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If you're in a big hurry, you'll use a cab - like if someone is in danger or you're late to a critical meeting. You certainly won't run across town in a suit. You might also use the excellent transit system.

I think it's members-only content. Maybe they'll give it a general airing later. There wasn't anything NC-17 in it, but that was just the first ep - maybe there is later.

Touching on important topics and then totally ignoring them doesn't really score points - it's more like exploiting serious problems for sympathy points. I was excited at the beginning because I thought they were actually going to address them. Ren's character was initially interesting, but they abandoned everything to make him yet another uselss uke who needs protection and guidance. That he got beat up by an old drunk man that's a lot smaller than him underlined that in a frustrating way.

The leads had good chemistry when they were allowed to show it, like in the shirt unbuttoning scene. But the directing let them down and drained the series of energy with ridiculous things like Kazuma spending most of the last two episodes running across Tokyo all day when he could take a cab or the way they were laying in bed this ep.

I agree with you - I would rate the beginning an 8.5, but the rest dragged it down. What I do for the overall score is leave out rewatchability and average the rest, with less weight on music. I'll bump it up a little if the actors did a great job, or if the production was low-budget and putting in a lot of effort.

I liked the towel - I thought it made sense and it was a different spin on the formula. And sensory deprivation kink.

I like that although all the BL tropes are in here, they put in some effort to have them make sense. Jiang Chi was where he would be, so it wasn't the usual "guy materializes miles away from where he would ever go at the exact microsecond he would need to be there to misunderstand" thing, and he really didn't misunderstand - it's just that Bu Xia was being awful, and Bu Xia explained why he was being awful.

Also, that was the first time I've seen people manage non-creepy open-eyes kisses, and that was the first convincing integration of pecks on the face into a makeout session, which, incidentally, was one of the best ever. Jiang Chi is so f@#$ing sexy I can't stand it. If anyone looked at me like that I would burst into flame.

That last conversation wasn't manufactured drama, it made sense within the context of the story and the characters.

I love this series. Also, I need to be on my knees for the team captain. Jesus H Christ.

I'm not sure how he could get more explicit than making out with him.

What I like is that while they put in all the tropes, they try to write them to make sense, and they're not as ridiculous as usual. Jiang Chi overheard something, but he didn't just pop up miles away from where he would ever go, he was there for a reason. Also, he didn't misunderstand, Bu Xia was just being an ass. Etc.

Good Lord, I hope there are no more episodes like 18. There are ways to convey the passage of time without actually showing all the passage of time.

Ugh. I actually feel angry that I watched that. I hoped the finale would redeem the series after the mess the last couple of episodes have been, but it just got worse. There's so little passion between them that it feels icky when they kiss, as if they're being forced. They don't even cuddle in bed - Kazuma holds him at arm's length and both of them are fully dressed.

I think you liked this better than I did. The danger of adapting a manga that closely is that while it can look dramatic to have Kazuma run for a panel or two, when he's running all the way across tokyo (without breaking a sweat) in an extreme hurry when he could just take cab was LOL unintentionally funny. When he did it AGAIN it made me cringe, and the third time I had to ff.

Nobody is saying "oh well, move on", we're saying that real people make stupid decisions, and if they didn't, there wouldn't be dramas. I understand your argument and I think it's valid, and I wanted to punch Teh is the neck, but you're assigning an argument to other people that they're not making.

Teh's emotional state and where he was coming from were well-written and realistic. Sometimes people grow apart, especially at that age. People cheat. Almost everyone has cheated and been cheated on. To be fair, women are likely to have had it done to them more times than a man will, and men often have fairly basic motivations (i.e. hard to sympathize with). What Teh did was obviously wrong, but he didn't actively make O-Aew feel unworthy, O-Aew felt unworthy because of what Teh did. I could say "O-Aew is weak and has low self-esteem for putting himself in that situation". That's another thing that's easy to say to someone who is 18 and experiencing all this for the first time.

If Teh had been 30, my solution would be to burn him at the stake. For an 18-year old, if you're not expecting stupid decisions, you've probably never met an 18-year old.

Tangents are good.

100% agree. The brutal judgment over an 18-year old making stupid decisions is a mystery to me. If you don't make any stupid mistakes when you're 18, you're not doing it right.

There was a pretty big difference in the subtitles for Jun & Jun, too. I don't have time or patience to watch everything twice, so I just have to muddle through and try to understand what's going on...

To be fair, my chances of resisting Lom would not be very high.

If it were really 10%, I would have enjoyed high school much more.

I think he just said "mixed", and who knows how that would be translated.

It's actually probably that there are actually less gay people than Kinsey came up with because he largely used prison populations and male prostitutes. You often hear the 10% statistic, but that's actually 4% gay and 6% who will temporarily go gay if there's no access to women for extended periods, which is going to be a big number in prison. Although 4% does seem to hold up well in more modern studies.

As a woman, you would either have quit in disgust or gone on a murder rampage - the most sexist environment I have ever encountered. We needed to hire a receptionist and the executives wanted to look at photos, and worse, they didn't have an conception of what was wrong with that.

Yes, the small stereotype. Did you notice in the scene in this ep that when he noticed CJ was huge that he wondered "is he mixed-race?" So even Asians buy into the sterotype. I wonder if it's from watching American movies and not realizing that the stereotype about Black men doesn't apply to all Americans. The average is between 5.1-5.5" Almost everyone falls in that range.

Another possibility is people used to quote Kinsey's studies which came up with an average of more than 6" for American men - but the lengths were self-reported, so... yeah, no. You still see those numbers used in various media.

I had a temp job in college, and there was a guy there that had some sort of pheromone that made me insane. I had to use the restroom several times a shift. It was really weird and animalistic - he was nice and laid back, but violent sado-masochistic fantasies would come to mind. They would probably seem tame to me now because I'm old and worn out and have seen it all.