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The real-life age of an actor doesn't matter. What matters is how old the actor APPEARS to be. I stand by what I said: The 21-year-old looks younger than the 17-year-old.
A two-year age gap is not enough for the younger character to be snarking on the older's age in an editorial meeting.
You're right, they were calling him "Senpai" in high school, which is an upperclassman. I looked up one definition that equated "Senpai/Sensei" but that is incorrect.

I repeat, the emphasis on age difference from the 30-year-old is a bit of a stretch if "Senpai" is just two years older. In the editorial meeting, Akhiro said Senpai looked good "for his age." Bro, he's two years older than you...?

Whatever. It seems to be a good show.

Nice! Another seemingly excellent JBL to put on my currently watching list.

Senpai/Sensei seems a bit of a manipulative, dishonest, douchebag. I like that in a BL character. ;) Even if I dislike the character, his presence makes for great drama/angst/distress/unease, all of which makes for a great story. He has that arrogant/overly self-confident air that always rubs me the wrong way, as I'm sure it's intended to do here.

Seriously though, if he's so into Akhiro, where's he been for the last 12 years? Email/cell phone/text/snail mail are all available options for someone who really wants to communicate. This misunderstanding/background explanation had better be damn good.

Can someone help me out...is there supposed to be an age gap situation here? How can there be an age gap if you're in high school together? And why was everyone calling him "teacher" already then? Seeing as how Akhiro referred to Takashi's "age" in the editorial meeting, it seems there IS an age gap. That being the case, both in high school and in the present, the actors cast needed to be older-looking. "Senpai" in high school looked younger than Akhiro. Now that I look at the bios, the two actors are 25 and 33, so that's good, but Akhiro said he was 30. He doesn't look 30.

But, bitching aside, this looks very promising.

No, bro, I'm just full of "hatred and negativity," that's it; that's all. It's not possible to like some things and dislike others.

Bro, you're unable to deal with people who disagree with you, so you throw around BS like "ooh, you 'hate' things I like and are 'negative' about things I'm positive about so I hate you, bro." lol

Deal with it: a LOT of people don't care for this show. They have every right to say so and why, and what you think about it doesn't matter.

It's telling you're not even able to articulate what you find "beautiful" in this show. Instead, you choose to throw your hatred and negativity at me. Dunce.

God, is this a parody or something? Terrible...the film seems to be dead serious about its plot, but the situation and the acting are making this feel like a big-budget, soft-core porn/comedy. Only it's not a comedy, which just makes it seem stupid.

The evil seductress/wife, encouraging the soldier to "serve the p***y, I mean people," comes off as a deliberate caricature, yet apparently, we're meant to take her seriously.

I'm dropping at 46 minutes in. I love hot, sexy, outrageous, dark, transgressive stories, but this is just...absurd.

Dropped. 1/10

In what way were the MCs "terrible people?" I haven't seen this yet.

This is by far, the best sex-less BL of all time. Even though I would have killed to see the MLs' two sets of pillow lips go at each other. Yummy...

Michieda Shunsuke's wild facial expressions and physical slapstick gyrations were a joy, and Meguro Ren pulled off one of the most original BL characters I've seen. His looks are so interesting and unique in their beauty. I definitely see him as a Yakuza in some future Japanese thriller. :)

8.5/10

After episode 4 of my re-watch: This is charming and funny af.

I adore Hashimoto. She's a tiny ball of fire, and when she feels vulnerable she never falls back on that Japanese actress trope where they act all breathy, mousy, weak, and so soft-spoken you can barely hear what they're saying. She speaks what she says declaratively, like any other person of worth would do.

Why would I choose to not engage in comments about a show I've watched three episodes of in hopes it would improve but didn't? How does my leaving a negative comment disallow you from doing anything you want? If you interpret comments that disagree with you as forbidding you to watch a show, you are overly sensitive.

It seems like you have a hard time allowing other people who don't agree with you to express their negative opinions of a show you like. Why is that? Do you think comment sections are only for people who "like" the shows the comments are about? Newsflash: Comment sections are for ALL opinions, not just positive ones.

The "time I'm using" amounts to about ten minutes, so I don't care how you recommend I use it. I suggest you stop being so thin-skinned and do a little growing up, which might result in opening your mind to the idea that comment sections, even those about BLs, are not fan-girl club meetings.

Back for a second watch after this originally aired. It's very good.
Leads are perfectly cast, acting's good, writing's fine. It's lighthearted, but not "fluffy," in the Thai tradition.

For once, my feelings on a BL align with the MDL rating.

lol Boy, are you ever in the right place: MDL, the Internet home of self-righteous, sex-phobic prudes. But what if the people in a film are naked, having sex and MARRIED? That would be OK, right? Christ

BTW, there's about 30 seconds of nudity/sex in this 90-minute film. lol

hmmm...maybe I'll go down-rate it with a 1/10, which is what I feel it deserves after three eps. If you read what constitutes an MDL rating, there is much more to it than simply the average of the ratings watchers have given it. The people who run MDL also apply other, odd and mysterious factors to come up with the "rating."

Oh hell, they probably just make up a rating depending on if THEY like it or not, and then share DMs laughing at all of us idiots who think the ratings actually mean something.

Lord, the episodes feel like they're two days long to me.

I'm not in a rush at all...I would just like something faintly interesting to take place. There's really been no credible explanation for why they were so into finding the chick in the film. What in this do you find "beautiful?"

Oh god, this stars a J-popper? No WONDER it's boring and there will be no-homo...it's not allowed in his idol contract.

Well, yeah, but...who cares?

...boring...as...f**k...

Oh, sorry, I fell asleep while typing that.

Whoever said this was a BL must be hunted down and shot. We have a closeted gay boy mooning over a clueless straight boy who is mooning over a beautiful girl who looks like some chick in an old movie...and tell me again why they were searching for the girl in the film...? Oh, cause the straight boy was obsessed, but now he's met another chick who looks exactly like her, the only difference being the location of what could easily be a fake mole.

I get a faintly creepy vibe from the new girl, but not enough to care much.
That female teacher is somehow connected...is that her on the roof 25 years ago, and the new girl is her illegitimate daughter, born in secret after the teacher was raped by whoever was filming her on the roof? Hey...I bet that's it! Nah...that would be too interesting to be part of this snooze-fest.

I skipped through the second half of ep 3 and am confident I missed nothing. I think I can bear to continue watching if I use the forward-skip method, with the slight hope that somehow, the straight boy will turn gay or something...but yeah, overall this is pretty bad. I think I'd be bored even if I were a straight girl or guy watching this, cause it's boring anyway you look at it.

Well, we've seen her cuddle and love him up in a silly way, but I saw nothing incestuous about it. I use to love on my kids in a goofy/teasing way like that when they were little. Not that she wouldn't be capable of incest, from what we've seen so far.

I think the point of those scenes to this point is that she treated him in extremely opposite ways: One day she was cuddly and loving, the next day she was wildly, inexplicably cruel, both verbally and physically, berating him for achieving good grades AND beating him with a stick.
The poor kid would have been constantly in a state of stress; never knowing what her mood would be and thus, how he would be treated.
He lived in fear.

Living under daily stress like that has severely negative and permanent impacts on the psyche, as well as on the physical brain itself. Studies have shown that adults who grew up under significant levels of stress have malformed synapses and other neurological brain features. In short, their physical brains do not work like that of an average adult who was raised in a healthy, supportive environment. That is likely why WQ is having flashbacks, headaches, and fainting spells.

NO! Anything that makes me feel icky, no matter how irrational, is incest!

Isn't that wild, that MDLers actually read a synopsis and based on some element of which they disapprove, without seeing the actual show, down-rate it? Wow.

It's a lesser example of the censorious urge among a lot of MDL busy-bodies. It's not enough that they choose to not watch a particular show because of some plot element that offends them, they want to make sure you or I might skip it over, and/or punish the creators for daring to make such a story in the first place.