put forward by the companies is that many of the fans (from South Korea, Japan and other countries) may see these relationships as a kind of "betrayal" towards the followers. However, these clauses have no legal place and the dismissals or pressure for the idols involved to resign when they are discovered to be in a relationship are unjustified.
Let us remember, among many cases, that of Hyuna, the most popular Korean artist within the company that hired her in 2009, Cube Entertainment, who was expelled with her partner when she confessed that she was in a loving relationship almost two years ago with E'Dawn , rapper from Pentagon, one of the only groups from the same company that had a high level of popularity at the time.
Despite the profitability, rankings, popularity and normality of a 26-year-old woman having a partner, Cube Entertainment decided to expel them both. "We cannot trust them again," the official letter read.
Let us also not forget that these companies in the music industry in many countries have been equally accused of their demanding training schedules, the number of hours of physical effort, low pay, prohibition of going out and even overcrowding in the places where they work. Idols sleep while their contracts last. In 2009, JYJ had to sue his own company SM Entertainment for "contracts that bordered on slavery" (thirteen years of contract under schedules with only four hours of sleep). And although this changed thanks to the complaints of many idols, the theme exposed in the Thai series is still present.
As its name announces, the concept of "Idol", especially in South Korea, Japan and other Asian countries especially, is one step beyond just being an artist or a musician. Being an idol is being a role model, but at the same time unattainable. It is having an impeccable and perfect image, which is never wrong. And above all, he is a character who owes himself to his fans, who idolize him to extreme levels.
And although this is true, the level of dedication has not only to do with the shows or the affection for his audience, it also has to do with creating an image where the musician is so focused on his followers that he has no private life, and much more. less a relationship.
This is a topic that offers much more.
This conflict, which adds spice to the series characterized because everything seemed "very easy", will be a test for Kang and Moo. They will overcome it.

I see some people condemning the series based on "it does not reproduce the manga exactly and, above all, because it is not faithful to the Japanese series." I read comments and reviews like: "How horrible! Instead of a dog it's a cat" or "they should prohibit adaptations of works...". These people should know that literary works have been adapted to film and television since the beginning of these two industries.
Adapting literary works is a precious opportunity to give a new dimension to original works and to be discovered by people who do not read or who think that said original works do not fit their tastes.
Precisely, BLs are popular from the adaptations of mangas into animes and live-action films and series. And I am convinced that it is not going to stop, much less because of opinions as empty as those expressed by some.
Adapting a literary work to audiovisual codes and language is a different challenge in each case. All changes required by audiovisual language have a red line, and 'My Love Mix-Up!' It does not go beyond it, as it preserves the spirit, the main plots and also the emotions that we feel when we read the original, with its emotional ups and downs and its script twists.
It is a mistake to consider that you have to replicate scene by scene in the adaptation, images other than the manga can be used. All the characters, even the secondary ones, are drawn well enough for us to want to follow their romantic adventures, based on the original work, winner, in 2022, of the 67th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōjo category, written by Wataru Hineruke and illustrated by Aruko.
And the best of all will be that GeminisFourth, unlike Shunsuke Michieda and Ren Meguro, who seem to adopt the social distancing imposed by the pandemic in the Japanese adaptation, because, according to the trailers of the Thai series, their characters will not believe in coronavirus ( to continue with the irony) and they will eat even the palatine uvula or bell.

I'm reading comments about noise problems heard in the series. In episode 0 broadcast before the premiere of the series, the director and actors expressed that filming was hindered by noises coming from a factory near the school where the episodes were recorded. They said that the rooftop scenes were the most affected because they were the ones where the noise was most noticeable and they had to record frequently at night and when the company's workers were resting to avoid noise as much as possible.

GeminiFourth are back.

The wait has come to an end. It's the name on the draft. It is the story of the misunderstanding that causes two boys to fall in love. It is the beginning of the tender chaos that will make us laugh and cry with joy.

Thank you for your compliment, although I imagine it was not your intention, because I find true praise when you say, and I quote: “but this time it's not going to work.”

Why, if Peem is in love, does he deny it to Q and tell him that he doesn't know if he is in love with Phum, that he is confused?
Today's episode confirmed something for me: the series draws a parallel between the story that the protagonists live and the story of Ulysses and Penelope, the characters in "The Odyssey", the Greek epic poem attributed to the Greek poet Homer.
Peem interprets this myth as Penelope's choice to undo every night the tapestry she has woven during the day to keep the suitors away, confident that Odysseus was alive and would soon arrive.
If we change the names of the myth for those of the protagonists of the series and the poetry for the painting, we better understand 'We Are', especially the moment in which Phum discovers the painted painting: «Did you tell me that you haven't finished it because do you want to have me close? You also didn't agree to cancel our deal. You like me?".
However, the parallel has some variations: it is not a woman, but a boy; It was not to elude her suitors after her husband's absence that Penelope devises and carries out her plan, but rather to pretend that she has not finished redoing the painting in order to remain close to Phum. Nor would it be four years until the return of the absent person to complete the two decades waiting for the warrior who participates in the Trojan War, but rather an equal number of months until he was sure of the feelings he has developed for the boy who destroyed his painting.
Penelope uses her cunning and promises, against her will, that she would choose one of her suitors to marry when she finishes weaving the shroud of old Laertes, Odysseus's father. However, what none of those interested in becoming king of Ithaca suspected was that he would never finish it, since although he dedicated himself to weaving it during the day, he also undid it at night.
Peem, also forced to accept a pact with which he does not agree, also uses cunning and the ability to deceive as weapons, and decides not to acknowledge that he has finished painting the painting while waiting to be clear about his feelings regarding Phum. That is to say, Penelope and Peem have a well-kept secret.
In both the series and the myth of Penelope, "waiting" is the common element, the epic on which both stories revolve. A variation: one undoes what was built, the other denies having built.
Another element they have in common is that concerning deception: both Penelope's and Peem's will be discovered by their suitors.
It is true that Peem's emotional conflicts are modern (it could not be otherwise), but this does not mean that a parallel is made with a classical Greek legend.
A story as short as that of 'We Are' cannot cover as much time as that of the Penelope myth. She spent two decades waiting for Ulysses from the time he left for war until his return, but only four years from when the suitors began to stalk her. The pact proposed by Phum, instead of two decades, is two months.
Penelope has several suitors. In Kluem, Peem also has suitors. Peem, like Penelope, cannot avoid her lovers, but as soon as Phum stubs her finger, she abandons her suitor and goes to take care of her Ulysses.
Penelope's story speaks of a woman who represents fidelity and self-sacrifice, but also of a woman who waits, idealizing a situation that will probably never arrive. There is nothing closer to Peem's dreams and desires in his waiting.
Penelope and Peem are archetypal characters. That is, they synthesize a series of values and skills that make them the ideals of being for a society. The creators of 'We Are' are aware of the need for people like Peem in the fight against discrimination and exclusion faced by members of the Thai LGBTIQ community.
As for the ending of the story, there are different versions about it. The most widespread, and the one we like to hear the most, says that "they lived happily ever after." I have no doubt it will be the same ending for our two protagonists.
If we change the names of the myth for those of the protagonists of the series and the poetry for the painting, we better understand 'We Are', especially the moment in which Phum discovers the painted painting: «Did you tell me that you haven't finished it because do you want to have me close? You also didn't agree to cancel our deal. You like me?".
'We Are' draws a parallel with the Myth of Penelope, and to do so it does not have to repeat contexts or characters.

This Sunday, while waiting for episode 9 of 'Only Boo!' I watched the Chinese BL film 'Rebirth' or 'The Legend of Lon Yang' for the third or fourth time. In this feature film, its protagonists, the crown prince Ji Yu (Dou Qi Chen) and Long Yang (Eric Wang), his bodyguard, one is willing to lose the possibility of occupying the imperial throne and the other his life for love.
Kang should be proud of Moo, because this young boy is willing to give up his dream to love the boy who touches his forehead every time shyness overcomes him.

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I laugh while I read you. It's just that I think that's exactly the same way, and I also thought that I was “one of a kind.” I questioned whether I was sane, because it would not be logical if I were defending an idea alone against everyone.
As you say: “there is still hope for me.
Of course I accepted your friend request. I was about to do the same. You were ahead of me in asking us to be friends.
Not only are many BL homophobic. They are also misogynists. Many of the characters are designed with a strong homophobic and misogynistic load. I was watching 'A Secretly Love', a Thai BL. I was immediately bored. One of the two boys, Kimmon Warodom Khemmonta, plays Pluem. Pluem is handsome, rich, athletic, with a good body, and has a good character. At 22 years old, he has had 20 girlfriends and all of them, without exception, end up breaking up with him. There is no clear explanation as to why they break up with him. So, one wonders how, why a young man with these characteristics and with marked masculine attributes ends up being publicly slapped by each and every one of his ex-girlfriends. Why does he end up running after all of them and literally crying to them and imploring them not to abandon him, to accept him as their boyfriend again? Despite his attributes and cute personality, he is shown as a faint-hearted, ridiculous, weak-willed, poor-spirited, unhappy, shameful being, who crawls on the floor while chasing his ex-girlfriends and begging them.
All this is to prepare the viewer: Pluem (and many other BL boys) will “discover” that after being firmly convinced throughout his life that he is heterosexual (not even bisexual), after meeting a boy of the same sex with whom he has been establishing an emotional bond is that he finally manages to feel happy and fulfilled, he manages to be himself.
Misogyny is constantly reproduced in these BL: I continue with the example of Pluem, but it is extended to the rest of the characters in his case: Pluem comes to justify his sexual orientation by the fact of having been rejected and despised by women. This is how he can also justify to himself and others that he also has reasons to despise women. He has already lost his interest in women, but they are to blame for this.
In many Thai BLs, when the boys “stop being heterosexual and become homosexual”, this happens only because they have been deceived by the girls, since they only have an interest in the character because he is this popular, rich, cute character. or handsome, etc. In that same series the roles are reversed, and Khonprot, the other protagonist, who assumes the role of uke, is the “prince charming” who will come to rescue the “beautiful princess” from her fate of unhappiness of remaining heterosexual and will demonstrate that “being homosexual is what suits him like a glove.”

I'm glad you think so. I mean, I'm glad to meet a person with whom I agree in this regard. In debates with other BL lovers, especially ThaiBL lovers, I have noticed that they have believed that there is no discrimination, that there are no prejudices, towards LGBT+ people and that the members of that human collective live in a country that It offers them a non-existent freedom. The only evidence they show is the very existence of those BL series. I have come to think that BL people create a kind of bubble in which they live comfortably and refuse to accept reality, and when someone says something that seems outside of that reality, they do not accept it and attack the messenger by not being able to attack the message with arguments to refute it. They take a comment or review as a personal attack. “Someone is trying to break his bubble.”
With 'To Be Continued' something like this happened to me. The series seemed very good to me, with a lot of potential, with good performances and protagonists with a lot of chemistry, but I didn't like, already in the endings, the approach that one boy rejected the other due to "a misunderstanding", due to "lack of communication", because "we were beardless" at that time, when in truth the creators of the series failed to offer a vision of the reality that Thai homosexuals live.
I compared it to 'Jazz for Two', a KBL drama that aired in parallel, and in which several of its protagonists suffer from internalized homosexuality, of which Ji, one of the two protagonists of 'To Be Continued', is also a victim. While in the Thai series internalized homophobia is hidden as the reason why Ji and Achi cannot be together for 10 years, as is their wish, since they are both in love, this is resolved in the Korean series because the creators are not afraid to denounce the discrimination suffered by homosexuals in that country.
There are other Korean productions that in one way or another explore the situation described in my review, such as the medium-length film 'REC', 'The Younger', 'Going South' (in this short the two boys are soldiers, one still active and the other another recently graduated), 'White Night', 'Suddenly Last Summer' (these three make up a trilogy), among others.

Hello again. Homosexuality in South Korea is not specifically mentioned in the South Korean Constitution or the Civil Penal Code. Article 31 of the National Human Rights Commission Law states that "no person should be discriminated against because of his or her sexual orientation." However, article 92 of the Military Penal Code considers sexual relations between members of the same sex as "sexual harassment", punishable by a maximum of one year in prison.
This shows that the main cause of the illegality of homosexuality and discrimination against LGBT+ people in that nation is due to the South Korean army maintaining a recruitment system. The military strongly influences the way the gender identity of Korean men is configured. Conservative South Korean society makes homosexuals feel ashamed – often leading them to blame themselves for not being able to meet society's criteria of normality.
In South Korea, refusing military service means imprisonment for half a year, and exposes you to facing social prejudice and exclusion. The South Korean Army is considered something natural, like air or water, so questioning or impugning the army is practically prohibited. Objects of consciousness, therefore, have difficulty receiving support from their families. Homosexuals also face a similar situation, as coming out is still not welcomed in most conservative Korean families, who consider their children's homosexuality as something close to a crime.
This is a complex topic that interests me. And BL series, films and short films can deceive or confuse an audience unaware of reality, since I have been able to verify that many lovers of the genre are not able to read between the lines and understand the message of many of these film and television products, and they are left with the idea that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in South Korea do NOT face legal challenges and discrimination.
Homosexuality in South Korea is not specifically mentioned in the South Korean Constitution or the Civil Penal Code. Article 31 of the National Human Rights Commission Law states that "no person should be discriminated against because of his or her sexual orientation." However, article 92 of the Military Penal Code considers sexual relations between members of the same sex as "sexual harassment", punishable by a maximum of one year in prison.
This shows that the main cause of the illegality of homosexuality and discrimination towards LGBT+ people in that nation is due to the fact that the South Korean army maintains a conscription system. The military strongly influences the way the gender identity of Korean men is configured. Conservative South Korean society makes homosexuals feel ashamed – often leading them to blame themselves for not being able to meet society's criteria of normality.
In South Korea, refusing military service means imprisonment for half a year, and exposes you to facing social prejudice and exclusion. The South Korean Army is considered something natural, like air or water, so questioning or impugning the army is practically prohibited. Conscientious objectors therefore have difficulty receiving support from their families. Homosexuals also face a similar situation, as coming out is still not welcomed in most conservative Korean families, who consider their children's homosexuality as something close to a crime.
This is a complex topic that interests me. And BL series, films and short films can deceive or confuse an audience unaware of reality, since I have been able to verify that many lovers of the genre are not able to read between the lines and understand the message of many of these film and television products, and they are left with the idea that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in South Korea do NOT face legal challenges and discrimination.

Thank you for your words. I am never completely satisfied with what I write. There are times when it seems to me that I have been able to extract the essence of the audiovisual product and hence the success of the review, but sometimes I think that the main thing is missing to be said. Your words serve as feedback. Thanks again.

Thank you.

Hi. Finally, the long wait comes to an end.

Phum's friends don't have to know. They have no way of knowing it, since they have no basis to assume it.
Their reaction is ambiguous, they may suspect that he is homosexual or that he has contacted an alien or that he keeps his great-aunt's skeleton in a closet after stabbing her. Their reactions are those of someone who suspects that their friend is hiding something from them, but they don't know what. Nothing else. If they had a “magic ball”…
Tan and her boyfriend did confess their relationship, after an inadvertent mistake. There are no suspicions of their relationship, only confessions from those involved. Prior to the confession, no one except Phum knew about the situation, confirming that Beer and Mick's gaydar is not working well. If it didn't work with those who are dating, how would Beer and Mick's gaydar work with Phum, when he hasn't given them any evidence, since not even what they saw on the couch between the two of them is conclusive? Even today, several weeks after my comment, there is no evidence of the NON-EXISTENT relationship between the two protagonists for the simple reason that it is still non-existent, despite having kissed and both knowing what each other feels for each other. other.
I have never suggested that Beer and Mick are homophobic.
The series has LGBTIQ+ representation. That's why we are here. No?
I never said that Beer and Mick were homosexuals, but that if they all have a partner, what could there be between them?

Thank you.

Where can they be seen? Thank you.

I liked how Moo came out to the whole school and how Kang, instead of blushing, getting shy, reproaching Moo, as happens so many times in real life as in other BL series, went to help Moo escape from punishment. of the school authorities who, in turn, did not go to punish him with a homophobic attitude, as one could imagine could happen in a conservative, patriarchal and heteronormative society like Thailand, in which discrimination against members of the school still persists. LGBTIQ+ collective, but because Moo used the school radio to broadcast a personal message.
I liked how the two mothers accepted their children's homosexuality, when it was assumed that they would act differently for the reasons stated above, since homosexuality in Thailand is also a taboo subject.
'Only Boo!' It is an example of how Thai series can set out and fulfill the objective of contributing to diluting binary and sexual identity boundaries (man-woman) and contributing to current discussions about non-binary and non-heterosexual sexual-affective bonds. In other words, it is an example in the fight for the rights of LGBTIQ people in that Southeast Asian country.