Not saying yes or no because I think it’s reductive. She has psychological issues because of her father abandoning…
The show already established she isn’t interested in having a relationship with a man and provided enough reasons in the text to understand why. For me what was provided by the director is enough to understand her. Slapping that label on her kinds of diminishes the weight of her experiences and the way life shaped her into what she became (up to what we saw at least. Who knows what life has in store for her!). To each their own headcanons though :)
I had to watch most of this series without eng subs. can someone give me a summary of what happened? why did Makio…
Yes they broke up because Eiji got Mieko pregnant and this caused Makio too much pain. I don’t know if Eiji regrets what happened because he clearly loves his daughter but he misses Makio and is still in love with him. Makio and Asato are in a relationship by the end of the drama.
I wouldn’t consider this a “BL”, you know it’s not a BL when the yaoi fans are finding it hard to follow…
To be fair BL has such a long history and it has been adopted by so many different countries I’d find it hard to point at a „typical“ BL? In its original conception in the 70s japanese BL works were quite philosophical and deep. Modern japanese BL is different from thai‘s interpretation of BL and chinese danmeis are also very different in narrative style and topics… the genre is much broader than you’d think.
Not saying yes or no because I think it’s reductive. She has psychological issues because of her father abandoning her and the first relationship she had ended with her boyfriend beating her. Plus not every woman‘s life goal is to be in a relationship, regardless of sexual orientation.
I honestly think that was on purpose. The relationship wasn't meant to be romantic. Nor was Makio's relationship…
I actually like your analysis a lot but I have to disagree that the relationship between Makio and Eiji wasn’t romantic. The only time we see Makio being visibly agitated and upset is when he confronts Eiji about Mieko lying about who the father is. The both of them lied to him and went (supposedly) behind his back but the one he blows up to is Eiji, not Mieko and I think that should give pause. Eiji and Mieko have committed virtually the same wrongdoing, but it is Eiji that has let him down in a particular way, hence the reaction. I also don’t think it’s accidental we are only shown Makio and Mieko spending some time together after the reconciliation but there is no scene with Makio and Eiji alone. We don’t see much romance or intimacy between Makio and Eiji in the series not because there wasn’t any, but because the show didn’t want it to be the main focus of the story (that said, we are clearly shown Eiji and Makio share a world Mieko is not part of and she’s excluded from there and therefore starts investing more of her time in the pursuit of other friendships/education). The focus needed to be the friendship between the trio so that we could feel the force of it when it imploded. Also, when Makio tells Asato women and children are his weakness, I believe that’s because it’s a woman and a child who caused him to lose everything he had: Eiji and Mieko were his all + Eiji was his boyfriend, that was his relationship, and that pregnancy destroyed it. That’s also the reason he’s hesitant to have another romantic relationship with Asato: he’s afraid of being betrayed again. If his relationship with Eiji hadn’t been romantic, he wouldn’t have gotten burnt as much. Just my two cents. I don’t want to impose my interpretation but that’s how I see it. :D
I don´t know what to feel about the story.In my opinion I think what Mieko and Eiji did to Makio was really shitty.…
We don’t know if they’ll ever hang out as much as they did before. In my head they meet up sometimes but their friendships will never be the same. I can’t imagine Makio trusting them again 100% as he did. But I think it’s good he could somehow let go of this burden and hang out peacefully with Mieko. It’s like he has become unstuck from the past and can move on to his next life stage.
You are right that the past can't be changed, but you are wrong that we are prisoners of our past and cannot choose…
Oh I didn’t mean that. Of course we can change our future. But we can’t change the past. And most people realistically live with some kind of regret. You kind of have to take it in stride and move on or you’ll always be stuck in the past.
I disagree :o I think it’s very well done. I’m not having troubles following the story or the character‘s motivations. Accepting them is the hard part lol these characters just don’t behave as they wish they did. But I believe this is done on purpose.
What a strange, sad story. I'm giving it a high rating even though I won't watch it again. At the end of the day the story was told in a very truthful way. The characters found a way to let it go, what's done is done. Each one of them learns to co-exist with their own past: since it can't be changed, it can only be accepted. How everyone goes on living coming to terms with what was lost and gained is mostly left to the imagination. I understand this directorial choice even though it's slightly frustrating... but I guess that's just how life is!
But why do I have to watch it?
We don’t see much romance or intimacy between Makio and Eiji in the series not because there wasn’t any, but because the show didn’t want it to be the main focus of the story (that said, we are clearly shown Eiji and Makio share a world Mieko is not part of and she’s excluded from there and therefore starts investing more of her time in the pursuit of other friendships/education). The focus needed to be the friendship between the trio so that we could feel the force of it when it imploded. Also, when Makio tells Asato women and children are his weakness, I believe that’s because it’s a woman and a child who caused him to lose everything he had: Eiji and Mieko were his all + Eiji was his boyfriend, that was his relationship, and that pregnancy destroyed it. That’s also the reason he’s hesitant to have another romantic relationship with Asato: he’s afraid of being betrayed again. If his relationship with Eiji hadn’t been romantic, he wouldn’t have gotten burnt as much. Just my two cents. I don’t want to impose my interpretation but that’s how I see it. :D
At the end of the day the story was told in a very truthful way. The characters found a way to let it go, what's done is done. Each one of them learns to co-exist with their own past: since it can't be changed, it can only be accepted. How everyone goes on living coming to terms with what was lost and gained is mostly left to the imagination. I understand this directorial choice even though it's slightly frustrating... but I guess that's just how life is!