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What is IFYLITA?

Dropped 1/3 of the way in. This film managed to make Kamikaze attacks and what led up to them seem boring.

Wow, this was short by your standards.

I don't have time to post to a delusional person who continues to post foot-long, unbroken walls of text full of BS. So we're good.

oooh, 2,571 requests in a country of 330 million people. However shall we continue to survive here?

Meanwhile, you've yet to give me ONE example of a national, federal government ban on ANYTHING, ANYWHERE, that is in any way comparable to China's gay ban. All you're able to do is rant about a tiny number of right-wing freaks here making trouble. So what? We've always had right-wing nuts, but Donald Trump has brought them out of the woodwork, and yet still only 2,571 banning requests in a country of 330M people. That is .00000000007% of the population. I'll stay right here.

"management of this educational center..."

Which is NOT the federal, central government of the united states.

"SOME parents." We have 330 million people here. SOME parents don't run the government.

I should have known from your PMs to me that you were more than a bit on the nutty side of things. Now you continue to support the truth of that notion.

Where do you live? Why do you refuse to say? Just make something up and type it, like you've been doing with all this other misdirectional BS.

This comment is full of lies and none of it involves the government banning anything. To Kill a Mockingbird is available to be read in 99.9% of the libraries in America.

"Nor is the painting made by white artist Dana Schutz of the photograph of Emmett Till, a teenager lynched by two white men in Mississippi in 1955, legal." This is a lie.

I think you might be crazy, thus I'm disengaging.

Oh, except, I'll ask again, since you won't answer: Where do you live?

What does this have to do with China's NATIONAL, central government's ban on gay content in films/dramas/tv/and all other media?

No "cheap shots" about it. All my first favorite BLs, upon discovering this universe, were Thai. But Thailand has produced exactly two watchable BLs since ITSAY and IPYTM. 90% of what comes out of there now is absolutely unwatchable, juvenile crap. I at least try to watch most of them, but I've dropped all of them since "Moonlight Chicken."

If you think the list above includes "cheesy romance tropes" then I guess you define the term so broadly as to be meaningless. Is "two people looking at each other" a cheesy romance trope to you?

If you think the shows in the list above are not two or three levels of quality better than your average Thai BL, then let's not waste time conversing.

All best to you.

oh my god, she's stopped using paragraphs again.

Give it up, Ariel. I'm not reading any more of your horse shit.

I'm sorry, I didn't know you were one of the many "if you live in the U.S. we hate you and are jealous, so shut up" people on this site.

I'm a little surprised to find that you are one of the moronic "you only get to criticize films/series/dramas/anything else that comes from the country in which you live" people.

So you live in China, eh? If not, where? Wherever it is, it has distorted your perspective on this issue and probably many others. I'd argue that someone who lives in China is far LESS knowledgeable about its government's approach to anything...because the Chinese govt. does everything it can to deprive its citizens of information it does not want them to have.

I repeat, since you didn't answer, "why ARE you spreading this BS?"
And you DO need to write less and think more, and you ARE embarrassing yourself.

In this latest absurd comment you go right into twisting yourself into pretzels trying to equate the voluntary, industry-managed, mainstream film rating system in the U.S. to the Chinese government's gay ban. That is such a stupid comparison I'm not going to waste time responding. Do you post here as part of your job working FOR the Chinese government, doing apologist/misdirectional BS-writing to cloud issues that aren't the least bit cloudy? Well, if so, good for you.

I do thank you for the paragraph breaks. It made it easier to know which ones to skip entirely before getting to the bottom.

Like a lot of public speakers who like nothing more than the sound of their own voice, you love the sight of thousands of your words on MDL. But they don't say much except that you are either deliberately obfuscating, or you're not a clear thinker.

Either way, I've had enough of you.

"if you don't want typical cheesy romcom tropes, this is not the genre for you"

I have to disagree. There are actually quite a few BLs that avoid the "cheesy, romcom tropes:"

ITSAY
IPYTM
Blueming
History 2: Crossing the Line
History3: Make Our Days Count
My Beautiful Man
Like Love
We Best Love Number One For You
Where Your Eyes Linger
Love Class Season 2
Views of Love: Grey Rainbow
History4: Close to You
His: What Is Love?
His - Koisuru Tsumori Nante Nakatta
Light On Me
Jack O' Frost
Semantic Error
NightTime
More Than Words
You Make Me Dance
Eternal Yesterday
End of the World With You

I could keep going, but I need to get some stuff done...:)
You might note there are only two Thai BLs on this list.

Well, I don't really have a problem with people "badmouthing" a show they don't like. If it's a show I like, I can ignore or respond to the comments, as I see fit.

I do have a problem with the massive number of prudes and sex-phobic Church Ladies on MDL though.

So it was "love at first sight," eh? That's highly original and realistic. I won't even engage about that. You're free to indulge your fantasy.

It comes down to the fact there is zero "electricity " between them. Sakae is ACTING as if he's hot for Soga because that is what the script requires of him. Either the actors haven't done their preparation work to develop the kind of invisible connection you seem to be referencing, or they simply cannot create it where it doesn't exist.

"Chemistry" is a cliche because it's a real thing. Some actor/couples have it. This one doesn't.

Ariel, I formerly thought you were smarter than all these block-comments reveal you to be.

What, exactly, does West Virginia's attempts to limit the freedom of trans folks have to do with China's NATION-WIDE, draconian bans on all gay-related content? And under the current dictator, it continues to intensify. We are talking about Internet and other media bans, from the national government, on gay storytelling and other themes the dictatorship deems "immoral," etc.

You've revealed yourself as preferring to type, rather than THINK and analyze. The U.S. is far from perfect, believe me, I know and acknowledge that. But there is NO national ban on internet, television, and all other media representations of gay stories, and nothing like that in any state either. Anywhere.

And please start inserting paragraph breaks in your comments. Your huge blocks of unbroken text are off-putting to read.

"champion of democracy and human rights." From where did you pull this phrase you put in quotation marks? Where is the quote from? Who said it? I'm pretty sure you're quoting yourself.

You seem to be uneducated about the U.S. system of government. It is not a "democracy" at the federal level, it is a Constitutional Republic. But I'm not going to go into that with you here. The subject is China's national government ban on gay and other 'immoral' content, and its crackdown on gay folks' freedom across the board.

Tangentially related to all this is your fantasy that the bromances out of china in which pretty men in chiffon nightgowns, with long, flowing hair and makeup, wield swords while flying around in the air, is "gay" content, is just sad AND humorous.

Again, you don't know what you're talking about. I enjoy quite a bit or Japanese gay porn. The pixels you speak of are present in approximately HALF of the videos. The rest are free of that silliness. The vast quantity of Japanese gay porn on the Internet ensures there is plenty of pixel-free, high-quality erotica for me an others to enjoy. Like, a LOT.

You need to write less and think more. Yes, there are homophobes in many individual U.S. states trying to make life miserable for LGBTQ folks. You go on and on about individual, conservatives states passing anti-gay bills. Show me an example of one of them banning gay content online or on television or in film, WHICH IS WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT HERE.

However, there is NO federal government ban on clearly presented, gay content on television or the internet, such as there is in China, nor will there ever be. All of your typing above can't change that.

https://equallywed.com/china-bans-lgbtq-content/
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65806846
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/lgbtq-sites-08242023154244.html
https://equallywed.com/china-bans-lgbtq-content/
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/china-taiwan-lgbtq-01252024150200.html

Especially, here's a comprehensive article on how China seeks to exert ever-more draconian limits on what people can see on the Internet and TV, and in movies:
https://freedomhouse.org/country/china/freedom-net/2023
Scroll down to the section "B. Limits on Content." Here is a paragraph from that section on gay content:

"LGBT+ content has been increasingly censored on China’s internet since 2017, when the China Netcasting Services Association labeled homosexuality as “abnormal sexual behavior.”79 80 In September 2021, the National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) ordered broadcasters and the entertainment industry to ban “sissy men,” prompting a wave of content removals on social media platforms.81 Throughout 2022, censors removed online discussions about the bullying of young LGBT+ people, after several people died by suicide because of bullying.82 In August 2023, Sina Weibo took down several prominent LGBT+ accounts.83"

Quit trying to equate individual, Republican-sponsored legislation on individual topics in individual U.S. states to what is going on in China, from the very top of the NATIONAL GOVERNMENT REGIME. It's a ridiculous, absurd comparison. You're embarrassing yourself.

No, my comment wasn't meant for you. Looks like the OP deleted the comment I was responding to. :D

Please quote where I "defended suicide." Thanks, I'll wait.

Did I say I was an "editor?" Did I say I could "fix dead," whatever the hell you imagine that to mean? Where? Quote me. You're one of the MDL morons who try to put words in others' comments and then attack them for it. Won't work on me.

It's clear you lack perception and compassion. You're not satisfied with attacking and demeaning celebs when they're alive, you seek to do it after they're dead. Kindly f**k off.

Three great actors. Good story. For once, a man gets it from a serial killer. It seems in Korean films it's always schoolgirls and young women.

8.5/10