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MDL is the WORST about this type of thing. Of course, they've been only too happy to run photos of Yoo when it pertains to his "scandal." Also, should this all prove too much for him and Yoo were to take LSK's route out of town, you can bet MDL would eagerly publish his photo then. "Losers" is correct.

Three-quarter of the way through the first episode. Yoo got five minutes so far, and of course they were the best five minutes, acting-wise, of the entire thing. The thing feels choppy, and if I weren't foolishly hoping maybe not nearly as much of Yoo was edited out as I feared, I wouldn't be watching this thing at all.

I just am in shock that NF would leave the success of a show they've spent gazillions of $$$ making up to the piss-ant, wuss director and a few hundred thousand panty-sniffers in Korea. From a business perspective, it doesn't make sense. Surely the director didn't have complete and final say as to what was the final cut, and even if he did, NF could have leaned on him HARD to back off.

I'm disgusted with this whole thing, and uber-pissed at NF. Anyone here who feels as I do, please take a couple minutes to let NF know they fucked up. Yoo Ah In has a huge international fan base; they're not going to ignore a few hundred thousand nasty emails from people like me and you.

I'm guessing I'll be dropping this at some point soon. I'm curious to see the viewership numbers when they become available.

I don't get why Netflix, a U.S.-based country with a huge international market of which Korea is but a tiny speck, didn't tell the director "don't edit one goddam second of YAI out of the show. We're running it as it was with your final edit."

This caving to a few hundred thousand hysterical Koreans, ruining a show you've invested millions of $$$ in, and pissing off millions of Yoo fans the world over, just doesn't make any sense to me.

I'm 3/4 of the way through the first episode and having trouble hanging in there. Two women just stood on a parade ground in the dark and talked about a tangential child trafficking plot for almost 15 minutes and it was boring as shit. Yoo brought more feels in the five minutes onscreen they gave him than everyone else put together.

OK.

Is it news to you that we all make the same type of expressions over and over again throughout our lives, depending on the shape of our faces, the underlying bone structure, and the soft tissue on top of that? Or do you vary the shape of your bones and soft tissue/skin at will when you feel like giving the rest of us a new look?

What a bizarre complaint. He holds his jaw/lip that way as his face's natural means of expressing emotion. If it upsets you, why did you keep watching?

So many weirdos on MDL. "oooooh...god damn, I don't like the way that fucker holds his MENTALIS when he's sad..."

Dear god...

No one would comment about the dead fish kisses if directors would stop putting them in their shows.

Nutjob.
No one watches BL for "porn," except you.
I am not a "people." I am only one individual, thus the proper term would be "person."
Some porn flicks include stories. Think on that for awhile.
It's hilarious that you see dead fish kisses as "borderline Porn!"
It's sad that you see real kisses as "borderline Porn!"
Using lots of exclamation marks doesn't bolster your statements. It just makes you look even more unhinged.
I'll go ahead and assume you to be male as your profile claims. Thus, I christen you with a new name more in keeping with your frustrated sexual desires and neuroses: "Blueballs."

Well, your profile claims you're male but I think you're lying. Either that or you've had your testes removed. Or maybe you're "aero" or "ace!" Those are very trendy things to be right now.

"GO WATCH PORN!" It's so perfect that you and your little brain just wrote that. Just a few minutes ago I mentioned to another commenter that if you call out dead-fish kissing on MDL, someone is sure to shriek "If that's what you want, go watch porn!" at you.

And just minutes later, here you are to make my point and an ass of yourself, all at the same time.

Have you ever actually SEEN porn? They go, ummmm...just a tad further than dead-fishes. in fact, they go WAY further than ever real-ass kisses. Go watch some. Your head will explode.

No, I'm not here for porn, dear; I'm here for the storytelling you seem to think you are here for too. Did you know that BLs are, by their nature, stories of romance between human beings? Did you know that human beings involved in romances often KISS each other? No, really! It's true!

Did you know those kisses look NOTHING like what we've seen here? Now if we were to watch a live-action story which involved a sword fight, wouldn't it be kind of weird if the swords never touched, or if the swords came in contact with each other and then just stayed there, motionless?

Well, that's the equivalent of dead-fish kissing in a romance, dear. It's kind of alarming in regard to your mental state that you think kissing, whether IRL or on screen, qualifies as a "weird fetish." Kissing is one hundred percent normal. You are the freak here.

Guesses as to your demographics:
Female
Upper teens/low 20s in age
White
American

How'd I do?

YES. That guy is a great example of a character whose sex appeal arose almost entirely from his personality, charisma, demeanor, and attitude, plus the undefinable "IT" factor that some people have but most people don't. He got hotter to me with every episode, which is just as it should be, given the story line. That jaw line of his is beyond chiseled.

The very skinny, brunette co-lead in "End of the World With You" achieved the same effect with his body, charisma and acting skills.

Yes it is.

ooooh...you said "fetishization..." Did you come up with that all on your own? Did you know that real-ass kissing is something that healthy human beings do? Did you know that normal humans don't kiss like the people in this show? Well, maybe YOU do, but that would explain your difficulty in getting laid.

Why are you so afraid of kissing and sex? The only thing that reeks here is your Puritanical obsession with bad kissing, and your apparent feeling that being interested in sex and accurate portrayals of same is "disgusting."

That look shows up with alarming frequency in Japanese bls. The biggest problem is the bad dye job. It's what I call "dishwater blond." Almost no depth or highlights and it appears slightly greasy. The actor must be extremely underweight, considering how scrawny he looks on camera.

People freak out when I say this because "LOOKSISM!," but he is just n ot handsome, even in a mildly attractive way. Actually I prefer men who are attractive in ways that are not conventional. The K-Pop Idol look is so boring. But this guy looks, as you said, unclean and unhealthy.

Then, J costumers compound the effect with huge, baggy tops and pants that appear to have been stolen from the closet of some dude ten sizes bigger than the actor wearing them. Women in BLs are usually dressed in several layers of their mother-in-law's living room drapes.

That said, I've seen actors in films/dramas who have that same look but somehow exude charisma, sexual energy, and can ACT. It's true! This actor is not one of those people, however.

Bravo! But on MDL, if you expect any lip movement, like when people kiss in the real world, you will get replies such as "go watch porn if that's what you're after!" "You're a pervert," and the like.

MDL is crawling with Puritanical, sex-phobic, American Little Girls who are deathly afraid of human, physical passion.

It's the dead fish kisses that are "weird and gross..."

That first episode constitutes 10% of the show's running time and now, with the second episode, I've seen 20% of its run time. If a flick or drama can't spark your interest in 25-50 minutes, then the writers, director, and actors have done a shitty job.

What BS. If I "just want to complain," there are a zillion other more important things in the world I could meaninglessly whine about. Why would I come to the page of a low-quality, obscure BL drama to do that?

A 7/10 is equivalent to a C or average grade, which is more than this thing deserves.

"It's not..." what?

I would argue there are SOME good JBLs, but this is not one of them. Dropping during episode 2. Yuck.

I put together a quick list of JBLs I found successful:

My Beautiful Man
Jack O' Frost
The End of the World With You
Old Fashion Cupcake
More Than Words
Kimi no Koto Dake Mite Itai
A Man Who Defied the World of BL
My Love Mix-Up
Given
His: I Didn't Mean To Fall In Love
Mood Indigo
The Novelist

What struck me as I threw together this list is the large number of JBLs I started out liking a LOT in the first 2 or 3 episodes, but which fell apart and by show's end I disliked immensely. There are at least 20 of them.

I'd say now there are 21 of them, but I didn't like this show even in the first episode.

YES! This. I dropped it halfway through episode 2. Awful.