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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.

Oh ffs, he's not "toxic," he's sexual and aggressive, which is exactly what Yu wants. His uber-possessiveness is a long-standing Manga trope.

Maybe don't watch BLs anymore.

omg...lord, that ear nibble is all I needed to get me through the next few days.

These two have great energy between them. Their physical differences heighten the vibe.
"Not handsome enough..." if Shunyu isn't "handsome enough," then handsome doesn't exist. Hsiau Hung is as beautiful as a man can be. I call him "Fandy Fan Jr." He's that good looking, and has Fan's same radiant smile and effortless charm. Watching Hung sitting still for half an hour would still brighten my day.

This show has inspired me to declare a new BL genre: "Sexy Fluff."

"Sad and toxic" can be a lot of fun, but this was a bore-fest.

Could you please specify in what ways their miscommunication and misunderstandings were different from any other BL? Thanks.

I don't know what version of Taikan Yoho the people below raving about how good it is watched, but apparently I saw an alternate version floating around on the Internet in which two fine actors with intense chemistry are placed in a potentially sexy and humorous situation (sex is great, but allowed by the dom only on cloudy days, so the sub craves rain though he pretends otherwise) but then the hot premise is quickly dropped and not much else happens for long stretches of time.

Mashiko Atsuki is incredibly beautiful.
Higuchi Kohei is remarkably sexy and looks like he walked right off the pages of an actual Manga.
The sparks that fly between them are almost visible.
However, Atsuki plays Yoh as intellectually disabled and mousy, and Kohei downplays the dom aspect for the sake of taming the story for TV. The hot/kinky sex is also downplayed, so there's not much left of interest for these two characters to do.

The dull boredom played out to the very last moment of the series, with the two of them just...eating. Oh, wait, dom weatherman DID clean something off the sub househusband's lip, so I guess that's something.

Honestly, I looked at the clock a lot.

6/10

Wow, despite some potentially, wonderfully twisted ideas percolating here, the execution of damn near every plot point was...stupid. To the point of laughter. I'm 2/3 of the way through, but it just got extra, ultra-stupid in the big hotel/SM/murder scene with all the black ropes laying around and I can't stand it anymore.

That is one of the lamest strangulation scenes in the history of cinema. First, a little kid who has supposedly drunk at least a fifth of liquor is able to...well, you know. He would have been incoherent and passed out. The dude pretending to get choked was hilariously bad, and you could see inches between the belt and his neck. As I said, this flick is full of creepy, strange, possibly fascinating stuff, but the execution is an utter mess. The director should have been banned from the industry.

Dropping.

1/10