The BL fan community is so weird. There are so many shows focused on hetero couples where the couple does not…
I don't watch straight Asian romance dramas, and it sounds like that's a good choice. Just because, as you CLAIM, hugs/kisses are rare in straight dramas, does not mean that choice is any less ridiculous when it's made in a BL. What is your problem with hugs/kisses?
And actually, yes, in my opinion an absence of the very NATURAL and human, physical expressions of love between lovers absolutely compromises their claim to be "romances." Try watching fewer sex-phobic dramas.
"secretly wanted" lol me too. But I realized it's not that kind of show. It's a slice-of-life, slow-paced, and…
Serious question: Do you believe that an authentic hug/kiss physical expression of love between two men makes a show less than "wholesome?" That's a fairly homophobic perspective.
Episode 12: That distant cousins-style hug near the end was a fitting cap to this ultimately disappointing series.
That said, it's true that from the time the "Sign" boss explained to Taichi right up to the hug, I had tears streaming down my face. The middle portion of this episode was extremely moving, made all the more so because it felt as though we were moving TOWARD something profound. For the first time since the early-episode scene under the footbridge, I felt something.
But then, once again, the story got cold feet and what should have been an emotional fireworks of a climax ended in that lame hug. And to you sex-phobics, no, that does not mean I think they should have ripped off their Yukatas and done the nasty right there on those stone steps. But no actual humans in love build up to a mutual confession that powerful and then hug like sisters. It's absurd and so compromising to what should have been a deeply poignant moment.
So...we got about three promising episodes, including the powerful scene in the rain under the bridge, followed by eight increasingly lame episodes in which the love story faded into a puzzling side story, then half of a final episode brimming with emotion and promise, but ultimately collapsing on itself into a bromance ending on the rooftop. This drama is one step above a Chinese censored BL.
And true to form, the Midget Maya showed up to spew vague, sarcastic innuendo and then leave. It's true to her nasty character that she refused to say out loud what she knew but Taichi did not yet understand.
A sad and seemingly deliberate waste of potential. The leads are appealing and talented actors. They constructed a marvelous chemistry between them, then the script and director trashed that promise. As actors, this must have been a deeply frustrating experience for Nakazawa and Toranosuke.
But it is a BL along the dark gritty lines of what BL originally meant.
Oh, I already did try MSI, just recently. Dropped in the first episode. Thai body-swapping is a solid "no" for me.
Have you seen the gay-themed comedy film "Marry My Dead Body" on Netflix? One of the few supernatural/body swapping/seeing the dead-type films I enjoyed. laughed my ass off.
Just say you don't have taste ,if you don't understand how good this is, It's rare we get such a well made adaptation…
Sadly, most of the world is jealous of America, just as you revealed yourself to be just now. You're also a sexist, but mostly lame.
This country has lots of problems of which I am ashamed, but millions of foreigners immigrate here, far more than to any other country, every single year...because generally speaking, we rock.
It's sad you hate where you live but not my problem.
Korean actors have generally been shut out of acting roles for many years after they have completed punishment for whatever alleged crime or other ridiculous "scandal" they were accused of.
The best actor in Korea, Joo Jo Min, the astonishingly powerful King in "A Frozen Flower, and other great films, had private texts between him and a friend, which involved no crimes, revealed to the public by that vile rag/website/horror show/sadistic bastards Dispatch. They traded jokes about the appearance of several female Korean celebs, just like millions of korean men do every single day. He went without an acting job for the following four and a half years. No crime, no rape, drugs, or anything of consequence and he was canceled.
Insane. I wish he would come to Hollywood along with Yoo.
Your "everything is relative, therefore nothing is superior to anything else" philosophy is actually kind of horrifying.
And good lord, I know far better than you about the American drug cases you listed. RDJ lost out on his career and ended up in prison because he could NOT stay clean, even after multiple stays in mandatory, court-ordered rehab. He was given multiple opportunities to go back to work while on probation but he could not put down the drugs. He now has at least one Oscar for best actor, one for best supporting actor and has been clean for many years.
How many chances was Yoo given before being railroaded off to prison?
But yeah, everything's relative so everything's the same.
I don't get why you are so hellbent on policing how other people should feel about this show. If you don't like…
Bravo! My god, I could be your dad. :D Yes, I agree: You and Maggi are assigned to taking care of the intellectual approach. Meanwhile, I will cover our flank with my trademark juvenile insults and snark. Sound good?
I don't get why you are so hellbent on policing how other people should feel about this show. If you don't like…
btw, you've been on here an awful lot the last few days. What happened to your vibrant, exciting, and meaningful life out there chewing grass like a cow?
I don't get why you are so hellbent on policing how other people should feel about this show. If you don't like…
Again, responding to things I never wrote. I have never written the word "woke" here, you moron. I consider MYSELF woke and know exactly what that word means, when it came into use after the George floyd murder by the police, and all the changes in American society that have happened since millions of us "woke" up. The Republicans tried to turn it into an insult but fuck them.
This is all something I'd discuss with you if you weren't pretending to be a SE Asian who knows all about South Jersey, Nebraska, Alabama, Trump, etc. I know the whole world watches our politics, but you know way more than a SE Asian would. Perhaps after you come clean that you're in Kentucky, living in a trailer park, we can talk. Til, then, lol, forget it.
For the record, I have never in my long life voted for a Republican, least of all the monster Trump. More than half the country is embarrassed that he was ever President. He was defeated in the popular vote by 3M votes, but the anti-democratic abomination that is the Electoral College allowed him to win the overall election.
Thankfully, Kamala Harris kicked his sorry, lying ass last night in a live presidential debate and we will soon have our first woman president, thank god. Harris is awesome. But you know all that, living there in your trailer.
I don't get why you are so hellbent on policing how other people should feel about this show. If you don't like…
"republican" lol I'm as much a republican as I am a straight woman with vaginitis.
That's another giveaway: how you toss around terms like "republican," and in so doing reveal your own biases surrounding that moniker. A non-american who's insulting America in general wouldn't be holding Democrats apart as better than republicans, although we are.
How odd to insist on defending clear spoilers as justifiable comment material.
Yes, by all means, block me. You have no regard for the viewing experience of other audience members. I look forward to not seeing your future spoilers.
But it is a BL along the dark gritty lines of what BL originally meant.
If you've read many of my comments you already know that to me, the "best Thai BL so far this year" still equates as a POS. lol But, on your rec, I will def check out MSI. Messy and toxic are my middle names.
What show are the two guys in bunny ears as your profile pic from?
On edit: I just looked at My Stand In's page. I loathe body-swapping plots.
If there's this level of hate. I'd say the writer did a brilliant job in portraying a character. It's the person…
I laughed when, in one of the latter eps, Kohei was talking to her about why Taichi means so much to him, and she pushed her hair on her left side behind her ear, as though that was going to help her hear what he was saying. lol I had no idea a few human hairs had such sound-insulating abilities.
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And actually, yes, in my opinion an absence of the very NATURAL and human, physical expressions of love between lovers absolutely compromises their claim to be "romances." Try watching fewer sex-phobic dramas.
That distant cousins-style hug near the end was a fitting cap to this ultimately disappointing series.
That said, it's true that from the time the "Sign" boss explained to Taichi right up to the hug, I had tears streaming down my face. The middle portion of this episode was extremely moving, made all the more so because it felt as though we were moving TOWARD something profound. For the first time since the early-episode scene under the footbridge, I felt something.
But then, once again, the story got cold feet and what should have been an emotional fireworks of a climax ended in that lame hug. And to you sex-phobics, no, that does not mean I think they should have ripped off their Yukatas and done the nasty right there on those stone steps. But no actual humans in love build up to a mutual confession that powerful and then hug like sisters. It's absurd and so compromising to what should have been a deeply poignant moment.
So...we got about three promising episodes, including the powerful scene in the rain under the bridge, followed by eight increasingly lame episodes in which the love story faded into a puzzling side story, then half of a final episode brimming with emotion and promise, but ultimately collapsing on itself into a bromance ending on the rooftop. This drama is one step above a Chinese censored BL.
And true to form, the Midget Maya showed up to spew vague, sarcastic innuendo and then leave. It's true to her nasty character that she refused to say out loud what she knew but Taichi did not yet understand.
A sad and seemingly deliberate waste of potential. The leads are appealing and talented actors. They constructed a marvelous chemistry between them, then the script and director trashed that promise. As actors, this must have been a deeply frustrating experience for Nakazawa and Toranosuke.
5/10
Have you seen the gay-themed comedy film "Marry My Dead Body" on Netflix? One of the few supernatural/body swapping/seeing the dead-type films I enjoyed. laughed my ass off.
This country has lots of problems of which I am ashamed, but millions of foreigners immigrate here, far more than to any other country, every single year...because generally speaking, we rock.
It's sad you hate where you live but not my problem.
The best actor in Korea, Joo Jo Min, the astonishingly powerful King in "A Frozen Flower, and other great films, had private texts between him and a friend, which involved no crimes, revealed to the public by that vile rag/website/horror show/sadistic bastards Dispatch. They traded jokes about the appearance of several female Korean celebs, just like millions of korean men do every single day. He went without an acting job for the following four and a half years. No crime, no rape, drugs, or anything of consequence and he was canceled.
Insane. I wish he would come to Hollywood along with Yoo.
Your "everything is relative, therefore nothing is superior to anything else" philosophy is actually kind of horrifying.
And good lord, I know far better than you about the American drug cases you listed. RDJ lost out on his career and ended up in prison because he could NOT stay clean, even after multiple stays in mandatory, court-ordered rehab. He was given multiple opportunities to go back to work while on probation but he could not put down the drugs. He now has at least one Oscar for best actor, one for best supporting actor and has been clean for many years.
How many chances was Yoo given before being railroaded off to prison?
But yeah, everything's relative so everything's the same.
It's kind of fun to be tri-schizophrenic.
This is all something I'd discuss with you if you weren't pretending to be a SE Asian who knows all about South Jersey, Nebraska, Alabama, Trump, etc.
I know the whole world watches our politics, but you know way more than a SE Asian would. Perhaps after you come clean that you're in Kentucky, living in a trailer park, we can talk. Til, then, lol, forget it.
For the record, I have never in my long life voted for a Republican, least of all the monster Trump. More than half the country is embarrassed that he was ever President. He was defeated in the popular vote by 3M votes, but the anti-democratic abomination that is the Electoral College allowed him to win the overall election.
Thankfully, Kamala Harris kicked his sorry, lying ass last night in a live presidential debate and we will soon have our first woman president, thank god. Harris is awesome. But you know all that, living there in your trailer.
That's another giveaway: how you toss around terms like "republican," and in so doing reveal your own biases surrounding that moniker. A non-american who's insulting America in general wouldn't be holding Democrats apart as better than republicans, although we are.
Yes, by all means, block me. You have no regard for the viewing experience of other audience members. I look forward to not seeing your future spoilers.
What show are the two guys in bunny ears as your profile pic from?
On edit: I just looked at My Stand In's page. I loathe body-swapping plots.