It's interesting how they had a thing for natural disasters. Fuji-san, having conversations abt life nd hw they…
To me, the natural disaster metaphor was contrived and even stupid. Such events cannot be predicted down to the day like that. Plus, there would be lots of earthquakes and other signs of what was coming. Evacuations would have begun weeks, not minutes, before such a thing was expected. Stupid.
last scene he saw the angel, it is shown in the extra clip given by official through qr that the angel was sitting…
"Extra clips" don't exist, as far as I'm concerned. If you want something to be a part of the story you're telling, you should include it with the rest of your story, don't you think? Plus, why would the angel be sitting in the van if he had already flown off to Heaven from the beach? Lame.
I was kidding about the van rolling...any direction.
"existential meditation?" "Art-house feel?" Seriously?What art houses do you frequent?
No, it's none of those things. It's gay-bait cheese, a censored bromance, that in the end, could have come out of China. But somehow this got made in Japan.
Did you write this for some course on how to use lots of flowery words, and yet say nothing?
This show does almost none of what you seem to be saying it does. You are projecting what you want to see, not what's on the screen.
BTW, you called it a "JBL" in your OP, which means it did NOT "go beyond simple categorizations" for you either. On the other hand, it wasn't a BL at all. It was gay-bait cheese. I wonder why Uesugi Shuhei let himself get involved in this.
As the "middle-school" actor looks at least 17, this did not translate well at all. A 30 y-o cannot have a 17…
To me, it's a China-style, cock-tease, gay-bait bromance with plenty of winks and nods but no payoff. Come on, the dialogue between the leads in the last two episodes left only "I love you, and not in a platonic sense" out. 30 year old moons and sobs after angel leaves, and keeps a feather in his necklace, but it's totally not gay.
So I guess when Koki turned and looked at us at the end, it was because he forgot to put his van in park and it rolled over him, which then leads to the final scene?
Total cop-out. Are we sure this wasn't written and produced in China? I ask because the GAY was certainly banned from the screenplay of this series.
On the other hand, we knew from the start how this would end. I just thought it would be a BL before it got there. Which it's not. I made the mistake of assuming a show starring an actor as talented and established as Uesugi Shuhei, would have the balls to go heavy and deep with the gay. NOT.
There were a good number of heartwarming scenes and a few laughs, but due to the cop-out ending, Koki being older than his mom, and the lame way the angel's wings disappeared when he put on a hoodie, 7/10 is as high as I go with this one.
But you knew this going in tho. So why disrespect them now?
Are you talking to me?
How was I to know it was embarrassing gay-bait without watching at least part of one episode? Why would you assume I "knew going in" that it stars low-tier idols from some K-Pop group I never heard of? I don't research most BLs, I just, you know, start watching. Why disrespect them them now? Because I watched and it sucks. What would be a better time to disrespect them? Before I watch?
I do not get the hype about OhmNanon... I still never completed the show either.
I consider this one of the worst BLs of all time. Fluff, rainbows, unicorns shitting ice cream cones, bad acting, terrible writing, lame direction and more, wrapped up in a glittery, pink sequin bow for the Little Girls of MDL to slobber over. I come here once a year or so to read comments and sort of freak out at how many standard-free people there are on MDL.
Kang Dong is a gifted actor. This is a quietly wrenching film that snuck up on me.
Murder is never OK, even if it's a government that's doing the killing. I think of all the good a rehabilitated, truly repentant, smart, personable, and loving prisoner like Yoon Soo could have brought to the world had he been allowed to do so. But the death penalty is never OK. It turns us, the people, into murderers too.
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I was kidding about the van rolling...any direction.
A twisted, high school graduation noir.
Highly recommended.
9/10
This show does almost none of what you seem to be saying it does. You are projecting what you want to see, not what's on the screen.
BTW, you called it a "JBL" in your OP, which means it did NOT "go beyond simple categorizations" for you either. On the other hand, it wasn't a BL at all. It was gay-bait cheese. I wonder why Uesugi Shuhei let himself get involved in this.
What art houses do you frequent?
Total cop-out. Are we sure this wasn't written and produced in China? I ask because the GAY was certainly banned from the screenplay of this series.
On the other hand, we knew from the start how this would end. I just thought it would be a BL before it got there. Which it's not. I made the mistake of assuming a show starring an actor as talented and established as Uesugi Shuhei, would have the balls to go heavy and deep with the gay.
NOT.
There were a good number of heartwarming scenes and a few laughs, but due to the cop-out ending, Koki being older than his mom, and the lame way the angel's wings disappeared when he put on a hoodie, 7/10 is as high as I go with this one.
How was I to know it was embarrassing gay-bait without watching at least part of one episode?
Why would you assume I "knew going in" that it stars low-tier idols from some K-Pop group I never heard of? I don't research most BLs, I just, you know, start watching.
Why disrespect them them now? Because I watched and it sucks. What would be a better time to disrespect them? Before I watch?
Let me know if you have any more questions.
The usual cardboard-cutout BL characters.
This even managed to make cross-dressing boring.
Dropped
1/10
This is a quietly wrenching film that snuck up on me.
Murder is never OK, even if it's a government that's doing the killing. I think of all the good a rehabilitated, truly repentant, smart, personable, and loving prisoner like Yoon Soo could have brought to the world had he been allowed to do so. But the death penalty is never OK. It turns us, the people, into murderers too.
9/10