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The no-dialogue gimmick is a lame conceit. I'm guessing the filmmakers didn't want to have to bother with writing a script. It goes beyond no verbalizations, though: The chauffeur drives this guy all over town and never once is there music on the car stereo. Why not go all the way without traffic noise, car doors slamming, cigarette lighter clicking, nothing? Why not just have complete silence? Wouldn't that make this thing even artsier than it's trying to be already?

Some minimal dialogue where it made sense would have taken this film a lot further than it got for me.

6/10

This director managed to make vile and heinous sex crimes boring.
Dropped less than halfway through.

1/10

Thanks for that link. I don't read many Mangas, but I look forward to giving this one a shot.

It is if the one being tied up and controlled likes it, as Yoh clearly does.

PRECISELY. Bunnies and unicorns make for boring dramas.

"There are strong elements of an insecure but egotistical person exhibiting coercive, controlling and abusive behavior on a awkward person with limited social kills and this is somehow being packaged as cute."

Your statement quoted above is the plot. There is no "aside from that" in this series. And since the director/producers played down the dom/sub element, there wasn't much of a story to tell. The dominant/submissive elements should have been given much greater emphasis. If so, we would have had a challenging, sexy BL. Instead we got two great-looking leads with excellent chemistry acting out...something boring.

Please don't feel you have to soften your opinion regarding sexual matters in BLs or anything else, with something like "not to be pervy..." just to please the prudish among us at MDL. Sex is a huge part of life, and here it was a huge part of the plot, but the director still played it coy with the sex scenes.

Thank you for your spot-on take on the series. I completely agree, and then some.

I already watched it. It was, unfortunately, lame. I rated it 6/10.

Several other of my comments in this thread explain why.

Thanks.

There are a LOT of people on MDL beside me who realize the place is infested with "old prudes who shouldn't be watching BLs to begin with." That statement is a fact. If you find it arrogant and condescending to state facts, it's not my job to help you.

And please note that statement was a general reference to a sub-group of MDL members, not a derogatory insult aimed at anyone in particular. If you choose to take it personally, well, again, I can't help you.

By the way calling someone "arrogant and condescending" is really rude and mean and might hurt their fee-fees.

"It seems like your trying to say your opinion is correct or more valid and than others." Maybe it "seems" that way to you because my opinion IS correct. Not all opinions are accurate or valid. Does the sky appear to be lime green where you are today? If so, that is your opinion and it is incorrect and invalid.

Insults and derogatory statements are often warranted, as entertainment if nothing else.

I love a LOT of movies that are, overall, "affirming, warm, and compassionate" in their message. But I also love a lot a LOT of movies that are challenging, transgressive, upsetting, scary, horrifying, suspenseful, sexy, sexual, erotic, shocking, etc. Unlike you, a self-described "old, infantile prude (I didn't use the word "infantile," but you've used it twice; do you feel your taste in art culture is infantile?), I don't need or want to wrap myself in sweet, brainless fluff to hide from reality.

BTW, denouncing something as "toxic" is arrogant af. Something may feel "toxic" to YOU, but feel exciting, sexy, and thrilling to a lot of other people. Who are you to slap an SJW label on it as though your over-sensitivities are the last word on the matter?

The weatherman is dominant, aggressive, bossy, arrogant (though we learn that is merely a pose), and jealous. Those traits are what make his character interesting (or should have done so). Your labeling his character as "toxic" is a judgment call pertaining only to YOUR tender feelings, not anyone else's.

So go watch SCOY, Bad Buddy, and all the other Thai fluff out there and stay away from the more mature Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese stuff. You might get your cherry, I mean bubble, popped.

And I'd guess your fave is "Secret Crush On You."

I'd also guess your other favorite words, in addition to "toxic," are "problematic," "dubcon," "triggering," "safe space," and all the other SJW buzzwords.

At that rate, it probably felt like normal movement, right? :D

Did I say it wasn't?

Those "many" and "some" are the same old prudes who shouldn't be watching BLs to begin with. "Triggering," lol. EVERYTHING is triggering in art. It is SUPPOSED to make you feel things, and some of those things are uncomfortable. Art challenges its audience. People who run away from that want to be kept safe in their comfortable little envelopes. They're infantile.

A character is a tyrant at home! Oh dear! Another character is in love with the tyrant and they live together! Oh my! Even worse, he actually COOKS AND CLEANS for the tyrant! OMG! And then he OBEYS him (which he secretly loves doing)! Whatever shall we do?!

Thanks for the reply. Yeah, I've never understood the urge to take Mangas or novels that derive their power from intensely sexual storytelling, and strip all that sexuality away. As here, you're left with a series that pretends it's something daring but it's not. All the transgressive eroticism is gone, so it's just kind of dull.

Simply awful. Stupid. Terrible acting, terrible writing. The plot's absurd, and not in a good way. Garbage.

Out after 25 minutes. Dropped.

1/10

Were you paid to write this review? If not, you should have been.

Could you expand a bit on how you found this show "controversial?" Thanks.