idontwanttothanks

Hey, at least he'll die happy?

The ratings here consistently confuse me. Are there people who show up just to rate things badly or what?

You can do that? I'm jealous. My tears have been flowing freely every ep.

Oh, this hurt. But like a thousand tiny cuts rather than one deep one.

I never thought I'd be this invested in something this sad, and yet here I am.

Right? This is hands down my favorite couple from the Drama Shower line up. Usually I find chemistry very uneven in these shows, but both these guys are killing it. Why they gotta give us chemistry this good with a BL this sad?

I'd rather have him in episode 8 if I'm honest. I'd sort of hoped that he'd be there for the beginning bit and the back half would be after he disappears.

He better make it to episode 8. I will not deal well with an entire episode of Mitsuru's suffering without him.

Edit: wait is that how it goes in the book? Should I be expecting him to disappear at the end of the next ep?

It's funny because ep 4 definitely made me think that Koichi had been reading the Handbook (TM). Maybe he just hadn't gotten to that part yet (or maybe both he and Mitsuru like it when Mitsuru can order him around a little). ; )

Sam is totally my favorite. She's such a mess and I love her, and her style of flirting is so hilarious - that row of angry stickers when Mon didn't text her to say she was home!

I like that Mon doesn't let Sam walk all over her, too, and that when she's reached her limit she says so very clearly. Anyone who's inevitably going to be dragged into the mess with Grandmother of the Year needs to have a backbone.

Yes they're really good, both individually and together. On top of crying my eyes out because of the bittersweet ending I expect I'm also going to be sad because the chemistry is so good and that'll be gone too. I feel like I've rarely seen two actors in BL click this well.

Right? I thought I knew what I was getting into, I did not. Part of it is that I didn't expect these two to have such good chemistry, I think.

Looks like MBS is gonna have my favorite drama at the end of the year again. They did this to me with Utsukushii Kare too.

I think Mitsuru didn't think that way because the very idea of him finding someone else is just so beyond where he is at the moment. For him there is only Koichi, surely Koichi knows that, so it must be that he's talking about himself. Meanwhile Koichi is only thinking of Mitsuru, and how he doesn't want him to turn out like Tamaki.

There were shades of this in the third ep, too - both of them so caught up in their own insecurity/feelings that they couldn't see the person in front of them struggling with the same thing. Or even in ep 4, where Koichi thought surely Mitsuru would find him creepy or disgusting but would never think the same if the situation were reversed.

Also, at least for me, Komiya Rio totally stole the show in the last few eps of Takara-kun & Amagi-kun. He could easily play Koichi similar but he doesn't, and I definitely think he'll be one to watch. I doubt he'll stay in BL though. Still, I will probably check out at least some of his future projects, because I think he's damn good.

Did that happen with the teachers in the novel?

Exactly. He wasn't saying he has two number ones, he was telling Mitsuru that it'll be okay if he finds another number one after Koichi is gone. He's looking after Mitsuru, as always.

Man, this ep was rough.

Mitsuru is trying so so hard to pretend that things are going to be okay, that they can just stay like this forever with Koichi in permanent pause, and everything in the world is working to show him all the ways that's just not going to happen. And Koichi with his calm acceptance that only breaks when he sees Mitsuru getting upset...they're both breaking my heart.

They love each other so much...when Koichi was doing his whole "can't a person have two number ones?" thing and Mitsuru thought that he wouldn't like it if Koichi liked someone as much as him I wanted to shake him, because Koichi so wasn't talking about himself there.

The next two episodes are gonna hurt a lot.

Hey now, they mastered the head tilt in Eternal Yesterday. Small steps!

For me personally, I find that if the chemistry works for me it can make up for lackluster (or even no) kissing. Someone elsewhere said that Japan is good at bringing thirst, and I tend to agree with that when the leads have good chemistry. To use the EY example, I fully believe that Koichi and Mitsuru want each other in all ways. They're pulling it off and while I might have made comments about dead fish kisses after ep three, I believed it then too. I also believed it in MBM and OFC, for what it's worth.

No for real though, their chemistry is killing me.

I feel like this episode is gonna be a grower.

As in, it's gonna get caught in my head and linger there for a while. All the episodes linger for me, really, but this one is the turning point. I think this is the episode where people need to decide if they want to be put through pain, because pain is coming, and how.

This is the first ep that made me cry.

No, I don't think he's counting Koichi. I think that he sees how warm and loving Koichi's family is and it hurts, and I do think that there's relief when he is once again by himself, but he's confusing that with coldness. I also agree with wei x lan that he's telling himself this because part of him knows Koichi won't always be there, and not in the abstract way we all know the people in our lives might be gone one day, but in a very real, inevitable, Koichi is on borrowed time kind of way.

I think him turning away when Koichi told him that he likes him the most was fear and sadness. For all that he's been walking around telling people in his best exasperated voice that Koichi isn't dead, he's just a living corpse, gosh, I don't think he ever really let himself know what that meant for them. The stuff with the teachers and Koichi's calm words made him realize that there might actually be a time limit, here. And that means he's going to lose the one person he loves more than anything else. He's not rejecting Koichi, he's rejecting all the other stuff.

At least that's my two cents.