ummmmm do you think the same about straight dramas???
Well said. So many MDLers see sex as this dark, nasty, rare thing, when in fact it is one of the, if not THE, most powerful influence on human behavior, including those far outside the bedroom. There's a really unhealthy view of sex as something to be whispered about, hidden. Lot of shame-based sex-related thinking on this site.
first it was romanticising pedophilia, and now an unprompted admittance that you’d rape somebody.. I bet the…
I realized I had wasted far too many keystrokes and brain cells interacting with you, so I deleted my replies.
All I really want to say is it's a pleasure inadvertently pushing your innumerable and hyper-sensitive buttons with my comments, eliciting the wildly revealing sort of replies you leave.
No, they are not "wholesome." Being asexual and unlike any young man ever made on Earth is not "wholesome," it's…
Oh my. "whatever you say, Mia" was meant exactly as it reads. Not dismissive of your comment, just not into arguing about it.
Ummm...there's a lot of optional space for plot developments between "fuck each other into next week..." and profoundly unrealistic, asexual "wholesomeness."
The first time Akira overreacts to a loving/flirtatious comment or gesture from Shin each episode makes me laugh but by the fifth time each episode, I'm over it. 🤪
I never said I "hated" anything or anyone. I DID say I tune in each week to gaze upon the beauty of Kusakawa Takuya's depthless, round eyes and handsome face.
Yokohama Ryusei is hella hot and seems to be a good actor, but less than a third of the way in, I'm dropping out. It's too boring. I love me an engaging mystery/thriller/evil corporation - type flick with creepy undertones but this is too slow in starting to go somewhere. Also too many miscues like dumping huge truckloads of mysterious contents into holes not big enough to hold them. So you have guys shoveling dirt onto what would end up being a big mound in the middle of the flat portion of the landfill.
And who would build a gargantuan, concrete factory/facility on the side of a mountain in the earthquake center of the universe, Japan? It's sitting there, waiting to slide down onto the village in the midst of the next major tremor.
Why do we see hundreds of marchers with torches in some kind of procession, but then just 30 or 40 people in front of the stage for the performances?
Finally, how many times to Asian flicks have to repeat the old tropes such as weird old matriarch dying of cancer, young woman concealing a serious illness while secretly snarfing pain pills, a useless parent who gambles racking up debts she can't pay, a masochistic son who slaves all day and night to pay off the debts his useless mother racks up but who doesn't leave or kick her out, loansharks (really? operating openly in a town this small?), etc. etcl, before the writers start coming up with some new ideas or at least new twists on the old ones?
Anyway, bored and annoyed, I'm checking out. Don't really care WHAT they're burying at night in the landfill; it can't be any more lethal than this script is to my brain cells.
Pretty-boy, teenage gangsters in trendy knitwear and ripped jeans pretending to be bad-ass, torturing and killing people on a the spotless, polished floor of their dad's garage. Not gonna work. However, Wayne Song comes off as a REAL bad-ass, and it's fun to see him and Huang Chun Chih, my boys from H3MODC together again. The show feels like what you'd get after putting KinnPorsche and Secret Crush On You in a blender and hitting "puree." Basically, I FF'd through everything other than the H3MODC boys and potential sex scenes, so I was in and out in about seven minutes.
Ugh, this show is such a pain in the ass to watch!
Thank god for the beauty and soufulness of Akira's round and lovely eyes...I melt into them every week even though he is a moron. Those orbs are why I watch.
No, they are not "wholesome." Being asexual and unlike any young man ever made on Earth is not "wholesome," it's rainbow and unicorn silliness for ten year-old fangirls.
Episode 8: Continues to be an endless, silly cock-tease of a show. More wheel-spinning, even when they brought out the trope-of-tropes, alcohol! I thought that might move things along and get somebody laid but oh no, we can't have plot movement in this bore-fest.
Why do I keep watching? Isn't it obvious? The gorgeous, soulful, round eyes of Kusakawa Takuya, one of the prettiest men on Earth.
I won't pretend to be as virtuous as Shin. All these young men are written as cartoon characters, not male human beings. There was a great opportunity for the portrayal of what an ACTUAL young man in Shin's position when gorgeous Akira passed out beneath him after nearly confessing might do (not that this silly show has done ANYTHING realistic so far): It would have been incredibly powerful to see Shin look down upon this beautiful man he has passionately desired, emotionally and sexually, for two years laid out before him like the tastiest, most luscious, creamiest dessert on the planet, emote an almost uncontrollable urge to have his way with him while he out cold, knowing Akira would never remember it, maybe even start to kiss him down his neck and shoulders, and then see him stop, wrestle with his emotions and desires and FORCE himself to stop and NOT do what every fiber of body, heart and soul was shrieking for him to do; even roll away from Akira with a gutteral scream of frustration.
THAT would have been a BL scene for the ages. We would have seen an honest, un-prettified portrayal of what it is really like for a guy that age to deal with the kind of sadistic temptation Akira has been confronting Shin with almost daily for so long. And yet we would also have seen him make the better choice (and not cause riots in the streets of MDL had he said "aw, to hell with it, I am DOING this guy while I can!" and had his way with Akira) and be the better man for it.
Instead, what we got was Shin going "oh, well the man I love and desire physically more than life itself is half-naked and fully available inches away, but the script says I am not even tempted, so that's how I'll act" and immediately his sexual desire disappearing. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Of course, the sane thing for Shin to do after reaching a crisis point like that would be to pack up, leave the resort, go to the house and pack up his stuff there, then leave Akira for good; maybe go to Tokyo to the best Public University he deserves to be in, and start forgetting about crazy-ass Akira. But this show is about Shin doing only masochistic, self-destructive shit like spending all day-every day being around that which he cannot even touch.
Oh, and someone tell me WHY Akusa likes Shu, please. He is a Vampire-Undertaker-Android, not a man. So WHAT if he bought you a cutesy Japanese-ish key chain thing, he's dead inside! It was so lame how as soon as Vamp-man handed Asuka a freaking key chain, his sex drive immediately disappeared. This show is a ten year-old, sex-phobic fangirl's fantasy of what men are like.
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Your reviews are...something.
All I really want to say is it's a pleasure inadvertently pushing your innumerable and hyper-sensitive buttons with my comments, eliciting the wildly revealing sort of replies you leave.
Thanks.
"whatever you say, Mia" was meant exactly as it reads. Not dismissive of your comment, just not into arguing about it.
Ummm...there's a lot of optional space for plot developments between "fuck each other into next week..." and profoundly unrealistic, asexual "wholesomeness."
I DID say I tune in each week to gaze upon the beauty of Kusakawa Takuya's depthless, round eyes and handsome face.
I love me an engaging mystery/thriller/evil corporation - type flick with creepy undertones but this is too slow in starting to go somewhere. Also too many miscues like dumping huge truckloads of mysterious contents into holes not big enough to hold them. So you have guys shoveling dirt onto what would end up being a big mound in the middle of the flat portion of the landfill.
And who would build a gargantuan, concrete factory/facility on the side of a mountain in the earthquake center of the universe, Japan? It's sitting there, waiting to slide down onto the village in the midst of the next major tremor.
Why do we see hundreds of marchers with torches in some kind of procession, but then just 30 or 40 people in front of the stage for the performances?
Finally, how many times to Asian flicks have to repeat the old tropes such as weird old matriarch dying of cancer, young woman concealing a serious illness while secretly snarfing pain pills, a useless parent who gambles racking up debts she can't pay, a masochistic son who slaves all day and night to pay off the debts his useless mother racks up but who doesn't leave or kick her out, loansharks (really? operating openly in a town this small?), etc. etcl, before the writers start coming up with some new ideas or at least new twists on the old ones?
Anyway, bored and annoyed, I'm checking out. Don't really care WHAT they're burying at night in the landfill; it can't be any more lethal than this script is to my brain cells.
Dropped.
1/10
Pretty-boy, teenage gangsters in trendy knitwear and ripped jeans pretending to be bad-ass, torturing and killing people on a the spotless, polished floor of their dad's garage.
Not gonna work.
However, Wayne Song comes off as a REAL bad-ass, and it's fun to see him and Huang Chun Chih, my boys from H3MODC together again.
The show feels like what you'd get after putting KinnPorsche and Secret Crush On You in a blender and hitting "puree."
Basically, I FF'd through everything other than the H3MODC boys and potential sex scenes, so I was in and out in about seven minutes.
Continues to be an endless, silly cock-tease of a show. More wheel-spinning, even when they brought out the trope-of-tropes, alcohol! I thought that might move things along and get somebody laid but oh no, we can't have plot movement in this bore-fest.
Why do I keep watching? Isn't it obvious? The gorgeous, soulful, round eyes of Kusakawa Takuya, one of the prettiest men on Earth.
I won't pretend to be as virtuous as Shin. All these young men are written as cartoon characters, not male human beings. There was a great opportunity for the portrayal of what an ACTUAL young man in Shin's position when gorgeous Akira passed out beneath him after nearly confessing might do (not that this silly show has done ANYTHING realistic so far): It would have been incredibly powerful to see Shin look down upon this beautiful man he has passionately desired, emotionally and sexually, for two years laid out before him like the tastiest, most luscious, creamiest dessert on the planet, emote an almost uncontrollable urge to have his way with him while he out cold, knowing Akira would never remember it, maybe even start to kiss him down his neck and shoulders, and then see him stop, wrestle with his emotions and desires and FORCE himself to stop and NOT do what every fiber of body, heart and soul was shrieking for him to do; even roll away from Akira with a gutteral scream of frustration.
THAT would have been a BL scene for the ages. We would have seen an honest, un-prettified portrayal of what it is really like for a guy that age to deal with the kind of sadistic temptation Akira has been confronting Shin with almost daily for so long. And yet we would also have seen him make the better choice (and not cause riots in the streets of MDL had he said "aw, to hell with it, I am DOING this guy while I can!" and had his way with Akira) and be the better man for it.
Instead, what we got was Shin going "oh, well the man I love and desire physically more than life itself is half-naked and fully available inches away, but the script says I am not even tempted, so that's how I'll act" and immediately his sexual desire disappearing. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Of course, the sane thing for Shin to do after reaching a crisis point like that would be to pack up, leave the resort, go to the house and pack up his stuff there, then leave Akira for good; maybe go to Tokyo to the best Public University he deserves to be in, and start forgetting about crazy-ass Akira. But this show is about Shin doing only masochistic, self-destructive shit like spending all day-every day being around that which he cannot even touch.
Oh, and someone tell me WHY Akusa likes Shu, please. He is a Vampire-Undertaker-Android, not a man. So WHAT if he bought you a cutesy Japanese-ish key chain thing, he's dead inside! It was so lame how as soon as Vamp-man handed Asuka a freaking key chain, his sex drive immediately disappeared. This show is a ten year-old, sex-phobic fangirl's fantasy of what men are like.