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Wow, assh**e. F**k you.

Wow. You are incredibly dull, as well as rude. The actress in question LOOKS no more than 45 at a stretch. She has not been made up to look older, at all. This is not high school, where 16 year-old girls are cast to play 50-year-old women because, well, that's all there is to work with. There are plenty of older Asian actresses who could have been cast in this role, but weren't.

If the mother WAS 13 when she gave birth, great, that would make an interesting plot point but, um, it wasn't made.

Your lecture on what acting consists of is hilariously lame. An actress who looks 45 cannot portray a character who is 55 unless there's a talented makeup person involved which, in this case there isn't.

Anyway, enough from me. Maggi is summarily eviscerating you and your stupifyingly silly comment. I love your bit about staring at Maggi's comment for "10 minutes." I'd guess drool slagged from your open mouth as you did so.

wth are you talking about? There's one stabbing that sets up the rest of the story. Be sure to put up a tag reading "things in life that happen."

I don't take it seriously at all, primarily because there is nothing in it to take seriously in the first place. I can enjoy fluff, silliness, and comedy, but it has to be done WELL. Do you have any standards, or will you watch anything whatsoever, no matter how lame, if it's there on the screen when you activate whatever device you're watching it on?

Delightful! Love it.

9/10

Head bully looks like a ferret.

No. But it's good.

I wanted the one outside to be brave enough to knock again. I think the other would have opened the door. :(

Are you referring to the view from his driver's side window as he sped by a fence or something? What did you like so much about it?

The counselor received a four-year prison sentence, and given the circumstances of the killings, he could be released sooner than that. Il Woo would be waiting...

This needs a sequel See spoiler comment directly below.

Thank you very much! A good excuse to watch again one day soon. :D
When you say "after the teacher confessed," do you mean when he did so obliquely during that prison visit late in the film? BTW, at that point, it seems to me the teacher was going bonkers due to the guilt tugging at him since he killed the other twin.

Don't get too excited. A lot of MDLers think that was rape.

Oh, aren't you the preachy, fire-breathing Church Lady? Thanks for showing up to make my point for me. Sure, there are a few "aroace" folks around...approximately .7 to 1% of the population. Is there something in this plot or interaction between the characters that gave any indication that either half of the ML is "aroace?" No. No, there isn't.

So now we know this series is not about "aroace" people, so what the hell are you babbling about? Yamato was dying to get Kakeru in the sack the entire show, but as I said, the director didn't have the guts to follow through.

For 99.9+% of the population, sex IS the most powerful TACTILE (or did you miss that word in my comment in your slobbering haste to be the first SJW to respond with such nonsense?) means of expressing affection and passion. Your hysteria will never change that, thank goodness.

Regarding your concern for the actor's delicate age, there is nothing illegal or immoral or out of line for a 17-year-old actor to ACT as if he is about to, or just did, have sex. You don't have to be 18 to lay under the covers with your shirt off so it looks as though you had sex, which is what most BL "sex scenes" amount to.

As I clearly stated, "I don't need explicit sex scenes, I have porn for that, but I want an indication that things got physical, as humans do." To which you so wisely replied, "go and watch your damn porn which must be...blah blah blah..." I repeat, "I DON'T NEED EXPLICIT SEX SCENES."But once again, spittle got in your eyes and prevented you from being able to read.

I WILL go watch my beloved porn, just as almost every other American male does when I choose to, but thanks for reminding me to do that even though I already said I would.

I find your ignorant outrage entertaining, but I have to wonder where the anger comes from. Are YOU "aroace" and pissed off about it? Go watch some shows about aroace people and maybe you'll feel better. This show isn't about those folks.

Finally, there are no more "aroace" people in the world than there ever were, but it has nevertheless become fashionable and OK to discuss it publicly in the last few years. This is fine, but fads come and go, yet nothing will make the percentage of the population who identifies within that classification any larger than it would be by nature. Part of the agenda of people like you is to make it seem that the percentage of "aroaces" is around 50% rather than .7%. I'm sorry to inform you it won't work.

Wow, I SO feel you. That is, in a nutshell, why BLs resonated so powerfully with me when I discovered them two and a half years ago. I am old enough to be these characters' dad, yet I felt somehow I was watching what might have taken place for me if I hadn't been living in a homophobic world at the time.

I welled up at least five times during this last episode, and mostly it wasn't because of any specific line of dialogue; it was because these two actors have a powerful connection and they excel at evoking those emotions you described so that we can feel it as viewers. I was very moved.

This show, especially in this last episode, got me in the gut despite the cliches, tropes, and generally unoriginal plotting. There were a lot of individually touching and funny bits of dialogue throughout, however. It's another J-BL where the charisma, connection, and good acting of the leads overcomes the aforementioned clunkiness.

Also, there were definitely moments and vibes of physical attraction and burgeoning sexual desire that led...nowhere. It's sort of important to know whether or not they did the deed after the hair-drying bit. And if not, why not? Any two normal teens would definitely have gone for it. This is where the fluff of this show smothered the heat of this show, which was definitely there. The director chickened out.

I know the MDL prude crowd loves this kind of unrealistic storytelling, but teenage boys in love don't float around on pink clouds of cotton candy, crocheting sweaters for each other. And if they did, they would definitely take time out to do the deed a couple times a day. Sex is the most powerful, tactile means of expressing one's love. Hearts entwined lead to bodies entwined. I wish there weren't so many western BL fans here who see sex as dirty and unmentionable. I don't need explicit sex scenes, I have porn for that, but I want an indication that things got physical, as humans do.

It's because of the show's overarching clunk, fluff, and false chastity that I'm not rating is as highly as I otherwise would have.

7.5/10 but highly recommended.

ummm...in reality, there are thousands of indie movies out there featuring zero characters who are prostitutes. Watch them and you won't be sick anymore. :)

Wow. Excellent study of how the Asian tendency toward stuffing one's feelings for appearances can destroy a person from the inside out.

Nakano Taiga should be a star. His performance here is brilliant. The stifling repression he forced upon himself made me ache to the bones at times.

Atsuhika and Takeda should hook up and form a family with Suzu.

Highly recommended.

9/10

What did you make of the ending?

It's a very good film, but be prepared: It is also a very dark film. I have a thing for those.