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Don't you think these stories have no relation to the Japanese series? Well, they have a lot in common. These and other films already mentioned in previous comments deal with relationships between people with a difference in age, even a more notable difference than that between Sahara and Toki, who is only 3 years old. They also have in common the teacher-student relationship, in some films more marked than in others. I cited the Asian series 'Big', from 2012; 'A gentleman's Dignity', 2012; 'My Rommate Gumiho', 'Hello Mr. Right', 2016; 'Hello, My Teacher', 2005; 'Teacher Monarch', 2018; 'Somewhere Only We Know', from 2019; 'Doctors', from 2016; 'Sensei', from 2017; 'Tunnel of Love: The Place For Miracles', 2015; 'Thorn', from 2014; 'My Rainy Days', 2009; 'Close Range Love', 2014; 'My Little Bride', 2004; 'High School Teacher', 2003; 'Flower Boy Ramyun Shop', 2011; 'Doctor Crush', 2016; 'Exclusive Memory', from 2019; 'Secret Love Affair', 2014; 'A Story To Read When You First Fall In Love', 2019; 'Daytime Shooting Star', 2017; 'I'm Sam', 2007; 'Met Me After School', from 2018, among others, and they all have what was mentioned above in common.

Delving deeper into the situation of the LGBT+ community in the United States, North American states take measures that seek to annihilate the rights of transsexual people, prohibiting and criminalizing access to gender-affirming treatments, their participation in sports categories corresponding to their perceived gender or the use of public bathrooms of their gender identity. They also discuss and approve norms that equate registration gender with “biological sex”, which impose on educational centers the duty to address their students by their “biological sex”; and that they even force them to notify their parents if they “have suspicions” that their son or daughter is LGTBQI.
In April 2023, Kentucky Senate Bill 150 was approved. This law requires schools to notify parents when they receive any information regarding the sexual orientation or gender identity of their children; and expressly includes abstinence and monogamous heterosexual relationships as the only sexual health techniques that can be taught in schools. It prohibits schools from respecting the pronouns of their students and prohibits transgender people from using bathrooms and segregated spaces other than those of their “biological sex.”
In the field of health, Kentucky Senate Bill 150 obliges all health professionals to deny access to gender-affirming treatments to any minor who requests it and, in addition, imposes the duty that they be prescribed – to those who were already in treatment – ​​medications to force them to detransition.
Michigan House Bill 4257 criminalizes as “child abuse” any conduct consisting of consenting to or facilitating gender-affirming treatments for a minor, punishing both parents and health personnel who prescribe it with life imprisonment.
Arkansas Senate Bill 270, approved on April 11, also uses the Penal Code to punish gender diversity. In this case, it makes people responsible for a crime of “sexual indecency” – with 30 days in jail – who enter a public locker room or a bathroom of the opposite gender to their own while there is a minor inside.
Tennessee Senate Bill 3, approved on March 2, 2023, criminalizes with up to six years in prison the participation or organization of “cabaret shows for adults,” defined as events where there are male or female impersonators, in any space. closed in which a minor can enter.
West Virginia House Bill 2919 prohibits the opening of businesses focused on sexual orientation with a 10,000 euro fine and one year in prison, as well as businesses and establishments whose main purpose is to carry out activities between people of the same gender, when at least one of They are naked or semi-naked. Some states take advantage of conscientious objection to prevent LGTBI people from accessing services, which in some cases can cost them their lives. Florida Senate Bill 1580, nicknamed 'Let Them Die Bill', recognizes the right of any healthcare professional to deny treatment to patients or access to any healthcare service based on their ideological beliefs. And this happens in the country "champion of democracy and human rights."
Oh, and all this... you can also verify it.

I say more: The censorship in Japan of not only homoerotic scenes but also those of heterosexual sex crosses the limits of the big screen and the small screen and is installed even in the very homes of the Japanese. The porn that Japanese people consume contain permanent pixels that cover each and every sex scene. Photo magazines, manga notebooks and films with pornography content flood bookstores, small supermarkets and, logically, exclusive establishments for adults. This is not prohibited. Its use is so high that it is estimated that it exceeds 20 billion euros, which is equivalent to 1% of Japan's GDP. However, despite this, its consumption is not completely free. The Japanese assume and accept with resignation that the enjoyment of this entire industry must be done with the popular bokashi, the digital effects - like a mosaic - that distort the genitals of all scenes with explicit sexual content.

As you say, Japanese cinema has plenty of examples of "conventional movies LOADED with hot sex between heterosexual people", but television does NOT show series with these characteristics. You will hardly see various series or programs on Japanese television showing those “six most graphic sex scenes” you have ever seen in your life.
The representation of homosexual couples and erotic scenes between men in television audiovisual productions of a country like Japan where equal marriage is still illegal and where it was not until June 1, 2023 when the Lower House of the Japanese Parliament approved a controversial law aimed at to avoid discrimination against LGBT people, although it does not include any specific measure that represents progress towards the recognition of the rights of this group, has been null and void, as it responds to a policy of only showing the traditional family model and censoring any attitude. or preference that escapes convention. In nations like Japan, Thailand and Korea today, LGBT+ people continue to be discriminated against and the rights of people from this human group are not recognized. In fact, Japan is the only G7 country that does not have a legal framework that recognizes same-sex couples. You can verify it.
At no point have I said that I am in favor of censorship or that I consider representations of gay love to be despicable. Those words have never left my lips. I am responsible for what I express, but not for the reading comprehension of those who read me.
Regarding China, I believe there is a brutal anti-China campaign. One of the matrices of opinion that its promoters try to impose is to point out an alleged censorship of the representation of homosexuality in their audiovisual productions. Could not be farther from the truth. The Chinese character, like the Japanese, the Korean, means that these displays of affection are not how we Westerners see or understand them.
China has a very extensive production of gay films, such as Lan Yu, 2001; Swinging Blossom, 2017; Shanghai Panic, 2002; Ghost Boyfriend, 2016; Hard to Give Up, 2016; For Love, We Can, 2014; Customized Companion, 2017; Fanatic Love, 2016; The Raccoon, 2016; Kinematics Theory, 2018; Every Moment That I Think of You; miniseries, 2021; The Ambiguous Focus, 2017; Po Yong, 2020, and many more, both feature films, series, miniseries, shorts and medium-length films. They even include topics such as drug use, prostitution, drag queen, and many hot erotic scenes between two men. I repeat for those interested: MDL has a detailed list of Chinese productions with this theme. You can consult it. The Chinese played the orchestra very well tuned when Thais, Koreans, Filipinos, Singaporeans, Indonesians... did not yet have the instruments or the orchestra formed because neither the musicians nor the instrument makers had yet been born. You can verify it.
I also haven't talked about “Chinese film/drama festivals that OPENLY feature live-action gay shows.” I have talked about gay film festivals that showcase and reward this type of cinema. An example of gay films that have won these awards is Song Lang, from 2018, a film directed by Leon Le. This film won the award for best new director at the Beijing International Film Festival. This film also won the audience award at the San Francisco Frameline International Film Festival. You can verify it.
But don't go that far: Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, and the legislature of that American state, dominated by Republicans, have approved several controversial laws in recent months and years, mainly related to the LGBTIQ+ community, against feminism, the right to abortion, immigrants and workers. On the topic at hand, Florida school districts have been prohibited, starting in 2022, from studying books with LGBTQ+ characters in classrooms and campus libraries, even if they do not have explicit sexual content, according to the state's “Don't Say” law. Gay,” as her critics call her.
The Don't Say Gay Bill was expanded in April 2023. It prohibits teaching any educational content related to sexual orientation or gender identity to students between 3 and 17 years old and requires that the educational curriculum necessarily define sex as “ determined by biology and reproductive functions” and gender as “binary, stable and fixed.”
In most states in the United States, laws like this have been implemented or are being approved. Nearly 600 anti-LGBTI bills have been presented in state Congresses, more than 70 have already become laws. Of them, more than 220 were directed against transsexual people. They seek to put homosexuals back in the closet. Since 2022, the United States has been experiencing a process of legislative violence and regression in the human rights of LGTBI people, with laws approved or underway that openly limit different facets of the community's rights, such as Kentucky Senate Bill 150, the Michigan House Bill 4257; the Arkansas Senate Bill 270, the Tennessee Senate Bill 3, the West Virginia House Bill 2919… These laws punish gender diversity, making members of the LGBT+ community responsible for the crime of “sexual indecency.” In the United States, laws are passed against freedom of expression, prohibiting the performance of drag shows; against freedom of association, prohibiting the registration and opening of premises with LGTBI themes; or against the right of homosexuals to access any service or their right to conscientious objection.

I read some comments about a supposed coldness and lack of chemistry between the two protagonists. One of the things that will surprise us the most when we see a BL jdrama from our Western mentality is the way of presenting the sentimental and personal relationships between the protagonists, because they have nothing to do with what we are used to seeing in series or movies from the Western Hemisphere.
In fact, even in romance dramas, it is normal for the protagonists not to touch or kiss until the last chapter, and when we see what the kisses are like, joining their lips without moving them afterwards for a couple of seconds, it is almost better than even they would have done it.
Of course there are exceptions in which, due to the theme of the drama, physical contact (whether in the form of hugs or kisses) between the protagonists is greater, but as I say, they are still exceptions, and there are also opposite cases, in which, although the protagonists eventually realize their feelings, even then we are not shown any scene in which the romantic relationship can be reliably verified.
The same thing happens with Chinese dramas: by not touching, kissing, etc., they immediately claim that there is censorship and scenes were eliminated, when in truth the reason for this “anomaly” is the Chinese character. When the Thais, Koreans, Japanese, Filipinos, and Taiwanese began to take their first steps in producing idyllic and unrealistic BL, the Chinese were already masters of the art of producing true homosexual dramas. Whoever doubts my words, please, with one click they would obtain all the information necessary to discover that they have been wrong.
You don't have to go far: MDL has a list of gay films, true artistic gems, produced in that country. They even have national Film Festivals in China, such as the one in Beijing, with spaces dedicated solely to exhibiting and rewarding films with homosexual themes. Films such as Song Lang, from 2018, a film directed by Leon Le, have won the award for best new director at said Festival. This film also won the audience award at the San Francisco Frameline International Film Festival.
But, returning to the topic: That the protagonists of the JBL do not kiss, touch, much less exhibit hot bed scenes, is not due to a lack of sensitivity on the part of the scriptwriters, but just like the series and films about everyday themes in other countries show, more or less, the reality of those countries, Japanese dramas are adapted to Japanese taste and, above all, to the Japanese mentality, and although things have changed in recent years, it is still very difficult to see displays of affection in a Japanese couple when they are on the street or in a restaurant, for example. Not in vain the mere fact of being able to hold hands, which is beginning to be seen as something normal, is already quite an advance. It is not strange, therefore, that in his dramas romantic relationships seem like a joke. Anyway, whoever wants to watch porn, don't look for it in jdramas.

What do you think is the age difference between the two characters? I'll tell you something: Toki participates in the “45º. Seiruy High School Sports Festival”, as can be read on a giant sign at the entrance of the school. In the second episode, around minute 14.07, Sahara confesses to Toki that he also participated in the “Treasure Hunt” when he was in his third year of high school. Minutes before (12.22 minutes) a scene shows Sahara reading the brochure of the year in which she participated. It can be read clearly, in Japanese: “42º. Seiruy High School Sports Festival.” That is, Sahara participated three years ago in the same sporting event in which Toki is involved in the present. So the difference in elapsed years between Sahara's participation and Toki's participation in the treasure hunt is only three years. So, they must be three, at most, four years apart in age. Assuming Toki is 16, Sahara must be 19 or 20 at most.

Have you seen the film "Lolita", a 1962 Anglo-American psychological drama film, directed by Stanley Kubrick and based on the novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov, who also wrote a script for the film that was rewritten by the director and the producer James B. Harris)?
The film follows Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged literature professor who becomes sexually obsessed with Dolores Haze (nicknamed "Lolita"), barely a teenager. It stars James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers and, as the titular character, Sue Lyon.
Did you see its eponymous film version, directed by Adrian Lyne, starring Jeremy Irons and Dominique Swain, released in 1997?
From Lolita, by Nabokov, in which a forty-year-old professor becomes obsessed with a twelve-year-old girl, to The Reader, by Bernard Schlink, where a student falls in love with a woman of almost forty years, passing through The Dying Animal, the novel by Philip Roth that tells the story of a sixty-year-old critic and renowned professor who becomes involved with a 24-year-old intern, the bond between teacher and student is written in fire in literature.

Since I read the synopsis, several questions crossed my mind: Is Soga bisexual, a gay who deep down hides his homosexuality or a heterosexual who falls in love with a man? Will these two very different people have a future in common? What can connect an athletic type from Naniwa with a cultural type from Tokyo?

I would like to hear opinions: Is Soga bisexual, a gay who deep down hides his homosexuality or a heterosexual who falls in love with a man?

This series, practically responsible for the consolidation of the BL genre in the Japanese drama market, addresses the complexity that gay or bisexual men face when coming out of the closet. And so a relationship that begins as a game of cat and mouse, little by little evolves to become something very special. Sakae has loved Soga since he met him. It's love at first sight, but Soga is heterosexual, in addition to having a recent divorce. As they spend time together, Soga will begin to develop feelings for each other.

Hideyoshi Kan is one of the actors in the BL series Kiss x Kiss x Kiss. This must serve as experience in the genre to make this series.

While Nishiyama began his artistic career in 2006 with the film 'Forbidden Siren', which was followed by the drama 'Sushi Oji!', on TV Asahi, and from there he developed a dizzying and ascending career until today, with titles such as films 'Samulife', from 2015, 'See You Tomorrow, Everyone', from 2013, or 'The Anthem of the Heart', from 2017, among others, or dramas such as 'Yorozu Uranaidokoro Onmyoya e Yokoso', from Fuji TV, 2013 ; NTV's 'Saki ni Umareta Dake no Boku', 2017, TBS's 'Dragon Zakura 2', 2021, and 'Ko Iu no ga Ii', 2023, and many more, Hideyoshi Kan is the current lord and master from the Kamen Rider universe, with titles such as 'Kamen Rider Geats', 'Kamen Rider Geats: The Movie', 'Kamen Rider the Winter Movie: Gotchard & Geats', 'Kamen Rider Revice', 'Kamen Rider Geats × Kamen Rider Revice: Winter Movie'. He also acted in 'Ashita no Watashi e' and Dekiai Cinderella'.

This series has another original point in its favor: the tendency of Japanese BLs is to pair an experienced actor with a less experienced one. Well, this time, the main couple is represented by a very talented and experienced actor, such as Nishiyama Jun, with one of the most popular, charismatic and talented actors in Japan, Hideyoshi Kan.

Many of the scenes take place in an office or office workers spend time inside a restaurant, with a young chef preparing food, while his customers eat and drink sake. And to top it all off, the poster announcing the series features a plate of TAKOYAKI! Well, I have no doubts: we are in the presence of one of those hybrids between office BL and food BL.

The opening theme is "I'll Be There" by GENIC, with lyrics written by its members Joe Nishizawa and Atsuki Mashiko. JBL lovers will be pleased: Acchan, the actor who plays Yoh in the 2023 series 'My Personal Weatherman', is co-author of the song that rolls the opening credits of 'Sukiyanen Kedo Do Yaro ka'. Precisely, the piece talks, as in the drama, about a boy who falls in love with a boy who speaks the Kansai dialect.

I have read the opinion of some who agree that the relationship between Sahara and Nekoto should not have been shown because they now consider that this romance is better and not that of Sahara and Toki. The series summons us to the romance between Sahara and Toki, and not between them and others, from the title itself to the last scene, passing through the premise and the official synopsis published long before the premiere of the program.
In my opinion, it is good that the past relationship between Sahara and Nekoto has been shown for two reasons.
The first reason is that Sahara loves Toki. Nekoto is a thing of the past. Knowing the truth from Nekoto's own mouth will allow Sahara to heal her still open wounds. Sahara can now close a page of pain in her life that meant rejecting her love for the man she loved. Now Sahara can be happy with Toki because Nekoto's ghost will no longer haunt him.
And as a second reason, this revelation opens up for Sahara a range of possibilities between rescuing the relationship with someone she knows well, of the same age, someone with whom she unites beautiful memories and indestructible ties, on the one hand, and, on the other, with a new love like Toki. As we could see, Sahara chose Toki. Sahara distinguished the person he loves today above the person he loved in the past, despite the latent age difference, or that one is a minor or the teacher-student relationship. This contributes to debunking the myth of teacher-student romance.
Sahara has felt like a damaged person, with a broken heart. Sahara has been needing to overcome falling out of love. Therefore, choosing Toki the series further reinforces the idea of ​​using kintsugi. Let us remember that this ancient technique for the Japanese aims to repair the damaged piece of ceramic, making it more beautiful, stronger, resilient and valuable. There is no doubt: Toki is the potter who came to heal Sahara's wounds through kintsugi. A person in these circumstances gives themselves to their loved one with devotion. I would never hurt him. I would never try to lie to you, manipulate you, hurt you.
Regardless of the possible interpretations, what there is no doubt about is the ability of the director and screenwriter to dismantle a myth, give other causes to the theme of homosexuality in dramas, make the BL genre thunder, shake it up. , wake him up and dress him long in fine and new clothing, due to both the effectiveness and the organicity with which the creators integrate an entire arsenal of romantic cinema resources into the narrative.

The transformation of the character played by Nut in this last episode is not logical either. About an obvious thing, the incurable remorse that must have accompanied Way throughout much of his life for betraying Babe for years, causing the rift between him and the man he loves, as well as many, if not all, of the problems that have struck to the positive characters by being infiltrated into their ranks, Way's evolution from evil to purity, from darkness to light is narratively constructed, sustained by the effort to achieve the viewer's identification with the traitor. It is necessary to save it, the creators thought.
Way drinks with Pete because “he wants to make the situation better.” He doesn't know “what to do next.” He does not know if “what I have always believed is the right thing.” He asks Pete why he decided to leave Dad, and Pete tells him, “Because the truth is not what I thought… I decided to leave to end the vicious cycle that Dad had created.” And he tells her that she still has the chance to choose what she wants to do. Way has been asked to show the despondency caused by guilt. Way has had the option all his life to choose the right path, but he has decided to be by Tony's side, even knowing what this means. But suddenly, some words from Pete whispered in his ear between sips of liquor and a few pats on the back invite him to “do the right thing.” And this would not be a problem if they had gotten rid of the rampant schematism in the character design and the all-too-evident desire to redeem him.

In episode 8 Babe and Charlie go to rescue Andy, another boy with powers, to obtain evidence from him that incriminates Tony in human trafficking. If neither Pete nor anyone with power or influence has this evidence, I don't know how a child can have it. The rescue went wrong, they were discovered and had to flee. The child was never talked about again or appeared in the series.
Did Jeff and Charlie not take into account while planning the accident that they could cause a chain reaction, involving other cars? Did Charlie give the doctor permission to give him the injection, shaking his head in the affirmative, in front of the nurses? There is one behind the doctor and another's hand is holding Charlie's body. Are they also in cahoots? Many people? And none of them went with the gossip to Tony for a few thousand baht? And after they inject Charlie and leave him for dead, where do they take the body in the ambulance? To the morgue? To perform the autopsy? To the nearest amusement park? Did the creators forget the cameras in the garage? Did Alan and company take them out of place? Did Jeff and Dean break into the garage to sabotage Charlie's car without fear of being caught on camera? Did a mechanical genius like Jeff not realize that the car was sabotaged? Ah, surely between nerves and embarrassment for fear of being caught red-handed he did not notice the 'cannibalism' done precisely in the same place in the car where he is now. And to all these, how is the police investigation of the accident that caused Charlie's death going? I also don't understand how it is possible that Babe, Charlie, Jeff, Pete and others continue to call Tony "dad", despite the damage he has caused to all of them. I would understand that Way calls him that, but not the others.
Way, drunk, does not leave the bar. I don't know how in his conditions he can be useful to Tony or anyone else.

The high-profile crime and dismemberment of the Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta, known as the “Daniel Sancho Case” (name of his confessed Spanish murderer) confirms the maneuvers of the Thai Police and Justice against homosexuals. Only the global scandal caused by the crime led to the murderer being convicted, but not before having to fire or have senior police officials resign for not acting correctly. This macabre murder once again brought to public attention the dynamics in the Asian country, the excesses, the parties and the mechanisms of privilege, especially for the Thai elite or Western tourists or residents in the country, when the victim is a homosexual.
The LGBTIQIA collective is openly discriminated against and even with criminalizing laws, which, to wash its face before the international community, welcomes all those foreigners who will be part of the collective, but without displays of public affection
At a legislative level, Thailand has much more permissive LGBTIQIA policies, but at a factual level, there is discrimination, taboo and extensive stigma. Perhaps that explains the media treatment that has been given to the Sancho case from within the country itself: half-hearted, without fully clarifying the relationship that the two men had, and the eagerness that the police have shown to close the case. In addition to trying to maintain the idyllic image of the country before Thai and international public opinion so that tourism is not scared away.

I'm not exaggerating anything. It's reality. The BL series are a bubble into which the unwary have fallen and believe in the truth about supposed sexual freedom in that country. It is true, homosexuality was decriminalized in 1956 (it was me who said this in a comment, as you can see, you are just repeating what I said about it. But even so, homosexuality continued to be considered a mental illness until such a date. close as 2002. Today it is still illegal and still taboo. Homosexuals do not enjoy any of the rights that non-LGBT+ people enjoy. In 2013, the Bangkok Post reported that "although Thailand is considered a haven tourist for same-sex couples, the reality for locals is that the law, and often public sentiment, is not so liberal." You can find it at this link. In these 11 years very little has changed. of Thai tolerance." https://www.bangkokpost.com.
In 2014, the United States Agency for International Development and the United Nations Development Program prepared a report stating that LGBT people "still face discrimination that affects their social rights and employment opportunities." You can consult it at this link: "Gays still face a battle, report says." https://www.bangkokpost.com. The report continues: and "they face difficulties in gaining acceptance of non-traditional sexuality, although the tourism authority has been promoting Thailand as a gay country."
Such a will does not exist. If it existed, one of the many bills presented for approval by the National Legislative Assembly of Thailand would have been approved years ago. Homosexuality is also not legal in neighboring countries, with the exception of Taiwan where gay or equal marriage is legal and the country's laws have protected it since May 24, 2019. Sexual diversity in Taiwan is widely accepted by the Taiwanese population. . While in Taiwan love has triumphed over hate, and equality over discrimination, in Thailand hate, discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and intersex status continue. The fight for equality for LGBTI people in Thailand is still alive, as it has not been able to triumph. Homosexual couples in Thailand CANNOT marry and their love and relationship are NOT recognized under conditions of equality in the law.
Even in Taiwan, despite having approved marriage equality, in some areas the law does not truly and fully guarantee marriage equality. For example, it does not recognize homosexual couples the same right to adoption. It only allows them to adopt the biological sons and daughters of the husband or wife, not the joint adoption of non-biological sons and daughters, as is allowed, on the other hand, for heterosexual couples. If this occurs in a society where equal marriage was approved, what would the situation be like for Thai LGBT+ people when NO law has been approved for them to guarantee their full human rights.
I will continue with the example of Taiwan: two years before the law allowing equal marriage was passed, that is, in May 2017, the Constitutional Court of Taiwan decided that the existing legislation on marriage discriminated against homosexual couples. He gave the Legislative Assembly two years to reform it or pass new legislation legalizing same-sex unions. It took Taiwanese LGBT+ people only 2 years, I repeat, only 2 years, so that in 2019 they had a law that protects them. In Thailand, calls for changes in attitudes and public policy towards LGBT issues began to occur in Thailand during the 1990s until today, and have not yet been resolved.
These requests for change, for recognition, to eliminate stigma, discrimination, etc., were reinforced by the LGBT+ community from the first part of the 21st century. This struggle alone allowed the Thai government to pass the Civil Union Law in 2018 to legalize civil unions between people of the same sex. This law will only, I repeat, ONLY be applied when the process of being approved in the National Legislative Assembly must be completed. From 2018 to 2024. It has been approved for 6 years and has NOT been approved. Members of the LGBT+ community wait for the process to be completed so they can live in a country where homosexual civil unions can be legalized. But still, if the law is passed as written in the bill, it would grant same-sex couples several of the rights of marriage, particularly property and inheritance rights, but NOT the rights to public welfare, benefits taxes, or adoption.