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Why is it OK for minors to see people murdered, kidnapped, robbed, beaten up, and emotionally abused, but the sight of a man's butt or a woman's beautiful breasts is somehow too much for them to handle?

ummm...have you thought of NOT reading comments that upset you? Why would you read thru a thread of comments once you see what's going on? That's on you.

Also, why in the world would a contentious comment thread between two Internet randos who strongly disagree "ruin the show for people like me?" If that's really the case, you're not very secure in your opinion that this is a good show.

Finally, you will feel "uncomfortable" many times in life. It is not the responsibility of other people or society to make sure you feel "comfortable" all the time. Jesus.

For instance, your comment here makes me uncomfortable, so I'd like you to delete it. Thank you.

Sorry, you don't understand the concept of "projection," and I'm not going to explain it to you. I'll just chuckle at your feeble attempts to make this all about my emotional state rather than the bogusness of your perspective, which is the problem. lol

I despise this idea that every show has to be a PSA "learning lesson" for you, teaching the audience what is right and what is wrong by making sure every character that makes a bad choice is duly punished.

This show has already shown plenty of sub-surface angst going on with Yamato. The only person who thinks his aggressiveness with Kakeru came out of nowhere would be YOU. (There, more all-caps to emotionally upset you. Perhaps you should look into why all-caps disturb you so. Were you abused in some way by a person in your past who used all-caps a lot?) I do so hope you get the help you need.

Only Friends is terrible. Of course you love it.

Finally, as to Yamato being duly flogged for his rape of Kakeru, I guess you missed the horror on his face when he finally snapped to and realized what he was doing. Apparently, you didn't notice or hear his profuse apologies and immediate feelings of shame and regret. It seems you were asleep when he stammered more apologies, gathered his stuff and went running from the room in distress.

Or was that all not enough for you? Did he need to stumble on the curb outside, fall into the street and have a car roll over his head and smash it like a tomato? Would that satisfy your need for him to be severely penalized for the horrendous crime of pushing his crush onto a bed, as happens IRL a thousand times a day?

Do you really look to BLs for your moral instruction? I guess so. That's sort of...sad.

I'll say it again: All kinds of bad things happen in life that are NEVER punished, though Yamato already has been. Murders are never solved, kidnappers never caught, rapists (which I suppose you think Yamato is one of those now) go free, on and on. All these things serve as key elements in art across all media and they're not going away anytime soon just so you won't have your attitudes challenged.

Go watch some lame BL with trigger warnings included.

Agree 100%. Both leads were boring as characters and as actors. I was hoping Kentaro would go full psycho but after 20 minutes we were back to just the two boring leads.

Perhaps the limpest, wet dishrag of a so-called romance I have ever seen. I thought it would never end. I kept watching because I thought surely something, anything would happen, and I couldn't quite believe someone built a 140-minute movie around these two boring characters and these two dull, lifeless performances by the leads. Awful.

If you don't mind waiting until the 1:40:00 mark or thereabouts for something to happen, this might be the film for you.
Thankfully, Ono, played by the amazingly hot and talented Sakaguchi Kentaro, began to show his character's psycho side at that point, and I perked up a bit. But he was the focus for all of 20 minutes and then it was snooze-ville again.
The leads were not meant to play star-crossed lovers in this lifetime. No chemistry, no spark, no charisma, no presence, and no reason for either one to be smitten with the other.
The teacher's choice at the end made zero sense, so of course it was a fitting fizzle of a climax to a mess of a movie.

5/10

The pomposity in question was more a reference to their STYLE of writing in that paragraph, not to the content of what they were saying. It sounds like a college freshman trying to sound like they imagine a long-tenured professor would write. Perhaps I'm paranoid, but I detected some condescension there, too.

BTW, I was supposedly born in the last year considered part of the post-war Baby Boom in the U.S., even though I was born 12 years after the war ended. But hey, my dad was a GI returning from war in Europe, so I guess my siblings and I ARE Baby Boomers, every one of us.

OK, how about this?

"THIS 25-year-old woman doesn't know the thoughts of gay closeted high school boys" ? I never said any BL has to tell MY story, as you imply I did.

One of the most verbose, pompous, supercilious comments ever left on MDL. Congratulations!

If Yamato had responded as per your BS consent rules list, we wouldn't have had the most dramatic and intense scene in this entire episode, now would we? Dramas are "dramatic," and often they are so by virtue of some challenging or outright dastardly behavior from one of the characters, aren't they? Sometimes people behave badly. Bad behavior makes for great drama. You can't handle it. STOP WATCHING.

Your comment that others have accused you of wanting signed consent contracts indicates you spend a lot of time watching shows featuring behavior of which you disapprove, and then leaving comments in which you self-righteously order writers, directors, and production companies to "stop doing this!" lol

STOP WATCHING. (you won't, though.)

lol Oh please, get over yourself. You are one of the most comically unself-aware commenters I've encountered here on MDL.

Your sexy, hot and EXTREMELY detailed description of what went down between Yamato and Kakeru shows you were absolutely GLUED to that scene, just like the rest of us humans. I bet you have rewatched it multiple times, just to get all the juicy details down pat, right?

Guess what? What you described IS what went down, and SO F***ING WHAT? It happens in real life a thousand times a day; why do you think it isn't fair game to be addressed in a series or movie? I have the answer: You are a prude and you have sexual hangups and you think you have the right to critique and censor what other people want to watch and hear.

News flash: You don't.
Other newsflash: STOP WATCHING. (but you won't. That aggressive kiss scene was hot af to you and you want to see more.)

Also: STOP WATCHING.

Oh god, another prude SJW trying to take all the fun out of everything. Guess what, Church Lady, "this shit" flies just fine with me and a few million other viewers. It's part of what happens in real life and it's fair game for a drama. You don't like it? Got your pearls all clutched and panties all twisted. STOP WATCHING.

It's always the same with you types. You watch real-life-type, messy BLs about real-life, messy romance and sex between two high school kids trying to figure it all out, and then you come here to shriek your outrage. STOP WATCHING. You're too immature and stuck in the mud of your own sexual hangups to enjoy a show like this, or most any other rom com.

Beautifully, and entertainingly stated. Bravo.

Fluff and angst and love and sex too. I like that the strong physical urges that go right along with romance at this age, are being acknowledged, though not focused on. Yamato taking the initiative was a thrilling moment. :)

The fine acting of both leads is crucial here, as is their natural chemistry, always so difficult to describe. It's just there or it isn't and in this case it IS.

I'm enjoying this a lot.

By golly, you sure told me. lol

Thanks for the heads up. I don't recall running into him before. Sometimes it can be entertaining to just keep asking stupid people why they hold this or that stupid opinion, until they run out of BS to spew and say something like "because I said so, that's why!" :)

Again, thanks for the warning.

That last paragraph is exactly as it reads. "respect it" Respect what? Respect who? How does one "respect" something they find lacking in quality? "Respect" is most often something people here pretend to do, when in fact they don't "respect" the show/actor/director/MDLer/whatever in question at all.

More breast implants than actors in this movie.
Someone should tell the FL that imitating a zombie thorazine addict is not acting.
Overall, pretty lame movie, though it never got bad enough to drop altogether.

6/10

Well, I know what you're saying and you are deeply mistaken.

"snowflake" is a big tell here. I'm smelling a right-winger. You're a stupid person, ie. "stupid" in the original meaning of the word, as "to be in a stupor." Generally uninformed and willfully ignorant.

But I'm sure you're more of an authority on addiction than the American Medical Association:
https://drugfree.org/article/is-addiction-a-disease/

Is it that you regard addiction as some sort of bad moral choice so you can look down on addicts and thus feel better about yourself up there on that self-righteous high horse?

Are you American? Korean? European?

Does "Korea care" about speeding and running red lights? If so, why do entertainers who speed or run red lights not have their careers destroyed?

Simply put, it's because the Korean press and the bloodthirsty Netizens see smoking fucking weed as a deep, MORAL failing, not just breaking the law, which is all it is. The response is WAY out of proportion to the ALLEGED crime.

And let's not pretend that the SK police, judicial branch, politicians, and the prison system don't all stand to gain great PR and get themselves in the news by harassing this excellent actor for smoking a joint. So many millions of $$$ wasted prosecuting petty crimes like pot-smoking, when that money and time should be going toward dealing with much worse problems.

Nonsensical bullshit. You haven't mentioned this "rehab centre production line" in any of your posts above. You're floundering and grasping for straws now, since your self-righteous, ignorant pose is being shown for what it is.

There have been addicts on this earth as long as there have been humans. The psychotropic effects of many plants were discovered and used many thousands of years ago. Your "rehab centres production line" BS is akin to saying hospitals rely on people with cancer and heart disease to keep their profit margins up. That's what hospitals and rehabs DO; they treat the sick. Addicts are sick. Very sick. It's just that you haven't caught up and are viewing the illness as a moral failing, rather than a mental/emotional/physical disease. You're stuck in the 1950s. Do try to keep up.