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I wrote: "Don't ever expect a live-action adaptation of ANYTHING to be an exact copy..."

You wrote: "So yes, I will expect them to follow the source material for some degree at least."

See the words "...an exact copy...?"
"...an exact copy" is different from "...following the source material for some degree at least," which is why I wrote "...an exact copy." and NOT "following the source material for some degree at least."

If the adapters didn't follow the source material AT ALL, then what they wrote would not be an "adaptation" at all.

It's strange how many people on MDL respond to stuff they make up in their heads, then pretend someone wrote it in a comment.

What are you "sorry" about?
"So yes, it's possible!"
Did I say it wasn't possible?
I said "don't ever expect" it.

Perfect Propose has become a dull office drama, so maybe the Manga-as-screenplay thing wasn't such a great idea.

It's strange how many people on MDL respond to stuff they make up in their heads, then pretend someone wrote it in a comment.

Boring. After an initial, exciting, well-done action beginning, this has devolved into a lot of people having clandestine meetings at night in scenic locations overlooking Seoul, during which they talk, and talk, and talk...oh, and there is of course, a sick relative in the hospital, whose loved ones is doing bad things to pay the medical bills. Original!

Dropping half-way.

4/10

TOTALLY agree about the hand job. lol I wrote in my comment above pretty much the same thing. We started with a hot hand job, but ever since they've been sleeping separately. An actual gay dude in that situation would want another hand job as soon as he came home from work every day. Then a blow job, then a...

Well-said!

Bravo!

I'm gay af and this show is boring. The term is "Boys LOVE," not Boys doing boring things that have little to do with romance or sex. I'm male and I get mentally wet too. There is nothing wrong with getting wet, that's what our privates are supposed to do.

Were you molested as a child? Why do you hate sex? As they say on the Intertrons, "who hurt you?"

It's hilarious that you describe this show as though it's some high production value feature film about a gay couple dealing with the brutal Japanese work culture and pretty food.

It's also hilarious that you think these guys have a "relationship" that is anything near being a couple. They rarely hug or kiss, even at home, and they're still sleeping separately. It's unrealistic and abnormal. The only place such a dumb setup would be tolerated is in the BL universe, where people like you are still content to lick whatever crumbs they're tossed from the straight people seated at the table.

I love this comment! You are spot-on, JG, and as usual said it all with more flair than I can muster after an episode of this show.

Why can't it be a combination of the extreme you describe? It's possible for Kai to help Hiro work-wise, and for them to "kiss and fuck" too. Typical MDL prude.

You two are an excellent example of standards-free BL watchers who simply project onto the screen whatever they want to see there. The fish was motionless and bereft of passion. They've been living together for weeks but sleep separately and have never truly made out or had sex. This isn't how normal people consumed with the chemistry you imagine is there, act.

Yeah, because there are no other stages between dead fish kisses and having your tongues down each others' throats. The motionless lips are just lame.

I feel some chemistry, but the dead fish kisses are absurd and insulting to the audience.

Wow, you are wildly projecting your fantasies onto this show. Hiro stood up Kai at the festival, he rarely makes it home to eat Kai's wonderful cooking, they sleep separately, and haven't even really kissed. Yet, you see all this as the relationship of an "already engaged" couple? Maybe one headed for a really bad marriage.

Boring.

They barely moved their lips. It wasn't a "dead" fish kiss, but I'd say "near-death" fish kiss. There was barely detectable movement, but it was there.
It's so stupid that Japanese BL directors keep doing this. Dead fish kisses completely ruin everything the scene has built up to to that point. The characters move in for the big kiss, and then it's two mannequins leaning against each other. It's artificial and downright weird. Homophobic, too.
If you're too self-conscious as an actor or director to realistically portray a passionate, human kiss, then stop doing BLs.

Totally agree.

After episode 5:
Meh. Another Japanese BL that's OK, but nothing to rave about.
This drama is much more about Japan's insane, high-pressure, long-hours, salary-man work culture than it is about a romance between Hiro and Kai.
Sure, Kai's going to help nudge Hiro toward quitting his job and finding something he loves to do, but the developing romance feels secondary to that.
What's up with a hand job in the first episode, and four episodes later they're still sleeping separately? Unrealistic. IRL, they'd be banging away daily.

I'd describe this show as pleasantly bland. I'm thinking 7/10 as a final rating.

All of this is why Mizuki makes the show the little, tiny bit interesting that it is. Without him, I wouldn't finish watching.

Don't ever expect a live-action adaptation of ANYTHING to be an exact copy of the source material. There is no reason it has to be, and adaptations OFTEN change things around, eliminate characters, change motivations, all kinds of shit. As for why this director/writers did what they did, maybe google it.

Maybe his feelings for Mizuki aren't "over" at all. As he said when Mizuki tried to kiss him, "my heart fluttered for a moment."