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I get what you're saying about koichi influencing Akira, and Akira saying that. I'll think on the rest of what you said, but it feels like you're pulling some of that out of thin air.

I immediately thought, "oh boy, here we go again with the BL trope, "I love you with all my heart, but for your own good, I'm going to pull back because gay people can't be happy." :P

Thanks!

Stop watching.
Akira's relationship with the tutor may be why Akira is still alive.

The universe is GRAY and Kanda saved Akira's life.

Me too!

LOL "Coercive consent" hahaha

The tutor may have saved Akira from suicide. Did that thought ever enter your mind. Young people in his situation kill themselves every day.

You're a ridiculous, dangerous prude.

THIS. Thank you for saying all this far better than I have.

Keep in mind, MDL is infested with 60% Western members, most of whom are ignorant prudes.

OK, I"ll bite: What is the "Rorschach Effect" as it pertains to live-action storytelling.
I can find no definition that fits this scenario.

Are you referring to how the soundtrack goes entirely silent during that kiss?
Which was a beautiful touch, btw.

The tutor very well may have saved Akira's life.
Akira was severely depressed, isolated, miserable and self-hating in the closet.
Every day, hundreds of young gay people kill themselves, and Akira was headed that way.
The tutor changed all that for the better and never lied about his intentions.
Also, Akira is not a "child," for god's sake.

The universe is shades of gray. Try to catch up.

If he disappeared, what would you have to shriek your moralistic stupidity about?

Pound sand, child.
Keep your ignorant comments to yourself until you bother to learn the definitions of words you like to toss around, like pedophilia.
After that, research the medical and legal uses of that word.
You don't know what it is, and the tutor is not one.
Since there is no pedophilia in this story, pedophilia has not been "normalized" in this series.

Why do you keep watching? Turned on?

Often, those kind of characters drive the plot and make everything else interesting. If all the characters are "good," how will we know the difference and how boring would that be?

BRAVO! You are so right.
I call this crew the MDL Neo-Puritan Little Church Girls.

I feel the West has regressed 40 years in attitudes about sex/relationships/self-autonomy. Everything is black/white to these NPLCGs.
It's as though the sexual revolution of the 1960s/70s/80s never happened, and we're back to a bunch of sex-phobic, self-righteous scolds passing judgment and expressing their outrage whenever anything/anyone strays into a gray area zone, which is all the time, of course.

The universe is gray, not black/white.

So, please help me out. WHY is he pushing Kanata away?

How do you know that?

Episode 6:
Meh...Akira's words near the end stink of the old, "I love you, but I'm pushing you away for your own good" BL trope.
Give me a break.
Plus, I didn't get that Kanata was confessing at that point, so where was that "I can't be with you like this" coming from, anyway?

I rewatched the second half of episode 5 to prepare for watching episode 6.

The acting of both leads is remarkably natural and immersive. The tears are real. I'm impressed.
Akira especially, is heartbreakingly authentic. His coming-out-to-the-tutor scene was beautifully understated.

I loved that entire sequence. I so wish I'd had someone to talk to when I was that age and full of angst and self-hatred for being gay, especially an older gay person who could share the lessons of their experience. I also love how they talked about, and eventually became involved in a relationship, that allowed both of them to "keep their balance" as best they could in a near-unbearable circumstance.

Moreover, it's healthy that neither one deluded themselves into thinking that they were in a romantic relationship or that their friendship required a label at all. They were two gay men helping each other "keep their balance," and that is all it needed to be.
Actually, their relationship and that concept are quite beautiful.

The commenters below insisting otherwise, that there was "grooming" going on, that their relationship is a dirty, negative thing, can pound sand.
Without having had the tutor to talk to, Akira may well have become a statistic, one of the thousands of gay young people who die by suicide each year.
But, at least he wouldn't have been "groomed," right?
He'd be dead but un-groomed, and that's the best thing, yes?
You people are psycho.

The extended, quiet but intense scene between Akira and Kanata that led to a confession was again, stunningly effective. The two actors' subtlety and naturalism are exceptional.

It seemed to me that Sam and the office staff might have been the scammers.

Episode 8:
These four mains are f**king hilarious.
All the acting is great, including from supporting players.
Why do crap shows get huge budgets and refreshing stuff like this has to scrape by?

The only thing that could make this better is if all eps had dropped at once.

Thanks for your review.
I'll be skipping this one.
As soon as I saw this was a supposed sequel to "Veteran," but did not see YAI in the cast list, I figured it might be a bomb. You are so right, he was electric in Veteran. They needed to write a way for his character to have been released from prison and back at it, as a killer or some such. :D

Or, perhaps Korea was at that time in the process of crucifying YAI over his addiction, so he wasn't available or in the producers' eyes, desirable. Yeah, without Yoo, f**k this show.

After checking your account, I'm guessing you're a burner from the show's marketing/PR department. Or maybe you're the director? Listen, it's not that bad that you need to plant rave reviews and plot explications like this. :D